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Was Cleopatra an African?
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Michigan Chronicle
06-14-1994
Was Cleopatra an African?.
By Reginald Larrie
When Claudette Colbert, one of several movie stars to portray Cleopatra, sauntered across a mausoleum, some claimed that the scene was distorting historical fact. As proof they referred to the obelisks standing in New York and London, called "Cleopatra Needles," as evidence that she was of African stock and not European.
If the discontented had checked they would have ...
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