Many aediculae were household shrines that held small altars or statues of the Lares and Penates.

Many observe the traditional bonfire rites, to whatever extent this is feasible where they live, including the dousing of the household hearth flame and relighting it from the communal fire.

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 consumers in developed countries are outraged to think that the products such as clothes of household goods they use might be the efforts of child labour from developing countries. Strong international treaties are taking place to legalize child labour.

Many barons perceived the king's household as what Ralph Turner has characterised as a " narrow clique enjoying royal favour at barons ' expense " staffed by men of lesser status.

Many of John's military household joined the rebels, particularly amongst those that John had appointed to administrative roles across England ; their local links and loyalties outweighed their personal loyalty to John.

Many families dependent on coca farming have been forced to send their children to work as eradication of crops has decreased their household income.

Many household appliances, such as microwave ovens, washing machines and dishwashers, include embedded systems to provide flexibility, efficiency and features.

Many serving men ( servientes or sergeants ) would be promoted to positions of importance within the king's or lord's household.

Many of the Pavilion's original fixtures and fittings were removed on the order of the royal household at the time of the sale, most ending up either in Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle.

Many historians have identified the early modern period as the epoch in which individuals began to think of themselves as belonging to a national polity — a notable break from medieval modes of self-identification, which had been largely based upon religion ( belonging to a universal Christendom ), language, or feudal allegiance ( belonging to the manor or extended household of a particular magnate or lord ).

Many species are poisonous if eaten and may cause serious complications, such as renal failure, in household pets, especially cats.

Many household tasks were automated by the development of specialized appliances.

Many of Cragg's early works are made from found materials, discarded construction materials, and disposed household materials.

Many patent medicines, cosmetics, and household cleaning supplies have been also aimed at hoodoo practitioners and have found dual usage as conventional and spiritual remedies ; examples include Four Thieves Vinegar, Florida Water, and Red Devil Lye.

Many people would only watch the TV for the duration of the meal's cooking time, or whilst in the kitchen, but would not use the microwave as the household TV.

Many household water filters and fish tanks use activated carbon filters to further purify the water.

Kobolds also play an important role in the novel House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones, in which they are depicted as small, blue, humanoid creatures that perform household chores.

Many of the genre scenes he portrayed, as in The Feast of Saint Nicholas, are lively to the point of chaos and lustfulness, even so much that a Jan Steen household, meaning a messy scene, became a Dutch proverb ( een huishouden van Jan Steen ).

Many programs also allow the convict to leave the residence during regular, pre-approved times in order to carry out general household errands such as food shopping and laundry.

Many members of the household staff have reported seeing the Lady in Green.

Many people can do common household repairs.

Many of his characters have come to be seen as archetypes of Finnish men, household names to whom reference can be made without explanation.

Many Engel Curves feature saturation properties in that their slope tends to diminish at high income levels, which suggests that there exists an absolute limit on how much expenditure on a good will rise as household income increases This saturation property has been linked to slowdowns in the growth of demand for some sectors in the economy, causing major changes in an economy's sectoral composition to take place.

Many amateurs like to specialise in observing particular objects, types of objects, or types of events which interest them.

Many philosophers say that properties and relations have an abstract existence, and that physical objects have a concrete existence.

Many aspects of the syntax of Greek have remained constant: verbs agree with their subject only, the use of the surviving cases is largely intact ( nominative for subjects and predicates, accusative for objects of most verbs and many prepositions, genitive for possessors ), articles precede nouns, adpositions are largely prepositional, relative clauses follow the noun they modify, relative pronouns are clause-initial.

Many objects in mathematics have natural group actions defined on them.

Many other mathematical objects have their origin in the hyperbola, such as hyperbolic paraboloids ( saddle surfaces ), hyperboloids (" wastebaskets "), hyperbolic geometry ( Lobachevsky's celebrated non-Euclidean geometry ), hyperbolic functions ( sinh, cosh, tanh, etc.

Pictures such as Small Merzpicture With Many Parts 1945-6 used objects found on a beach, including pebbles and smooth shards of porcelain.

Many more microprocessors are part of embedded systems, providing digital control of a myriad of objects from appliances to automobiles to cellular phones and industrial process control.

Many notable objects are too faint to be seen with the naked eye.

Many impressive objects visible only from the southern hemisphere, such as the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, are not listed.

Many of these definitions are not equivalent, resulting in different sets of objects being called polytopes.

Many abstractions, including eternal objects, are potential ingredients of processes.

Many other categories ( such as the category of groups, with group homomorphisms as arrows ) add structure to the objects of the category of sets and / or restrict the arrows to functions of a particular kind.

Many bronze objects, such as swords, spearheads, arrows, axes, palstaves, knives, daggers, rapiers, armour, decorative equipment ( in particular for horses ) and fragments of sheet bronze, are entrusted to St Edmundsbury heritage service, housed at West Stow just outside Bury St Edmunds.

Many Smalltalk dialects implement additional syntaxes for other objects, but the ones above are the essentials supported by all.

Many objects in the real world, such as coastlines, are statistically self-similar: parts of them show the same statistical properties at many scales.

Many objects, beliefs and customs can be traditional.

Many wooden objects were found at L ' Anse Aux Meadows, and radiocarbon dating confirms the site's occupation as being confined to a short period around 1000 CE.

Many objects have been used for centuries, such as cowry shells, precious metals and gems.

; Machine independent vs machine dependent: Many optimizations that operate on abstract programming concepts ( loops, objects, structures ) are independent of the machine targeted by the compiler, but many of the most effective optimizations are those that best exploit special features of the target platform.

Many sounds we hear, such as when hard objects of metal, glass, or wood are struck, are caused by brief resonant vibrations in the object.

Many working mathematicians have been mathematical realists ; they see themselves as discoverers of naturally occurring objects.

Many astronomical objects are not only observable in visible light but also emit radiation at radio wavelengths.

Many objects recovered from wrecks of antiquity are now in the Aeolian Museum at Lipari.