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Did Henry VIII suffer same brain injury as some NFL players? February 3, 2016 by Bill Hathaway Henry VIII may have suffered repeated traumatic brain injuries similar to those experienced by football players and others who receive repeated blows to the head, according to research by a Yale University expert in cognitive neurology. Traumatic brain injury explains the memory problems, explosive anger, inability to control impulses, headaches, insomnia—and maybe even impotence--that afflicted Henry during the decade before his death in 1547, according to a paper published online the week of Feb. 1."It is intriguing to think that modern European history...

A Kennedy-crazed Princess Diana was obsessed with becoming America's first lady - and plotted to use her torrid affair with a mysterious, older, New York billionaire to pull off the sensational scheme, the tragic royal's butler reveals in his explosive new book. "She had it all dreamed out in her head - how she would redecorate the presidential apartment and become 'the new Jackie O,' " Paul Burrell writes in "The Way We Were: Remembering Diana," which hit bookstores yesterday. Despite persistent rumors, Diana never had an affair with John F. Kennedy Jr., whom she considered intellectually challenged, Burrell scoffs....