stackyFACTSWhy fix your country's infrastructure when you can buy a massive golden throne shaped like an eagle? Bokassa bankrupted his entire nation just to throw himself a lavish imperial party.
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Managing an entire empire is surprisingly relaxed when you literally cannot understand a word your parliament is screaming at you. Brought over from Hanover…
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Russian Empress Elisabeth was notoriously paranoid and utterly terrified of sleeping alone. Her bizarre coping mechanism was to hire a rotating shift of…
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Instead of immediately sending thousands to perish on a battlefield, early Indian royals used the ancient game of Chaturanga to settle disputes and simulate…
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Being the absolute king sounds great until you realize it means aggressively dealing with angry mobs. During the July Revolution of 1830, his father quickly…
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Talk about doing the absolute bare minimum to relate to your subjects. The Ptolemaic dynasty ruled Egypt for nearly 300 years, but they were Greek and…
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Holy infallibility apparently has a few historical loopholes. Pope John XII took the papacy in the 10th century and immediately turned the Lateran Palace into…
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