The Strauss family in Vienna for example, while probably better-known for their waltzes also composed polkas which have survived obscurity.

Traditional dances such as branles, polkas, quadrilles and others have been done internationally for hundreds of years ; however, the creation of international folk dance as such is often attributed to Vytautas Beliajus, a Lithuanian-American who studied, taught, and performed dances from various ethnic traditions in the 1930s.

In the 1800s immigrants from Moravia were settling in the gulf coast area of Texas ; many of them brought along polkas and waltzes which began to become popular with the Mexican people who lived among them.

Many of the figures of Irish set dances, which developed from Continental quadrilles, are danced to polkas.

Irish polkas are typically played fast, at over 130 bpm, and are typically played with an off-beat accent.

Earlier, Johann Strauss I and Josef Lanner wrote polkas which are either designated as a galop ( quick tempo ) or as a regular polka which may not fall into any of the categories described above.

Nazareth's choros are often listed as polkas ; he also composed waltzes, schottisches, milongas and Brazilian Tangos.

The Norwegian gammeldans tradition, and those of other ancestries, continues in ethnic communities in Minnesota, where waltzes, schottisches or reinlander, and polkas are newer forms of old-time music.

These are dances – as Wölfli indicates – waltzes, mazurkas, and polkas similar in their melody to folk music.

Reinlenders, polkas and waltzes are played ; of these, waltzes are by far the most common.

From 1937 until now ( 2009 ), the Mariachi Vargas has produced over 50 recordings, whose contents are Huastecos sones, waltzes, popurris, polkas, huapango, cumbias, among others.

Furthermore, pronounced, popular rhythms are sought in the dance halls, generally imported but " nationalised ", such as the chotis ( from the German Schottisch, its ultimate origin being in Scotland ), and many others, such as boleros, fandangos, or habaneras from Latin America, jotas, seguidillas, soleás, pasacalles, and waltzes, polkas, or mazurcas from Poland.

There also exist Curaçaon polkas, Peruvian polkas ( becoming very popular in Lima ).

Josef Lanner and other Viennese composers in the 19th century also wrote many polkas to satisfy the demands of the dance-music-loving Viennese.

In France, another dance-music composer Emile Waldteufel also wrote many polkas in addition to his chief profession of penning waltzes.

He also wrote numerous short experimental pieces collected under the name Album Leaves, and a series of polkas.

Instrumentation includes kanklės, a kind of zither that accompanies sutartinės, rateliai, waltzes, quadrilles and polkas, and fiddles, ( including a bass fiddle called the basetle ) and a kind of whistle called the lumzdelis ; recent importations, beginning in the late 19th century, including the concertina, accordion and bandoneon.

For instance in the Polka a step called the Coquette ( Love Chase ) is defined as " The lady escapes from her partner and polkas solo while the gent pursues her, arms akimbo.

They had dressed in white and black and Wallace reports they dance " quadrilles, waltzes, polkas, and mazurkas with great vigour and much skill ".

Reels, square dances, waltzes, polkas and other couple dances were performed with a spirit of freedom and improvisation, " all so mingled that it is a dance without name ".

While playing mostly one-steps, polkas, schottishes and waltzes for colored patrons at Dixie Park in Memphis, Handy noted a reaction to the habanera rhythm included in Will H. Tyler's " Maori ".

A street dancing culture emerged in the early part of the 20th century, with " dozens of young people performing polkas, waltzes and schottisches to music provided by Italian organ-grinders ".

As soon as an experimental tug assures you that roots have taken over, cut it off from the mother plant.

As to relative frequencies of competing roots ( 7 - 1 vs. 4 - 4, etc. ), Thomas with his ' weighting ' seems to be the first to have considered the significance this might have.

Seeming to have roots in the soil, they actually have none in life.

It includes perennial herbaceous plants which are glabrous and have short rhizomes with fibrous roots or are rhizomatous with root tubers.

Ailanthus are capable of forming thick blankets of roots and heavy shade to the extent that native species are prevented from being able to reclaim an area that has been logged or deforested, as well as areas that have been heavily developed.

Amara seems to have been a Buddhist, and most of his work was destroyed, with the exception of what is the celebrated Amara-Kosha ( Treasury of Amara ), a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called Trikanda or the " Tripartite ".

Although most cultural systems of astrology share common roots in ancient philosophies that influenced each other, many have unique methodologies which differ from those developed in the West.

While often cited as an Indian legend, the white doe seems to have its roots in English folklore.

The origin of the name Berlin is unknown, but it may have its roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of today's Berlin, and be related to the Old Polabian stem berl -/ birl-(" swamp ").

Each borough contains a number of localities ( Ortsteile ), which often have historic roots in older municipalities that predate the formation of Greater Berlin on 1 October 1920 and became urbanized and incorporated into the city.

The ghostly music may have had its roots in sketches for a Macbeth opera that Beethoven was contemplating at the time.

The Baptists have been non-creedal “ in that they have not sought to establish binding authoritative confessions of faith on one another .” Also rejecting creeds are groups with roots in the Restoration Movement, such as the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), the Evangelical Christian Church in Canada and the Churches of Christ.

Others, including the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), Evangelical Christian Church in Canada, Churches of Christ, and the Christian churches and churches of Christ, have their roots in the contemporaneous Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement, which was centered in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

These dialects have roots in 17th-century English and African languages ; unlike most native varieties of English, West Indian dialects often tend to be syllable-timed rather than stress-timed.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

In the Canadian Army, a number of regular and reserve units have cavalry roots, including The Royal Canadian Hussars ( Montreal ), the Governor General's Horse Guards, Lord Strathcona's Horse, the Royal Canadian Dragoons, and the South Alberta Light Horse.

Many of the debates among Christians have roots in questions about the sources of authority different Christians believe represent God's purest or most definitive message.

Both the Patriarchate of Addis Ababa and all Ethiopia, and the Patriarchate of Asmara and all Eritrea do acknowledge the supremacy of honor and dignity of the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria on the basis that both Patriarchates were established by the Throne of Alexandria and that they have their roots in the Apostolic Church of Alexandria, and acknowledge that Saint Mark the Apostle is the founder of their Churches through the heritage and Apostolic evangelization of the Fathers of Alexandria.

However, some have suggested that CSF flow along the cranial nerves and spinal nerve roots allow it into the lymphatic channels ; this flow may play a substantial role in CSF reabsorbtion, in particular in the neonate, in which arachnoid granulations are sparsely distributed.

Conflicts that are addressed through historical conciliation have their roots in conflicting identities of the people involved.

By far the greatest source of dyes has been from the plant kingdom, notably roots, berries, bark, leaves and wood, but only a few have ever been used on a commercial scale.