The sacrifices brought to the king (emperor) date to the ancient custom of bringing tribute to the king (or chief).
The Germanic custom of bringing a live tree into the home was gaining in popularity in the mid-19th century, after Queen Victoria made it fashionable by decorating an evergreen in Buckingham Palace for her German-born husband, Prince Albert.
The annual Philippine custom of bringing in the new year with high-volume celebrations is rooted in the Chinese tradition of driving away bad luck with noise, but here it has come to involve chaos, violence and high-powered explosives.
Police are saying that whoever left the sandwiches must have been familiar with the company and its almost daily custom of bringing food to work for other coworkers, but that the small amount of rat poison indicated that the perpetrator was likely to be someone with a grudge rather than with an intent to kill.
According to Herodotus, ancient Babylonians engaged in a "wise custom" of bringing those who were ill to the marketplace, where passers-by were ordered to stop and question the sufferers.
Five years ago the industry threw its support behind the research with the idea of bringing custom tailoring to the masses: in addition to taking measurements, TC2's technology extracts data that can be used to make patterns.
Irish immigrants fleeing their country's potato famine brought the custom of Halloween to America in the 1840's.
But his shipmates brought home the custom of sucking in the smoke, and the taste spread so rapidly that in 1604 King James I of England was prompted to issue a denunciation of the "manifold abuses of this vile custome".Vile indeed, but habit-forming and therefore lethally dangerous: it cuts short the lives of between a third and half of its practitioners.
I love the custom of Chinese dim sum because it brings friends and family together at the table.
Participants brought up the custom of mafiga matatu, a Kiswahili expression used throughout Tanzania translated as "three cooking stones".
