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Lucien Aigner :: Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia, in a railway station in Geneva, Switzerland, 1935

{Haile Selassie was Ethiopia’s regent from 1916 to 1930 and then emperor until 1974. He was born Tafari Makonnen in 1892, the son of Ras Makonnen, a cousin and close friend of Emperor Menilek II. Selassie was believed to be a direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.}