A new rich list has revealed King Mansa Musa of Mali named richest person of all time. The astounding wealth came from production of more than half the world’s gold and salt. A photograph of Mansa Musa on a map of North Africa circa 1375.…
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160 years ago, during the Great Famine in Ireland, the Ottoman Empire sent £1,000 sterling (about $1,052,000 today) and 3 shiploads of food to Drogheda, Ireland. Ireland was ridden with famine…