In Wicca and other forms of Neopaganism a Horned God is revered ; this divinity syncretises a number of horned or antlered gods from various cultures, including Cernunnos.

With the establishment of the docks, the dock workers formed a number of tight-knit local communities with their own distinctive cultures and slang.

(" 八百万 " literally means eight million, but idiomatically it expresses " uncountably many " and " all around "— like many East Asian cultures, the Japanese often use the number 8, representing the cardinal and ordinal directions, to symbolize ubiquity.

The themes in the tales have become part of the folklore of a number of nations and express the national imaginations of a variety of cultures.

A number of Mesoamerican cultures also built pyramid-shaped structures.

Some researchers such as John A Lucy, Barbara Saunders and Stephen C Levinson have argued that Berlin and Kay's study does not in fact show that linguistic relativity in color naming is impossible, because of a number of basic unsupported assumptions in their study ( such as whether all cultures in fact have a category of " color " that can be unproblematically defined and equated with the one found in Indo-European languages ) and because of problems with their data stemming from those basic assumptions.

There is leukopenia, a decrease in the number of circulating white blood cells, with eosinopenia and relative lymphocytosis, a positive reaction and blood cultures are positive for Salmonella typhi or paratyphi.

* Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th, which is considered to be a day of bad luck in a number of western cultures.

Strikingly similar folkloric aspects of the number 13 have been noted in various cultures around the world: one theory is that this is due to the cultures employing lunar-solar calendars ( there are approximately 12. 41 lunations per solar year, and hence 12 " true months " plus a smaller, and often portentous, thirteenth month ).

In addition to the Ancestral Puebloans, a number of distinct cultures have inhabited the Grand Canyon area.

Underwater Archaeology now has a number of branches including, after it became broadly accepted in the late 1980s maritime archaeology: the scientifically based study of past human life, behaviours and cultures and their activities in, on, around and ( lately ) under the sea, estuaries and rivers.

Most cultures throughout history have incorporated some number of the wide variety of " strong drinks " into their meals, celebrations, ceremonies, toasts and other occasions.

While the number three appears as a significant in many cultures, Norse mythology appears to put special emphasis on the number nine.

Human sacrifice has been practised on a number of different occasions and in many different cultures.

( Availability of specific activities can vary by programme ) With a number of students coming from various communities, diversity is promoted for understanding of individuals with different backgrounds and cultures.

In the Tonalpohualli ( a 260 day sacred calendar used by many ancient Mesoamerican cultures ), Centeotl is the Lord of the Day for days with number seven and he is the fourth Lord of the Night.

The town's founders and early residents came from a variety of locations, backgrounds, cultures and religions ; the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas were well represented, and a substantial number of newly arrived European immigrants also made their homes in Grandfield.

However, as documented in the book review, " THE TWO BABYLONS: A Case Study in Poor Methodology ", by Ralph Woodrow, which appeared in volume 22, number 2 ( 2000 ) of the Christian Research Journal ( Article DC187 ), Two Babylons Hislop was an exceptionally poor researcher who " picked, chose and mixed " portions of various unrelated myths from many different cultures.

This clash of cultures led to an unknown number of discoveries being hidden away again.

Musical bows are still used in a number of cultures today, almost all over the world.

In prehistoric times, Gansu was host to a number of Neolithic cultures.

Catherine Blackledge ( p. 205 ) provides a number of examples from other cultures, including the Ugandan Batoro, Mohave Indians, Mangaians, and Ponapese.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

Hence all teachers, good and bad, who have been teaching for a given number of years are paid the same salary.

To have any success in this effort, we must ourselves view it as an enterprise stretching over a considerable number of years, and we must encourage the recipients of our aid to view it in the same fashion.

For those communities which have financial difficulties in effecting adjustments, there are a number of alternatives any one of which alone, or in combination with others, would minimize if not even eliminate the problem.

There have been a number of sound plans proposed.

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

To provide the continuous flow of information basic to administrative decisions, a number of institutions have established offices of institutional research.

A large number of these Juniors have 7 and 8 wins to their credit and are seasoned campaigners.

As America on wheels was responsible for an industry of motor courts, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can dine, see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever-increasing number of boating enthusiasts have sparked industries designed especially to accommodate them.

Aside from the Ruger carbine, a number of hunting rifles have been introduced for the first time.

A number of them must have fallen into disfavor ; ;

Based on this phenomenon, a number of investigators have used this method to `` look through '' human organs.

In the GE plan, a number of individual contributors have positions and compensation higher than those of many managers.

`` These recent steps do not offer the possibility of extension to the great number of senior engineers who have displayed technical competence.

The railroads have responded by adding 20,000 more box cars with doors 12' or wider for forklift unloading ( a 21% increase while the total number of box cars was falling 6% ) and by cutting their freight rates twice on lumber shipped in heavily loaded cars.

However, whether you arrange to have a European or American model, if you rent a car with the proper seating capacity in relation to the number of people in your party, your transportation expense will average very close to $10.00 per day per passenger.

For the last two years, this frontier of the arts has produced a number of so-called `` non-dramas '' which have left indelible, bittersweet impressions on the psyche of this veteran theatregoer.

A number of semiempirical estimates by various workers lead to the conclusion that the Af bond becomes symmetric when the Af bond length is about 2.4 to 2.5 A, but aside from the possible example of nickel dimethylglyoxime there have been no convincing reports of symmetric Af bonds.

Since practical washing procedures are both lengthy and expensive, a number of laboratory tests have been developed for the numerical evaluation of detergents.

For an experiment to qualify as a binomial experiment, it must have four properties: ( 1 ) there must be a fixed number of trials, ( 2 ) each trial must result in a `` success '' or a `` failure '' ( a binomial trial ), ( 3 ) all trials must have identical probabilities of success, ( 4 ) the trials must be independent of each other.

The graph, as a set, may have a finite number of components.

Furthermore, one can find a neighborhood of Q in which the difference function is monotone, for since it is analytic it can have only a finite number of extrema in any interval.

The remaining ( incomplete ) components all have an even number of ordinary points at any argument, and are defined only on a proper sub-interval of Aj.

A number of strong independent agencies, established in some cases with governmental or royal support, have conducted large medical, social, educational and research operations in particular parts of the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi.