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 consume blood, sometimes in the form of blood sausage, as a thickener for sauces, or in a cured, salted form for times of food scarcity, and others use blood in stews such as jugged hare.

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.

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 of the churches originating during this period are historically connected to early-19th century camp meetings in the Midwest and Upstate New York.

Some television shows such as Deadliest Warrior have incorrectly portrayed butted mail as having been used historically in Europe or the Middle East ( in reality, Japanese mail ( kusari ) is one of the few historically correct examples of mail being constructed with such butted links ).

Some historically distinctive Hebrew phonemes have merged in modern Hebrew, such as historically distinctive ( now all pronounced ), written respectively by the letters Tav ( ת ּ), ( ת ) and ( ט ).

Some hellbender populations — namely a few in Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee — have historically been noted to be quite abundant, but several anthropogenic maladies have converged on the species such that it has seen serious population decline throughout its range.

Some countries, however, historically did have equivalent honorifics for knights, such as Cavaliere in Italy ( e. g. Cavaliere Benito Mussolini ), and Ritter in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire ( e. g. Georg Ritter von Trapp ).

Some of these valleys historically were more accessible from Tibet than Nepal and are populated by people with Tibetan affinities called Bhotiya or Bhutia including the famous Sherpas in Kumbu valley near Mount Everest.

Some Reconstructionists reject the term " neopagan " because they wish to set their historically oriented approach apart from generic " neopagan " eclecticism.

Some modern orchestras also do without conductors, particularly smaller orchestras and those specializing in historically accurate ( so-called " period ") performances of baroque and earlier music.

In opposition to French Catholic bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet he published Some Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of Piedmont ( 1690 ), and Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of the Albigenses ( 1692 ), with the idea of showing that the Albigensians were not Manichaeans, but historically identical with the Waldenses.

Some of the splits have been due to doctrinal controversy, while some have been caused by disagreement concerning the degree to which those ordained to church office should be required to agree with the Westminster Confession of Faith, which historically serves as an important confessional document-second only to the Bible, yet directing particularities in the standardization and translation of the Bible-in Presbyterian churches.

Some religious organizations and practitioners believe that some or all of their traditional stories are not only sacred and " true ", but also historically accurate and divinely revealed, and that calling such stories " myths " disrespects their special status.

Some of the healers and diviners historically accused of witchcraft have considered themselves mediators between the mundane and spiritual worlds, roughly equivalent to shamans.

Some Native American tribes and bands make bowls, cooking slabs, and other objects from soapstone ; historically, this was particularly common during the Late Archaic archaeological period.

Some tournaments ( historically College Bowl ) have used single-elimination or double-elimination, but this reduces the number of matches each team can play, and has been criticized on the college-circuit.

Some have hypothesized that Canadian raising may be related historically to a similar phenomenon that exists in Scots and Scottish English.

Some nation states which have historically had a strong centralized administration have transferred political power to the regions.

Some bonds have been issued with terms of 50 years or more, and historically there have been some issues with no maturity date ( irredeemables ).

Some party officials have historically been subject to controversy for occasionally promoting historical revisionism, specifically related to the Second World War.

Some Messianic communities believe that the rabbinic commentaries such as the Mishnah and the Talmud, while historically informative and useful in understanding tradition, are not normative and may not be followed where they differ from the messianic scriptures.

Some critics oppose the practice of women changing their names upon marriage, on the grounds that it makes women historically invisible: " In our society ' only men have real names ' in that their names are permanent and they have ' accepted the permanency of their names as one of the rights of being male .'...

Some details of the film's account have, however, been criticized as historically inaccurate ( for example, in the movie the regiment is called the South Wales Borderers but the unit was not in fact called that until 2 years after the battle, even though the regiment had been based at Brecon in South Wales since 1873 ).

Some composers notated it in the bass clef, when the lower register was persistently used, and historically several other options were employed.