After leaders of both Jamaican political parties, Hugh Shearer and Michael Manley, each paid visits to the community in September 1969, Selassie himself again visited and, according to EWF # 37 leader Mortimer Planno, cautioned them against bringing Jamaican politics to Ethiopia.

According to the EWF, Selassie again paid a visit on 1 October 1970, asking to speak to the then land grant administrator, James Piper, who was not a Rastafarian.

Additionally, Revenge features several non-WCW / nWo wrestlers, mostly from Japan, in the form of two " fictitious " wrestling federations: EWF ( Empire Wrestling Federation ) and DAW ( Dead or Alive Wrestling, originally featured in World Tour as DOA ).

Sky would successfully defend his EWF Heavyweight title 11 times over the summer defeating the likes of Ryan Taylor, Scott Lost and Joey Ryan in the process.

Days later it was announced that he had suffered a serious back injury leading to him relinquishing the EWF heavyweight title on August 22.

The album spawned a kalimba-laden track reminiscent of the classic EW & F sound, titled " All in the Way ", which reunited EWF with The Emotions.

In 2005, EWF released their first Christmas-themed track entitled " Gather Round ", produced and arranged by Foster and written by Maurice White, David Foster and Philip Bailey.

Also known as EWF, the band was founded in Chicago by Maurice White in 1969.

Trombonist Alex Thomas and electric pianist / vocalist Wade Flemons completed the then ten-man EWF lineup.

Both albums were produced by Joe Wissert and a single, from The Need of Love called " I Think About Lovin ' You ", with Sherry Scott on lead vocals, provided EWF with their first Top 40 R & B hit.

The band developed a growing popularity on college campuses but in spite of this, some members of EWF started to become restless and the band broke up after having been together less than six months.

A performance at New York's Rockefeller Center introduced EWF to Clive Davis, then the President of Columbia Records.

The album made EWF the first black act to top both the Billboard album and singles charts and was certified triple platinum in the US by the RIAA.

As a result EWF returned to the studio in June 1975 and from these recording sessions two singles-" Sing a Song " and " Can't Hide Love ", the latter written by Clarence " Skip " Scarborough-were spawned.

During this period EWF concerts started to become loaded with pyrotechnics, magic, laser lights, flying pyramids, levitating guitarists and elaborate production tricks, that included the entire group ascending in a pyramid and a disappearing act, which saw EWF literally vanishing from sight.

Though the band had previously overlooked disco, the summer of 1979 saw EWF topping the dance music charts with their most disco-inspired single " Boogie Wonderland ", which was produced by Maurice and Al McKay and featured The Emotions.

In a 2007 interview, when asked which EWF album was his favorite, Maurice White replied: " Probably Faces because we were really in tune, playing together and it gave us the opportunity to explore new areas.

featured the hit single " Let's Groove ", which also went Platinum, and another single " Wanna Be With You ", which won EWF a Grammy for Best R & B Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group.

After the fully synthesized album Electric Universe was released in late 1983 to a poor critical and commercial reception, Maurice believed the band needed a break so he put EWF on hiatus.

Phil Collins saw EWF on one of their European tours and became a fan of the band.

EWF signed once again with Warner Brothers and following this came the release in 1993 of their 16th studio album, Millennium.

EWF performed at the 1997 Montreux Jazz Festival and gave an encore performance the following year.

So impressed was the King by the band's performance that he made a successful personal request for EWF to perform in Morocco for his 37th birthday celebration, on August 21, 2000.

A live album from the band's 1980 performance in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, entitled Live In Rio, was released on Maurice White's Kalimba Records label in 2002, and that same year EWF was honored with the Rhythm & Soul Heritage Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

The award was presented to EWF by ASCAP President and Chairman Marilyn Bergman, Stevie Wonder, and Jimmy Jam.

EWF sang " Shining Star " and then at Outkast's request crooned " The Way You Move " with them.

EWF and Kenny G performed " The Way You Move " on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in January 2005.

EWF performed on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin ' Eve on December 31, 2004.

EWF released a single entitled " Show Me The Way ", on which they paired up with neo soul artist Raphael Saadiq on Sanctuary Records in the fall of 2005.

On their decisive battlefield Lincoln did not distinguish between them when he paid tribute to the `` brave men, living and dead, who fought here ''.

The executive paid tribute to research and development and technology for their great contributions in the past, but he also cautioned industry that they tend to be great equalizers because they move at a fairly even pace within an industry and fail to give it the short-term advantage which it often needs.

The wars which attended his accession both in Hungary and in Persia terminated unfavourably for the empire, and its prestige received its first check in the Treaty of Zsitvatorok, signed in 1606, whereby the annual tribute paid by Austria was abolished.

Amalric led his first expedition into Egypt in 1163, claiming that the Fatimids had not paid the yearly tribute that had begun during the reign of Baldwin III.

In announcing his discovery of the pile, Volta paid tribute to the influences of William Nicholson, Tiberius Cavallo and Abraham Bennet.

It was from tribute paid to the league that Pericles set to building the Parthenon on the Acropolis, replacing an older temple, as well as many other non-defense related expenditures.

He commanded an estimated annual revenue of about £ 15, 000 /-, and paid a tribute of £ 460 /-.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

In 2003, U. S. Representative John Conyers paid tribute to Bo Diddley in the United States House of Representatives describing him as " one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, who has influenced generations ".

The contemporary Greek geographer Strabo testifies that the Cimbri still existed as a Germanic tribe, presumably in the " Cimbric peninsula " ( since they are said to live by the North Sea and to have paid tribute to Augustus ):

Thus Ambiorix king of the Eburones paid tribute and gave his son and nephew as hostages to the Atuatuci ( Gall.

Mail was introduced to China when its allies in Central Asia paid tribute to the Tang Emperor in 718 by giving him a coat of " link armour " assumed to be mail.

When the Northern Expedition was complete, Kuomintang Generals led by Chiang Kai-shek paid tribute to Dr. Sun's soul in heaven with a sacrificial ceremony at the Xiangshan Temple in Beijing in July 1928.

Watanabe, however, made no secret that, in addition to Lupin III, the series paid subtle tribute to his favorite American films and series, which were shown in Japan during the 1970s and ' 80s including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( the relationship between Spike and Jet ), Bruce Lee films ( Spike's martial-arts practice ), films with blues or jazz soundtracks ( the music of the series ), as well as Blaxploitation films ( the series has a very racially diverse supporting cast ).

From 991 onwards, Æthelred paid tribute, or Danegeld, to the Danish King.

There followed Take Me Out to the Ball Game ( 1949 ), his second film with Sinatra, where Kelly paid tribute to his Irish heritage in The Hat My Father Wore on St. Patrick's Day routine.

The casts of the Off Broadway production of Avenue Q in New York City and the Avenue Q National Tour in Dallas dedicated their May 28 performances to his memory, and the actors playing the Coleman role paid tribute to him from the stage at the performances ' conclusions.

On October 12, 2011, Google paid tribute to Art Clokey ’ s 90th birthday featuring clay balls transforming into characters from Gumby.

And it was both funny and also touching in that it paid tribute to the dedication of these fans.

In the face of the Mongol Conquests, many of these states paid tribute to the Mongols, becoming effective vassals.

Hostages were taken, but historians disagree over whether the tribute agreed was paid by the Britons after Caesar's return to Gaul with his forces.

When U2 performed in the Netherlands three weeks after Brood's suicide, they paid tribute to him at each of the three shows.

Following the revolt, Gennadius fled to Damascus and asked for aid from Muawiyah, to whom he had paid tribute for years.

In May 1801, Pasha Yusuf Karamanli demanded from the United States an increase in the tribute ( then $ 83, 000 ) which the US government had paid since 1796 for the protection of US commerce from piracy by Ottoman tribes along the North African coast.

The Persians may have experimented initially with ruling Yehud as a Dividic client-kingdom under descendants of Jehoiachin, but by the mid – 5th century BCE Yehud had become in practice a theocracy, ruled by hereditary High Priests and a Persian-appointed governor, frequently Jewish, charged with keeping order and seeing that tribute was paid.