Word: shebas
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...wonder that when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon and saw with her own eyes his great splendor and wealth and harem, she could not but break in spirit and confess that indeed, "That half was not told...
...clever and sometimes shady deals and in spite of the fact that his harem did finally bring his ruin. Solomon lives in the literature of the Bible as one of the most human, the wisest, and a God-fearing man. This son of David, son of Bath-sheba, even as his wise words, has become "a proverb and a byword among the people...
...Cross hospital, as later claimed by Haile Selassie. *For at least 300 years various Ethiopian princes, all claiming direct descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, had been vainly nominating themselves Negus Negasti (King of Kings) of Ethiopia, sometimes three at a time, when Menelik (born Sahala Mariem) was born in 1844 to the King of the stock-raising Shoans and Gallas of central and southern Ethiopia. Like many another conqueror, Menelik spent his youth as the captive of his father's enemies. Not until he was 45 was he able to wangle the title of Negus...
...does not share his grandmother's enthusiasm for King David as an ancestor, last week let himself be invested by Dr. Martin with the gold chain of the Ethiopian Order of King Solomon, and Queen Mary received the gold chain of the Order of Saba (or Sheba). In neither case did Ethiopia's envoy venture to put the gold chains around Their Majesties' necks, merely handed them over...
...year-old medical doctor, Carl Thorstein Scott, who has just returned from Abyssinia where for a year and a half he was court physician to the last descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, relates that since May 1933 he has treated over 20,000 patients in the great hospital at Dessye, most of them for various lung troubles-Abyssinia is a mountainous country; many also suffer from venereal and tropical diseases...