The Truth about Dracula
OCTOBER 28, 2006
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You know the story of Dracula, a man who lived on human blood and lured innocent girls to a fate truly worse than death. But before Bram Stoker's novel came out in 1897, Dracula had a different lore. Stoker got the name from a 15th-century count in Transylvania. He was known for impaling his enemies on spikes but he wasn't a vampire. Weekend America's Hillary Frank talks with a woman who, for the last three decades, has spent every Halloween trying to set the record straight.
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- Always Something Better
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How many images of Barack Obama and John McCain have we each seen in the last month? How many sound bites have we heard from them? Hundreds? Thousands? Politics aside, this has got to do some strange things to our brains. It has to affect our sub-conscious on some basic level. So we want to know, Are you dreaming about the candidates? Has Obama or McCain or Biden or Palin crept into your R.E.M. State? Maybe in a toga? Or scuba gear?
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