Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prince's father, King Umberto I, decided to improve the breed by marrying off little (5 ft. 3 in.) Victor Emmanuel.to booming, strapping (6 ft.) Elena, daughter of Montenegro's peasant king, Nicholas. In his 46 years as King of Italy, and sometime ruler of Albania and Ethiopia, Victor Emmanuel confirmed his father's early suspicion that there was room for improvement...
...Flagship Ethiopia, a Swedish-owned Bristol freight plane, refueled at Catania, in Sicily, and took off for Rome in a sirocco storm. Aboard were a crew of four and 21 passengers, all Swedish pilots and mechanics homebound after delivering in Addis Ababa 16 surplus Swedish light bombers for Emperor Haile Selassie's tiny but growing air force...
...Flagship Ethiopia had crashed about 160 feet below the summit of Santa Maria dei Monti, which rises directly behind the villages of Ravello and Scala. Toll: 21 killed, four hurt...
...four years, while the Italians overran his country, Ethiopia's Haile Selassie found refuge on a peaceful estate in Bath. "The asylum," he said later, "offered us ... in [our darkest] hour ... has been of inestimable value...
...Portugal's Congo, where every native has had his "Santu" or Christian name since the 16th Century, Dom Pedro V was once a monarch as absolute in his way as Ethiopia's Haile Selassie. A Portuguese army had helped enthrone him, and for 30 years they let him reign supreme over his subjects. Then in 1884 Europe began its mad scramble for Africa. Portugal's empire builders sent out their own resident governor, and Pedro and all his kind became mere pensioners. Last week, with 700 other pilgrims from Portugal's now tatterdemalion empire, another King...