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2 unusual facts about Yohannes Haile-Selassie


Cleveland Museum of Natural History

The current Curator and Head of the Physical Anthropology Department is Yohannes Haile-Selassie.

Tim D. White

White has mentored a number of prominent paleoanthropologists, such as Berhane Asfaw, William Henry Gilbert, David DeGusta, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, and Gen Suwa.


Addis Ababa University

Addis Ababa University was founded in 1950 at the request of Haile Selassie by a Canadian Jesuit, Dr Lucien Matte, S.J. as a two-year college, and began operations the next year.

Aida Desta

Together with her mother Princess Tenagnework Haile Selassie, and her sisters Princesses Seble, Sophia and Hirut, were Princess Sara Gizaw Duchess of Harrar (Widow of Prince Makonnen Haile Selasssie), Princess Yeshashework Yilma (the Emperor's niece by his elder brother), Princess Ijigayehu Asfaw Wossen (daughter of the Crown Prince) and Princess Zuriashwork Gebre Igziabiher (widow of Prince Asrate Kassa).

Almayahu Haile

An Amhara, Almayahu was a graduate of the Dina Police College in Addis Ababa and of Haile Selassie University (now Addis Ababa University); his education leads the Ottaways to suspect that this was a factor in his feud with Mengistu Haile Mariam.

CIA activities in Africa

The US is likely to be able to retain the Kagnew facility (A NSA intercept station) at least during Haile Selassie's lifetime.

Edward Richards

In 1963, Richards welcomed Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia when Selassie visited Bermuda with his granddaughter Princess Ruth Desta.

Enderta Province

According to Paul Henze, Ras Wolde Selassie was the first ruler of this period to have close contact with Europeans, hosting three British diplomats, George Annesley, Viscount Valentia, his secretary Henry Salt, and Pearce.

He was born in 1831 to Mercha, Shum (or "governor") of Tembien, and his wife Woizero (or "Dame") Silass Dimtsu (Amata Selassie), who was the daughter of Dejazmach (roughly equivalent to "Duke") Dimtsu Debbab of Enderta the nephew of the powerful Ras Wolde Selassie of Enderta.

Ethiopian Air Force

Ludwig Weber (Agent of Junkers in Addis Ababa and personal pilot of Hailé Sélassié, he supervised the construction of the Weber Meindl van Nes A.VII Ethiopia 1 which was a highly modified version of the de Havilland DH.60

Ethiopian art

One of the best known examples of this type of painting is at Debre Berhan Selassie in Gondar (pictured), famed for its angel covered roof (angels in Ethiopian art are often represented as winged heads) as well as its other murals dating from the late 17th century.

Ethiopian Civil War

The imprisoned members of the Imperial family included Amha Selassie's father, Emperor Haile Selassie, his daughter by his first marriage, Princess Ijigayehu, his sister, Princess Tenagnework, and many of his nephews, nieces, relatives and in-laws.

Getachew Abate

In an act of clemency, Haile Selassie told him "I forgive you, but I do not know if God will." Afterwards, Getachew Abate was exiled to remote parts of the Empire, Jimma and Arsi.

Grounation Day

When Haile Selassie's Ethiopian Airlines flight landed at the airport at 1:30 PM, the crowd surrounded his plane on the tarmac.

Gugsa Araya Selassie

On 28 April 1932, according to legend, the corpse of Ras Gugsa Araya Selassie entered Adigrat strapped upright on his war mule.

Iyasu V

In his autobiography, Haile Selassie reports that when Italian Baron Raimondo Franchetti landed his plane in a field outside of Addis Alem, onlookers "noticed that inside it were a machine-gun as well as rifles and many cartridges" — implying these were to arm Iyasu's followers.

Kadanuumuu

It is a 3.58-million-year-old partial Australopithecus afarensis fossil discovered in the Afar Region of Ethiopia in 2005, by a team led by Yohannes Haile-Selassie, curator of physical anthropology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Kagnew

Kagnew Battalion, part of the 1st Division Imperial Bodyguard sent by Emperor Haile Selassie as part of the United Nations forces in the Korean War

Narga Selassie

Narga Selassie is a church on the western shores of Dek Island, the largest island of Lake Tana in northern Ethiopia.

Prince Sahle Selassie

Prince Sahle Selassie was married to Princess Mahisente Habte Mariam, the daughter of Dejazmach Hapte Mariam Gebre Igziabiher, the heir to the old Oromo kingdom of Leqa Naqamte in Welega Province, and later served as governor of Welega province.

Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

Tewolde Berhan graduated in 1963 from Haile Selassie I University (later renamed Addis Ababa University) and received his doctorate from the University of Wales in 1969.

Theodor Gebre Selassie

Gebre Selassie has a younger sister named Anna, who plays for the Czech Republic women's national handball team.

Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin

Born in Boda, near Ambo, Ethiopia, While still at elementary school he wrote a play called "King Dionysus and the Two Brothers" and saw it staged in the presence, among others, of Emperor Haile Selassie.

Waqo Gutu

He fired the first shot in 1958 by slaying two policemen and together with Abdullai Usman Gutu proceeded to the jungle in 1962 to widen an armed resistance against Haile Selassie’s land policies in what is now Oromia Region, where most Oromo live.


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