11. oktober 2005 Die vor zwei Jahren in Indonesien gefundenen Überresten eines Zwergenmenschen repräsentieren wirklich eine neue Menschenart. [...] Weitere Knochenfunde belegen, dass die nur etwa einen Meter grossen «Hobbits» mit dem etwa pampelmusengrossen Kopf nicht einfach eine geschrumpfte oder krankhafte Version eines anderen Frühmenschen darstellen.

...Mike Morwood von der University of New England (Australien) und seine Mitarbeiter hatten die jetzt vorgestellten Knochenfunde im vergangenen Jahr in der Liang Bua-Höhle ausgegraben - genau dort, wo die Wissenschaftler im Jahr 2003 das erste Skelett des Zwergenmenschen entdeckt hatten.

...Die neuen Funde widerlegten die Annahme einiger Kritiker, dass das ursprüngliche Skelett zu einem Pygmäenmenschen oder zu einer bereits bekannten Frühmenschenart mit einem krankhaft verkleinerten Gehirn gehört. [...]

http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/artikel.asp?id=973129&newsfeed=rss

Mit den Jungs hatte ich mich für heute verabredet. Jeff und Joe kamen aus New York und waren total verrückt. Wir gingen schwimmen. Dann schiessen. Und anschliessend Geld wechseln, womit wir uns ein paar Flaschen Schnaps kaufen wollten. Nicht irgendeinen, sondern den mit Skorpionen, Schlangen oder Würmern drin.

[...] ... the reason why Okinawa is known as one of the few emigration prefectures in Japan lies in how a great number of Okinawans emigrated in a very short period of time.
...During the war, as the stories tell, Okinawan emigrants who wavered between the two countries lost their basis of livelihood and were completely isolated by their sentiments to their homeland and native country.
...Military priority was sited as a reason, and therefore emigrants were left with no choice but to sell their farm lands, housings, furniture and other assets for low prices.
...Even though Okinawans adjusted to the new environments better than those emigrants from other prefectures, helped along by similarities in the climate and food culture of such places as Hawaii and Peru, they never once forgot their love for the homeland. Instead, they built their own Okinawan society and culture in the emigrated lands for it was unacceptable for Okinawans to abandon their roots.
...At present, the local societies of emigrants are in need of new blood. [...]

http://rca.open.ed.jp/web_e/city-2001/emigration-e/

1994 [...] The bardic art of epic-singing is called Tuul' in Mongolia, and üligers are the orally transmitted epic stories in verse.
...One of the most ancient epics is that of the four-year-old deer with 24-branch antlers, the story of Huuheldei Mergen Khan, who goes out hunting one day and kills a deer which happens to have antlers with 24 branches.
...The 25 songs in the Kalmyk, the more than 30 songs in the Halh and the more than 60 songs in the Torgut versions of the well-known Jangar epic are in essence different interpretations of the same songs and tales.”

...The inheritance of the Mongolian people's epic has become more and more enriched, and epics such as "Bum Erdene", "Khan Kharankhui", "Daini Khurel" and "Dsul Aldarkhan" which depict the prosperity of the people, were created and handed down to the people of present-day Mongolia by contemporary reciters of epic songs like Jilkher and Parchin. [...]

http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/dir/traditions/asiamiddleeast.html