Some ancient cultures used lime-based cement for the plaster to protect against rain damage.

Some cultures regard the autumnal equinox as " mid-autumn ", others with a longer lag treat it as the start of autumn.

Some believe that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, cultures of smallpox have become available in other countries.

Some cultures have discerned shapes in these patches and have given names to these " dark cloud constellations.

Some scholars have argued that the calm, orderly, monotheistic creation story in Genesis 1 can be interpreted as a reaction against the creation myths of other Near Eastern cultures.

Some cultures and people do not consume meat or animal food products for cultural, dietary, health, ethical, or ideological reasons.

Some locally developed transitional cultures ( Szletian in Central Europe and Châtelperronian in the Southwest ) use

Some Western cultures have often given priority to civil and political rights, sometimes at the expense of economic and social rights such as the right to work, to education, health and housing.

Some cultures believed honey had many practical health uses.

Some people have drawn analogies between certain aspects of hypnotism and areas such as crowd psychology, religious hysteria, and ritual trances in preliterate tribal cultures.

Some cultures include relatives by marriage in incest prohibitions ; these relationships are called affinity rather than consanguinity.

Some cultures also employ matrilineal succession only passing property along the female line.

Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish, Native American ( Indian ) and African cultures that they are considered to be somewhat exceptional in the U. S. Before the American influx and statehood at the beginning of the 19th century, the territory of current Louisiana State had been a Spanish and French colony.

Some martial arts in various cultures can be performed in dance-like settings for various reasons, such as for evoking ferocity in preparation for battle or showing off skill in a more stylized manner.

Some cultures, historically or currently, continue to use breast milk to feed their children until they are seven years old.

Masurians showed considerable support for the Polish uprising in 1831, and maintained many contacts with Russian-held areas of Poland beyond the border of Prussia, the areas being connected by common culture and language ; before the uprising people visited each other's country fairs and much trade took placw, with smuggling also widespread Some early writers about Masurians-like Max Toeppen-postulated them as mediators between German and Slav cultures.

* Some authors use the term " Epipaleolithic " for those cultures that are late developments of hunter-gatherer traditions but not in transition toward agriculture, reserving the term " Mesolithic " for those cultures, like the Natufian culture, that are transitional between hunter-gatherer and agricultural practices.

Some cultures regarded the mediator as a sacred figure, worthy of particular respect ; and the role partly overlapped with that of traditional wise men or tribal chief.

Some include the classical Mesoamerican cultures, still in use today in the modern indigenous languages of their descendants, namely the Nahuatl and Mayan languages ( see Maya numerals ).

Some poetry types are specific to particular cultures and genres and respond to characteristics of the language in which the poet writes.

Some rhyming schemes have become associated with a specific language, culture or period, while other rhyming schemes have achieved use across languages, cultures or time periods.

Some individuals in all cultures have significantly higher than normal pain perception and tolerance thresholds.

Some researchers such as John A Lucy, Barbara Saunders and Stephen C Levinson have argued that Berlin and Kay's study does not in fact show that linguistic relativity in color naming is impossible, because of a number of basic unsupported assumptions in their study ( such as whether all cultures in fact have a category of " color " that can be unproblematically defined and equated with the one found in Indo-European languages ) and because of problems with their data stemming from those basic assumptions.

Some cells in multicellular animals may be amoeboid, for instance human white blood cells, which consume pathogens.

Some Jains do not consume plant parts that grow underground such as roots and bulbs, because tiny animals may be killed when the plants are pulled up.

Some people also consume the areca nut in its raw, fresh form with or without the betel leaves.

Some populations do retain the enzyme and can consume milk in adulthood without trouble.

Some must consume other fish that are the same size or larger than them and they need adaptations to help digest them efficiently.

Some functional languages are known as ' lazy functional languages ' because of their tendency to delay computations in form of allocated thunks, leading to significant use of garbage collection and can consume much more memory as a result.

Some small mammals also consume sassafras fruits.

Among other practices, fasting, dieting, and vegetarianism are all techniques employed by individuals and encouraged by societies to increase longevity and health Some religions promote vegetarianism, considering it wrong to consume animals.

Some species of predators differentiate these parts and consume only the most palatable ones.

Some people do not want to use subsidies because they want the poor to consume the subsidized good or service in a specific way or because subsidizing goods ( such as health care ) can lead to an over consumption of the good.

Some restrict access to local residents and apply other admission criteria, such as only allowing injection drug users, but generally in Europe they don't exclude addicts who consume by other means.

Some grassland Atta species colonies consume as much vegetation per hectare as domestic cattle.

Some hydrothermal vent organisms do consume this " rain ," but with only such a system, life forms would be very sparse.

Some retail bakeries are also cafés, serving coffee and tea to customers who wish to consume the baked goods on the premises.

Some birds like antbirds and flickers not only ant, but also consume the ants as an important part of their diet.

Some examples of tool use include dolphins using sponges to feed on fish that bury themselves in the sediment, New Caledonian crows that use sticks to get larvae out of trees, and chimpanzees that similarly use sticks to capture and consume termites.

Some night-blooming cereus plants produce fruits which are large enough for people to consume.

Some domestic animals will avoid consuming the plant if other forage is present, but less discriminating animals, such as pigs, will consume the plants and then sicken and die.

Some of these tasks are: killing a chicken so that the Macumbera can drink its blood, buying large amounts of candy and leaving it on the side of the road for the spirits to consume — there are many others.

Some recommend that, during or after prolonged antibiotic use, one should consume probiotics and eat reasonably to replace destroyed gut flora.

Some larger species can consume fruits and insects and are probably omnivorous.

Some of these outrageous ideas include the possibility to sell one's vote or that the poor should consume recycled human waste.

Some dolphins have been noticed playing with dead salmon, but it is still unclear whether they consume them.