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Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and awesome power corrupts awesomely. Granted, it probably wasn’t all that awesome living under these rulers, but it’s a lot of fun to read about them from afar. #6. Anna I of Russia: Kind of a Murderous Tom Green Anna I of Russia (1639-1740) was either the meanest bitch in history or [...]

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was saved from Hitler’s persecution of the Jews by a long-standing Nazi who was fascinated with his work, a new book reveals. The fate of Freud and his family in Vienna hung in the balance after Hitler’s forces took over Austria in 1938. The psychoanalyst was first protected, then helped [...]