Many Chinatown areas also feature Chinese bakeries, boba milk tea shops, roasted meat, vegetarian cuisine, and specialized dessert shops.

Many cultures have attached importance to astronomical events, and the Indians, Chinese, and Mayans developed elaborate systems for predicting terrestrial events from celestial observations.

Many smaller reception rooms are furnished in the Chinese regency style with furniture and fittings brought from the Royal Pavilion at Brighton and from Carlton House.

Many cafeterias ( canteens ) at Chinese universities have separate sections or dining areas for Muslim students ( Hui or western Chinese minorities ), typically labeled " qingzhen.

Many Halal Chinese restaurants exist in New York City, owned by Hui Muslims.

Many concepts once thought to be analogous, such as the Chinese Wu Xing, are now understood more figuratively.

Many faiths around the world — from Japanese Shinto and Chinese traditional religion, to certain African practices and the faiths derived from those in the Caribbean, to Native American beliefs — hold that ancestral or household spirits offer daily protection and blessings.

Many Chinese artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and even gardeners have used the Daodejing as a source of inspiration.

Many Taoists venerate Laozi as Daotsu the founder of the school of Dao, the Daode Tianjun in the Three Pure Ones, one of the eight elders transformed from Taiji in the Chinese creation myth.

Many translations are written by people with a foundation in Chinese language and philosophy who are trying to render the original meaning of the text as faithfully as possible into English.

Many later Marxist theorists ( e. g. Eric Wolfe ) have generalized this characterization to include non-European societies, grouping feudalism together with Imperial Chinese and pre-Columbian Incan societies as ' tributary.

Many Confucian-educated Chinese who now lacked profession turned to the arts of painting and theatre instead, as the Yuan period became one of the most vibrant and abundant eras for Chinese artwork.

Many Indians view the war as a betrayal of India's attempts at establishing a long-standing peace with China and started to question Nehru's usage of the term " Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai " ( meaning " Indians and Chinese are brothers ").

Many VNQDD members joined the Yunnan military school and received military training from the Kuomintang Chinese army.

Many Westerners who first encountered the practice believed it was a sign of worship, but kowtowing does not necessarily have religious overtones in traditional Chinese culture.

Many historians believe it was based on a Chinese card game called Mǎdiào ( 馬吊 ) ( also known as Ma Tiae, hanging horse ; or Yèzí, leaf ) in the early Ming dynasty.

Many forms of Chinese martial arts also feature weapons as part of their curriculum.

Many New Left thinkers in the U. S. were influenced by the Vietnam War and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Many Chinese and foreign observers see the PRC as in transition from a system of public ownership to one in which private ownership plays an increasingly important role.

Many visual effects are possible, and the SVG specification automatically handles bidirectional text ( for composing a combination of English and Arabic text, for example ), vertical text ( as Chinese was historically written ) and characters along a curved path ( such as the text around the edge of the Great Seal of the United States ).

Many Chinese in gossip hungry Chungking would have known of their time alone and rumors would have spread quickly.

Many popular dishes eaten in Thailand were originally Chinese dishes which were introduced to Thailand mainly by the Teochew people who make up the majority of the Thai Chinese.

Many laymen who have the experience and interest to name the creatures that they deal with, also have the powers of observation that equip them to recognise relevant differences and group organisms accordingly.

The biretta is lay in origin and was adopted by the Church in the 14th century: " Many synods ordered the use of this cap pileus or skull cap as a substitute for the hood, and in one instance the synod of Bergamo, 1311, ordered the clergy to wear the ' bireta on their heads after the manner of laymen " ( Herbert Norris, Church Vestments: Their Origin and Development, 1950 ).

Many laymen even believed that the deaf were too simple-minded to be eligible for salvation under Christian doctrine.

Many of these abthains passed into the hands of laymen, and were transmitted from father to son.

Many countries now extend legal recognition of sex reassignment by permitting a change of legal gender on the individual's birth certificate.

Many neurons extrude long thin filaments of protoplasm called axons, which may extend to distant parts of the body and are capable of rapidly carrying electrical signals, influencing the activity of other neurons, muscles, or glands at their termination points.

Many types of neuron possess an axon, a protoplasmic protrusion that can extend to distant parts of the body and make thousands of synaptic contacts.

Many of the common larger species are farm-raised for table food or egg consumption, and are hunted on game farms or in the wild, where they are sometimes artificially stocked to supplement the wild population, or extend into areas they are normally not found naturally.

Many Jews extend this prohibition to some of the other names listed below, and will add additional sounds to alter the pronunciation of a name when using it outside of a liturgical context, such as replacing the " h " with a " k " in names of God such as " kel " and " elokI'm " or more accurately el-o-heem.

Many of the mesenteries project into the enteric cavity but some extend from the body wall to the central stomodaeum.

Many shots used matte paintings to extend backgrounds and create establishing shots without the cost of building a set.

Many elite athletes made the attempts to extend their careers beyond age 40 to challenge that mark.

Many civil societies do not extend such protections to the internal operations of communities or organizations so long as an ex-member has the same rights, prerogatives, and power as any other member of the civil society.

Many spacecraft launched in the past couple of decades have the ability to fire a small rocket ( 1 ) to increase the altitude to compensate for the decay and extend the lifetime in space, ( 2 ) to re-enter the atmosphere and crash into the ocean, or ( 3 ) change the orbit to avoid collision with other spacecraft.

Many transit advocates believe that it would have been wiser either to build it using streetcars, as was originally planned, to allow for lower costs and more flexibility in route options or simply to extend the underground Bloor – Danforth line further into Scarborough ( for more details, including the proposal to combine it with the Eglinton Crosstown line, see Future below ).

Many cities now extend the observance of Earth Day events to an entire week, usually starting on April 16 and ending on Earth Day, April 22.

Many Islamic theologians extend the sense of worship to include praying to some other being to intercede with Allah on one's behalf, rather than taking one's case to God Himself.

Many newer class A motorhomes and some fifthwheel trailers have computer-controlled leveling jacks that, at the touch of a button, automatically extend and level the RV.

Many parts in the coloratura soprano repertoire extend beyond " high C " and often extend up to high F ( F6 ).

Many radial segment lines — somewhat pineapple-like — extend across the outer disks.

Many properties of projective schemes extend to this context.

Many modern hybrid and electric vehicles use this technique to extend the range of the battery pack.

Many countries have a mechanism to allow the holder of a visa to apply to extend a visa.

Many older pianos only have 85 keys ( seven octaves from A0 to A7 ), while some manufacturers extend the range further in one or both directions.

Many are careful to always use three fingers when eating, drink water in three pauses with the right hand while sitting and make sure their jellabiya or other garment worn by them does not extend below the ankle so as to follow the example of Muhammad and his companions.

Many aircraft between the wars-at the time when retractable gear was becoming commonplace-were deliberately designed to allow the bottom of the wheels to protrude below the fuselage even when retracted to reduce the damage caused if the pilot forgot to extend the landing gear or in case the plane was shot down and forced to crash-land.

Many more motor cortex neurons, however, extend fibers all the way down to the spinal cord ( corticospinal tract ).