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Andromeda is set to be sacrificed to the kraken but is saved by Perseus. The historian and filmmaker Henry Louis Gates Jr. criticizes both the original film and its remake for using white actresses to portray the Ethiopian princess Andromeda. The 1981 film uses the blonde Judi Bowker; the 2010 remake uses the brunette Alexa Davalos.
Female members of the Solomonid Dynasty of Ethiopia by birth and marriage, who bore or bear the title of Leult (Princess) and Emebethoy (Emebet Hoy) Pages in category "Ethiopian princesses" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Makonnen was born in Washington, D.C., to Bobby William Austin, president of the Neighborhood Associates Corporation (NAC) and the first African-American full-time faculty member at Georgetown University, [3] and Joy Ford, the former executive director of Humanities DC, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. [4]
Cassiopeia (/ ˌ k æ s i. oʊ ˈ p iː. ə /; [1] Ancient Greek: Κασσιόπεια Kassiópeia, Modern Greek: Κασσιόπη Kassiópē) or Cassiepeia (Κασσιέπεια Kassiépeia), a figure in Greek mythology, was Queen of Aethiopia and wife of King Cepheus of Ethiopia. She was arrogant and vain, characteristics that led to her ...
Members of the Imperial family remained imprisoned until 1989 (for the women) and 1990 (for the men). In April 1989, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen was proclaimed "Emperor of Ethiopia" in exile, at his home in London by members of the exiled Ethiopian community. He took the throne name of Amha Selassie I. His wife began also using the title of ...
The constellation Cassiopeia as it can be seen by the naked eye from a northern location. The German cartographer Johann Bayer used the Greek letters Alpha through Omega, and then A and B, to label the most prominent 26 stars in the constellation. Upsilon was later found to be two stars and labelled Upsilon 1 and Upsilon 2 by John Flamsteed.
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This is over 1,400 times the size of the full moon, 55% of the size of the largest constellation, Hydra, and over 10 times the size of the smallest constellation, Crux. Its brightest star, Alpha Andromedae , is a binary star that has also been counted as a part of Pegasus , while Gamma Andromedae is a colorful binary and a popular target for ...