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Among the Wiccan Sabbats, Beltane is a cross-quarter day ; it is celebrated in the northern hemisphere on 1 May and in the southern hemisphere on 1 November.
Among the groups found along northern coast and in neighboring Nicaragua were the Miskito, who although organized in democratic and egalitarian way, had an institution of king, and hence were known as the Mosquito Kingdom.
Among the earliest kingdoms known to have been based in what is now Malaysia is the ancient empire of Langkasuka, located in the northern Malay Peninsula and based somewhere in Kedah.
Among the northern Polynesian people, Vega was known as whetu o te tau, the year star.
Among the indigenous people of Sakhalin are the Ainu on the southern half, the Oroks in the central region, and the Nivkhs on the northern part.
Among the 11 kings who followed, a number of Semitic Akkadian names are recorded, suggesting that these people made up a sizable proportion of the population of this northern city.
Among the notable tributaries of the Yangtze within the province are the Shen Nong Stream ( a small northern tributary, severely affected by the Three Gorges Dam project ); the Qing, a major waterway of southwestern Hubei ; the Huangbo near Yichang ; and the Fushui in the southeast.
Among the parks serving Oxford residents are Southford Falls State Park in the northern section of town, Jackson Cove Beach, and Kirks Pond in the center of town.
Among the Orya of northern Irian Jaya, the agama toŋkat ( Indonesian for ' walking-stick ') cult " encouraged men to trade wives, i. e., to have sexual relations with each other's wives.
Among these aircraft were a number of CR. 42s. German Rüstungs-und-Kriegsproduktion Stab took control of Italy's northern aircraft industry, and ordered 200 CR. 42LW ( LW = Luftwaffe ) from Fiat for the Luftwaffe, to use in night harassment and anti-partisan roles.
" Among the stolen artifacts is the Bassetki Statue made out of bronze, a life-size statue of a young man, originally found in the village Basitke in the northern part of Iraq, an Acadian piece that goes back to 2300 B. C.
Among English speakers, the use of umlaut marks and other diacritics with a blackletter style typeface is a form of foreign branding intended to give a band's logo a Teutonic quality — denoting stereotypes of boldness and strength commonly attributed to ancient northern European peoples, such as the Vikings and Goths.
Among the numerous varieties of trees Itasca accommodates are quaking aspen, bigtooth aspen, paper birch, red pine, white pine, as well as a mix of northern hardwoods.
Among North America's duck species, northern shovelers trail only mallards and blue-winged teal in overall abundance.
Among the most famous is the Republic of Venice, conventionally divided in the fifteenth century into the Dogado of Venice and the Lagoon, the Stato di Terraferma of Venetian holdings in northern Italy, and the Stato da Màr of the Venetian outlands bound by the sea:
Among the northern ethnic groups, the Donghu was the earliest to evolve into a state of civilization and first developed bronze technology.
Among other variances, the northern skink is smaller and has darker eyes with a black sclera.
Among northern races of Sandhill cranes, the diet is most varied especially among breeding birds.
Among the earliest documented working rifle makers are Adam Haymaker, who had a thriving trade in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and the Moravian gunshops at Christian's Spring in Pennsylvania and in the Salem area of North Carolina.
* Musk deer: Among the Musk deers in the northern hemisphere, this species in the North-East is divided into 7 subspecies.
Among the oldest breeds are the Italian Wire-haired Pointing Dog or Spinone Italiano ( FCI # 165 ) and the breeds bred by Eduard Karel Korthals originating in the Low Countries ( Belgium, Netherlands, northern France ) which have a short, bearded muzzle.
Among other things, he created an art gallery in the northern arcades of the Residence's Hofgarten (" Court Garden ") and made both the garden and the gallery open to the public ( the former in 1780, the latter in 1781 ).
Among the Mambila of northern Cameroon, in regard to " Inheritance of wives: both levirates are practised throughout the tribe ".
Among the northern supporters who endured arrest and incarceration were Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, the mother of the governor of Massachusetts and Mrs. John Burgess, wife of the Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts.
Among tourism projects in the pipeline is an $ 817m resort, Al Fujairah Paradise, near Dibba Al-Fujairah, on the northern Omani border, next to Le Meridien Al Aqah Beach Resort.

Among and Algonquian
Among the earliest recorded inhabitants of the Susquehanna River valley were the Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannocks, whose name meant " people of the muddy river " in Algonquian.
Among the Ojibwe, Eastern Cree, Westmain Swampy Cree, Naskapi, and Innu, Wendigos were said to be giants, many times larger than human beings ( a characteristic absent from the Wendigo myth in the other Algonquian cultures ).
Among fellow members of the Algonquian languages, it is relatively divergent in phonology and lexicon.
Among the eastern Algonquian peoples located north of the Abenaki areas, a similar character to Nanabozho existed, called Tshakapesh in the Innu language, Tcikapec in Attikamek, Tcakabesh in Algonquin, Chikapash among the eastern James Bay Crees and Chaakaapaas by the Naskapi, changing to various animal forms to various human forms ( adult to child ) and to various mythical animals such as the Great Porcupine, or Big Skunk.
Among the Algonquian peoples such as the Ojibwe, the smoking mixtures, known as kinnikinnick, blended the inner bark with tobacco, while more western tribes added it to the bearberry leaf to improve the taste.

Among and cultures
Among the Baltic peoples are modern Lithuanians, Latvians ( including Latgalians ) — all Eastern Balts — as well as the Prussians, Yotvingians and Galindians — the Western Balts — whose languages and cultures are now extinct.
Among his substantial publications from this period were his book on " Time Perspective in the Aboriginal American Culture " ( 1916 ), in which he laid out an approach to using historical linguistics to study the prehistory of Native American cultures.
Among the main towns of this period were the cultures: Jambelí, Guangala, Bahia, Tejar-Daule, La Tolita, Jama Coaque in the coast of Ecuador, in the sierras the Cerro Narrío Alausí ; and in the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle the Tayos.
Among the beliefs held by some cultures, hyenas are thought to influence people ’ s spirits, rob graves, and steal livestock and children.
Among the Andean cultures, a jaguar cult disseminated by the early Chavín culture became accepted over most of what is today Peru by 900 BC.
Among the earliest cultures utilizing swastika is the neolithic Vinča culture of South-East Europe ( see Vinča symbols ).
Among the cultural traits that the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan shared with many other cultures of central Mexico are the agricultural basis of maize cultivation, the basic social organization dividing society into classes of noble pipiltin and macehualli commoners, the complex religious beliefs and practices including most of the pantheon ( e. g. gods such as Tezcatlipoca, Tlaloc and Quetzalcoatl ), the calendric system of a xiuhpohualli of 365 days intercalated with a tonalpohualli of 260 days.
Among various countries or cultures, males are expected and / or encouraged to want to engage in sexual activity, and to be more sexually-experienced.
Among the many various Eskimo cultures, term silap inua / sila, hillap inua / hilla ( among Inuit ), siḷam iñua ( among Inupiaq ), ellam yua / ella ( among Yup ' ik ) is used with some diversity.
Among New World societies, trepanning is most commonly found in the Andean civilizations such as the pre-Incan cultures.
Among many Middle Eastern Muslim cultures egalitarian or age-structured homosexual practices were, and remain, widespread and thinly veiled.
Among the oldest surviving examples of erotic depictions are Paleolithic cave paintings and carvings, but many cultures have created erotic art.
Among the attractions here are a mummified cat, a 1 / 12 scale model of the original Ferris wheel made out of Erector sets, life and death masks of famous celebrities ( including Abraham Lincoln ), and shamanistic apparati from cultures around the world.
Among these cultures were the Carthaginian-their native civilization, Roman, Vandal, Jewish, Christian, Arab, Islamic, Turkish, and French, in addition to native Berbers.
Among the many lists of news values that have been drawn up by scholars and journalists, some, like Galtung and Ruge's, attempt to describe news practices across cultures, while others have become remarkably specific to the press of certain ( often Western ) nations.
* Among pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, the concept of " world trees " is a prevalent motif in Mesoamerican mythical cosmologies and iconography.
Among Christians, the Bible is most commonly used ( in the Sortes Sanctorum ), and in Islamic cultures the Qur ' an.
Among three hundred officially recognized Indonesian cultures, there are many kinds of traditional games: cockfighting in Bali, annual bull races in Madura, and stone jumping in Nias.
Among the Celts, the ring and spokes may represent the cycle of the year divided in its four seasons, rather than the sun, which is a common meaning among cultures.
Among the Gypsy and Traveler cultures represented include those traditionally known as Rom, Romnichels, Calé, Sinti, Ludar, Romungre, Irish Travellers, Scottish Travellers and others.
Among its educational goals are creating a unique mix of cultures and providing the basic and necessary education to allow students to enter various professions.
Among the most important, pre-1995 monographs are: Abroad ( 1980 ) by Paul Fussell, an exploration of British interwar travel writing as escapism ; Gone Primitive: Modern Intellects, Savage Minds ( 1990 ) by Marianna Torgovnick, an inquiry into the primitivist presentation of foreign cultures ; Haunted Journeys: Desire and Transgression in European Travel Writing ( 1991 ) by Dennis Porter, a close look at the psychological correlatives of travel ; Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women ’ s Travel Writing by Sara Mills, an inquiry into the intersection of gender and colonialism during the 19th century ; Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation ( 1992 ), Mary Louise Pratt's influential study of Victorian travel writing ’ s dissemination of a colonial mind-set ; and Belated Travelers ( 1994 ), an analysis of colonial anxiety by Ali Behdad.
Among the principles identified are the need to teach more and not less content to poor children, ensuring children access to conventions / strategies necessary for succeeding in the context of American society, connecting students ' knowledge and experiences from their social contexts to knowledge acquired in the schools and acknowledgement and recognition of students ' home cultures.

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