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

Many rituals can sometimes be considered folklore, whether formalized in a cultural or religious system ( e. g. weddings, baptisms, harvest festivals ) or practiced within a family or secular context.

Many of the pre-Christian, traditional Indo-European, festivals and celebrations such as Tyarndarach ( Trndez-associated with fire worship ) and Vartavar ( Vadarvar-associated with water worship ), that dated back to thousands of years were preserved and continued in the form of Christian celebrations and chants.

Many have prayers for weekdays, Shabbat, and the three Biblical festivals, Sukkot ( the feast of Tabernacles ), Shavuot ( the feast of weeks ) and Pesach ( Passover ).

Many Humanists also celebrate the winter and summer solstice, the former of which ( in the northern hemisphere ) is the root of the celebration of Christmas, and the equinoxes, of which the vernal equinox is associated with Christianity's Easter and indeed with all other springtime festivals of renewal.

Many regional theatres hired dramaturgs and literary managers in an effort to showcase various festivals of new work, or bring in playwrights for residencies.

Many contemporary bands performing at hippie festivals and their derivatives are called jam bands, since they play songs that contain long instrumentals similar to the original hippie bands of the 1960s.

Many yearly festivals are held in Taipei, including the Taipei Lantern Festival when thousands of sky lanterns are released in Pingxi.

Many festivals are seasonal.

Many festivals are held in Sydney, including the Sydney Festival, a celebration of free performances throughout January ; the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ( see below ); the Sydney Royal Easter Show, which unites rural and urban communities together in 1 annual event at Homebush ; the Sydney Film Festival and many smaller festivals such as Tropfest.

Many bands who perform Christian rock have ties to the contemporary Christian music labels, media outlets, and festivals, while other bands are independent.

Many of the major Spanish pop stars of the era rose to fame through these music festivals.

Many cities in the United States have festivals in the spring celebrating the blooms of the azalea, including Mobile, Alabama ; Norfolk, Virginia ; Wilmington, North Carolina ( North Carolina Azalea Festival ); Valdosta, Georgia ; Palatka, Florida ( Florida Azalea Festival ); Pickens, South Carolina ;.

Many folk music festivals in Europe feature music groups with hurdy gurdy players, with the most famous annual festival occurring at Saint-Chartier, in the Indre département, in central France, during the week nearest July 14 ( Bastille Day ).

* July 4 – Many outdoor festivals and shows are held all over the United States as the country celebrates its bicentennial.

Many Russian celebrities, successful businessmen and others have been buying houses near the beach, and lots of different festivals and other activities have brought more and more people to the town each summer.

Many music festivals of all sizes are organized on the Midsummer weekend.

Many southern Louisiana cooking competitions center around gumbo, and it is a central feature of many local festivals.

Many festivals take place on an annual basis such as Carnival, Children Festival, Lake Day, and Shkodra Jazz Fest.

Many Jews also make use of specialized mahzorim on the three " pilgrimage festivals " of Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot.

Many annual maritime festivals in Britain and across the Channel provide contexts for performance.

Many of the festivals involve the offering of jaggery to deities during worship.

Many Spanish festivals include costumed figures known as gigantes y cabezudos, roughly, “ Giants and Big-Heads ”, or, in Catalan, gegants i capgrossos or in basque language " erraldoi eta buruhandiak ".

Many of them, moreover, are beginning to complain about the scarcity of Western amusements and to ridicule the old life of the bazaar merchant, the mullah, and the peasant.

Many selections are themselves convincing contributions to this appraisal.

Many of our very best friends are reformers.

Many home-bound subway riders utilizing the Flushing-Main Street express are daily confronted with the sight of the local departing from the Woodside station as their express comes to a stop, leaving them stranded and strained.

Many belly dancers are married, but Serene is one of the few who will admit it.

Many of these experiences are so important that they will be cherished forever by me.

Many hours are given free by the Jaycees to make this and all local pageants outstanding events.

Many adults showing at Westminster today are products of this Class.

Many cells, bacteria, and other microorganisms are transparent to visible light and must be stained for microscopic investigation.

Many of the cells and microorganisms which are transparent to visible light, absorb or reflect the much shorter wavelengths of the ultraviolet spectrum.

Many industry trade associations are developing campaigns to protect or enhance the share of the consumer's dollar being spent on their particular products.

Many food and beverage companies are already on a highly planned basis.

Many other ( probably nearly all ) snakes at maturity are already more than half their final length.

Many of the new appointees are art collectors.

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

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 legislators are already weary and frustrated over the so-far losing battle to block token integration.

Many of the toll-road bonds still are selling at prices that offer the prospect of an annual yield of 4 per cent, or very close to that.

Many others are attracting the traffic needed to push revenues up to the break-even point.

Many of the coal seams in the nationalized British mines are twisting, narrow and very deep.

Many English Catholics are proud of their Catholicism and know that they are in a new ascendancy.

Many of you are familiar, I'm sure, with the story of my early struggles: the fire in January, 1947, that destroyed everything -- even our precious list of subscribers.

Many caecilians and some other amphibians lay their eggs on land, and the newly hatched larvae wriggle or are transported to water bodies.