1. On 26 August 1942, Haile Selassie issued a proclamation outlawing slavery.

2. The currency was called the Abyssinian Birr until 1931, when former Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie purchased and

3. September 12: The pro-Western monarch of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, is ousted by a Marxist military junta known as the Derg.

4. Its adherents worship Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (1930–1974), as God incarnate, the Second Advent, or the reincarnation of Jesus.

5. The version of the Bible presented here was the fulfillment of the expressed desire of Haile Selassie, and was first published in 1962

6. Holy Bible in Amharic is the old Amharic Bible version or the Haile Selassie 1962 version for your iPhone, ipad and iPod

7. The modern Italian Army defeated the poorly armed Abyssinians and captured Addis Ababa in May 1936, forcing Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie to flee.

8. The early evangelists such as Leonard Percival Howell, Joseph Nataniel Hibbert and Archibald Dunkley (74) Apotheosised Haile Selassie I as the Living God-King Jah (75) Rastafari, and preached that he will gather and send Africans from diasporic …