Do we go back to taking pretty pictures of villagers bathing in the river?
The research talks about the pilgrims bathing in the cold water with "relish, serenity and silent stoicism".
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Bathing in their too-bright, wasteful light became a sort of guilty pleasure, like absinthe or chocolate creams.
Bathing in the pools at the sacred water temple Tirtha Empul, for example, is an unparalleled experience.
An information sign on the gate outside the church shows a picture of people bathing in the Fleet, surrounded by trees and fields.
The natural thermal springs were first discovered by Prince Bladud around 863BC, who was cured from his skin disease after bathing in the waters.
Pilgrims believe that by attending the festival and bathing in the waters of the rivers that run through Allahabad or the other host cities, they will cleanse away their sins and bring salvation.
Participants also ward off evil during the festival by bathing in flower-scented water, wearing five-colour silk, hanging plants such as moxa and calamus over their doors, and pasting paper cut-outs in their windows.
Some say all amavasyas - or new moon nights - are auspicious for bathing in the Ganges, but Mauni (silent) Amavasya is also special as many pilgrims do not speak until they have had their bath.
The government has put up posters and organised talks to explain to the villagers that urinating in the water can make them sick, and that they should avoid bathing in the river at noon - the snails come out when the temperature is highest.
Nursing bruises and bites, travellers are able to discover an abandoned city that is still revealing its secrets, exploring green copses and stone paths through dense jungle, bathing in waterfalls, sleeping among ruins, and most majestic of all, watching the clouds spill across the terraces at sunset each night.
Gordon Brown's plans to provide 400, 000 vulnerable elderly people free help with the likes of washing, eating and bathing in their homes - rather than moving them to residential care - had been due to come into effect on 1 October, subject to the bill being passed.
Research from the society also suggested there are outlets around the UK coastline which are discharging sewage more than the permitted 10 times a year, including one in Kent which let out waste for more than 1, 000 hours during the bathing season in 2010.
Saltburn failed to meet the European "mandatory" level of cleanness for bathing water in 2010 and 2012.
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You can knock one of these nuclei from up to down by bathing it in radio waves of a particular frequency (exactly which frequency depends on the element).
Next time you are outside, cowering under a parka, your toes going numb, imagine strutting in a bathing suit with those toes in the sand, along warm, bright blue waters beckoning you to take a relaxing float.
The sun is beginning to sink in the sky, bathing the South Bank in a golden glow.
In March, wet weather was also blamed for a fall in the number of Welsh beaches reaching the top EU bathing water standard in the Marine Conservation Society's Good Beach Guide.
The work comes ahead of a tightening of European bathing water standards in 2015.
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The slideshow was front-loaded with photos of the techie types in bathing suits and skin-baring tops.
After surveys of high litter levels and poor bathing water quality in the past, he set up special "beach summits" to try to tackle the problem.
The rest of the UK has had one of the best years on record for bathing water quality in the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) guide, but the number of Scottish beaches rated as excellent dipped by 5% from the 2011 figure.
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Benjamin is a true star who brings understated and thoughtful sincerity to every line he speaks, Patton is sly and droll, and the entire cast (especially Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, and Ving Rhames) is a delight, but Bryan Barber directs with a music-video indiscipline, making shots with a casual profligacy and bathing them all in caramel light.
He made hundreds of different cut-outs, like "Man Riding a Donkey" or "Fat Man in a Bathing Suit" and started a mail-order business selling these caricatures, which provided most of his income later in life.
The survey was carried out in the 2003 bathing season and found a UK average of 98.4% compliance - which was highest in Northern Ireland, where all beaches met the grade.
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Ulvi Voomets, a 49-year-old information media consultant from the southern town of Antsla, was a member of a squad called Laemma Naaso (which means "Hot Women" in English), four women wearing bathing suits, shower caps and rollers in their hair.
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Even when they are working, they wear bathing suits all day in the summer.
"It wouldn't be safe to have people out there in their bathing suits, " said club spokesman Traudy Grande.
In one of the bathrooms, there are photos of him at age 18 in a bathing suit, flexing his muscles.
Though many fellow random vacationers got to see me in my bathing suit, no TSA workers got to see me naked.
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