" On a similar note, the Ethiopian historian-anglophile Bahru Zewde observed that " few events in the modern period have brought Ethiopia to the attention of the world as has the victory at Adwa ;".

Professor Bahru Zewde notes that Mengistu was distinguished by a " special ability to size up situations and persons ".

The Ethiopian historian Bahru Zewde describes Iyasu's reign as " one of the most enigmatic in Ethiopian history.

Bahru Zewde on the other hand, while admitting that " contradiction and inconsistency were the hallmark of his character and policies ", notes that Iyasu's reign was characterized by " a series of measures which, because of the social and economic security they implied, may well be considered progressive.

One source believes he received his earliest education in Italian schools in Asmara and Keren, although Bahru Zewde believes he studied at the Swedish mission school in Asmara.

According to Bahru Zewde, Lorenzo came into conflict with the powerful Tsehafi Taezaz (" Minister of the Pen ") Wolde Giyorgis Wolde Yohannes, who had him appointed to the ceremonial President of the Chamber of Deputies ( 1943 – 1944 ), then ambassador to the Soviet Union ( November 1944 ) -- effectively exiled from the center of power, then a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference ( May 1946 ); after being in Sweden for only a month, he died in a hospital in Stockholm.

As Bahru Zewde observes, " With that, the illusion that the revolution would remain bloodless was exploded.

" It appears that the general had outlived his usefulness ," Bahru Zewde concludes, " and was in fact becoming an obstacle to the Derg's exercise of power.

The Ethiopian academic Bahru Zewde, although writing over 20 years later is physically much closer to the scene, and states simply the dead " were readily picked up and summarily shot.

According to Bahru Zewde, " senior officers were deemed too compromised by close association to the regime.

" It is commonly stated that the Derg consisted of 120 soldiers, a statement which has gained wide acceptance due to the habitual secretiveness of the Derg in its early years ; however Bahru Zewde notes that " in actual fact, their number was less than 110 ", and Aregawi Berhe mentions two different sources which record 109 persons as being members of the Derg.

On the other hand, Bahru Zewde is of the opinion that " Aklilu's impact on Ethiopian politics is not so easily identifiable.

The revolt was brutally suppressed ; as Bahru Zewde notes, " Armed mostly with spears and swords, the peasants confronted a well-equipped enemy composed of land-lords and government troops.

According to Bahru Zewde, British interest in the concession was due, in part, to the attraction of " tapping the allegedly fabulous commercial potential of Western Ethiopia and drawing the whole region into the economic orbit of the Sudan ", but also intended " to be a brilliant British countermove to avert the virtual commercial hegemony in Ethiopia that the Jibouti-Addis Ababa Railway seemed to promise the French.

Both Bahru Zewde and Paul B. Henze consider his reign as Ras and Enderase as the peak of the Yejju Oromo power during the Zemene Mesafint.

It has three manufacturing plants for pens, one in Weißenburg in Bayern, Germany, one in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, and since 1991 one in Český Krumlov, Czech Republic.

Despite the KMS's connections to UMNO, the modern PKMS organization originated as an extension of the Johor Bahru branch of UMNO.

Tiong Bahru Market, under the charge of the National Environment Agency, was, in fact, the first modern market to be built in a housing area, in 1955, by the SIT.

They hold allure to the sleek and modern designs of new towns and private condominiums and began moving out of Tiong Bahru en-masse.

The following lists modern shopping centres in Johor Bahru.

A series of Malay congresses were held, culminating in the formation of the nationalist party, UMNO on May 10, 1946 at the Third Malay Congress in Johor Bahru, with Datuk Onn Jaafar as its leader.

None of the 200 communes of the department is entirely free of seismic risk ; the canton of Barcelonnette is placed in zone 1b ( low risk ) by the determinist classifcation of 1991 based on seismic history, and zone 4 ( average risk ) according to the probabilistic EC8 classification of 2011.

The history of the Soviet Union from 1982 through 1991, spans the period from Leonid Brezhnev's death and funeral until the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Between 1922 and 1991, the history of Russia is essentially the history of the Soviet Union, effectively an ideologically based state which was roughly conterminous with the Russian Empire before the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

The struggles came to a climax in 1991 when the team went 1 – 15 and was just one point away from the first imperfect season in the history of a 16 game schedule.

Another report on the origins and history of LCD from a different perspective until 1991 has been published by Hiroshi Kawamoto, available at the IEEE History Center.

The seventh game of the 1991 World Series is widely regarded as one of the greatest games in the history of professional baseball.

" Similar criticism of Murray came from the historian Ronald Hutton, in both his 1991 book on ancient paganism, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy and in his 1999 study of Wiccan history, The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft.

is a 1991 comedy anime spoofing the life and culture of otaku, individuals with obsessive interests in media, particularly anime and manga, as well as the history of Gainax, its creators.

Boris Yeltsin was elected the President of Russia in June 1991, in the first direct presidential election in Russian history.

Ending a long history of one-party Marxist rule, a specific agenda for this transition was laid out during Congo's national conference of 1991 and culminated in August 1992 with multi-party parliamentary and presidential elections.

As the most prosperous republic of the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia emerged from its brief ten-day war of secession in 1991 as an independent nation for the first time in its history.

( 1991 ), standard history of his domestic and foreign policy as president

While it is implied that both events occur at the same time in the Ryanverse as in actual history, 1991.

( 1991 ) A history of Tasmania.

In 1980, Maurice Riley produced the first attempt at a comprehensive history of the viola in his History of the Viola, which was followed with a second volume in 1991.

Japan War dead figure of 415 is from a 1991 history of the Japanese Army However, Michael Clodfelter reported the official toll was put at 300 KIA and noted that " A more reliable count of total Japanese military deaths from all causes lists 1, 344 fatalities.

* In the 1991 film King Ralph, King Ralph I ( John Goodman ), while being schooled in English history and culture by his Private Secretary Sir Cedric Willingham ( Peter O ' Toole ), is shown a variety of traditional English dishes, including bangers and mash.

Jerry Pournelle's " CoDominium " future history assumed that the Cold War would end with the USA and Soviet Union establishing a co-rule of the world, the CoDominium of the title, which would last into the 22nd Century — rather than the Soviet Union collapsing in 1991.

* The butterflies of Kenya and their natural history by Torben B. Larsen ( OUP ) ( 1991 )

In 1991, an urban conflagration, the Oakland Hills Fire, destroyed nearly 4, 000 homes and killed twenty five people in the Oakland hills range ; it was the worst urban firestorm in American history.

The history of Russia from 1992 to the present began with the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 25 December 1991, and the establishment of the Russian Federation.

Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin had been elected President of Russia in June 1991 in the first direct presidential election in Russian history.

The official websites of each band reflect a split between the shared history of Payne's tenure with the band, as the reunited Asia acknowledge only pre-and post-Payne albums, whereas Asia Featuring John Payne claim Payne-era ( 1991 – 2006 ) albums Aqua ( 1991 ) through Silent Nation ( 2004 ) as part of their own discography.