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    Posted: 22-Jun-2006 at 22:43
OH so we can include Roman Emperors? Well, the list is substantially lengthened then. Try Elagebalus, transexual wannabe
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Try the female roman empress who would sneak out to become a prostitute.
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Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian PM, 1896-1911, used to talk to spirits and get answers to his questions through his crystal ball (on display at Laurier House). Not really a nutter though, he was a fairly sensible leader and even led the Opposition in opposing involvement in WW1, which was fully sane.
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Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus a.k.a. Caligula was insane and quite the nutjob. Not sure thats a disorder though heh.
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Originally posted by Red4tribe

Also I forget the name of him but one of the Roman emporers enjoyed seeing people drown in his lake in his backyard.That was his form of entertainment.
 
Tiberius? He used to lob them off the cliffs.
 
Tiberius was a huge pornographer/voyeur too.
 
Actually all the Julio Claudian Emperors were crazy- Gaius (or Caligula) aside from a love of pornography was possibly mad (he called all the senators of Rome to his palace in the middle of the night and then danced for them. In a dress.). It might have just been an ultra intelligent charade though.
Claudius stammered and had more ailments than I can list.
Nero was a meglomaniac and a brutal thug (kicked wife to death and used to mug people for fun).
 
 
Winston Churchill also suffered from bouts of depression, or "Black Dog" moments as he called them.
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Churchill and Anthony Eden Benzedrine addicts.
 
Boris Yeltsein drunkard.
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The bloke currently as my avatar! You can tell by looking at him from that portrait that he's nuts.

Ivan IV (the Terrible), first Russian Tsar. Didn't have a great childhood, and he was devoted to his wife who died which must have worsened his condition. Extremely paranoid, and even murdered his own son in a fit of rage, I believe.

Also howabout Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia? I remember someone telling me that he was the biggest mass murderer of the middle-ages and would eat his dinner in the middle of fields full with impailed victims. He impailed 30,000 odd people outside Brasov in one sitting, can't remember why.
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I think Akenaten was a nut but thats debatable, I still have to go with Idi Amin who was so incompitent, so strange, and so ...amusing to study that he must go down as one fo the most fascinating evil men ever.  There was i=one instance where he had a man beheaded, the head brought out at a dinner party and then threw utensils at it screaming.
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I believe that you need crazy people to create leaders!Hope will be soon incorporated inside every constitution:First rule in choosing leaders,full psycho test!They have done this until,now but those with positive results are passing further!Wink
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Nero anyone? He was a magalomaniac/madman who burned a third of Rome, one of the greatest cities in the world, just so that he could build his own palace. Also he slaughtered his family...
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I dont want any more crazy people, in the world.... as they are apt to require me to be recalled... and I'm not quite 62..... so that's always an issue for my granddaughter. Me? personally? crazy people are not an issue when an M1A1 tank rolls around.
 
They usually leave the area.
 
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