Okay, so we know Abraham Lincoln created the Thanksgiving holiday on this date in 1863, but what do Wallachians have to be thankful for?
Digging Deeper
Digging deeper, we find Vlad Tepes, later referred to as Vlad the Impaler, known to us more popularly as Dracula, having declared his third reign as ruler of Wallachia (modern Romania) winning the battle that made him ruler for the third time.
Vlad had actually been ruler and been deposed twice before, re-seizing power each time. His father was Vlad II Dracul, making The Impaler technically Vlad III Dracula. The name Dracula is what is known as patronymic, where a son is named partially after the father’s name, similar to the Scottish “MacDonald” or Son of Donald, the Russian “Ivanovich” or Son of Ivan, or the English “Robertson” which by now you surely get! The Impaler part of his “title” stems from his alleged penchant for forcibly sitting his enemies on wooden stakes set in the ground, thus impaling them!
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