Thursday, June 4, 2009

Nero the Jerk


Some fun facts about Nero according to wikipedia:

1. Killed his wife, mother, step father, and unborn son, all to keep power.

2. Persecuted Christians when he was blamed for the massive fire in Rome.

3. When people played Nero in the Olympics, they would intentionally lose, for if they won, he would have them killed.

4. When Nero would have public theatre preformances, he would bar the doors so that people could not leave until his finale. People pertended to die in order to leave the theatre, and one woman was noted for having birth in a preformance.

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