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 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 years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

Some of the Hetman's `` ideas '' were dream-ridden, vaguely imparted, and at times preposterous.

Some other good bills were lost in the shuffle and await future action.

Some time ago, however, Mr. Khrushchev decided that when bigger bombs were made, the Soviet Union would make them.

Some would say that they were not permitted to run their businesses only for profit ; ;

Some musicians were enthusiastic, some skeptical.

Some 80 reaction tubes from 13 manifold fillings were illuminated in the temperature range from 40 to 85-degrees in a further endeavor to determine the cause of the irreproducibility and to obtain information on the activation energy and the effect of light intensity.

Some of these were obviously filling from interlobular branches of the bronchial arteries while others were filling from direct hilar branches following along the pleural surface.

Some of the features of the top portions of Figure 1 and Figure 2 were mentioned in discussing Table 1.

Some of the sinusoids contained large numbers of nucleated red cells, and cells of the granulocytic series were found in small numbers.

Some of the small vessels were filled with fibrin thrombi, and there was extensive interstitial hemorrhage.

Some of them were then covered with a drop of Af in a moist chamber at 24-degrees for 30 - 40 minutes.

Some predictions had been made concerning factors R, N, I and Co on these inventories which appeared to be directly related to control and security aspects of personality functioning which were hypothesized as being of importance in differential Kohnstamm reactivity.

Some of the earliest recordings, made in the 1940's demonstrated that psychiatrists reacted immediately to anger and anxiety in the sound track, whereas written records of the same interview offered far fewer cues to therapy which -- if they were at all discernible in print -- were picked up only by the most skilled and sensitive experts.

Some of their figures of speech were colorful and expressive.

Some of the letters were pungently expressive.

Some of the choicest remarks made by soldiers in their letters were in disparagement of unpopular officers.

`` Some of the defendants strongly indicated they knew they were receiving stolen property.

Some of my fellow workers were grooming me for an office in the Socialist Party.

Some 30 spectators remained in the court during the day and were on hand to hear the verdict read.

Some schools were technical -- the Belgians needed carpenters and mechanics to help exploit the land, and trained many.

Some were clearly of Christian origin, among them the Great Awakening and other revivals which helped to make Christian liberty, Christian equality, and Christian fraternity the passion of the land.

Some of the in-person performers were Jack Teagarden, Gene Krupa, Bud Freeman, Pee Wee Russell, Johnny St. Cyr, Joe Sullivan, Red Allen, Lil Armstrong, Blossom Seeley.