Traditionally the Christmas trees are decorated with hand blown glass baubles, garlands, and many homemade ornaments including shiny red apples, walnuts, wrapped chocolate shapes, and candles.

Traditionally people gently sprinkled water on one another as a sign of respect, but as the new year falls during the hottest month in Southeast Asia, many people end up dousing strangers and passersby in vehicles in boisterous celebration.

Traditionally, many have believed that the Prakrits are older than Sanskrit, and that it was from the Prakrits that Sanskrit was refined.

Traditionally, many U. S. blends are made of American Burley with sweeteners and flavorings added to create an " aromatic " flavor, whereas " English " blends are based on natural Virginia tobaccos enhanced with Oriental and other natural tobaccos.

Traditionally populated by gypsies, now many residents are from North and West Africa, China, and many South American countries.

Traditionally, guests who visit a Malay house are presented with a tray of areca nuts and betel leaves, in much the same way as drinks are offered to guests in many cultures around the world.

Traditionally, the Reform movement held that Jews were obliged to obey the ethical but not the ritual commandments of Scripture, although today many Reform Jews have adopted many traditional ritual practices.

Traditionally, many New Zealand intermediate and high schools, and state integrated and private primary schools, have followed the British system of school uniforms, although it is common in state schools for the boy's uniform to have a jersey and grey short trousers rather than a blazer with tie and pants ( long trousers ).

Traditionally used for rope and twine, sisal has many uses, including paper, cloth, wall coverings and carpets.

Traditionally, all the raptors were grouped into 4 families in the single order Falconiformes, but many thought this group to be paraphyletic and not to share a common ancestor to the exclusion of all other birds.

Traditionally, science fiction fanzines were ( and many still are ) available for " the usual ," meaning that a sample issue will be mailed on request ; to receive further issues, a reader sends a " letter of comment " ( LoC ) about the fanzine to the editor.

Traditionally, many of the media outlets give out Best of E3 awards in various categories.

Traditionally, pitmatic, together with some rural Northumbrian communities including Rothbury, used a guttural R. This is now less frequently heard ; since the closure of the area's deep mines, many younger people speak in local ways that do not usually include this characteristic.

Traditionally, the academic program at the Air Force Academy ( as with military academies in general ) has focused heavily on science and engineering, with the idea that many graduates would be expected to manage complex air, space and information technology systems.

Traditionally, many Englishmen felt the attraction of the Mediterranean, which was associated with the practice of the Grand Tour, and thus had to cross Europe and the Alps to reach it.

Traditionally he is a character in many children's stories, invoked to lull children to sleep.

Traditionally participants also hold candles but in recent years this practice has been dropped, and many students have now adopted the habit of linking arms and twirling around at each corner of the quad.

Traditionally this transition was believed to have been driven by the more crude nature of wooden fortifications, the limited life of timber in wooden castles and its vulnerability to fire ; recent archaeological studies have however shown that many wooden castles were as robust and as complex as their stone equivalents.

Traditionally, the slice of cheese is placed on top of the meat patty, but the burger can include many variations in structure, ingredients and composition.

Traditionally, the rigid fan ( also called fixed fan ) was the most popular form in China, although the folding fan came into popularity during the Ming Dynasty between the years of 1368 and 1644, and there are many beautiful examples of these folding fans remain.

Traditionally, Eastern churches celebrated Epiphany ( or Theophany ) in conjunction with Christ's baptism by John the Baptist and celebrated it on January 19 ; however, many have begun to adopt the Western custom of celebrating it on January 6, the twelfth day of Christmas.

Traditionally in Ireland, and in many places throughout the world, the shamrock is worn on the lapel on St. Patrick's Day.

Traditionally, religions and magical systems around the world have freely and copiously borrowed and appropriated practices and beliefs from different regions and cultures.

Traditionally, pyres are used for the cremation of the deceased in the Hindu and Sikh religions, a practice which dates back several thousands of years.

Traditionally, rates of pay for retired military personnel have been proportionate to current rates of pay for active personnel.

Traditionally groups within the family have been delimited largely based on fruit morphology, and the results from this have not been congruent with the more recent molecular phylogenetic analyses.

Traditionally, steel-string guitars have been made of a combination of various " tonewoods ", or woods that have pleasing resonant qualities when used in instrument-making.

* Rifled Traditionally, artillery projectiles have been spin-stabilised, meaning that they spin in flight so that gyroscopic forces prevent them from tumbling.

Traditionally, statistics such as batting average ( the number of hits divided by the number of at bats ) and earned run average ( the average number of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings ) have dominated attention in the statistical world of baseball.

Traditionally, the best leadoff hitters in the game have high on-base percentages.

Traditionally, these trees have been built using morphological methods, such as appearance, embryology, etc.

Traditionally, composting was to pile organic materials until the next planting season, at which time the materials would have decayed enough to be ready for use in the soil.

Traditionally though, most celibate persons have been religious and monastics ( monks resp.

Traditionally, the buy bet commission is paid no matter what, but in recent years a number of casinos have changed their policy to charge the commission only when the buy bet wins.

Traditionally most computer music programs have tended toward the old write / compile / run model which evolved when computers were much less powerful.

Traditionally these have been interpreted as examples of government hostility toward commerce, but more recent studies, which use source material such as magistrate diaries and genealogical records, suggest that merchants in fact had a powerful impact on government policies and that the division between the world of the merchant and the world of the official was far more porous than traditionally believed.

Traditionally, the Dalai Lama is thought of as the latest reincarnation of a series of spiritual leaders who have chosen to be reborn in order to enlighten others.

Traditionally these frameworks have been out of the scope of common DBMSs, but utilization of them has become common-place, and often they are provided as add-ons to DBMSs.

Traditionally, the draw has been conducted by means of balls drawn from a purple velvet bag, however in recent years in order to comply with FIFA regulations the balls have been drawn from a clear perspex container.

Traditionally, five subfamilies have been distinguished within family Felidae based on phenotypical features: the Felinae, the Pantherinae, the Acinonychinae ( Cheetahs ), the extinct Machairodontinae, and the extinct Proailurinae.

Traditionally, Honduran economic hopes have been pinned on land and agricultural commodities.

Traditionally, most Honduran workers have not been covered by social security, welfare, or minimum wages.

Traditionally, editors of Shakespeare's plays have divided them into five acts.

Traditionally, historians of science have defined science sufficiently broadly to include those inquiries.

Traditionally, this was interpreted as a method of putting the subject into a " hypnotic trance "; however, subsequent " nonstate " theorists have viewed it differently, as a means of heightening client expectation, defining their role, focusing attention, etc.

Traditionally, homosexuals have been considered to have chosen to engage in homosexual actions in order to spite God ( le-hach ' is ) or to be perverse.