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Uneasy head that would wear Ethiopia's crown
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In Addis Ababa at the end of this week the patriarch of the
Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Abuna Paulof I, will officiate at a
funeral service few Ethiopians believed would ever take place on
their soil. The service in Trinity Cathedral, next to the
parliament building, will bury an exiled uncrowned emperor and
quietly celebrate the new claimant to the ancient Solomonic throne,
His Royal Highness, Zera-Yakob.
He could not give an interview during mourning, but through a
royal spokesman, Li...
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Virgin gives a lift to exiled Emperor
The Independent - London
; Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic airline has agreed to help the exiled Ethiopian royal family return to Addis Ababa for the funeral service of the uncrowned emperor, who died in Washington last week. In London, the court of the new emperor, His Royal Highness, Zera-Yakob, is urgently planning the
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Revisiting Ethiopia's demigod
The Boston Globe
; ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Thick clouds of incense and dirge-like chants drift through the Bahta Church, on the grounds of the former Imperial Palace. A priest rolls back the red carpet and opens a steel door set in the floor, revealing a low stone stairway. At its base rest the bones of Ethiopia's
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Haile Selassie laid to rest 25 years after death
Chicago Sun-Times
; ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Bells tolled and thousands of Ethiopians wailed and applauded Sunday as Haile Selassie, their last emperor, was finally laid to rest 25 years after his mysterious death. As leaders of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church stood by, resplendent in their colorful robes, elderly veterans
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Ethiopian emperor finally laid to rest
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Ethiopian emperor finally laid to rest Haile Selassie died mysteriously 25 years ago Associated Press Monday, November 6, 2000 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- Bells tolled and thousands of Ethiopians wailed and applauded Sunday as Haile Selassie, their last emperor, was finally laid to rest 25 years after
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The divine lion Radio
The Sunday Telegraph London
; We can safely assume, I think, that the name of Evelyn Waugh is not highly regarded among Rastafarians. In 1930, Waugh went to Abyssinia to report on the coronation of Haile Selassie, the man whom Rastafarians believe to have been divine. Waugh took a rather different view. His account of the event
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