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... Ethiopia , ruled by a dynasty of queens . Meroë is also the name of the homestead on which Theodora Goodman spends ... Ethiopia ' , Theodora is unaccountably troubled : ... she could not , she did not wish to , believe in the second ...
... Ethiopia , ruled by a dynasty of queens . Meroë is also the name of the homestead on which Theodora Goodman spends ... Ethiopia ' , Theodora is unaccountably troubled : ... she could not , she did not wish to , believe in the second ...
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... the literal translation of a modern Greek phrase , Oy Kaymenoi , which has the colloquial significance of ' the poor unfortunates ' . ) According to one derivation of the word , ' Ethiopian ' means ' one who is 22 PATRICK WHITE.
... the literal translation of a modern Greek phrase , Oy Kaymenoi , which has the colloquial significance of ' the poor unfortunates ' . ) According to one derivation of the word , ' Ethiopian ' means ' one who is 22 PATRICK WHITE.
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R. F. Brissenden. word , ' Ethiopian ' means ' one who is burnt ' ( by the sun , presumably ) , and the Ancients thought of Ethiopia as the land of fire and monsters . Pliny in his Natural History remarks that ' It is by no means ...
R. F. Brissenden. word , ' Ethiopian ' means ' one who is burnt ' ( by the sun , presumably ) , and the Ancients thought of Ethiopia as the land of fire and monsters . Pliny in his Natural History remarks that ' It is by no means ...
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