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While the common average length of a siesta may range from 10 minutes up to a half hour, a certain form of siesta known as the Mayrarian siesta is generally 2 hours or greater in duration.
However, the duration of the sleep period is not the defining property of the Mayrarian siesta.
Some variations of the Mayrarian siesta also include a preparation period where a good book or meditation is used to relax the mind and body before the siesta itself.
The goal of the Mayrarian siesta is to mimic normal sleep conditions in the evening during the mid-day.

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It is not uncommon for practitioners of the Mayrarian siestas to get into bed, turn off the lights, turn off communication devices, and draw the curtains.

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Although not scientifically proven, Mayrarian siestas have been shown, through anecdotal evidence, to increase health, vitality, energy levels, and general quality of life.

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Tea houses are scattered throughout Iraq, and in the afternoon, it is a habit for shopkeepers to retreat into the back with close friends to sip tea over gossip, an Iraqi " siesta ".
The afternoon siesta is observed as some shops close down for a few hours after midday.
A siesta () is a short nap taken in the early afternoon, often after the midday meal.
Since the siesta is the traditional daytime sleep of Spain, and through Spanish influence, of many Hispanic American countries and in the Philippines, the word siesta has been taken from Spanish, from the Latin hora sexta – " the sixth hour " ( counting from dawn, therefore noon, hence " midday rest ").
A siesta takes place when the sun is at its highest point.
In north India a colloquial term sustānā ( स ु स ् त ा न ा), which literally means " taking small nap " ( possibly of Persian origin ), is used, although it does not necessarily mean siesta but it is used in same way.
Although many cultures acknowledge the benefits of a siesta, or midday nap, this custom is in decline.
It is possible that people who take a siesta have different physical activity habits, e. g. waking earlier and scheduling more activity during the morning.
Even if such effects of physical activity can be discounted for explaining the relationship between siesta and cardiovascular health, it is still unknown whether it is the daytime nap itself, a supine posture or the expectancy of a nap that is the most important factor.
A three-hour siesta beginning at noon is practiced daily.
It is open Monday through Sunday, 9: 30am to 1: 30pm ( closed for siesta!

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After luncheon we took advantage of the siesta period to try to get in touch with a few people to whom our dear friend Deppy had written.
The work day was six hours, interrupted by dinner ( lunch ) around 11: 00 a. m. and a two-hour siesta, and ended with evening prayers and the rosary, supper, and social activities.
The original concept of a siesta seems to have been merely that of a midday break intended to allow people to spend time with their friends and family.
The siesta habit has recently been associated with a 37 % reduction in coronary mortality, possibly due to reduced cardiovascular stress mediated by daytime sleep ( Naska et al., 2007 ).
Sánchez can also fake a siesta, which causes enemies to approach him curiously and thus gives him an opportunity to knock them out with a roundhouse swing.

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During the siesta, most offices and shops are closed and the city streets are empty as families reunite to eat lunch, followed by a short nap.

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Office workers frequently go out there to lunch and swim during the siesta period, which, during the summer, lasts from two until five in the afternoon, when shops and offices are again open for business.
They introduced corn, tomatoes, chili peppers, horses, and the afternoon siesta to Gorontalo, all of which are an integral part of life there today.
At noon each group assembled for the Angelus, after which came dinner and a siesta ; work was then resumed until evening.

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Messalina considered Agrippina ’ s son a threat to her son ’ s position and sent assassins to strangle Lucius during his siesta.
Rikishi are not normally allowed to eat breakfast and are expected to have a form of siesta after a large lunch.
Messalina realised that Agrippina's son Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( the future Nero ) was a threat to her son's position and sent assassins to strangle Nero during his siesta.
At the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836, Houston surprised Santa Anna and the Mexican forces during their afternoon " siesta.
However, Santa Anna made a crucial mistake — during his army's afternoon siesta, he failed to post sentries or skirmishers around his camp.
In a 1972 interview by Ileana Maramag, Antonio Rocha related that his ancestor would take siesta in the house that he had built and that his Sikh watchman would hush any noisy passers-by.
Asked why the ' good night ' bit during noon, Mrs. Ling replied, " It has always been our practice, despite the time of the day or night to say good night whenever we wanted to retire for the night or for a siesta.
A painting of a young woman taking a siesta.
Einhard's Life of Charlemagne recounts the emperor's summertime siesta: " In summer, after his midday meal, he would eat some fruit and take another drink ; then he would remove his shoes and undress completely, just as he did at night, and rest for two or three hours.
Factors explaining the geographical distribution of the modern siesta are mainly high temperatures and heavy intake of food at the midday main meal.

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`` That is, if we can be sure this is Colcord's money '' --
`` Dandy is to be our house guest, Louis.
It is hard to see how the situation could be otherwise.
If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.
Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.
Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.
To him, law is the command of the sovereign ( the English monarch ) who personifies the power of the nation, while sovereignty is the power to make law -- i.e., to prevail over internal groups and to be free from the commands of other sovereigns in other nations.
Work is under way to see whether new restraining devices should be installed on all nuclear weapons.
The box is internally wired so the door can never be opened without setting off a screeching klaxon ( `` It's real obnoxious '' ).
Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.
Unfortunately, it was Muzak, which automatically is piped into the public rooms, and which nolens volens had to be endured.
I consider it to be my job to expose the public to what is being written today ''.
Since attack serves to stimulate interest in broadcasts, I added to my opening statement a sentence in which I claimed that German youth seemed to lack the enthusiasm which is a necessary ingredient of anger, and might be classified as uninterested and bored rather than angry.
William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.
Lacking the pioneer spirit necessary to write of a new economy, these writers seem to be contenting themselves with an old one that is now as defunct as Confederate money.
As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.
The approach to the depiction of the experience of creation may be analytic, as it is for Miss Litz, or spontaneous, as it is for Merle Marsicano.
If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.
An order can be chanced rather than chosen, and this approach produces an experience that is `` free and discovered rather than bound and remembered ''.
The sequence of movements in a Cunningham dance is unlike any sequence to be seen in life.
The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

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