There's a YA novel called Sweetblood about a girl that makes this connection. The author has said he basically invented this but a lot does seem to fit quite well:

paleness and gauntness, elongated and bloody teeth, ravenous hunger and thirst where eating and drinking doesn't help, wasting away, being comatose and then waking up suddenly, sensitivity to bright light, sweet odor, aggressive behaviour...

Do we know where folk tales like vampires originated and why they have the specific abilities ascribed to them? Could this be an explanation for vampires?

If wages as we know them today, pay by the hour of work, only became mainstream in the 18th and 19th century, how did peasants receive their wage equivalent. If it wasn't by the hour, how did they have enough currency to pay for things day by day, and how did peasants exchange goods with each other if not through wages earned?

I have no qualms about what the job is, as long as it helps me build contacts in Archeology/History Professors. If anyone knows of a site, or person that needs a warm body with the passion to learn, please point me in the right direction.

• Clan Campbell - Ne Obliviscaris
• Clan MacKenzie - Luceo Non Uro
• Clan MacKay - Manu Forti
• Clan Baird - Dominus Fecit
• Clan Bruce - Fuimus
• Clan Agnew - Consilio Non Impetu
• Clan Buchan - Non inferior secutus
• Clan Cochrane - Virtue Et Labore
• Clan Lyon - In Te Domine Speravi
• Clan Donald - Per Mare Per Terras

Clan Cameron, and a few others, do have their mottos recorded in Gaelic; Mo Righ's Mo Dhuchaich (for king and country).

If not, how quickly would news of the invasion have reached northern France?

Watched the documentary Britain's Real Monarch which argues Edward IV was illegitimate and that the real and rightful ruler of England lives in Australia. I was wondering what other Historians educated on this matter think?

People from 6 former Soviet muslim republics have/had russian ending surnames. Why Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan people have such surnames and others don t. Armenians, Georgians or Balts never had such surnames. Common armenian surnames end with -ian, georgian with - vili or -adze not -ov, -eyev and so on.

I'm listening to Dan Carlins "Blueprint for Armageddon" and I've just come to the point in WW1 where Armored vehicles start to enter the battles. Throughout WW1 the amount of shells being fired increased immensely, so I started to think about how big of a threat artillery posed to WW1 "tanks"?

Was it for social reasons, like when guns were banned in Tokugawa Japan? Early Chinese gunpowder weapons were actually pretty inventive, so why did China not follow the rest of Europe and the Middle East in this regard?

(Originally submitted last January, but unanswered.)

While reading about the Berlin U-Bahn on Wikipedia, I noticed that Friedrichstrasse station was in East Berlin during the Cold War - but a number of platforms were still open to West Berlin streets, and West Berlin commuters regularly used it.

Were there any difficulties with this unusual arrangement? Did East German police ever hassle West Berlin travelers in the station? Did anyone (such as escapees from East Germany, or well-known anti-Communists) have to avoid the station because of this?

The main antagonist wears a baggy, ruffled shirt. The logical thinker wears a very prim and proper suit. But what other signals am I missing?

Treason trials were utilised by a number of people to remove political enemies, Augustus used them to remove people from the Senate, Tiberius used them extensively, and Sejanus also used them substantially in order to solidify his power in Rome. Both Suetonius and Tacitus are quite ambiguous as to what constitutes 'Treason,' with both men providing different definitions. What I would like to know was whether there was an actual definitive for what constitutes treason or which definition can be more trusted.

If this is in the wrong section please move it as I was unsure as to where to put it.

I watched Dem Gov-Va Terry McAuliffe passionately speak about ex cons being able to vote in his state tonight, and it occurred to me how crazy this whole concept is to me. Not that they can vote, but that fact they would not be allowed to for some reason.

The idea that full blown citizens of a country who have paid their assigned debt back to society as issued by both, legal, and members of his own peers from THAT country indefinitely and no longer have any voice in elections boggles my mind.

I apologize, as a Canadian, this is just assumed, even our citizens in jail vote through the mail system. I in no way wish to start a huge political debate or make it seem I am looking down on the way American policies are carried out within your country.

What I am curious about however is, has this always been the case since the beginning or was this something that was enacted relatively recently? Is this a still heavily supported law and have there been polls over however long this has been in place to show a continued support of this law?

What was the major contributing factor into implementing a law such as this that, at some point, a majority of not just the house but the senate unanimously approved and didn't raise an eyebrow by a president that could have potentially veto'd such legislature?

I'd please like facts on this, and not political rhetoric if possible as this impacts MILLIONS of individuals if I am understanding this law correctly and am genuinely curious.

I say "very few" because it seems difficult to get a deep, detailed answer this question of mine.

I recently read a Breitbart article shared by a friend about a critic who lamented the lack of people of color or women in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk. The article made the claim that everyone in the film are white men because that's all that was at the evacuation. Now I'm fairly sure I read somewhere that the French has North African troops present at the battle of France but I have nothing concrete on that. It's been on my mind the past few days and it's something is like to know. Thanks!

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