Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: The Living Yamal
A Smithsonian site that tells of the history and culture of the Yamal people of Siberia.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Poetic Forms
This site shares numerous poetic forms. The following poetic forms are highlighted: rondeau, triolet, pastoral, pantoum, found, ghazal, dramatic monolgue, and blues.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Turkana
"Turkana" is the name given to the pastoral and formerly pastoral people living in the arid and semiarid range lands of northwestern Kenya. The Turkana refer to themselves as "Ngiturkan" and their land as "Eturkan." The Turkana ethnic...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Maasai
The Maasai comprise a federation of tribal sections whose economy is based on nomadic pastoralism. Because each tribal section is effectively autonomous, both economically and socially, there is a considerable diversity in custom between...
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms F R
The second of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, F - R, covers forty-seven terms from "Fable," to "Romance."
ArtLex
Art Lex: Landscape
A very nice website with a definition of landscape and several examples of landscape paintings and photographs. Provides links to landscape art from specific historical eras.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Pastoral Art
This website describes a specific type of landscape, the pastoral. Includes several examples of pastoral scenes and links to further information on the individual pieces of artwork.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The Devil's Pool Vol. Xiii, Part 2
This reprint of the Harvard Classics edition includes biographical information, criticism and interpretation by Benjamin Wells and Matthew Arnold, as well as the text of "The Devil's Pool."
Travel Document Systems
Tds: Rwanda: People
Read about the ethnic groups in Rwanda, where they came from, and the problems caused by their differences. From the CIA World Fact Book.