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After ten years, back in the garden of the Ghion Hotel, Addis Ababa
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The saxaphone at this wedding helped me discover it is a much bigger park than I knew
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Another bride was down here, leading me to a new entrance
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We stayed at the Capital Hotel & Spa on a tram line built since my last visit
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Hanaa presenting at the Fellow Mid-Year
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Addis to the northwest of our conference room
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And to the northeast of our conference room
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Before the White Elephant exchange
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Hanaa, Robin, Kasey, and Jessica
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Now in Denise's direction
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At the entrance to the Red Terror Martyrs Museum
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Failure to respond to famine in the early 1970s led to the fall of Haile Sellassie and to the Derg takeover
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During his speech, Mengisto produced three bottles of what looked like blood and smashed them to the ground to show what the revolution would do to its enemies
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Our guide was a survivor
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Unspeakable
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So many senseless killings
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The Marxist junta Derg fell in 1991 and were tried by the new government
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Entering St. George's Cathedral which was built in 1906 by Menelik II to commemorate Ethiopia’s victory over the Italian invaders at the Battle of Adwa in 1896.
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Our guide and the priest taking turns telling us about church instruments
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He identified one end of the drum as the Old Testament and the other the New... a bit strange
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In the garden, the statue of a monk killed by the Italians and a bell from Russia
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About Lucy
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Lucy
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Earliest known fossils of Homo Sapiens
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Haile Sellassie gives up a palace to create a university
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Our guide explaining the coffee ceremony, a display in the Ethnography Museum on the Addis University grounds
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A yurt without the felt
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Coffee
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Haile Sellassie's bathroom
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Halie Sellassie's bedroom
