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I was watching New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on the news the other day and I was intrigued by the notion of who in world history was fat. I believe, unlike the present day United States and Mexico (which has recently overtaken the US as the most obese country in the world, with Australia way up there), that only a small minority of "great" people - world leaders, celebrated and important people in their fields, etc. - were fat.
Here is a very short list I could come up with. Can you add to it?
Ptolemy VIII "Physcon" (which means 'pot belly', 'fatso', or 'bladder' ... because he was so obese)
Winston Churchill
William the Conqueror (like Henry VIII got fat in his old age)
Queen Anne of England
Catherine the Great
Nikita Kruschev
King Charles X of Sweden
Hermann Goring
Ben Franklin
Babe Ruth
Alfred Hitchcock
Sancho "the Fat" of Leon (with many other lords, dukes, kings, etc. known as "the Fat")
General Winfield Scott
August III of Poland
Boleslaw Chrobry of Poland (won a battle after his opponent called him fat)
Wladyslaw Waza of Poland
Louis XVIII of France
Emperor Vitellius of Rome
General Subedei of the Mongol Horde
King Edward VII
Stanislaw Koniecpolski (opponent of Charles X...sumo anyone?)
Thomas Aquinas
This thread would be better with pictures, but it might eat up too much bandwidth...lol.
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