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Rhoda Zione Alale is an internet crank who pushes radiation woo and ways of protecting yourself from the imaginary dangers of electrosensitivity. She is probably rather unimportant, though she certainly claims otherwise herself — in addition to being an RN, holding both a Ph.D and a DHP (no idea), she claims to be a “Presidential Commissioner” and an African princess. According to one of her websites she sells you a gadget called a “flat battery” that supposedly offers protection from electromagnetic radiation from cell phones etc. if worn on your shoe. These flat batteries last for up to six months, and their lifespan can be prolonged by eating apples...She also claims to have won a number of prestigious awards for her inventions, to have quite close relations with no less than five U.S. presidents, and “been nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics for her work in neurogenic science and nano technology development to harmonize radiation in the body and electrical devices,” which is, first, not really a feat and, second, unverifiable since the names of the Nobel prize nominees and information about nominations cannot be revealed until 50 years later.

"Oh, dear. Another Roosevelt!"
Mr. Witherspoon, Arsenic and Old Lace

"I used to play that little [Napoleon-themed] war game with him back when it WAS just a game to him. Last time we played he lost the game and his mind. Now he thinks he's Napoleon, of course. Reduced to a cracker factory cliché!"
Crispin Whytehead regarding Fred Bonaparte, Psychonauts

"Insane asylums are filled with people who think they're Jesus or Satan. Very few have delusions of being a guy down the block who works for an insurance company."

"If the default position to describe insanity is the character suffering from a delusion that they are a short, physically unpreposessing, dictator who managed to conquer nearly all of Europe, had a brief expansion into North Africa, and then came unstuck in the howling wastes of a Russian winter, getting as far as Moscow and then having to retreat all the way back.... then why aren't today's psychiatric wards full of people who believe they are Adolf Hitler?"

"World domination. Same old dream. Our asylums are full of people who think they're Napoleon. Or God."

"I'm starting to think Napoleon had a Frasier Complex."

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