Great Peoples Funny Weakness

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Powerful, fearless, steadfast, potent, and the long list of mighty attributes go on. The following are considered great men in history, but shakers and movers of the past centuries as they are they were also humans: + NAPOLEON BONAPARTE suffered from chronic nervous itching that he scratched his stomach sores until they bled. Such is the reason he was always depicted with his hands inside his jacket. Moreover, his hemorrhoids contributed to his defeat at waterloo. They prevented him from surveying the battlefield on horseback. BONAPARTE also feared cats. + JULIUS CAESAR, ALEXANDER THE GREAT, and DOSTOYEVSKY were epileptics. + KING HENRY VIII was speculated to be syphilitic. Suffering from edema or accumulation of excess fluid in body tissues, his legs were so big, painful, and festering that he weighed more than 400 pounds. + HENRY CAVENDISH, a great scientist of the 1700s, was painfully six and could barely speak to one person, never to two. He was very timid in women's presence that he communicated with his female servants through notes only. If anyone crossed his path in his house, she was fired at once. He built a separate entrance to his house so he wouldn't meet anyone. + KING ALFONSO of Spain was tone-deaf that he hired an anthem man. This man's sole duty was to signal the king to stand whenever the spanish national anthem was played. + KING CHARLES VIII of France was so obsessed with the idea of being poisoned that he ate so little. He died of malnutrition. + EMPEROR NERO, as historians have believed, was nearsighted. He was recorded watching performances using jewel with curved facets in front of one eye.