Article: Rees, Douglas. Vampire High.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)

Article: Rees, Douglas. Vampire high.(Book Review)(Young Adult ...
Kliatt;  September 1, 2003 ;     622 words ... ... offer him a choice between Our Lady of Perpetual Homework and Vlad Dracul Magnet School, which has a gorgeous campus and a great reputation ... and black hair, and Roumanian names. Cody is admitted to Vlad Dracul immediately, on condition that he joins the water polo team ...

Article: Douglas Rees Vampire High.(Brief Article)(Young ...
The Horn Book Magazine;  September 1, 2003 ;     608 words ... ... Massachusetts, Cody is failing every subject at Cotton Mather High. His father decides he needs more academic rigor, but Vlad Dracul Magnet School isn't quite what either of them expects. Escorted through the palatial buildings by a huge and unnervingly ...

Article: Traveling from ghost to ghost: several operators are offering ...
Travel Agent;  September 23, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Impaler"--was born in the town of Sighisoara in the province of Transylvania in Romania. He was the son of a knight named Vlad Dracul. In the Romanian language, "Drac" means "devil"; therefore "Dracula" means "son of the devil." From Oct. 25 to ...

Article: Vote for me, stupid! (former tennis star Ilie Nastase is running ...
Newsweek;  May 27, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... successful politicians. He says he admires Mitterrand, Reagan and Dracula. No, not the vampire; he's talking about Vlad Dracul, also known as Vlad the Impaler, the stern ruler of 15th-century Wallachia--a strong law-and-order guy. "He was ...

Article: The Count Fangs You.(last living decendant of Vlad the Impaler ...
Family Practice News;  April 1, 2000 ;     631 words ... ... Dracula regularly swoops in and lends his good name to efforts to replenish Germany's blood supply. Count Ottomar Rudolphe Vlad Dracul Prince Kretzulesco lives in a bat-infested castle on the outskirts of Berlin. He's the last living descendant of the ...

Article: The Genius of Edison places his inventions in the spotlight. ...
Computer Shopper;  March 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... investigation. The first, Tom's Technology, offers a brief article about how and why Edison developed the invention, along ... life and career; a database of 253 terms, each linked to a brief article; and a cleverly designed quiz that tests users on program ...

Article: Editorial.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences;  July 1, 2000 ;     647 words ... ... than those of the old museum. The Mississippi Academy of Sciences is pleased to highlight the museum in this issue with a brief article describing the facility and a lengthy article describing the ecology and flora of LeFleur's Bluff, the area on which the ...