float riders – African-American and white – will greet the screaming throngs wearing lofty feather headdresses, crinkly grass skirts and the sort of black face paint that most anywhere else ...

Grass skirts are also worn in many cultures and tribes in Africa, like the Zulu tribals. Amit Loiwal, via email ...

Brachiaria - the genus name of Urochloa - consists of about 100 documented species of grass of which seven species used as fodder plants are of African origin. This grass may hold the key to ...

Not all the emerging leaders of Africa are as pretentious as Ghana ... and “good” federation that “grows upward from the grass roots.” One of 26 sons of a polygamist chief, Nyerere ...

Every year, members of the city's Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club don grass skirts, feather headdresses and bone jewelry for the Mardi Gras parade. The Zulus' African-American members — and ...

At some point, coconut bras and grass skirts became synonymous with Hawaii. Movies, TV and advertisements have used the iconic image of a hula girl dressed in this garb as a symbol of Hawaii.

Donning a grass skirt and white garland, Prince Charles picked up another title today in a ceremony on the South Pacific island of Vanuatu. He wasn’t given the god-like status of his father ...

Did Hawaiian dancers traditionally wear grass skirts? Illustration by Salina Perera Did Hawaiian dancers traditionally wear grass skirts? Christopher Maurer | Lacey, Washington Pacific Islanders ...

The origins of this mysterious photo of an 18-year-old Conan O'Brien wearing a grass skirt and posing with a boy in a dress have been revealed. It came from Harvard — of course. When I posted ...

Benign-looking old General James Barry Munnik Hertzog resigned as Prime Minister of South Africa at war’s outbreak because Parliament rejected his proposal to keep the Union neutral. Last month ...

Brachiaria – the genus name of Urochloa – consists of about 100 documented species of grass of which seven species used as fodder plants are of African origin. This grass may hold the key to ...