Word: coptic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep on fighting, but that with Italy's legions sweeping down unchecked from the north further defense of Addis Ababa was now impossible. It was best for the Empress and their two sons, Crown Prince Asfa-Wassan and round-eyed Prince Makonnen, 13, to leave the country. The Coptic monastery in British-protected Palestine was the first refuge that came to the Emperor's mind. But would the royal family be temporarily safe in French Djibouti, at the other end of the 494-mile Ethiopian railroad to the coast? Minister Bodard assured him that they would...
...Bound together in all matters of faith and by mutual recognition of the Pope as Christ's Vicar on Earth, they are: Ambrosian (Milan), Mozarabic (Spain), Chaldean, Malabar, Coptic, Abyssinian, Pure Syriac, Armenian, Maronite, Pure Greek, Italo-Greek, Georgian, Melkite, Bulgarian, Serbian, Rumanian, Russian, Ruthenian...
Gifts of $37,467 to the Fogg Museum of Harvard University were announced today by Edward W. Forbes, Director, in his annual report. Accessions included nine small terra cotta heads from Asia Minor, dating from the first or second century B.C., a sixth-century Coptic frieze, and sixteen Roman Egypto-Roman terra cotta fligurines and fragments of Persian pottery...
Among the purchases were: from the Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund a Gandharan relief of the Birth of Budda; from the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund a sixth-century Coptic frieze; a Persian fresco from the Prichard Fund. From the Excavation Fund there was acquired twelve casts of Seythian and other objects in Budapest, and sixteen Roman and Egypto-Roman terra cotta figurines and fragments of Persian pottery were acquired from a temporary fund...
Spencer, a Christmas present to the Abyssinians from President Conant's college, inasmuch as yesterday was Christmas according to the Coptic calendar, is known as an expert on International Law. He has been living in Paris since completing his work here, and succeeds M. Auberson, a Swiss, legal authority, with whom it is rumored Haile had a slight tiff...