>>Mesopotamia is where Iraq is now.
>>Transylvania is in Romania, that's where Dracula (i.e. Vlad Tepes) was.
>>Word vampire is of Serbian origin, also sprach Webster.
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>>The last sociological research on the subject I know of is almost 30 years old - and they found the folks in the backwater areas believe there are no more vampires, because all people were perforated, so the vampire goes out on time. Perforated? Well, vaccinated :).
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>I learn something all the time! How `bout C- for effort:-)

Got it.
(I really am a professor, I was teaching math in high school for some five years)

>I thought Croatia had some significant roll in bringing us out of barbarism. If you ever get time to visit the Smithsonian - try to catch the Uhr exibit. There is a statue there. Almost 10K years old. I still get the geebies thinking about it.

Probably the homo crapinensis, that they found around Krapina. But those aren't Croats - the Slavic migration happened in VI to X century.