There have also been found very old Nepōhualtzintzin attributed to the Olmeca culture, and even some bracelets of Mayan origin, as well as a diversity of forms and materials in other cultures.

Modern cultures in this region, many of whom claim some of these ancient people as ancestors, contain a striking range of diversity in lifestyles, social organization, language and religious beliefs.

It is also a fertility festival, similar in some ways to other harvest-time celebrations in other cultures.

Ancient Nubia shared many aspects of its mythology with ancient Egypt and there is debate about the original source of some religious concepts that the two cultures share and, whether the assimilation was from Nubia to Egypt, the reverse, or through continuing exchanges.

A person is introduced to alcohol ( in some cultures this can happen at a relatively young age ), and the person enjoys the happy feeling it produces.

In some cultures and religions, minor amputations or mutilations are considered a ritual accomplishment.

Removal of teeth, mainly incisors, is or was practiced by some cultures for ritual purposes ( for instance in the Iberomaurusian culture of Neolithic North Africa ).

Board games have been played in most cultures and societies throughout history ; some even pre-date literacy skill development in the earliest civilizations.

Ecologist Robert Michael Pyle argues that most cultures have human-like giants in their folk history: " We have this need for some larger-than-life creature.

In some third-world cultures, like the Himba in northern Namibia, bare-breasted women are the social norm, while a woman's thigh is highly sexualised and not exposed in public.

In some cultures breasts play a role in human sexual activity.

Many people regard bare female breasts to be erotic, and they can elicit heightened sexual desires in some men in some cultures.

While U. S. culture prefers breasts that are youthful and upright, some cultures venerate women with wrinkled, saggy breasts, indicating mothering and the wisdom of experience.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

Cannibalism was widespread in the past among humans in many parts of the world, continuing into the 19th century in some isolated South Pacific cultures, and to the present day in parts of tropical Africa.

Cannibalism features in the folklore and legends of many cultures and is most often attributed to evil characters or as extreme retribution for some wrong.

Other islands in the Pacific were home to cultures that allowed cannibalism to some degree.

The act of creation is the bringing of order from disorder, and in many of these cultures it is believed that at some point the forces preserving order and form will weaken and the world will once again be engulfed into the abyss.

Other hybrid creatures appear in Greek mythology, always with some liminal connection that links Hellenic culture with archaic or non-Hellenic cultures:

According to non-Orthodox Jews and critical historians, Jewish law too has been affected by surrounding cultures ( for example, some scholars argue that the establishment of absolute monotheism in Judaism was a reaction against the dualism of Zoroastrianism that Jews encountered when living under Persian rule ; Jews rejected polygamy during the Middle Ages, influenced by their Christian neighbors ).

In the years since Disco Demolition Night, some social critics have described the backlash as implicitly macho and bigoted, and an attack on non-white and non-heterosexual cultures.

In some cultures, people ( or also other beings ) are believed to have two ( or more ) kinds of soul.

In many Asian cultures dragons were, and in some cultures still are, revered as representative of the primal forces of nature, religion and the universe.

The natural history of Africa encompasses some of the well known megafauna of that continent.

However, around the Mediterranean they include also a dozen woody shrubs 1m-3m tall, e. g. in northern Africa ( Zilla spinosa and Ptilotrichum spinosum ), in the Dalmatian islands ( Dendralyssum and Cramboxylon ), and chiefly in Canarias with some woody cruciferous genera: Dendrosinapis, Descurainia, Parolinia, Stanleya, etc ..

" In addition to the lack of evidence, scientists cite the fact that Bigfoot is alleged to live in regions unusual for a large, nonhuman primate, i. e., temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere ; all recognized nonhuman apes are found in the tropics of Africa and Asia ( although some smaller primates, such as Japanese macaques, are found in Asia up to the latitude of Northern California, and can cope with air temperatures to-20 ° C (- 4 ° F )).

Some dioceses around the Mediterranean Sea which were Christianised early are rather compact, whereas dioceses in areas of rapid modern growth in Christian commitment — as in some parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, South America and the Far East — are much larger and more populous.

Like other Namibian Breweries beers, it is available in some of the neighbouring countries in Southern Africa, especially South Africa.

For example: in Africa, the bronze heads of the Kingdom of Benin ; in Europe, Grecian bronzes typically of figures from Greek mythology ; in east Asia, Chinese bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasty — more often ceremonial vessels but including some figurine examples.

Fermentation is used in some parts of Africa to improve the nutritional value of beans by removing toxins.

Although the Iron Age generally followed the Bronze Age, in some areas, the Iron Age intruded directly on the Neolithic from outside the region except for Sub-Saharan Africa where it was developed independently.

Essentially, every country that was colonised at some time by England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom uses common law except those that were formerly colonised by other nations, such as Quebec ( which follows the law of France in part ), South Africa and Sri Lanka ( which follow Roman Dutch law ), where the prior civil law system was retained to respect the civil rights of the local colonists.

Many of these jurisdictions recognise customary law, and in some, such as South Africa the Constitution requires that the common law be developed in accordance with the Bill of Rights.

Location of Sahelanthropus tchadensis find in 2002. The territory now known as Chad possesses some of the richest archaeological sites in Africa.

The Cape Verde Islands are located in the mid-Atlantic Ocean some off the west coast of Africa.

In the past, it was practiced by humans in Europe, South America, among Iroquoian peoples in North America, Maori in New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, parts of West Africa and Central Africa, some of the islands of Polynesia, New Guinea, Sumatra, and Fiji.

Metrorail operates in the major cities of South Africa, and there are some commuter rail services in Algeria, Morocco, Alexandria, Egypt and Tunisia.

Chinese cuisine is any of several styles originating from regions of China, some of which have become increasingly popular in other parts of the world – from Asia to the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa.

In some cases, concepts of purity and impurity by birth have been prevalent in Africa.

In a review published in 1977, Todd reports that numerous scholars report a system of social stratification in different parts of Africa that resembles some or all aspects of caste system.

He also would have had access to some Italian works in Germany, but the two visits he made to Italy had an enormous influence on him.

In some Christian denominations, for example, the Anglican Communion, parish churches may maintain a chair for the use of the bishop when he visits ; this is to signify the parish's union with the bishop.

* Ethiopian Restaurant Guide Includes video visits to some restaurants

She also has a crane that is capable of lifting 10 tonnes at 7 m. She also visits some of the smaller islands.

Apart from some western troupes ' 19th-century visits, the first professional performance of Hamlet in Japan was Otojiro Kawakami's 1903 Shimpa (" new school theatre ") adaptation.

# The certificate correctly identifies the website ( e. g., when the browser visits " https :// example. com ", the received certificate is properly for " Example Inc ." and not some other entity ).

PDAs have been shown to aid diagnosis and drug selection and some studies have concluded that when patients use PDAs to record their symptoms, they communicate more effectively with hospitals during follow-up visits.

However, some astronomers think that the New Horizons probe might find a ring system when it visits in 2015.

Arabic sources describe what some consider to be visits to the New World by a Mali fleet in 1311.

He visits her at home, helping her to clean out some of her possessions, and meeting her tame cougar, Bagheera.

Surprisingly, some visits that accumulate PageRank very quickly ( most notably, breadth-first and the omniscent visit ) provide very poor progressive approximations.

Fathers make visits to their offspring until they are weaned at 10 weeks of age ; also, once the young are about 6 months old, some reconnect with their fathers and travel together for a time.

The crew begin to grumble about Vostrikov's demanding orders and authoritarian manner, but Polenin silences them when he visits the crew's quarters: " I heard there'd been some complaining.

The Mesopotamians believed that the soul, or some part of it, moves out from the body of the sleeping person and actually visits the places and persons the dreamer sees in his sleep.

The World Rally Championship now visits nearly all continents, taking its stylish sideways driving style and specialized cars to a vast global market, estimated by some to be second only to the Formula One juggernaut.

He has not returned to England apart from some personal visits and very few media appearances, his last one since 1985 being a 2006 interview which formed part of a " Len Deighton Night " on BBC Four.

If a plan chooses to pay less than Medicare for some benefits, like skilled nursing facility care, the savings may be passed along to consumers by offering lower co-payments for doctor visits.

In 2004, visits by the public were completely suspended due to renovations ; some of the stone used in the original construction was weak and has cracked over the years causing structural problems within the building.

" In October 1967, NBC aired Raymond Burr Visits Vietnam, a documentary of one of his visits that received mixed reviews, ranging from " The impressions he came up with are neither weighty nor particularly revealing " ( Chicago Tribune ) to " His questions ... were intelligent and elicited some interesting replies.

Mulroney had expected Turner to tour Canada during the summer and early autumn, accompanying the Queen and the Pope on their visits, gaining some free publicity, then call the election for later in the autumn.

When he could, Hopper did some outdoor watercolors on visits to New England, especially at the art colonies at Ogunquit, Maine, and Monhegan Island.

Stansted's runway is also used by private companies such as the Harrods Aviation terminal which is opposite the main terminal building and handles private jets and some state visits.

Bilateral relations got some momentum by several high level visits, contracts, and political and economic dialogue.

Costello's government did have some success with Ireland becoming a member of the United Nations in 1955, and a highly successful visit to the United States in 1956, which began the custom by which the Taoiseach visits the White House each St. Patrick's Day.