A visibility webcam at Wonder Lake offers an up-to-date look at conditions on the north side of Denali in summer, and lets you track year-round weather and air quality updates near Denali Park Headquarters. The Healy Alpine camera, above, operates year-round.
Thousands were often impaled at a single time. Ten thousand were impaled in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu (where Vlad had once lived) in 1460. In 1459, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Vlad had thirty thousand of the merchants and boyars of the Transylvanian city of Brasov impaled.
Vlad was born in SighiÈoara, Transylvania, in the winter of 1431 to Vlad II Dracul, future voivopde of Wallachia and son of the celebrated Voivode Mircea the Elder. His mother is believed to be the second wife of Vlad Dracul, Princess Cneajna of Moldavia.