November 25, 523 – Crucial Day in History

 

 

The amazing story below is about the massacre of Christians on the Arabian peninsula back in 500’s A.D.

It happened in what is present day Yemen, on November 25 – on the same day as the start to the Christian holy season prior to the Feast of the Nativity of Jesus – Lidet (Christmas) of Tsome Neviyat (the fast of the Prophets known as Sebket / Advent – 15 November to 28 December Ethiopian Calendar )

The massacre of Christians on November 25, 523 has changed the entire world history in a very mysterious fashion.

In the sixth century, the nation of Abyssinia (modern Ethiopia) dominated the kingdoms of Himyar and Yemen on the southern Arabian peninsula. There were flourishing Christian churches in the area (also known as Homerites) which looked to Christian Abyssinia for protection.

It happened that a Himyarite Jew, Yusuf As’ar (better known by nicknames referring to his braids or ponytail: Dhu Nuwas, Dzu Nuwas, Dounaas, or Masruq), seized the throne from his king and revolted against Abyssinia, seeking to throw the Ethiopians out of the country. He captured an Ethiopian garrison at Zafar and burned the church there and burned other Christian churches.

Christians were strongest at the North Yemen city called Najran (sometimes spelled Nagran or Nadjran). Dhu Nuwas attacked it. The Christians held the town with desperate valor. Dhu Nuwas found he could not capture it. And so he resorted to treachery. He swore that he would grant the Christians of Najran full amnesty if they would surrender. The Christians, knowing they could not hold out forever, yielded against the advice of their leader Arethas (Aretas or Harith).

What happened next was so appalling that Bishop Simeon of Beth Arsham (a Syrian) traveled to the site to interview eyewitnesses and write a report… “The Jews amassed all the martyr’s bones and brought them into the church where they heaped them up. They then brought in the priests, deacons, sub-deacons, readers, and sons and daughters of the covenant…they filled the church from wall to wall, some 2,000 persons according to the men who came from Najran; then they piled wood all round the outside of the church and set light to it, thus burning the church with everyone inside it.”

In the ensuing week, hundreds more Christians were martyred, among them many godly women, who were killed with the most horrible tortures when they refused to renounce Christ. According to Simeon, many were told “Deny Christ and the cross and become Jewish like us; then you shall live.”

Versions differ as to date, but one says that it was on this day, November 25, 523, Dhu Nuwas took his vengeance on Arethas and 340 followers, killing them. These men were quickly included in martyr lists in the Greek, Latin and Russian churches. A song was even written about them by one Johannes Psaltes, although it reports only about 200 deaths.

Other accounts written within a century add that deep pits were dug, filled with combustible material, and set afire. Christians who refused to change faiths were hurled into the flame, thousands dying in this painful martyrdom. Some think that this is the event that the Koran refers to when it says, “Cursed be the diggers of the trench, who lighted the consuming fire and sat around it to watch the faithful being put to the torture!” although Muslim commentators deny this.

A wealthy lady named Ruhm was compelled to watch her virgin daughter and granddaughter executed and to taste their blood before she was killed herself. Asked how the blood tasted, she answered, “Like a pure, spotless offering.”

When word reached Constantinople, the Roman Emperor encouraged the Ethiopian king Ellesbaas (Ella Atsbeha or Kaleb) to intervene, as did the Patriarch of Alexandra. Ellesbaas was only too willing to do so, since his garrisons had been massacred and fellow Christians killed. He destroyed Dhu Nuwas and established a Christian kingdom. An Ethiopian-Jewish writing known as the Kebra Nagast regarded the downfall of Dhu Nuwas to be the final catastrophe for the Kingdom of Judah. Another Ethiopian book told the story of the massacre under the title The Book of the Himyarites.

 

 

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Ethiopia’s Cultural Cornucopia

“The Omo is oddly reminiscent of the American west in the 19th century. Life revolves around cattle, gunplay and getting the girl.”

Exactly! I even “SEE” a striking similarity between some tribes of the OMO and the original Nordic tribes of Northern Europe.

UNTIL recent years the tribes of the Omo River Basin in the remote southwest of Ethiopia had not even heard of the nation of which they were a part. For all they knew of it, Addis Ababa might have been the dark side of the moon.Theirs is a traditional world.

The men count their wealth in cattle, their wives in goats and their status by the number of enemies they have murdered. They paint their bodies for war and celebration, and drink cow’s blood to revive their spirits. The women, among the most beautiful in Africa, scar their torsos in elaborate patterns for erotic effect, and in preparation for marriage insert plates the size of Frisbees in their lower lips. “This is what one dreamed about as a child,” a seasoned Africa traveller told me once. “An Africa untouched by our own culture.”

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Ethiopian tribes – picture galleries

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Emperor Menelek Wasn’t Barbarian

The following amazing article was written and published by the World’s best Newspaper, by the New York Times, 113 years ago, on May 4, 1896

Origin of Monastic Live – Africa. Not so Dark After All – Emperor Menelek’s Descent from Sheba—Priests Can Divorce—The Problem in the Soudan—Many of the Monasteries Said to Possess Valuable Documents and Manuscripts.

Christendom has a deeper interest in Abyssinia and its remarkable monarch, Emperor Menelek, than the world at large has stopped to consider. It is not the fate of the Italian Army nor the march of the British toward the Soudan that attracts thinking people. It is the general focusing of the world’s lenses upon that part of the globe which was literally the cradle of culture and of Christianity.

It has been the vogue to speak of Africa as a “dark continent.” a God-forsaken and debauched region. There has been some foundation—nay, one had almost said positive justification—for this practice because among the wild and untamed tribes of Central Africa and the inhabitants of the South and West all the excesses of debased carnalism prevailed.

Not so, however, in Abyssinia has this been the case, despite the habitudes of sensational correspondents and those who were part of or accompanied besieging and invading European armies. Abyssinia/Ethiopia and Egypt have been and still continue to be the repositories of the relics and treasures of a wondrous civilization, a grandeur, learning, and culture to which modern historians referentially defer and point with reverential awe.

If the wars which have begun in Africa, particularly in that region of which Ethiopia is part, reveal the treasures hidden in the monasteries of the Coptic monks and the monophysite priests, they will be a blessing to Christianity, science, and progressive civilization.

Emperor Menelek has been regarded as a “barbarian” by Europeans, who seem to have adopted the term with even less justification for it than had the Roman people when they applied it to all other races on earth. But when this “barbarian” is investigated he turns out to be by birth and possibilities very much of a gentleman of lofty lineage and invaluable possessions. He rules to-day a country of about 100,000 square miles, inhabited by 5,000,000 persons, whose forefathers were believed to be the oldest and greatest people known to history. They are divided into three great subdivisions of the whole: First, the Ethiopians of Tigré, who speak the ancient Geez language; second the Amharic tribes, living in Amhara and Shoa, and, third, the Agows of Wag Lasta, said to be of Phoenician origin. There are also the Gallas, who settled in Amhara and Shoa.

It must be admitted that the frequent civil wars brutalized and depraved these people by engendering evils and vices and by destroying the literature that once belonged to Abyssinia and which tradition tells us was important and extensive. Abyssinia is situated between latitudes 8 degrees 30 minutes and 16 degrees 80 minutes north, and between longitudes 34 degrees 20 minutes and 43 degrees 20 minutes east. It is bounded north and northwest by Nubia and south and east by Galla and Somali and Adal. Its topography may be described as elevated table land and extensive valleys, and it has many thriving cities. So much for the geographical summary of Emperor Menelek’s dominions. Of its relations to Christianity and the world’s early greatness a few words of description will be interesting.

Menelek claims to be a direct descendant from the Queen of Sheba and her son Menelek, whose father was said to be Solomon, and the legendary lore of this part of Africa says that the first Menelek was a Jew and was educated by the wise King himself. Be this as it may, the present Menelek is a wise man, and is bent on being classified by his European cousins as their peer—a potentate of common sense and progressive, of longer descent and loftier lineage—prepared to take his place among them for the benefit of his people and humanity. He wishes to belong to the Geneva Convention, and it is asserted that he stands ready to throw open the innermost recesses of his kingdom and its monasteries to the properly accredited explorer.

There should be plenty to repay research of this character in a land so wealthy in Biblical tradition, and where stands the oldest temples and religious edifices. In Axum, the city of the Queen of Sheba, there stands a cathedral to-day as old as Christianity itself. If historians are to be believed.

Coptic Christianity was and is the religion of the people. There are, of course, many Mohammedans and Jews. The first apostle of Christianity in Abyssinia chroniclers claim to have been the Chamberlain of Queen Candace of Ethiopia, whose baptism is recorded in Acts Vll., 27. But Frementius and Adesius of Tyre were slaves to the King of Abyssinia, and on his death the former became tutor to the hereditary Princes, and Adesius went back to Tyre. This was in A.D. 320, and Frementius formed a Christian Church among the Greek and Roman merchants in Axum. He then went to Alexandria and was consecrated by Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria. The King was baptized and Axum became the See of a Metropolitan, with seven suffragans. In the fifth and sixth centuries the monophysites controlled the patriarchal See of Alexandria.

Subsequent to this Christianity spread over Nubia and Abyssinia and continued to spread until the Mohammedans overran the country and planted the faith of Moslem wherever they appeared. Through the frightful days of the seventeenth century Abyssinia remained faithful in a large sense to Christianity, and Rome, through the Portuguese, made vigorous efforts to bring the Abyssinian Christians beneath the Papal rule. The effort was not successful for any length of time any more than was the effort to establish the Anglican Church there when Andraos was consecrated Abuna, or Metropolitan, of Abyssinia by the Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria, in 1841.

The Church has always been monophysitic and has many peculiar features in its ritual; the Jewish Sabbath was observed as well as the Christian; circumcision preceded baptism; dancing was in the services just as it was in the Jewish Temple; baptism among the Coptic Christians was by immersion, and communion was administered daily to the laity.

The Church is a monastic Church. The beginning of the monastic life was in the deserts of Egypt, and the Coptic Christians gave the impulse to the development of Christian asceticism, which later resulted in monasteries and convents. The most celebrated convents in Abyssinia are Debra Libanos, in Sliso; St. Stephen, on Lake Haik; Debra Denus and Axum Thion, in Tigré, and Lahbela, in Lasta.

Each Church has a Tabot, or ark of the Covenant, behind the curtain of is own holy of holies, which may have lent some color to the tradition that the Ark of the Covenant from the Temple had been transferred for safety to Axum by the early Menelik when it was imperiled. But, as Mr. Kipling points out, “that is another story.”

At present this article’s purpose is to show that this “barbarian” Menelek is not such a barbarian after all, and that he really may be, and very likely is, the custodian of the archives and secrets of the earliest Christians and the orthodox Jews. One thing is quite certain. It is that the Coptic Christians were the first of great Christians, and that Africa was not so dark a continent then as people imagine. The Copts were the principal sect of Christians in the Valley of the Nile, and were and still are descendants of the inhabitants of Egypt in the days of the Ptolemies. There is ancestral greatness.

A few additional peculiarities in Abyssinian Christianity are worthy of note. Priests have power to divorce, and a married man can cast his matrimonial gyves and throw the support of his children on to his wife’s shoulders by becoming a monk. The Bible is in eighty-one books and is written in the ancient language of Axum, and contains the Roman Catholic canon and many other books.

Thus it will be seen that Christendom, through these wars and strifes now raging in the Valley of the Nile, may acquire information hitherto hidden from all but Abyssinian and Coptic fanatics’ eyes for centuries.

It is asserted that in many of the monasteries valuable documents and manuscripts have been saved for ages, just as were manuscripts in the Middle Ages in Europe. It has even been suggested and published that tomes, parchments, and volumes believed to have perished with the library at Alexandria were in reality secreted in Coptic convents and sanctuaries throughout Ethiopia, Abyssinia and Nubia to be resurrected shortly by means of these bitter conflicts and annihilation of armies.

Abyssinia and Ethiopia – once the Ethiopian Empire – are repositories of secrets vital to history and to progress. Shall they be revealed by force of arms or by moral suasion and courtesy to a monarch who has hitherto been proclaimed a “barbarian”?

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They Can See You Through Walls

This is potentially great news for firefighters trying to locate people trapped in burning buildings, and for police SWAT teams faced with the task of rescuing hostages. And it might be a boon to home-security companies tasked with detecting burglars. But it’s hard not to see an Orwellian degree of potential for privacy-eroding surveillance as well.

Two engineers from the University of Utah showed that a wireless network of radio transmitters can track people moving behind solid walls.

Their method uses radio tomographic imaging (RTI), which can “see,” locate and track moving people or objects in an area surrounded by inexpensive radio transceivers that send and receive signals. People don’t need to wear radio-transmitting ID tags.

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Stuck On Honey

When I was a kid, my parents found a swarm of bees in our courtyard. These worker bees seemed to have followed their Queen bee, which for some reason preferred to come to our place. So, we decide to give her free service, and have been able to keep and semi-domesticate all her fellow insects, and harvest excess honey for a couple of years, up until some mysterious circumstances caused the death of the colonies.

As an individual who is stuck on honey much, our “home-produced” honey remained my favorite one for a long time, until I tested the most amazing honey last week at my friends’ house. My friends just got back from Ethiopia, and brought raw, thyme/eucalyptus honey with them. Honestly speaking, I have tested hundreds of different honey brands and qualities from all continents, but this one from the Ethiopian region of Gojjam, is exquisite. The color, the clarity, the aroma, specially the flavor is unparalleled, one can feel something special on the mucous membrane of the throat when you slide a piece of pancake, filled with this sort of honey. Simply great!

So, I was given some spoons of this unique honey to take it home. Yesterday, when I got home, my flat was literally occupied by another swarm of bees. I had left the jar opened, so the honey was an attractor for them, and they got in to take what belongs to them. But this time, I couldn’t keep them all with me, because I was unable to identify the Queen bee…then I thought, these days, organic honey is quite scarce to find, both for the insects and humans.

Rank	Country 2005	Thousand metric tonnes	Global honey production in %
1.	China	298	21.5
2.	Turkey	82.3	5.9
3.	Argentina	80	5.8
4.	United States	79.2	5.7
5.	Ukraine	71.5	5.1
6.	Russia	52.1	3.8
7.	India	52	3.7
8.	Mexico	50.6	3.6
9.	Ethiopia	39	2.8
10.	Spain	37	2.7

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The Feast of The Holy Cross – MASKAL

Our Lord Jesus Christ invites each of us to bear the Cross and said: “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his Cross, and follow Me” (Matt. 16:24) (Mark 8:34). He also said to the rich young man: “Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor,…and come, take up the Cross, and follow Me” (Mark 10:21). He made the bearing of the Cross a condition of discipleship in Him and said: “And whoever does not bear his Cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple” (Luke 14:27).

Our Lord, during all the time of His life on earth, lived the Cross. Since His Holy Nativity in Bethlehem, Herod the Great wanted to kill Him. God directed St. Joseph to “take the Child and His Mother and flee into Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.” (St. Matthew 2:13).

During His public ministry among the peoples of Israel, our Lord and Saviour suffered the fatigue of His work and had “no where to lay His head.” (St. Luke 9:58). He lived a life of pain, so that the Prophet Isaiah would say about Him that He was: “A Man of sorrow and acquainted with grief.” (Isaiah 53:3). Bitterly persecuted by His own people, several of the Gospels tell us that they “took up stones again to stone Him.” (St. John 10:31). At another time they wanted to “throw Him over a cliff.” (St. Luke 4:29). The accusations and insults hurled at the Lord so often during His three years of ministry are Crosses that He bore outside of the actual wood Cross on which He was crucified.

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Africa Ain’t Poor

What Africa needs is a new model of economics and development.

Despite all the setbacks and its history, Africa has the potential and power to shape its own destiny.

Africans should first believe in Africa. The person who preserved their talent was chastised, the one who invested their talents was rewarded.

All those preserved natural resources are God’s special bounty on earth for Africa and Africans. The challenge has always been to use them and to invest properly in the future. So far, we have been widespread plunder of the present and future generation, but, Africans have visions for a better life, and non-Africans should not look for wanting to bring a Saviour

In fact, there are many things to be positive about, including the development of microfinance institutions, the growth of the Internet and mobile phone, its wealth of human and natural resources, and biodiversity. Africa is not only what has gone wrong, as the international media often tries to depict. The ‘BBC’ had its own contribution to this particular conspiracy. Lately, the BBC is engaged in the “idle Africa Bashing” by broadcasting a very superficially and ignorantly researched documentary series, under the title, “Why is Africa poor?”

Bringing Solar Power to Africa’s Poor

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Humility Overcomes the Devil

• The devil employs supporters

He does not work alone for he has supporters among his army of devils as well as of men who maybe your dear friends, relatives, acquaintances, or strangers.

The devil has spoken through the mouths of some people at the cross addressing the Lord, “If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” (Matt 27:40).

• The devil may also use your relatives

As it is said, “and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.” (Matt 10:36).

• He may inspire one of your most beloved relatives with advice which destroys your life, or make them resist your spiritual acts, or your consecration or worship. He may even employ them to mock you. So, be on your guard and examine well whatever advice you hear and hold fast to that which is good (1 Thess. 5:21). But be heedful not to say to any of your relatives, “You are a supporter of the devil”.

• The supporters of the devil may be evil company

It is stated in the Bible, “Evil company corrupts good habits.” (1 Cor 15:33). So, always put before you the words of the first psalm, not to walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful (Ps. 1). All these are seats of the devil which he leads and directs.

• Do not think that the devil appears to you in a visible form to fight you

It is a very high degree of warfare which God does not allow, except for the holy people who can endure it. If the devil wants to provoke you, he will send you someone who provokes you; that person is of the devil’s supporters, at least regarding this point. Likewise is anyone who tempts you; who leads you to sin or helps you to sin or makes you fall in sin.

• The wicked are in general supporters of the devil

Examples of these are places of amusement and all stumbling blocks, all atheist philosophers and those who call for atheism, who spread suspicions and who cause evil. Against these David the prophet and his men cried out, “O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness” (2 Sam. 15:31).

The counsel which Ahithophel offered to Absalom during his uprising against his father David was very harmful to David and his men. When the devil wants for example, to overthrow the world into heresies and suspicions, it is not necessary that he does so himself, but he offers such heresies to the world through his human supporters who spread them, explain them to people and call them to believe in such heresies.

So, we have to pray all the time that the Lord may save us from the supporters of the devil. Not only from the devil alone, but also from his angels, his troops, his assistants and supporters, and all those who do his will on earth… all the powers of the enemy.

Thus, we pray everyday in the eleventh hour prayer, “Deliver us from the intrigues of the adversary and annul all his snares, set against us” AMEN.

Therefore, there is a reason why we always need to remain humble and alert. These are some of the reasons why humility overcomes the devil;

• First: because the devil is not humble and humility reminds him of his pride which was the cause of his fall.

• Second: because humility reminds him of the image of Jesus Christ who emptied Himself and took upon Himself the form of a slave in order to save humanity. Mere memory of this troubles him and he departs.

• Third: because the humble person, feeling his weakness, seeks the power of God to help him in fighting the devil and this is the thing which the devil fears most.

The devil said to God, ‘Leave to me the strong, I am responsible for them; but the weak I cannot overcome because when they find that they have no power, they fight me with Your power.

1. A humble person always realises that he is weak and seeks God’s help which comes to him powerfully; so he conquers because he does not depend on his own human arm but on God’s help.

2. The humble person is on guard against the slightest sin, and is afraid to fall so he gets away from all temptations and does not throw himself into a trial or think little of any matter. Through this caution due to humility he conquers the devils.

3. The humble person reveals his wars and weak points, so that they are cured and thus he conquers.

4. The humble person always prays and raises prayers even for the slightest sin. Thus, he takes God with him in his wars and conquers.

5. Humility itself is a virtue which the devils cannot bear and so they fly away. As a person conquers the devils by humility, he conquers also by wisdom and discernment.

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See Not Sea

በጣም ሊጠቅሙንና ከፍተኛ ትኩረትም ሊሰጣቸው የሚችሉት ነገሮች በዓይኖቻችን ብርሃን ሊታዩ የሚችሉት ነገሮች አይደሉም። ልብ ብለን ከታዘብን፡ ዓይናችን፡ አንዳንድ ጊዜ፡ ነጩን ጥቁር፡ ቀዩን ቢጫ እያስመሰለ ሊያታልለን፡ ሊያወናብደንና መስመሩን ሊያስተን ይችላል።

ብዙ ጊዜ እንደ ምሳሌነት የምናያቸው የፖለቲካ፡ የኃይማኖት እንዲሁም የተለያዩ ተቋማት መሪዎች የሕብረተሰቡን ታሪካዊ እጣ ተቀብለው ከሕዝቦች ጋር አብረው ለመጓዝ በ “እድል” የተመረጡና እንዲታዩ የተደረጉ አገልጋይ መሪዎች ናቸው እንጂ ከሌላው በልጠው የተለየ ጥቅም ሊያገኙ እንደሚችሉ ተደርገው የተፈጠሩ ልዩና ከጠፈር የተገኙ መሪዎች አይደሉም። ሃቁን ለመናገር፡ ለሕብረተሰቡ የሚኖራቸው አስተዋጽኦም ቢሆን ምናልባት እያንዳንዳችን የአዳም ልጆች ሊኖረን ከሚችለው አስተዋጽኦ ብዙም የተለየ አይሆንም። እንዲያውም አንዳንድ በተለያዩ ተቋማትና መንግሥታት በመሪነት ቦታ ላይ የተቀመጡ ግለሰቦች ለዓለማችን ሊያበረክቱ የሚችሉት አስተዋጽኦ አንዲት የጓሯችን ቢራቢሮ ልታበረክተው ከምትችለው አስተዋጽኦ እምብዛም አይበልጥም።

ፈጣሪያችን በዚህች ምድር ላይ የሚታየውንና የማይታየውን ነገር ፈጥሯል። እኛ የአዳም ዘሮች በአይናችን በማየት፡ በአፍንጫችን በማሽተት ወይም በምላሳችን በመቅመስ፡ በአካባቢያችን የሚገኘውን ተፈጥሮአዊ ክስተት ምናልባት 5% የሚሆነው ነገር ላይ ብቻ ነው ልንደርስበት የምንችለው። ማለትም፤ የተቀረው 95% ነገር ሁሉ በተለየ መንግድ፡ ያለ ዓይናችን እርዳታ፡ ለምሳሌ፡ በመንካት፡ በመቅመስ፡ በማሽተት፡ ብሎም ህሊናችንን ለጸሎት በመጠቀም ብቻ ነው ሊደረስበት የሚችልው ማለት ነው።

የሰለጠኑ፡ የመጠቁና፡ የተመረጡ እንዲሁም ኃያላን ሆነው የሚታዩን ግለሰቦችና ማሕበረሰባት በዓለማችን ላይ ሊያመጡ የሚችሉት ተጽእኖ፡ ያልሰለጠነ፡ ኋላ ቀርና ያልታደለ እንዲሁም ደካማ እንደሆነ አድርገን ከምንቆጥረው የኢትዮጵያ ገበሬና ማሕበረሰብ የሚበልጥ ሆኖ ሊታየን ይችላል። ነገር ግን ይህ ትልቅ ስህተት ነው።

እነዚህ ሰለጠኑ ብለን የምናወድሳቸው ሕብረተሰቦች በርግጥ ለሰው ልጅ ብዙ ጠቃሚ የሆኑ ነገሮች አምጥተው ሊሆን ይችላል። አብዛኛው ጥቅም ግን ዘላቂ የሆነ ጥቅም ሳይሆን በተወሰኑ ትውልዶች ሊጠፋ የሚችል ጥቅም ነው። ለምሳሌ ሁላችንም የምንገለገልበት ኮምፒውተር ለሁላችንም ብዙ ጥቅሞችን አምጥቶልናል፡ ኑሯችንና የሥራዎቻችንን ክብደት ኣቃሎልናል። አንዷ ትንሽ ኮምፒውተር አንድ አንጋፋ ቤተ መጻሕፍት ውስጥ የሚገኙትን መጻሕፍት ሁሉ ገጽ በገጽ አካታ መያዝ ትችላለች። ስለዚህም፡ መረጃ ሰብሳቢ የሆኑ ወገኖች ሁሉ ታሪካዊ የሚባሉትን ጽሑፎች፡ ምስሎች ወይም ድምጾች፡ በ “Digital Archive” ውስጥ በማስገባት ወረቀት፡ እንጨት ወይም ድንጋይ ላይ ተቀርጸው የነበሩትን “ጥንታዊ” መረጃዎች በማጥፋት ላይ ይገኛሉ። ታዲያ ኮምፒውተራችን ውስጥ አንድ ችግር ከተፈጠረ፡ ወይም ከአንድ ተፈጥሮአዊ ወይም ሰው ሰራሽ አደጋ በኋላ ኮምፒውተራችንን ከፍተን ጭራሹን መገልገል ካልቻልን፡ እነዚህ መረጃዎች ሁሉ እልም ብለው ለዘላለሙ ይጠፋሉ ማለት ነው።

ከዚህ ሁሉ ጥፋት ይጠብቀን!

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Good Soles Flourish in Ethiopia

Best wishes for the Ethiopian New Year from “The Toronto Star”

Traditional Ethiopian shoe updated into footwear with universal appeal

“The idea of a `green business’ or `Earth friendly’ is a bit of a faddish label that doesn’t express the value of who and what we are, Ethiopia is one of the last authentically organic environments in which cotton is grown. Owing to the privations endured here, most small-scale cotton farmers never use anything more complex than animal dung as fertilizer.”

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