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To: sylvester80 who wrote (1116702)	2/11/2019 10:17:38 AM
From: Celtictrader	1 Recommendation Recommended By sylvester80 Respond to of 1573150

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To: sylvester80 who wrote (1116702)	2/11/2019 10:23:14 AM
From: James Seagrove	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 1573150

CALVIN COOLIDGE The 30th U.S. president may have presided over the 1920s economic boom, but he did so despite (or because of) working a meager four hours per day at the White House. Not content to rest on his 11 hours of sleep per night, plus daily naps, “Silent Cal” was fond of placing his feet in the bottom drawer of his Oval Office desk and counting the cars passing by on Pennsylvania Avenue. When he died a few years after leaving office, Gertrude Stein is said to have remarked, “Coolidge dead? How can you tell?”

To: sylvester80 who wrote (1116702)	2/11/2019 10:24:14 AM
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EMPEROR WANLI The longest-ruling emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China, Wanli came to power at the age of 9 in 1572 and appears to have flamed out rather early. During the last 30 years or so of his 47-year rule, Emperor Wanli descended into a life of food, drink and debauchery, becoming so obese in his later years that he needed assistance just to stand up. He almost entirely neglected state affairs, refusing to read reports, leaving ministers to have audiences with an empty throne and failing to attend public ceremonies, including his mother’s funeral.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (1116702)	2/11/2019 10:25:22 AM
From: James Seagrove	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 1573150

LORD MELBOURNE William Lamb, better known as Lord Melbourne, once quipped that he thought being prime minister would be a “damned bore.” And when the Whig politician became British PM in 1834, he set about confirming that suspicion: His tendency to snooze through cabinet meetings, parliamentary debates and dinners earned him a reputation as a chronic laggard and prompted Benjamin Disraeli to demand that he “cease to saunter over the destinies of a nation and lounge away an empire.” Melbourne — whose favorite dictum was “Why not leave it alone?” — was equally idle when it came to his private life, declining to separate from his adulterous wife for more than a decade after she had scandalized him by having an affair with Lord Byron (and writing a tell-all book about it).

To: sylvester80 who wrote (1116702)	2/11/2019 10:26:12 AM
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ADOLF HITLER From his days as a struggling art student in Austria to the pinnacle of the Third Reich’s power, Adolf Hitler was an accomplished laggard. One of his biographers, Ian Kershaw, describes how the indolent Fuehrer, having stayed up late the night before watching movies like Gone with the Wind or listening to music, would often not emerge from bed until after midday, just in time for a late lunch and a few meetings with advisors.