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A 1978 book states that this man’s “cautious” striving for power let him escape the “hundred-faced magma.” This man thinks of Simonides (“sy-MON-uh-deez”) and listens to Aida in interludes from a 2019 novel that describes many unseen war photographs. The narrator serves this man turkey-stuffed-antelope-stuffed-camel in Bohumil Hrabal’s (-5[1])I Served the King of England. Ghosh (“goash”) operates on this man’s bodyguard in the novel Cutting for Stone. Minim impersonates this leader to inspire Kidane’s (“kee-dah-nuh’s”) troops in (10[1])the novel The Shadow King. Descriptions of servants like this leader’s pillow-bearer (10[1]-5[2])may be commentary (10[1])on the Gierek (-5[1])(“gyeh-reck”) regime in a book by Ryszard Kapuściński (“RISH-ard kah-poosh-CHEEN-skee”). The 1976 song “War” quotes this leader’s 1963 speech (10[1])at the UN; (10[1]-5[1])in 1936, (-5[1])he also appealed to the (10[1])League (10[1])of Nations. (10[8])For 10 points, (10[2])The Emperor profiles what ruler, whom The Promised Key identifies as the Rastafari messiah? (10[3])■END■ (10[4])

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