Eric van Hout

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Eric van Hout

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Groene supermacht: Hoe Europa de wereld kan verduurzamen

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Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania by Paul Kenyon

So, he became Vlad Dracul, a term of great honour. But the word had a secondary meaning – and that was ‘Devil’. Vlad passed the honourable title to his son, at which point it was changed to the diminutive by adding an ‘a’, and thus the boy ...more

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