Parishioners could travel to these makeshift villages from far and wide, sleep overnight and go to church the next morning before beginning the long journey home.
Mr Myhrvold's firm is based near Seattle, but flies in scientists from far and wide and maintains a subsidiary in India to tap the torrent of innovation there.
Between the world wars, when the British Empire held sway over the subcontinent, adventurers came from far and wide to map the region's valleys and scale its highest summits.
One woman, who has been coming to the carnival since she was five and was now bringing her teenage daughter, said it was the tradition and atmosphere that brought millions from far and wide.
By recruiting outside advisers from far and wide, Mr Blair has broadened the base of his government, not only in terms of the policies they produce, but also in terms of the reciprocal loyalty he commands.
"We have quite simply been overwhelmed by messages of support and condolences of every type, from far and wide, and I know my mother would be pleased that they have come from all walks of life, " he told reporters.
That ten-month time lag gave the makers of anti-virus software programs time to issue a fix, preventing Chernobyl from spreading as far and wide as last month's Melissa virus - which now looks a harmless prank in comparison.
The Lynx A we witnessed working in person today was a prototype unit, so fit and finish were far from being retail ready, as wide gaps and exposed screws abounded.
In that accident, the lack of a containment vessel surrounding the reactor meant radioactive materials from the accident were spread far and wide.
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Tom Ironside from the British Retail Consortium warned the proposed tax could undermine the special role supermarkets play in attracting consumers from wide and far into town centres.
More and more people now work together not in office blocks running the old 9 to 5, but in their own time and from their own homes and collaborative workspaces, spread far and wide across the globe.
He had two good shooting opportunities in the first half but from the first he shot wide of the far post from 25 yards, and then saw a close-range effort blocked by France keeper Lloris after William Gallas had inexplicably backed away from Salcido's run.
Defoe went agonisingly close on three occasions late on, but Chelsea had chances of their own with James saving well from Belletti and Alex and an attempted chip from Shaun Wright-Phillips drifted wide of the far post.
Surprisingly, the neural stem cells made their way far and wide in the developing embryos, from the nervous system to the liver, lung and intestine.
Network Rail said the failure had affected a wide area from Bristol and Bath to as far as Didcot.
Suarez almost doubled the lead soon after, but after jinking in from the left, his curling effort struck the far post and went wide.
Moments later, Carew glanced a header just wide of the far post from Milner's corner and Villa had a penalty shout rejected when Emiliano Insua appeared to head the ball on to his arm.
From the resulting corner, Carroll headed just wide at the far post before Braga settled and subdued a Liverpool side who quickly ran out of ideas.
Sunderland-bound Cristian Riveros headed wide, while Antolin Alcaraz and Santana both peeled away from their markers with far too much ease but could not quite make the decisive contact.
Hayes continued to torment the visitors and crossed for Odhiambo to head wide before flashing another shot past the far post from the right-hand side of the box.
The move almost paid dividends when, shortly after Luka Modric had drilled a shot inches wide, Lennon cut in from the left and fizzed a low strike against the far post.
This is useful, given the wide variety of guises the far-right has assumed, from Scandinavian populists to Italian neo-fascists and brutish central European skinheads.
Chances were proving increasingly few and far between in the second half until Hull midfielder Paul McKenna drove horribly wide after neat work from Robert Koren.
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