Bells tolled and thousands of Ethiopians wailed and applauded Sunday as Haile Selassie, their last emperor, was laid to rest 25 years after his mysterious death. As leaders of the Ethiopian Orthodox ...
Posts claim to show an image of the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, bowing before Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Selassie and Empress Menen Asfaw. The claim is ...
Yeshi Kassa in "Grandpa Was an Emperor," left, and Queen Elizabeth II pictured in April 2022, right.Courtesy of Constance Marks Productions, Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Images Yeshi Kassa is the ...
Haile Selassie’s grandson has bought an Ethiopian shield at an auction to return the artefact to its homeland. The object, made of silver and animal hide, was stolen by British forces at the Battle of ...
Tewodros II chose to kill himself than surrendering to the British.Photograph: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images. A London based museum has agreed to return two locks of hair said to have ...
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie flew into Stillwater in 1954 to thank Oklahoma A & M College officials for the school's help in his country's agricultural program. And to see an American Indian. It ...
Sept. 12 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1609, Henry Hudson discovered what is now known as the Hudson River. In 1940, near Montignac, France, the prehistoric Lascaux cave paintings, believed to ...
A 21-gun salute ushered in the sunrise across the eucalyptus-covered hills around Ethiopia’s capital of Addis Ababa. In St. George Cathedral more than 100 stocking-footed priests of the Coptic ...
Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam was recently officially inaugurated after 14 years and US$5 billion worth of project work.
Connecticut entrepreneurs, Adam von Gootkin, founder and CEO of Highclere Castle Spirits in Essex, and Nicholas Melillo, founder and CEO of Foundation Cigar company in Ellington, partnered with Prince ...