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...seemed to the diggers that the storied visit of the Queen of Sheba may have been motivated by fear that Solomon's new sea trade would interfere with her caravan commerce, and her consequent desire to make a deal...
...March from "The Queen of Sheba Gounod *Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn *"Whispering of the Flowers" Blon *Fantasia, "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens *"Triana" from the Suite "Iberia" Albeniz (Arranged for Orchestra by E. F. Arbos) *"Kol Nidrei" Bruch Violincello solo: Jacobus Langendoen *Cossacks' Dance from the opera "Mazeppa" Tchaikovsky *"Violets," Waltzes Waldteufel *"I've Got you Under My Skin," from "Born to Dance" Porter (Arranged by P. Bodge) Orgy of the Spirits from the Oriental Suite "Noure and Anitra" Ilynsky...
...legend that Ethiopia's Imperial Family is descended from the seduction by King Solomon of Sheba's Virgin Queen is pure myth. Last month Oxford's University Press exploded it anew with A History of Abyssinia ($2.25) in which the adoption of this legend by Coptic priests to give Ethiopia's present dynasty a savor of ancient lineage and of Biblical if not Divine authority is traced with British scholarship...
...Bible's sacred Ark of the Covenant, say Ethiopians, was abstracted by the Queen of Sheba's son from King Solomon and is to be found today at Aksum, containing the tablets on which are inscribed the Ten Commandments. Last week correspondents removed their shoes and were led by High Priest Ghebezbe Tacle into Italy's captured Cathedral of Aksum...
...forth. The reporter has been talking at length and finally ends with something liek this: "But a look won't scare them away. Can't you understand what it means for you, for my newspaper, for the world if these sacred relics which you say the Queen of Sheba brought from solomon's court are really in existence? I only want a look...