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.

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 extremists went so far as to urge our using it first.

Some signs that are created with a 1 handshape can also be made using an L or a 5 handshape ( open handshape ).

Some servers attempt to improve on this using statistical techniques that try to combine only words that appear together often.

Some clever program counter catches meant that the ordinary system ROMs and any software using the OS calls could function without significant modification, making substantially more memory available for BASIC, View, Viewsheet and almost every other business application.

Some have also begun using non-wood materials, such as plastic or graphite.

Some people with albinism do well using bifocals ( with a strong reading lens ), prescription reading glasses, and / or hand-held devices such as magnifiers or monoculars.

Some birds, especially corvids and parrots, are among the most intelligent animal species ; a number of bird species have been observed manufacturing and using tools, and many social species exhibit cultural transmission of knowledge across generations.

Some people even believe that this was the biblical event of Noah's flood, but despite their historical significance, the first spectacular images of these submarine channels were obtained in 1999 ( Di Iorio, et al., 1999 ) in the frame of a NATO SACLANT Undersea Research project using jointly the NATO RV Alliance, and the Turkish Navy survey ship Çubuklu.

Some cafés use plastic dome-shaped lids, while other bubble tea bars serve it using a machine to seal the top of the cup with plastic cellophane.

Some systems used both codes and ciphers in one system, using superencipherment to increase the security.

Some have stated that the secret of concrete was lost for 13 centuries until 1756, when the British engineer John Smeaton pioneered the use of hydraulic lime in concrete, using pebbles and powdered brick as aggregate.

Some local leaders even started using royal titles for themselves.

Some of the largest-scale chemicals are produced via catalytic oxidation, often using oxygen.

Some computers were built using " writable microcode " — rather than storing the microcode in ROM or hard-wired logic, the microcode was stored in a RAM called a writable control store or WCS.

Some skiers stay out for extended periods using tents and equipment similar to bushwalkers / hikers, whereas others take relatively short trips from ski resorts on maintained trails.

Some languages, like Ada, Modula-3, and C ++/ CLI allow both garbage collection and manual memory management to co-exist in the same application by using separate heaps for collected and manually managed objects ; others, like D, are garbage collected but allow the user to manually delete objects and also entirely disable garbage collection when speed is required.

Some of the earliest animation done using a digital computer was done at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the first half of the 1960s by Edward E. Zajac, Frank W. Sinden, Kenneth C. Knowlton, and A. Michael Noll.

Some software may be bypassed successfully by using alternative protocols such as FTP or telnet or HTTPS, conducting searches in a different language, using a proxy server or a circumventor such as Psiphon.

Some of the more poorly-designed programs can be shut down by killing their processes: for example, in Microsoft Windows through the Windows Task Manager, or in Mac OS X using Force Quit or Activity Monitor.

Some Protestant churches avoid using the term completely, to the extent among many Lutherans of reciting the Creed with the word " Christian " in place of " catholic ".

Some jazz drummers avoid using thick drum heads, preferring single ply drum heads or drum heads with no muffling.

Some video formats, such as DV, compress each frame independently using intraframe compression.

Some cartographers have attempted to illustrate the sheer scale of deforestation by country using a cartogram.

Some digital synthesizers now exist in the form of " softsynth " software that synthesizes sound using conventional PC hardware, though they require careful programming and a fast CPU to get the same latency response as their dedicated equivalents.