LORING PARK MURDER CHARGES: The man accused of bludgeoning and impaling beloved Minneapolis cashier Robert Skafte with a golf club on Friday was charged with murder today. I also took a look at the suspect's history in Minnesota courts, and I met with Skafte's older sister. | Renée Cooper

The gruesome tactics of Vlad the Impaler saved his entire kingdom from invasion. #history #medieval #facts #survival | Archaeology and Lost Civilizations

Vlad the Impaler The True History of His War Against the Empire He was a hostage prince raised in the shadow of the court that would eventually conquer Constantinople. Returning to a fractured homeland caught between two superpowers, he became a ruler who utilized absolute terror as a calculated administrative and military tool. This is the story of Vlad III, Voivode of Wallachia known to history as the Impaler and his desperate, decades-long struggle to maintain the autonomy of his principality