The Orthodoxies celebrate it as the day of John the Baptist, when believers bathe in rivers and lakes.
Everyday thousands of people bathe in the river with a fervent belief that the murky waters will wash away their sins.
"I've got two grandkids I had to bathe in the sink in there!"
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Nearby children play and bathe in the sun as mothers wash household dishes and clothes in the Senegal River.
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Afterward you bathe in the icy water to wash away one's sins.
One morning, after wearing the same clothes for two days, I ventured to bathe in a slow-moving stream a few hundred meters from Thmar Baing.
More than just a static show of lights, this collection throws our perception of light and space, encouraging the audience to touch, feel, stand and bathe in it.
This rule is not always respected, but when it is, children and women often bathe in the water and even carry it back to their homes for use.
One of the most important dates in the Hindu religious calendar, the festival attracts millions of participants from India and around the world, who bathe in the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna and mythical Saraswati Rivers to cleanse their sins.
Pulling out of the station past the back yards of a multitude of Cairene families, our children watch in wonder as local kids play football beside the tracks, bathe in muddy rivulets, fly kites from the roofs of their homes and wave at the passing train.
It attracts an eclectic mix of Hindu holy men, Indian movie stars, pilgrims and curious tourists who come to bathe in the Ganges, India's holiest river, where drops of the nectar of immortality are believed to have been spilled from a pitcher by the gods at creation.
Surprisingly, the luxury-goods business is having a strong year, largely thanks to demand in China, the Gulf and other emerging economies. (Indeed, things have been so good that perfume-makers face a new product-liability problem in Russia, where oligarchs' girlfriends buy dozens of bottles in order to bathe in a fragrance, unaware that this can be deadly.) Japan, which experienced similar excesses in the 1980s, still accounts for around a quarter of global luxury-goods sales.
Situated on the banks of the Ganges River, Varanasi (formerly Benares) is visited by millions of Hindu pilgrims each year, most coming to cremate a deceased loved one and bathe themselves in the river's horrifically polluted but extremely holy waters.
The plan is apparently so radical that even the Romney campaign, while embracing the messenger, is distancing itself from the message (it appears that Romney wants to bathe himself in the aura of fresh thinking without actually offering any fresh thoughts).
Millions of people bathe at Sangam in what is billed as the world's biggest religious gathering.
Energy drinks, carbonated beverages, teas, and citric fruit juices all bathe the teeth in harmful acids.
Dentists say sipping fluorescent-colored sports drinks, carbonated beverages and citric fruit juices bathe the teeth in harmful acids.
Certain resource rich Gulf States can, with the current high price of oil, afford to bathe the youth in financial largesse.
The nanny was on the other line complaining that Luna wouldn't bathe at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
From his living room each morning he watches the sunrise bathe Turtle Island, 10 kilometers away in the Pacific Ocean.
The micro-USB port, also found along the left edge, is uncovered, but Motorola had the foresight to bathe both the surface and internal circuitry in a water-resistant coating, which should stand up to the wet weather conditions many Europeans will face heading into winter.
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It adds funding to programs that provide transportation help, adult day care, and in-home services including aides to help bathe and cook.
Thirty-five Harvard colleagues and I are at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, a mass pilgrimage in which tens of millions of Hindus gather to bathe at the confluence of the sacred Ganga (Ganges) River, the Yamuna River, and the mythical underground Saraswathi.
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But every year, a lucky few get the chance to feed, bathe and exercise the endangered animals at the Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, China.
In summary, you may want to try to figure out the reason for your mother-in-law's bath refusal and then address the underlying cause to encourage her to bathe more often.
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