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Axum, the new Zion?

November 11th 2008
"All people come from God, but the Ethiopians more than most." - a Geez scholar at Addis Ababa University, "I Didn't Do It For You." According to Ethiopia's founding myth found in the book which gave the Ethiopian emperor's their mandate to rule, the Kebra Negast, "Glory of the Kings," the Axumite kingdom was a kingdom blessed by God itself. The [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kebra_N ... read more
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Ethiopian Flag Unique among African countries, the ancient Ethiopian monarchy maintained its freedom from colonial rule, with the exception of the 1936-41 Italian occupation during World War II. In 1974 a military junta, the Derg, deposed Emperor Haile SELASSIE (wh... ... read more
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After two years of the expat finance bubble in Hong Kong, I am ready to explore the world outside of Bloomberg and AmEx cards and mix things up a bit. I hope to meet some extraordinary people, have some ridiculous adventures, learn some new languages, and basically to be pretty confused every other day. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain ... full info
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