Many of the features of the homes are the latest modern devices in American homes, but an interesting blend of cultures finds us using Japanese artfulness in our own Western architecture at the same time that the Japanese are adopting Western utility patterns.

Many ancient cultures, including the ancient Egyptians and ancient Greeks, used specially selected mold and plant materials and extracts to treat infections.

Many cultures have built devices that travel through the air, from the earliest projectiles such as stones and spears, the boomerang in Australia, the hot air Kongming lantern, and kites.

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 cultures feature autumnal harvest festivals, often the most important on their calendars.

Many cultures associate breasts with sexuality and tend to regard bare breasts as immodest or indecent.

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

Many cultures use different baselines for their calendars ' starting years.

Many cultures have myths about a flood that cleanses the world in preparation for rebirth.

Many ancient cultures used adorned daggers in ritual and ceremonial purposes, a trend which continues to the present time in the form of art knives.

Many epic poems of various cultures were pieced together from shorter pieces of traditional narrative verse, which explains their episodic structure and often their in medias res plot developments.

Many Asian civilizations distinguish between art / court / classical styles and " folk " music, though cultures that do not depend greatly upon notation and have much anonymous art music must distinguish the two in different ways from those suggested by western scholars.

Many cultures have a recognizable cuisine, a specific set of cooking traditions using various spices or a combination of flavors unique to that culture, which evolves over time.

Many cultures have diversified their foods by means of preparation, cooking methods, and manufacturing.

Many cultures use additional descriptive terms in identifying individuals.

Many cultures used patronymics before surnames were adopted or came into use.

Many other Native American cultures also made hominy and integrated it into their diet.

Many home aquaria are unable to naturally supply sufficient infusoria for fish-rearing, so hobbyists may create and maintain their own supply cultures or use one of the many commercial cultures available.

Many ancient cultures around the world have independently discovered and formulated inks for the purposes of writing and drawing.

Many cultures have their unique version of the knife.

Many people in cultures which have notation still learn by ear and ear training, often through a musicianship course at a music conservatory or college, is common practice among those who use notation extensively.

Many Native cultures feature skin-walkers or a similar concept, wherein a shaman or warrior may, according to cultural tradition, take on an animal form.

Many other cultures and religions still celebrate the beginning of the New Year in March.

Many believers in the Bible hold that only one of these families is trustworthy as transmitting the Word of God.

Many academic historians hold the idea that the German armed forces adopted " blitzkrieg " as an offensive doctrine to be a myth.

Many historians now hold the position that blitzkrieg was not a military theory, and the campaigns conducted by the German military in 1939 to circa, 1942 ( with the exception of Operation Barbarossa ) were improvised invasions put together and modified at the last moment and therefore was not a proper military strategy.

Many times, corporate officers such as the CFO, COO, CIO, CTO, Secretary, or Treasurer will concurrently hold Vice President titles, commonly EVP or SVP.

Many of those countries still hold the traditional memorial ceremony every year.

Many cycling clubs hold organized rides in which bicyclists of all levels participate.

Many Conservative Jews reject the traditional Jewish idea that God literally dictated the words of the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai in a verbal revelation, but they hold the traditional Jewish belief that God inspired the later prophets to write the rest of the Tanakh.

Many other churches have people who hold to the doctrine without making it a part of their doctrines, or who apply it to individuals but not to governments, see also Evangelical counsels.

Many definitions of music implicitly hold that music is a communicative activity which conveys to the listener moods, emotions, thoughts, impressions, or religious, philosophical, sexual, or political concepts or positions.

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 electronic paper technologies can hold static text and images indefinitely without using electricity.

Many of them hold that it is immoral to prohibit or prevent people from exercising these freedoms and that these freedoms are required to create a decent society where software users can help each other, and to have control over their computers.

She yearns for him to hold her, but young Sally slips between them and the three move together (" Too Many Mornings ").

Many combats, deaths, boasts, threats, epithets, figures of speech, stories, lines of poetry and books of the Iliad later, Hector lays hold of Protesilaus ' ship and calls for fire.

Many classicists hold that this reform must have involved the production of a canonical written text.

Many modern scholars hold that the Apostle John wrote none of these texts.

Many stadia in England had stands named after Spion Kop, but Anfield's was the largest of them at the time ; it could hold more supporters than some entire football grounds.

Many Mormons hold weekly family home evenings, in which an evening is set aside for family bonding, study, prayer and other wholesome activities.

Many discussions of psychological egoism focus on this variety, but the two are not the same: one can hold that all actions are ultimately motivated by considerations of self-interest without thinking that all agents conceive of their self-interest in terms of feelings of pleasure and pain.

Many Christians who believe in universalism hold panentheistic views of God in conjunction with their belief in apocatastasis, also called universal reconciliation.

Many analysts of parapsychology hold that the entire body of evidence to date is of poor quality and not adequately controlled.

Many pubs also hold special events, from tournaments of the aforementioned games to karaoke nights to pub quizzes.

Many of the ideas developed by historical and modern personality theorists stem from the basic philosophical assumptions they hold.

Many branches of Reform Judaism hold that Jewish law should be interpreted as a set of general guidelines rather than as a list of restrictions whose literal observance is required of all Jews.