Often compared to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or associations, intergroups are also similar to lobbying groups because they receive external assistance in the form of financial and/or secretarial support.

American Indians apparently were aware of the poisonous properties of the zigadenes.

Hereat Alaeddin arose and took horse, his Mamelukes riding a-van and a-rear of him, and they were such that all must cry, Laud to the Lord who created them and clothed them with such beauty and loveliness. And they scattered gold amongst the crowd in front of their master who surpassed them all in comeliness and seemlihead[…]

The chance find of a dump at Segesta has yielded more Elymian inscriptions (mostly single words, inscribed in Greek letters on potsherds) than all other sites combined.