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Dracula (Orchidaceae)
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Dracula married Zofia, a Hungarian noblewoman. The marriage had been arranged years before by Dracula's father Dracul. However Dracula hated his new bride. Shortly after the birth of their daughter Lilith, Dracula ordered her to leave his sight forever. Zofia gave Lilith to a Gypsy woman named Gretchen to raise, then committed suicide.
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Dracula and the Puritan adventurer Solomon Kane clashed for the second time. Kane was victorious and killed Dracula, the first time he experienced death as a vampire. Dracula was revived a short time later by Gypsies.
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Varnae confronted Dracula and told him how he had manipulated events to make him the new Lord of the Vampires. Varnae then imparted to the new lord much of his power by letting Dracula drink of his blood. Varnae then committed suicide by exposing himself to direct sunlight. Draining the blood of Varnae and Nimrod caused Dracula to become more powerful than ever. Dracula ... extended his mortal power base by extending his rule throughout Transylvania, and drove the Turks from his dominion.
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The basic context of the story is a young woman’s quest to make sense of her history, her father’s history and how Vlad the Impaler, better known as Dracula, fits into it all. The impact of this evil and all-powerful monster stretches across many countries and many eras of history. According to the author herself, the story is part fact, part fiction and is packed with references to the history and geography of eastern Europe, in particular the area of the Carpathian Mountains called Wallachia, Dracula’s homeland.
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Discussion: The results of a recent DNA analysis (Pridgeon, Solorzano & Chase 2001) show Dracula as a sister group to a clade comprising Masdevallia plus Porroglossum, the three together forming a sister group to Trisetella (Trisetella + (Dracula + (Masdevallia + Porroglossum))). This grouping of the four genera was consistent in results of two large plastid DNA and one large nuclear DNA segments.
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McDonnell’s experiment may have been the basis for the transfusion described in Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. Stoker was from Dublin, and could have heard of the experiment from his brothers who were surgeons in Dublin at the time.
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