The Karamojong are a pastoral group who inhabit the plateau region of Uganda. Linguistically, the Karamojong belong to the Central Group of the Nilote Language Family, which also includes several neighboring groups that speak a mutually...

A June 2007 news story describing the arrest of dozens of people belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, an outlawed Islamic group.

"Ewe" is the umbrella name for a number of groups that speak dialects of the same language and have separate local names. Fon and Ewe are often considered to belong to the same, larger grouping, although their related languages are...

The Afrikaners are descendants, to a great extent, of Dutch, German, and French Huguenot settlers, and, to a lesser extent, of English, Scottish, Irish, and other settlers of South Africa. The Dutch language of the first White settlers...

The Arab world is usually considered to be comprised of the following nineteen countries: Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Chad, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi...

This site gives an alphabetical listing of all the gods and goddesses worshiped by cultures of ancient South America. The gods that belonged to the Incas have Inca in brackets after the name. A short description of each god or goddess is...

Animals come in all shapes and sizes, each a small part of the amazing diversity of life. These differences can also help us to classify animals into different groups. Which group do you belong to? Do this experiment to investigate the...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Lizards and snakes belong to the largest order of reptiles, Squamata. Lizards are a large group of reptiles, with nearly 5,000 species, living on every continent...

The Struthiomimus was a fast moving North American dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. It belonged to the Ornithomimosaur group of dinosaurs. A good description of the Struthiomimus is found on this page, as well as a slideshow...

The purpose of this task is to present students with a context where they need to explain why two simple fractions are equivalent and are most appropriate for instruction. Students can illustrate the fact that the two fractions are...

The fringed myotis belongs to the long-eared myotis group, all of which tend to be high-elevation forest bats. This species has the shortest ears and occupies the lowest elevation of the group. Learn more about the Myotis thysanodes,...

This article explores the Biblical history of the Philistines, a tribe of people, seen as enemies to the Israelites. It was to this group that Goliath belonged. Please note that ?The Catholic Encyclopedia? is a historic reference source...

This is a picture of the periodic table of chemical elements, an important set of information for anyone learning about chemistry. Elements such as hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, sodium, iron and gold are listed using their chemical symbols...

A map from 1890 of the West Indies region showing the highland structure of the island chains and groups, and illustrating the Caribbean Sea as an enclosed basin. This map also shows the Bahamas as a separate structure not related to the...