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The name Andromeda is from the Greek Ἀνδρομέδα, Androméda, perhaps meaning 'mindful of her husband'.The name is from the noun ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός, anḗr, andrós meaning 'man', and a verb, whether μέδεσθαι, medesthai, 'to be mindful of', μέδω, médō, 'to protect, rule over', or μήδομαι, mḗdomai, 'to deliberate, contrive, decide', all related to ...
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]
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.
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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.
According to the first-century Romano-Jewish scholar Josephus, Tharbis was the daughter of an unnamed king of "Saba", which he claimed was in Ethiopia, who lived before the Exodus. In the medieval rabbinic version found in the Sefer HaYashar , she is instead the king's wife, not his daughter, and the king is named Kikianus.
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They had a son, Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie, [3] who currently is the President of the Crown Council of Ethiopia. The Prince was a man of an artistic bent, who is said to have made a movie which was banned from publication by the Imperial Government censor despite the fact the Prince was a member of the Imperial family.