1.0 link 92921 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/22/why-powerful-women-mostly_n_92921.html Catherine the Great was a woman with an extravagant, exacting sexual appetite. During the 34 years of her reign, she had a host of young, well-trained lovers--many of them soldiers--who were paid handsomely for sating her, and were often rewarded with plum positions on her court, or gifts of property or serfs. Her libido was so legendary that when she died of a stroke in 1796, rumor spread quickly that she had been crushed under the weight of a stallion...

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