Word: ethiopia
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Ringed about by British, French and Italian dominated territories, the quadruple Empire of Abyssinia or Ethiopia, comprising the Kingdoms of Tigre, Amhara, Gojam and Shoa, survives as the one potent aboriginal state in all Africa. There human slavery still flourishes. There the most trifling jubilation provides an excuse for tearing out the entrails of a living cow, that they may be gorged raw by old and young, washed down with brimming cups of mese (mead) or bousa (beer). A yard- wide French-operated railway climbs from French Jibuti on the Gulf of Aden 500 miles inland to Addis Ababa...
...rotund Italian baritone, Mario Basiola, made his début as the King of Ethiopia...
...Reisner '89, Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Harvard-Boston Egyptian Expedition, for making finished scale drawings of Giza, Egypt, where his research is done, to be used in the preparation of historical material bearing on the history of Ethiopia and the cultural history of the Old Kingdom in Egypt...
...have sent no immigrants are a few of the minor ones with quotas of 100; a roster of nowheres: Afghanistan, British Cameroon, Nepal, New Guinea, Ruanda and Urundi, Tanganyika, Yap, to which number should probably be added the countries on which no report has been made at all: Andorra, Ethiopia, Liberia, Muscat, Nauru, Siam, the Togolands (British and French). Practically within this group are countries which have sent less than five immigrants : Arabian Peninsula, French Cameroon, Japan,* Monaco, Samoa, Southwest Africa...
...given by Dr. G. A. Reisner. Professor of Egyptology, under the auspices of the Museum of Fine Arts. The lectures, which will be illustrated by lantern slides, are open to the annual subscribers of the Museum. The first, on Tuesday, March 24, at 3 o'clock, will be on "Ethiopia, the Land of Roads"; the second, on March 31, will describe the Pyramid Age; and the third will depict the "Beautiful Temple of Zoser. The lectures will take place at the Museum of Fine Arts...