Word: sheba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treasures back to Rome. Only now is one of the items on its way back to Addis Ababa, the magnificent cast-iron statue of the Lion of Judah. Though he is pleased with the return of the symbol of his legendary succession from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Emperor Haile Selassie is not satisfied. The trophy he wants most still stands near Rome's Circus Maximus. It is a finely carved, 83-ft. granite obelisk that once rose above Ethiopia's ancient capital of Axum...
Tuesday, December 31 TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Shirley Booth won an Oscar for her performance in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) opposite Burt Lancaster, Terry Moore and Richard Jaeckel...
...sculpture court, which contains 27 examples of 20th century works. No other campus in the U.S. can boast one like Los Angeles'. In an outdoor setting lush with sycamore, pine, eucalyptus, jacaranda and coral trees, U.C.L.A. students can now stroll and study among Archipenko's Queen of Sheba, Calder's stabile Button Flower, four Matisse bas-reliefs, a Chadwick, Henry Moore's Reclining Figure and many, many more...
...castings are unique, but all are from series authorized by the artists. For instance, Archipenko's Queen of Sheba is the third of eight castings: Matisse's bas-reliefs are the sixth of ten; Moore's Figure, the fifth of seven...
Apostolic Origin? The Ethiopians are convinced that their Emperor, Haile Selassie, is a descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and that the Apostle Matthew first brought Christianity to their country. The claim is probably pure legend, since the first known Ethiopian bishop was a certain St. Frumentius, who was consecrated by the Patriarch of Alexandria in the 4th century. Along with the church of Egypt, Ethiopian Christians adopted the Monophysitic teaching that Jesus had one nature in which the human and divine were commingled-a doctrine that was condemned by the Council of Chalcedon...