Some pilgrims bathe at sacred shrines, others go on Hajj to Mecca.

Some shrines may have festivals that attract hundreds of thousands, especially in the New Year season.

Some families build altars or small shrines in their homes ; these usually have the Christian cross, statues or pictures of the Blessed Virgin Mary, pictures of deceased relatives and other persons, scores of candles and an ofrenda.

Some of the largest shrines are due to reported Marian apparitions to young and simple people on remote hilltops that had hardly been heard of prior to the reported apparition.

Some major shrines considered most significant for their apparitions and miracles are listed in this section:

Some are based around temples or shrines, others hanabi ( Fireworks ), and still others around contests where the participants sport loin cloths ( see: Hadaka Matsuri ).

Some Protestant-influenced changes under Henry included a limited iconoclasm, the abolition of pilgrimages, and pilgrimage shrines, chantries, and the extinction of many saints ' days.

Some are in museums, but most are in churches or shrines and are venerated by devotees.

Some hymns narrate that she likes blood and as such, is offered blood sacrifices at some shrines.

Some huge shrines, such as the one at Ellora were not constructed by using blocks but carved out of solid rock.

Some of these pillars survive reused in mosques, but all temples, shrines, and cult places with their wooden effigies and multitudes of ancestor figures were torched.

Some of the most common Punjabi dhol rhythms are bhangra ( originating with the old, community bhangra dance ), dhamaal ( associated with many cultural functions, including worship at Sufi shrines ), and kaharva, a dance and song rhythm.

Some people travel to shrines that may be more significant than those in their own area, and this inevitably leads people to Ise Grand Shrine, particularly the Inner Shrine.

Some of the village temples, chortens and smaller religious shrines are predated to 1880, particularly all the large chortens.

Some of these monastery caves have shrines including carvings of Gautama Buddha, bodhisattvas and saints.

Some of the prominent Sikh shrines established by the Sikh Gurus are:

Some huge shrines, such as the one at Ellora were not actually constructed using blocks, but instead carved out of solid rock, making them perhaps the largest and most intricate sculptures in the world.

Some of the earliest ( eighth century BC ) hero ( and heroine ) cults well attested by archaeological evidence in mainland Greece include shrines in Laconia to Helen and Menelaus ( the Menelaion at Therapne near Sparta ) and one to Agamemnon together with Cassandra at Mycenae, or Alexandra at Amyklai, perhaps a shrine to Odysseus in Polis Bay, Ithaca.

Some Catholics believe that water from specific shrines such as the Lourdes Spring are means by which God chooses to bring healing.

Some shrines have the custom of dipping the mikoshi in the water of a nearby lake, river or ocean ( this practice is called o-hamaori ).

Some feminists have argued that examples of breast fetishism have been found going back to the neolithic era, with the goddess shrines of Catal Huyuk ( in modern Turkey ).

Some time in their evolution, the word meaning " palace " came into use, indicating that shrines had by then become the imposing structures of today.

Some shrines were established to worship living people or figures from myths and legends.

Some of the depictions of the footprints may signify events in the life of the Buddha, but others may have been depictions of people worshipping at footprint shrines.

Some sources state that At < sub > 2 </ sub > does not exist, or at least has never been observed, while other sources assert or imply its existence.

Some general commonalities exist however, as outlined below:

Some scientific anti-realists argue further, however, and deny that unobservables exist even as non-truth conditioned instruments.

Some other or private operators exist, as Scarlet ( Belgacom ) and BASE ( KPN ).

Some linguists, such as John DeFrancis and J. Marshall Unger have argued that genuine ideographic writing systems with the same capacities as natural languages do not exist.

Some cultural features and customs of Hinduism continue to exist within the current society.

Some scientists argue that megafauna cryptids are unlikely to exist undetected in great enough numbers to maintain a breeding population, and are unlikely to be able to survive in their reported habitats due to issues of climate and food supply.

( Some exceptions exist ; for example, deoxyribose, a component of DNA, has the empirical formula C < sub > 5 </ sub > H < sub > 10 </ sub > O < sub > 4 </ sub >.

Some of the higher raw moments do exist and have a value of infinity, for example the raw second moment:

Some ( but usually not as many ) opportunities to caddy exist during the week, as well.

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.

Some exist as specialized DBMS products, and some have their functionality types incorporated in existing general-purpose DBMSs.

Some, such as Lord Herbert of Cherbury and William Wollaston, held that souls exist, survive death, and in the afterlife are rewarded or punished by God for their behavior in life.

Some of the most notable feminist science fiction works have illustrated these themes using utopias to explore a society in which gender differences or gender power imbalances do not exist, or dystopias to explore worlds in which gender inequalities are intensified, thus asserting a need for feminist work to continue.

Some estimates imply that practically all the matter, when measured by numbers of particles, in the visible universe ( not including dark matter ) is in the form of neutrinos, and that roughly elementary particles of matter exist in the visible universe, mostly neutrinos.

Some estimates imply that roughly elementary particles exist in the visible universe ( not including dark matter ), mostly photons, gravitons, and other massless force carriers.

Some websites and tools exist which provide a phonetic guide for Japanese web pages ( in hiragana, romaji or kiriji ); these are popular with both Japanese children and foreign Japanese learners.

Some means of determining the issue at stake must exist.

Some species of Hydra exist in a mutual relationship with various types of unicellular algae.

Some religions uphold the belief that other forms of afterlife exist in addition to heaven and hell, such as purgatory, though many hells, such as Naraka, serve as purgatories themselves.

Some private rural operators exist, such as Halpenny's in Blackrock, County Louth, which was the first private bus operator to run a public service in Ireland, Bus Feda ( Feda O ' Donnell Coaches ), which operates twice daily routes from Ranafast, County Donegal to Galway and back, and Lough Swilly Bus Company.

Some forms rather more familiar to Modern Japanese speakers begin to appear – the continuative ending-te begins to reduce onto the verb ( e. g. yonde for earlier yomite ), the-k-in the final syllable of adjectives drops out ( shiroi for earlier shiroki ); and some forms exist where modern standard Japanese has retained the earlier form ( e. g. hayaku > hayau > hayɔɔ, where modern Japanese just has hayaku, though the alternative form is preserved in the standard greeting o-hayō gozaimasu " good morning "; this ending is also seen in o-medetō " congratulations ", from medetaku ).

Some naval raids and attempts to retake territory were made over the next ten years, but with the loss of the island of Arwad in 1302 / 1303, the Kingdom of Jerusalem ceased to exist on the mainland.

Some historians argue that it had ceased to exist by 1791 ; others that it was still operating as late as 1813.

Some clues may also be found in other letterboxes or on the Internet, but this is more commonly for letterboxes in places other than Dartmoor, where no " 100 Club " or catalogue exist.