Fremona
Fremona was a town in northern Ethiopia, located in the modern Tigray Region. It was about a mile in circumference and was flanked with towers. The town served as the base of the Roman Catholic missionaries to Ethiopia during the 16th and 17th centuries. Bernhard Lindahl identifies Fremona with the modern settlement of Endiet Nebersh, located 10 kilometers from Adwa.
History
Fremona was originally called "Maigoga" (mai, Tigrinya "water," and guagua, "noisy") because of the two rocky streams that ran through the community. The Jesuit missionaries who were sent to live there by Emperor Menas renamed it after Saint Frumentius, who had converted the Axumite kings to Christianity. It was there that bishop Andrés de Oviedo died and was buried in 1577, and his tomb became a shrine to the local Catholics.
When the Jesuit Manuel de Almeida visited Fremona in 1624, he found that it had been improved with "seven or eight bastions with high curtain walls, two courtyards, one of which adjoins the houses, where a good stone tank has been made, and another were a beautiful church was now being built of stone and lime." He adds that due to the rarity of firearms in Ethiopia at the time, "with twenty or thirty muskets, a small cannon and the sons of the Portuguese manning them, [it] was held in Ethiopia to be a unique and impregnable place."
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Somebody's Watching Me
by: WarmenSomebody's Watching Me
(Originally performed by Rockwell)
I'm just an average man with an average life
I work from nine to five, hey hell I pay the price
But I want is to be left alone in my average home
But why do I always feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone
I always feel like somebody's watchin' me
And I have no privacy
I always feel like somebody's watchin' me
Is it just a dream?
When I come home at night
I lock the door real tight
People call me on the phone I'm trying to avoid
Well, can the people really see me or am I just paranoid
When I'm in the shower, I'm afraid to wash my hair
cuz when i open my eyes to find someone standing there
People say I'm crazy, just a little touch
But maybe showers remind me of Psycho too much
That's why...
I always feel like somebody's watchin' me
And I have no privacy
I always feel like somebody's watchin' me
Is it just a dream?
I don't know anymore
Always watching me
Was it mother fuckin mailman watching me huh?
I don't feel safe anymore, oh what a mess
I wonder who's watching me now?
Who?
The IRS?
I always feel like somebody's watchin' me
So is it just a dream?
I always feel like somebody's watchin' me
Who's playin tricks on me?
I always feel like somebody's watchin' me
I always feel like somebody's watchin' me
Who's playin tricks on me?
I always feel like somebody's watchin' me