A visibility webcam at Wonder Lake offers an up-to-date look at conditions on the north side of Denali in summer, and lets you track year-round weather and air quality updates near Denali Park Headquarters. The Healy Alpine camera, above, operates year-round.
Thousands were often impaled at a single time. Ten thousand were impaled in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu (where Vlad had once lived) in 1460. In 1459, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Vlad had thirty thousand of the merchants and boyars of the Transylvanian city of Brasov impaled.
It certainly makes sense that scholars and other readers have connected Count Dracula with the Wallachian warlord Vlad III, nicknamed Vlad Tepes or, in English, Vlad the Impaler. After all, Vlad III was a member of the House of DrÄculeÈti, and is one of a handful of historical figures whose title is rendered as Voivode Dracula in English-language texts.