Word: abyssinia
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...agenda of the Assembly: Admittance of Ireland, Ethiopia (Abyssinia), who will be asked to abolish slavery; and possibly the admittance of Turkey, Mexico, Germany; consideration of reports from the following ten Commissions of the League...
...democratic Eastern potentate seems a contradiction in terms, but an American missionary, just returned to the U. S., gives the following account of H. R. H. Ras Taffari, of Abyssinia...
...organization of the Negroes was to be attained by the formation of the International Negro Improvement Association. In August. 1920, 3,000 delegates, from Abyssinia to Australia, met in Manhattan. A Declaration of Negro Rights and a Constitution of Negro Liberty were drawn up. A flag colored black, red and green was adopted; a World Leader and Supreme Deputy Potentate were elected; plans were made to build a " Black House " in Washington for Marcus Garvey, newly elected Provisional President of Africa. The following Universal Ethiopian Anthem was adopted...
...well," says Professor Reisner, "the use of writing from the cumbersome Egyptian hieroglyphics which they had inherited along with the official Egyptian language, and they must have had hints of alphabetic writing from the use of Greek in Ptolemaic Egypt and the use of the Southern Arabic script of Abyssinia. But they made a script of their own,--unique in the form of the letters, adapted only to the writing of their own peculiar language. The cursive was invented first for the practical purposes of daily life and caused an immediate decline in the knowledge of Egyptian; and when...
...LeRoux has made extensive explorations in Africa; organized the first French camel-corps on the desert of Sahara, and discovered a new tribe in Abyssinia...