Many mortuary temples were dedicated to the worship of deceased pharaohs as gods.

Many large Hindu temples in southern India, particularly those built by the 11th century king Rajaraja Chola I, were made of granite.

Many religions popular in ethnic regions of the Soviet Union, including the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Baptists, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism underwent ordeals similar to that which the Orthodox churches in other parts of the country suffered: thousands of monks were persecuted, and hundreds of churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, sacred monuments, monasteries and other religious buildings were razed.

Many Nepalese architectural heritages, such as temples, palaces, including many UNESCO world heritage sites, were built during the rule of the Newar Kings.

Many of these survive today in the repositories of Nichiren temples such as Taiseki-ji ( 大石寺 ) in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture, which has a particularly large collection that is publicly aired once a year in April.

Many ancient religions had sacred sites, temples, oracles and sacred groves to which pilgrimages were made.

Many rich Kushites took to worshipping Egyptian gods and built temples for them.

Many of the temples are in the form of five semicircular rooms connected at the centre.

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

Many of the ancient sculptures in Hindu temples are based on Bharata Natyam dance postures karanas.

Many underground temples were built in the Roman Empire from about the 1st century BC to the 5th century AD.

Many temples and historical treasures were destroyed.

Many temples had inscriptions engraved into them, such as the one at Tell Uqair.

Many temples were built in the surrounding area in memory of those who lost their lives in the dying years of the Song Dynasty, including Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie.

Many famous Jain and Hindu temples have been built as symbolic representations of this mountain.

Many churches were turned into Theophilanthropic temples.

Many of the stones used to build the various temples at Tanis came from the old Ramesside town of Qantir ( ancient Pi-Ramesses / Per-Ramesses ), which caused many former generations of Egyptologists to believe that Tanis was, in fact, Per-Ramesses.

) Many Buddhist temples include one or more Shinto shrines dedicated to their tutelary kami, and in that case a torii marks the shrine's entrance.

Many temples in the Republican era were built as the fulfillment of a vow made by a general in exchange for a victory.

Many temples were repainted with new frescoes on top of their original Pagan era ones, or fitted with new Buddha statutes.

Many Buddhist temples have stupas and historically, the placement of relics in a stupa often became the initial structure around which the whole temple would be based.

Many temples dedicated to Guan Yu, including the Emperor Guan Temple in Xiezhou County, show heavy Taoist influence.

Many other temples and statues are found throughout the country.

Many temples are dedicated to Mazu in Chinatowns across the United States.

Many of us may even be secretly relieved at having a plausible excuse to delegate ancient civic responsibilities to a new bureaucracy of experts.

Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.

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 adults showing at Westminster today are products of this Class.

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

Many a student was able to remain at Spelman, only because of her unobtrusive help.

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 local citizens feared that there would be irregularities at the polls, and Williams got himself a permit to carry a gun and promised an orderly election.

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 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 protists also exist as individual amoeboid cells, or take such a form at some point in their life-cycle.

* Many traditional beliefs in the Philippines still practised to an extent today are animist and spiritist in origin in that there are rituals aimed at pacifying malevolent spirits or are apotropaic in nature.

Many Frenchmen consequently joined Alfonso at Ayerbe.

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 of the higher mountains in the territory's south-west are snow-covered for at least part of the winter.

Many actors train at length in special programs or colleges to develop these skills, and today the vast majority of professional actors have undergone extensive training.

Many of the refugee children being hidden in Chambon attended Cévenol and it was at this school that Grothendieck apparently first became fascinated with mathematics.

Many believe this group of texts comes from the original Book of Acts by looking at the Byzantine text for the whole of the New Testament.

Many stone reliefs were discovered in the royal palaces at Nimrud ( Kalhu ) and Khorsabad ( Dur-Sharrukin ).

Many Coccidiomorpha have an intermediate host as well as a primary host, and the evolution of hosts proceeded in different ways and at different times in these groups.

Many GA-style guitars also have a convex back panel to increase the volume of space in the soundbox without making the soundbox deeper at the edges, which would affect comfort and playability.

Many experts at the time, including Arthur Galston, the biologist who developed and intensively studied TCDD, opposed herbicidal warfare, due to concerns about the side effects to humans and the environment by indiscriminately spraying the chemical over a wide area.

Many studies now indicate that chronic treatment with antipsychotics affects the brain at a structural level, for example increasing the volume of the basal ganglia ( especially the caudate nucleus ), and reducing cortical grey matter volume in different brain areas.

Many amplifiers are ultimately slew rate limited ( typically by the impedance of a drive current having to overcome capacitive effects at some point in the circuit ), which sometimes limits the full power bandwidth to frequencies well below the amplifier's small-signal frequency response.

Many states still prohibit selling alcohol for on and off-premise sales in one form or another on Sundays at some restricted time, under the rationale that people should be in church on Sunday morning, or at least not drinking.