>>>Sorry to dissappoint. :o) I wasn't trying to cover the world, I was responding to Terry's 'Well, our days are....' so it was pointed mostly at that with a little bit more thrown in...
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>>I just felt like hijacking the thread and pointing out (once more) the futility of all those websites and other places where the wisdom of the world is allegedly put together - when in reality they don't see very far from their nose. Their Europe, and pretty much the world, ends at the line Rome-Berlin. Beyond, there be dragons, no culture.
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>Perhaps it's the vampires that scare them... :o)

I assume you checked the etymology of vampires...