Vocabulary

Today I learned a new word while reading an article. I've never heard of it before, and since many articles have misspelled words in them, I decided to look this one up. I'm always amazed at how often these news articles have words that are misspelled... doesn't anybody believe in using spell check? I know many of us believe we are good spellers so we don't need to check, but you'd be amazed at all the typos that are in articles.
Oh yeah, the new word was spelled right. ;-)

Diaspora --- scattering-- any scattering of a people with a common origin
The dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian exile