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Topic: Visit of Selassie to Jamaica


  
  Ratafarianism
Hale Selassie seems to have been very educated and was not a Rastafarian, and some claim there is some evidence that he was a devout Christian (Coptic Christian).
Selassie persuaded the Rastafarian brothers that they "should not seek to immigrate to Ethiopia until they had liberated the people of Jamaica." (The Rastafarians, pp.
In 1974 Selassie was deposed by an army coup, and (according to the Concise Columbia Encyclopedia) on August 27, 1975, Haile Selassie died under mysterious circumstances.
www.letusreason.org /Cults15.htm   (1870 words)

  
 Jamaica Gleaner : Pieces of the Past: In this place dwelt Horatio Nelson
It was during this time that he was promoted to Captain in his early 20s in 1779, and put in charge of 500 men and the batteries at Fort Charles.
A favourite visiting spot of Nelson's while in Jamaica was Flamstead, in the Blue Mountains, where a famous lookout was located.
It is interesting to note that Cubah Cornwallis also saved the Prince's life when, as a midshipman on this journey visiting Jamaica he fell ill. He was the first member of the British Royal family to visit Jamaica.
www.jamaica-gleaner.com /pages/history/story0065.html   (2620 words)

  
 Jamaica People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Members of the Arawak tribe were the aboriginal inhabitants of Jamaica.
Maroons in Jamaica may have up to four ancestral lines, from Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast), the area from Burkina Faso to Benin (formerly the "slave coast"), creoles born in Jamaica, and Arawak and Miskito indigenous peoples from Central America.
Rastafarians are a Jamaican group that honors Haile Selassie, a former emperor of Ethiopia.
www.globalvolunteers.org /1main/jamaica/jamaicapeople.htm   (472 words)

  
 April 25
1983 - American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
In the Gregorian Calendar 25th April is the latest date on which Easter Sunday can fall (22nd March is the earliest)
Rastafarianism - Celebration of Haile Selassie's visit to Jamaica
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/ap/april_25.html   (893 words)

  
 Adherents.com: By Location
About 75 percent of Jamaica's population was Protestant, and 8 percent was Roman Catholic; various Muslim, Jewish, and spiritualist groups were also present.
originated in Jamaica in 1930, as a religious response to the coronation of Crown Prince Ras Tafari, as Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia...
Like some other movements in less-developed societies, the Ras Tafarians are not a distinct sect with a coherent organization, but a collection of groups of greater or lesser degrees of permanence, centred around a number of spasmodically emerging leaders, who proclaim a broad similar set of beliefs.
www.adherents.com /adhloc/Wh_161.html   (2523 words)

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