VAMPIRIC OR VICIOUS?
here are two key central European aristocratic figures who have inspired much vampiric lore and literature but, rumour and sensation notwithstanding, weren’t in fact vampires. Vlad
Who was Baron Pierre de Coubertin?
It was a diminutive, 19th-century French aristocrat, Baron Pierre de Coubertin (pictured, left), who came up with the idea of reviving the Olympic Games while studying in Paris. He was a sporting sort himself, and had also long despaired of what he p
