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 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 shrines exist only in one locality, while others are at the head of a network of that extends to all the country.

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 painters have less interest in the experience of the moment, with its attendant urgencies and ambiguities, than in looking beyond the flux of particular impressions to a higher, more serene level of truth.

Some of the earlier episodes have touches of the supernatural, as suited to the legendary background.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

Some of these thoughts -- not all of them -- have taken organized form in later years.

He said, `` Some have criticized your book as being neither literary criticism nor history.

Some have felt that Washington Irving comes out rather slimly, but let them look at the title of the book ''.

Some of us have imagination and sensibility too.

Some of former President Truman's off-the-cuff discourses have been in that vein.

Some of the stumps are as much as three feet long, but most of them have been flattened by the pressure of the overlying sediments.

Some memorable plays have been drawn from books, notably Life With Father and Diary Of Anne Frank.

Some families already have held weekend rehearsals in their home shelters to learn the problems and to determine for themselves what supplies they would need.

Some special health requirements might have to be met.

Some weapons systems have become obsolescent while still in production, and some while still under development.

Some offices have very broad responsibilities, touching on almost all aspects of a university's instructional program.

Some manufacturers have had the foresight to provide a socket for the chuck key ; ;

Some recreation features, such as scenic values and water interest, also have greater overall value than other interests.

-- Some areas may already have been improved and contain buildings, roads, utilities, cleared land, etcetera which may raise the cost of the site.

Some distribution costs are kept up by competitive pressure, some by the fact that the customers have come to expect certain niceties and flourishes.

Some men have no talent for or interest in management ; ;

Some agents have been shown to be much more toxic or infectious to experimental animals when exposed to aerosols of optimum particle size than by the natural portal.

Some of those who question the value of BW have assumed that the only potential would be in the establishment of epidemics.

Some members of the bee family have become idlers, social parasites that live at the expense of their hardworking relatives.

Some investigators have found a parallelism between remissions and return of the sympathetic reactivity of the hypothalamus to the normal level as indicated by the Mecholyl test and, conversely, between clinical impairment and increasing deviation of this test from the norm.

Some of the oldest, most persistent, and most cohesive forms of social groupings have grown out of religion.