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[Dion Isus]

Toussant L'Orvetture (spelling?) and Haille Selaasie

First men to really fukk them cacs up. Breh in the bottom had Mussolini like

You're confusing Haille Selaasie with Menelik II. The former fled the country, while the later actually kept it from being colonized.

 

[Dion Isus]

I need more info on this breh

Meet Mansa Musa I of Mali – the richest human being in all history



When we think of the world’s all-time richest people, names like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and John D Rockefeller immediately come to mind.

But few would have thought, or even heard of, Mansa Musa I of Mali – the obscure 14th century African king who was today named the richest person in all history.

With an inflation adjusted fortune of $400 billion, Mansa Musa I would have been considerably richer than the world’s current richest man, Carlos Slim, who ranks in 22nd place with a relatively paltry $68 billion.

The list, compiled by the Celebrity Net Worth website, ranks the world’s 24 richest people of all time. The list advertises itself as the top 25, but 26 names appear in the list.

Although the list spans 1000 years, some aspects of wealth appear consistent throughout history; there are no women on the list, only three members are alive today, and 14 of the top 25 are American.

The list uses the annual 2199.6 per cent rate of inflation to adjust historic fortunes – a formula that means $100 million in 1913 would be equal to £2.299.63 billion today.

Mansa Musa I ruled West Africa’s Malian Empire in the early 1300s, making his fortune by exploiting his country’s salt and gold production. Many mosques he built as a young man still stand today.

After Mansa Musa I death in 1331, however, his heirs were unable to hang on to the fortune, and it was substantially depleted by civil wars and invading armies.

Second on the list are the Rothschild family, whose descendants are still among the richest people on the planet. Starting out in banking in the late 18th Century, Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s finance house accumulated a total wealth of $350 billion. The money has since been divided between hundreds of descendants, many of whom are business leaders today.

Meanwhile John D. Rockefeller, third on the list, is the richest American to have ever lived, worth $340billion in today's USD at the time of his death in 1937.

In comparison, the poorest man on the list is 82-year-old Warren Buffett, who at his peak net worth, before he started giving his fortune to charity, was $64billion.

Here’s the full list of the ‘26 richest people of all time’:

1. Mansa Musa I, (Ruler of Malian Empire, 1280-1331) $400 billion

2. Rothschild Family (banking dynasty, 1740- ) $350 billion

3. John D Rockefeller (industrialist, 1839-1937) $340 billion

4. Andrew Carnegie (industrialist, 1835-1919) $310 billion

5. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (last Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918) $300 billion

6. Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII (last ruler of Hyderabad, 1886-1967) $236 billion

7. William the Conqueror (King of England, 1028-1087) $229.5 billion

8. Muammar Gaddafi (former Libyan leader, 1942-2011) $200 billion

9. Henry Ford (Ford Motor Company founder, 1863-1947) $199 billion

10. Cornelius Vanderbilt (industrialist, 1794-1877) $185 billion

11. Alan Rufus (Fighting companion of William the Conqueror, 1040-1093) $178.65 billion

12. Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft, 1955- ) $136 billion

13. William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey (Norman nobleman, ??-1088) $146.13 billion

14. John Jacob Astor (businessman, 1864-1912) $121 billion

15. Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel (English nobleman, 1306-1376) £118.6 billion

16. John of Gaunt (son of Edward III, 1330-1399) £110 billion

17. Stephen Girard (shipping and banking mogul, 1750-1831) $105 billion

18. Alexander Turney Stewart (entrepreneur, 1803-1876) $90 billion

19. Henry, 1st Duke of Lancaster (English noble, 1310-1361) $85.1 billion

20. Friedrich Weyerhaeuser (timber mogul, 1834-1914) $80 billion

21. Jay Gould (railroad tyc00n, 1836-1892) $71 billion

22. Carlos Slim (business magnate, 1940- ) $68 billion

23. Stephen Van Rensselaer (land owner, 1764- 1839) $68 billion

24. Marshall Field (Marshall Field & Company founder, 1834-1906) $66 billion

25. Sam Walton (Walmart founder, 1918-1992) $65billion

26. Warren Buffett (investor, 1930- ) $64billion

 

[Regine Hunter]

You're confusing Haille Selaasie with Menelik II. The former fled the country, while the later actually kept it from being colonized.

I thought Menelek was the one that found out the Italians tried to pull one over them with providing two copies of a treaty and stopped them.

Or was that Ezanna?

 

[Dion Isus]

Who was the State of California named after?

When Cortez arrived in California, searching for this mythical queen, her influence on him was so severe, he paid tribute to this powerful Black Woman Queen Califia by naming the state after her.

Black Excellence

You are aware that Queen Califia was fictional character right? The book she appeared in was called Las sergas de Esplandián and it was published in 1510.

 

[Dion Isus]

I thought Menelek was the one that found out the Italians tried to pull one over them with providing two copies of a treaty and stopped them.

Or was that Ezanna?

Not sure. All I know is that under Menelik's reign, Ethiopia remained sovereign and was able to repel any attempts to colonize her.

 

[Regine Hunter]

Not sure. All I know is that under Menelik's reign, Ethiopia remained sovereign and was able to repel any attempts to colonize her.

Italians tried to colonize Ethiopia twice. First during the scramble when all the colonies wanted a piece of the continent, and they were upset that they got small claims (Djibouti, Eriteria, and Somalia) and tried the treaty bullshyt that was foiled by Menelek.

Selaasie was in combat with them when they invaded Ethiopia without a treaty, they just used the area to operate during WWII.


My minor is in African studies

 

[Dion Isus]

Italians tried to colonize Ethiopia twice. First during the scramble when all the colonies wanted a piece of the continent, and they were upset that they got small claims (Djibouti, Eriteria, and Somalia) and tried the treaty bullshyt that was foiled by Menelek.

Selaasie was in combat with them when they invaded Ethiopia without a treaty, they just used the area to operate during WWII.


My minor is in African studies

Yup. And Selaasie fled the country. He's by far one of the most overrated people in history.

 

[Chronic]

Most people think only black people have been subject of slavery and trade. Slavs were enslaved for a long time by Arabs (Arabic peninsula).

Didn't the word "Slave" derived from Slav.

 

[Regine Hunter]

Yup. And Selaasie fled the country. He's by far one of the most overrated people in history.

Heard when he visited Jamaica where millions of people revere him as God he was like in the airplane and refused to come down

A shame.

 

[Leasy]

Yup. And Selaasie fled the country. He's by far one of the most overrated people in history.

True Ineed and he looked down on other Africans.

 

[Leasy]

Didn't the word "Slave" derived from Slav.

It did but whites were always captured and Enslaved by blacks and Arabs for centuries especially the girls. shyt africans changed the entire race class of Italians from blond hair blue eyes to dark skin dark hair etc.. most Italians also have the sickle cell trait.

 

[froggle]

I had to look this up

Virgin boy eggs or "tong zi dan" Chinese: 童子尿煮鸡蛋; pinyin: Tóngzǐ Niào Zhǔ Jīdàn[1]) are a traditional delicacy of Dongyang, China made by cooking eggs in urine collected from young boys.[2] Every year in early spring time, the urine of prepubertal school boys preferably under 10 years is collected and boiled with eggs and sold for 1.50 yuan,[3] around twice the price of a regular boiled egg.[4] In 2008, Dongyang recognized the eggs as "local intangible cultural heritage."[5]


Preparation
Urine is collected from school toilets[2][6] or boys urinate directly into collection buckets set out by vendors.[5] The eggs are soaked and boiled in the urine.[2] The shells are cracked and cooked more on low heat like tea eggs. Cooking takes all day.[2][5][6]

Folk medicine
Dongyang residents believe "the eggs decrease body heat, promote better blood circulation and just generally reinvigorate the body."[2] According to a practitioner of Chinese medicine, urine crystals are like ren zhong bai. "It can treat yin deficiency, decrease internal body heat, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis."[5]

and I know some nasty breh on the coli would gobble these down

 

[mbewane]

Didn't the word "Slave" derived from Slav.

From what I know, it did.

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

Planets are big as fukk, yet all of them (in this solar system ) can fit between earth and the moon.




Just think about that shyt, and the planets are big as fukk

someone mastermind the universe...
animal where brought to a planet to suffer, survive, etc
humans changed from animals 4 millions ago.
God masterminded the universe.

 

[Chronic]

Three members of 1845 Franklin Arctic Expedition that was buried in Beechey Island was found preserved in their graves when exhumed in 1984.