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oh it is soooo simple simple to make up "little known facts"
if for example one can not keep apart the lives of Vlad II (the "Impaler") and Vlad III his son who was kept hostage ...
how many times more do certain simpletons post "facts" based on links they did neither read properly nor even understand ...?
they are "little known" because they are not facts at all but potato mash
Lessee... Another loser alt left troll, offering nothing any more substantive than ad hominems or other fallacies
Or livescience.com
Not a tough choice
Your citation contradicts your claims and you have the brass neck to accuse somebody else of spreading fallacies?
The passage you've misprisioned in full, with the part you have failed to comprehend highlighted:
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Imagine spending your tumultuous teenage years as a political hostage whose fate hinged on the actions of your father, the ruler of a war-torn region in a different country. That's what Vlad III's adolescence was like.
In 1442, Vlad III and his younger brother, Radu, were handed over to Sultan Murad II, then-ruler of the Ottoman Empire. The young men were held hostage to ensure their father, ruler of the principality of Wallachia, remained loyal to the Ottomans during their ongoing war with Hungary.
During their captivity, Vlad and his brother were tutored in science, philosophy and the arts. They were also allegedly schooled in the arts of war, receiving lessons in both horsemanship and swordsmanship from their Ottoman captors, according to Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally, former professors of history at Boston College, who wrote several books about Vlad III.
Some historians have argued that Vlad also learned the art of impalement during his time as a hostage, but that can’t be proven, according to Florin Curta, a professor of medieval history and archaeology at the University of Florida. The Ottomans didn't invent impalement, and there's no way of knowing whether Vlad saw them deploy this gruesome punishment on their prisoners, Curta told Live Science. [Busted: Medieval Torture's 10 Biggest Myths]
Regardless of what he learned from his captors, Vlad didn't take kindly to being held prisoner. On the contrary, his kid brother adjusted well to captivity, forging a friendship with the Sultan's son, Mehmet II, and eventually converting to Islam.
But Vlad felt little more than enmity for his captors, according to Elizabeth Miller, a research historian and professor emeritus at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. This enmity may have been his motivation for siding with the Hungarians against the Ottomans when he eventually became ruler of Wallachia in 1448, Miller told Live Science.
Got that, moron? Vlad Tepe's brother converted to Islam. Tepes did not, and bore a grudge over being held hostage that led to him holding the Caparthians against the Ottoman empire's exapansion and sending severed heads rather than tribute to Turkey. He's a national hero in Wallachia because (unlike El Cid or Charlemagne) he kept the moslems out of his country.
FIFY, troll 
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