Many of the lyrics to Shaker tunes consist of syllables and words from unknown tongues, the musical equivalent of glossolalia.

Many melodies are of extraordinary grace and beauty, and the Shaker song repertoire, though still relatively little known, is an important part of the American cultural heritage and of world religious music in general.

Many examples of Shaker furniture survive and are preserved today, including such popular forms as Shaker tables, chairs, rocking chairs ( made in several sizes ), and cabinets.

Many of the new Shaker spirituals were called " gift songs ", and were revealed to the initiate in a vision by the spirits of Mother Ann, the sect's founder, angels, other historical figures or other races, such as Native Americans.

Many " authentic Ainu villages " advertised in Hokkaido such as Akan and Shiraoi are tourist attractions and provide an opportunity to see and meet Ainu people.

Many of those forced to evacuate the cities were resettled in newly created villages, which lacked food, agricultural implements, and medical care.

Many libraries and reading rooms were established in small towns and villages, and numerous printed periodicals reflected the growing interest in popular education.

Many Polish towns and villages ( the best known are Lipnica Murowana in Małopolska and Łyse ) organize artificial palm competitions.

Many large towns and villages within the county have merged with the city, due to urban sprawl, so they can be viewed as suburbs of Tirana.

Many of the students came from the surrounding farms and villages of the Western Reserve, but Hiram soon gained a national reputation and students began arriving from other states.

Many ancient villages had to be abandoned during construction of the Three Gorges Dam in China, leading to displacement of many rural people.

Many small gambling houses cropped up in abandoned temples or shrines at the edge of towns and villages all over Japan.

Many villages and even large cities draw their water supply from wells in aquifers.

Many villages are now predominantly dormitory locations and have suffered the loss of shops, churches and other facilities.

Many villages in South Yorkshire, North Nottinghamshire, North East Derbyshire, County Durham, South Wales and Northumberland are known as pit villages.

Many of the Lebanese villages are a part of districts, these districts are known as " kadaa " which includes the districts of Baabda ( Baabda ), Aley ( Aley ), Matn ( Jdeideh ), Keserwan ( Jounieh ), Chouf ( Beiteddine ), Jbeil ( Byblos ), Tripoli ( Tripoli ), Zgharta ( Zgharta / Ehden ), Bsharri ( Bsharri ), Batroun ( Batroun ), Koura ( Amioun ), Miniyeh-Danniyeh ( Minyeh / Sir Ed-Danniyeh ), Zahle ( Zahle ), Rashaya ( Rashaya ), Western Beqaa ( Jebjennine / Saghbine ), Sidon ( Sidon ), Jezzine ( Jezzine ), Tyre ( Tyre ), Nabatiyeh ( Nabatiyeh ), Marjeyoun ( Marjeyoun ), Hasbaya ( Hasbaya ), Bint Jbeil ( Bint Jbeil ), Baalbek ( Baalbek ), and Hermel ( Hermel ).

Many Papuan residents of Port Moresby either returned to their family villages or were evacuated to camps when the threat of Japanese invasion loomed.

But with a mixed command he was reorganizing and training up on the fly ( Many Australian units were drilling with wooden mockups of rifles in August 1942 ) before MacArthur's people could set up his planned defensive bases on the north coast of eastern Papua, the Japanese Army had moved in and taken both north-coast villages he'd targeted for bases as reinforcements and war materials finally began to trickle in from the States in July — Buna and Gona — several weeks before the forces and transports his staff was organizing could have reached them in strength — at a time when Japan's Navy and Air forces were dominant every where they chose to go.

Many rural Chukchi, as well as Russians in Chukotka's villages, have survived in recent years only with the help of direct humanitarian aid.

Many villages and towns in the area are internationally known, such as Portofino, Bordighera, Lerici, and the Cinque Terre.

Many villages that once existed, are now at the bottom of the sea.

Many of these places remain single farms or dwellings, whilst some have grown into villages and towns.

Many villages in the area have names that are of Romanian origin, such as Jeian, Buzet (" lips "), Katun (" hamlet "), Letaj, Sucodru (" under a forest "), Costirceanu ( a Romanian name ).

Many farms and estates had their own orchards, and many varieties of pear developed that were unique to particular parishes or villages.

Many of the villages lost more than two thirds of their populations, as Slovenes from Slavia Veneta moved to larger urban areas in Northern Italy, Switzerland and Germany.

Many London localities started their existence as small villages along these rivers, and their place names reflect their origin.

Many Cahokians fled in fear of the British, or because they wanted to live under a Catholic power ; some went to French villages on the west of the Mississippi River, such as Ste.

Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

Many of the myocardial fibers were hypertrophied and had large, irregular, basophilic nuclei.

Many of them had once been members of a church or at least had been given instruction in Christianity but for one or another reason had allowed the connexion to lapse.

Many times since his death that memory had worried and troubled her.

Many scholars consider modern anthropology as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted to study human behavior systematically, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the fifteenth century as a result of the first European colonization wave.

Many industries, notably textiles, firearms, clocks and watches, buttons, horse-drawn vehicles, railroad cars and locomotives, sewing machines, and bicycles, saw expeditious improvement in materials handling, machining, and assembly during the 19th century, although modern concepts such as industrial engineering and logistics had not yet been named.

Many Athenians prominent earlier in the century would have lost citizenship, had this law applied to them: Cleisthenes, the founder of democracy, had a non-Athenian mother, and the mothers of Cimon and Themistocles were not Greek at all, but Thracian.

Many clinical tests were inconclusive, probably because it had been used as a surface antiseptic.

Many CPU accelerator cards also had integrated SCSI controllers.

Many were in common use, but had become unacceptable in normal discourse before the end of the twentieth century.

Many homes had a sack made of deerskin filled with bear oil for cooking, while solidified bear fat resembled shortening.

Many old methods had been lost during the periods of European contact.

Many Democrats who had supported Ronald Reagan and Bush in previous elections switched their support to Clinton.

Many years later, Bob Heironimus, an acquaintance of Patterson's, said that he had worn an ape costume for the making of the film.

Many scholars debate over what happened on the threshing floor ; yet it seems unlikely Boaz and Ruth had sexual relations based on the narrative's portrayal of their character ( esp.

Many original members of the future Social Democratic Party had been members of the Manifesto Group within the Labour Party.

Many ships had only jury masts and it took a full day for the convoy to reach the mouth of the bay, finally sailing into open water on 15 August.

Many city-states in ancient Greece limited debt slavery to a period of five years and debt slaves had protection of life and limb, which regular slaves did not enjoy.

Many of the early building societies were based in taverns or coffeehouses, which had become the focus for a network of clubs and societies for co-operation and the exchange of ideas among Birmingham's highly active citizenry as part of the movement known as the Midlands Enlightenment.

Many Boers had German ancestry and many members of the government were themselves former Boer military leaders who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Boer War, which had ended only twelve years earlier.