It's based solely on our own imagination and desire to anthropomorphize. a lot of it really does boil down to basically this meme
Claire
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Game developer from Cascadia🌲. Fedora Linux maintainer. Socialist. Trans Femme with Nonbinary characteristics, Asexual. She/her. Minors DNI. Website: chapien.net Keyoxide: keyoxide.org/97810FC8F87BB5DC53012E…
![According to some Arabic writers, Musa's gift-giving caused a depreciation in the value of gold in Egypt. Al-Umari said that before Musa's arrival a mithqal of gold was worth 25 silver dirhams, but that it dropped to less than 22 dirhams afterward and did not go above that number for at least twelve years.[98] Though this has been described as having "wrecked" Egypt's economy,[87] the historian Warren Schultz has argued that this was well within normal fluctuations in the value of gold in Mamluk Egypt.[99] Musa may have taken as much as 18 tons of gold on his hajj,[100] equal in value to over US$1.397 billion in 2024.[101]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rm76gmxw3bcqghndbzzscxzf/bafkreie7jbwdxjv7f2tneljdboiuudrztq5gmx7g4clajvtabn3vllyfge)
![The French author Catulle Mendès sued Leoncavallo for plagiarism after learning of the plot of Leoncavallo's libretto from an 1894 French translation. Mendès thought it resembled his 1887 play La Femme de Tabarin ("Tabarin's Wife"), which was structured as a play-within-the-play and featured a clown murdering his wife. Leoncavallo pleaded ignorance of Mendès's play.[2] Later, there were counter-accusations that Mendès's play resembled Don Manuel Tamayo y Baus's Un Drama Nuevo (1867). Mendès dropped his lawsuit. Scholar Matteo Sansone has suggested that Leoncavallo had ample opportunity to be exposed to new French art and musical works while living in Paris from 1882 to 1888, including potentially Mendès's play, another version of La femme de Tabarin by Paul Ferrier, and Tabarin, an opera composed by Émile Pessard that was based on Ferrier's play.[6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rm76gmxw3bcqghndbzzscxzf/bafkreihokg55llgzu2iq2ibaq3pysajvlgggzxcnqaz4v5yuaq34hqguke)
![By 1944, knowledge of the Holocaust amongst Jews was widespread. As Germany's fortunes in the war continued to decline and the treatment of "Mischlinge" became more severe, "some Jews began to flee their battalions".[32] Some "Mischlinge" continued to serve in the Wehrmacht while members of their families were being deported, while some participated in the Holocaust.[20][22] In 1944, Hitler signed declarations for 77 high-ranking Wehrmacht officers who were "of mixed Jewish race or married to a Jew", asserting that they were of German blood.[4] The 77 officers were discharged from the Wehrmacht later that year following the 20 July plot.[27] In November 1944, the OKH ordered that any "half-Jews" still in the Wehrmacht were to be expelled and arrangements made for their arrest by the Gestapo.[6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rm76gmxw3bcqghndbzzscxzf/bafkreigdgjtxhuuspqw54clbtvaqzh6pyikkj7mwvbxtcqeq7iaoc6esxe)
![Some "well-placed" persons of mixed "Aryan" and "non-Aryan" descent, such as Generalfeldmarschall Erhard Milch and General der Flieger Helmuth Wilberg, were granted German Blood Certificates.[13][24] Referring to Milch, Chief of the Luftwaffe High Command Hermann Göring reportedly stated, "I decide who is a Jew in the Luftwaffe".[27][28] In July 1941, Hitler introduced a policy that allowed "half-Jew" Wehrmacht veterans dismissed as a result of the 8 April 1940 directive to apply to re-join the Wehrmacht if they had previously won an Iron Cross or campaign citation, subject to Hitler's personal approval.[6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rm76gmxw3bcqghndbzzscxzf/bafkreignqws5o7hw6lk22h4h2ap322htvcicbge2uzgx23bbp44r6i67iy)
![Their kings are not permanent. They select and appoint the most worthy man. If there are unexpected calamities in the kingdom, such as frequent extraordinary winds or rains, he is unceremoniously rejected and replaced. The one who has been dismissed quietly accepts his demotion, and is not angry. The people of this country are all tall and honest. They resemble the people of the Middle Kingdom and that is why this kingdom is called Da Qin. This country produces plenty of gold [and] silver, [and of] rare and precious they have luminous jade, "bright moon pearls", Haiji rhinoceroses, coral, yellow amber, opaque glass, whitish chalcedony [i.e., langgan], red cinnabar, green gemstones, gold-thread embroideries, woven gold-threaded net, delicate polychrome silks painted with gold, and asbestos cloth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rm76gmxw3bcqghndbzzscxzf/bafkreiet4jhl3yutgphksqsw6uhhnnethoy4zlk2z5dwrnikcbyuqhnrxm)
