In Greek mythology, the Naiads ( or or or ; Ancient Greek: Ναϊάδες, Naiades, from νάειν, " to flow ", or νᾶμα, " running water ") were a type of nymph ( female spirit ) who presided over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other freshwater place.

* Ithacian Nymphs ( Local springs and caves on the island of Ithaca )

* Ortygian Nymphs ( Local springs of Syracuse, Sicily ), named for the island of Ortygia

* Trojan Nymphs ( Local springs of Troy )

Local lore has it that the long-awaited construction of U. S. Route 41A through the town in 1940 caused the springs to dry up.

Local residents began referring to the springs on Mr. Balch's property as Balch Springs, and use of the name continued even after he moved away a few years after his arrival.

Local attractions include Ubuyama Farm, Ikeyama fountainhead, Higotai Flower Park, Ubuyama Farm Village, hot springs, Ubuyama Campgrounds and several restaurants.

Local springs were used to form a boating lake in the park, but frequent drying up problems led to the lake being filled in and the River culverted in 1967.

Local springs in Lake George ( and throughout the St Johns River ) impart enough salt to the system to make the habitat suitable to resident and migratory marine species like Atlantic stingray, various species of mullet, striped bass and blue crabs.

Local entrepreneurs were flanked by those from abroad, and under the pressure of the Grand Duke Leopold, built channels for the disposal of water and the land was reclaimed, Baths were constructed to facilitate the use of the popular hot springs: Tettuccio 1779, Bagno Regio 1773 and the Terme Leopoldine 1775.

Local legend suggests that some Chinese miners were killed at the Sulphur Bank mine when hot springs flooded the mining chambers, scalding the workers.

Employes of Montgomery Ward & Co. at The Dalles, in a National Labor Relations Board election Thursday voted to decertify Local 1565, Retail Clerks International Association, AFL-CIO, as their collective bargaining agent.

Local German peasants, angry at French plundering, compounded Tallard's problems, leading Mérode-Westerloo to bemoan – " the enraged peasantry killed several thousand of our men before the army was clear of the Black Forest.

Local labourer Matthew Weeks was accused of the murder and at noon on 12 August 1844 he was led from Bodmin Gaol and hanged.

Local products on display at an agricultural fair in Herat.

In the Local Group, the Milky Way and M31 ( the Andromeda Galaxy ) are gravitationally bound, and currently approaching each other at high speed.

This would put it far outside our Milky Way galaxy, which is about a hundred thousand light years in diameter, and indeed outside the Local Group and even the Virgo Supercluster ; however, at this distance it would still be within the Pisces-Cetus Supercluster Complex.

Local officials brutalized blacks and prevented them from leaving relief camps, aid meant for African-American sharecroppers was often given to the landowners instead, and many times black males were conscripted by locals into forced labor, sometimes at gun point.

Local rivers, although small, supported developing industries such as paper production at Nash Mills.

Local Internet registries get assigned at least / 32 blocks, which they divide among ISPs.

In 1976, after the system was deployed at PARC, Metcalfe and Boggs published a seminal paper, " Ethernet: Distributed Packet-Switching For Local Computer Networks.

The approximate center of the group is located at a distance of 3. 6 Mpc, making it one of the nearest groups to the Local Group.

Dentists using Local Anesthesia are advised to use a non-epinephrine anesthetic such as Carbocaine at a level of 3 %.

These luminous stars can be detected at great distances, and are then used to extend the distance scale to nearby galaxies in the Local Group.

Local government in Canada West operated mainly at the district level until 1849, when a system based on counties was introduced.

While addressing the officers and cadets at the Naval War College, general Karamat stressed the creation of National Security Council which would be backed by a " team of civil-military experts " for devising policies to seek resolution ongoing problems relating the civil-military issues ; also recommended a " neutral but competent bureaucracy and administration of at federal level and the establishment of Local governments in four provinces.

Local congregations are governed by Sessions made up of representatives of the congregation, a conciliar approach which is found at other levels of decision-making ( Presbytery, Synod and General Assembly ).

Askin, along with his Minister for Local Government, Pat Morton, oversaw the rapid escalation of building development in inner-city Sydney and the central business district, which followed in the wake of his controversial 1967 abolition of Sydney City Council and a redistribution of municipal electoral boundaries that was aimed at reducing the power of the rival Australian Labor Party.

A recent example, is when a court ruled that it was illegal for local authority councils to hold prayers before undertaking the council business ( though part of the session ) and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government signed a Parliamentary Order approved by Parliament, to overrule the court and legally allow all local authorities to hold prayers at sessions.

* On May 23, 2000 as part of the Bicentennial Local Legacies project, Renee Moore, founder of Solomon Northup Day, was honored along with other Americans at a reception in the Library of Congress's ( LOC ) Great Hall in Washington DC.

Local equilibrium thermodynamics considers processes that involve the time-dependent production of entropy by dissipative processes, in which kinetic energy of bulk flow and chemical potential energy are converted into internal energy at time-rates that are explicitly accounted for.

A distant member of the Local Group, it is about 2. 3 million light years away, and at magnitude 5. 8, it is bright enough to be seen by the naked eye under the darkest skies.

Local pastors are not required to have advanced degrees but are required to pass an approved five year Course of Study at an approved United Methodist seminary or Course of Study School ; successfully complete written and oral examinations and appear before the District Committee on Ministry and the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry.

* July 10 – The Holocaust: Jedwabne pogrom: Local ethnic Poles massacre at least 340 Jewish residents of Jedwabne in occupied Poland.

Under the Local Government Act 1972, since 1974, the town has formed part of the larger Borough of Hyndburn including the former Urban Districts of Oswaldtwistle, Church, Clayton-le-Moors, Great Harwood and Rishton.

Local landmarks include the Christie Park, the Fountain ( a traffic junction in the town centre, although there has not been a working fountain there for some years ),

The Bodmin Beacon Local Nature Reserve is the hill overlooking the town.

Local news coverage for the town and some of its neighbors is provided by the Tri County Journal and the Washington Missourian.

Local politicians campaigned to get the title of the film changed because they argued that it would show the town in an unfair way, and even undermine the town as an economic centre.

Local Helsinki White Guards, hidden in the city during the war, joined the battle as the Germans advanced through the town.

* Local Development Plan, a form of town and country planning document in Wales

Local output peaked in 1929, when workers in Ybor City and West Tampa rolled over 500, 000, 000 " clear Havana " cigars, earning the town the nickname " Cigar Capital of the World ".

* Velddrif, a town on the west coast Bergrivier Local Municipality

The borough was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 in 1974, and the status of " royal town " was granted to the community which succeeded it.

California requires each county to have a Local Agency Formation Commission, which sets urban growth boundaries for each city and town in the county.

The traditional district was eventually combined into the traditional county of Inverness-shire along with the traditional district of Inverness and parts of Lochaber and some island districts during reorganisation due to Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1889, this Act established a uniform system of county councils and town councils in Scotland and restructured many of Scotland ’ s counties.

Local repeaters similar to broadcast translator boosters enable signals to be available even if the view of the satellite is blocked, for example, by skyscrapers in a large town.

The town council received widespread attention in February 2012 when the High Court ruled that prayers as part of meetings were not lawful by the Local Government Act 1972.

The two became a single local authority district in 1975, before Scottish Local Government reorganisation in the 1990s re-integrated them with Kirkintilloch and Bishopbriggs to form the East Dunbartonshire administrative area, although transport and social networks link the town much more closely with Glasgow itself.

The town forms part of the seven member Portlaoghaise Local Electoral Area for elections to Laois County Council.

The change of character of Wimbledon from village to small town was recognised in 1894 when, under the Local Government Act 1894, it formed the Wimbledon Urban District with an elected council.

The towns of Leixlip, Naas, Newbridge and Athy have separate town councils under the Local Government Act 2001.

Local residents nicknamed the town " The Gem of the Yukon ", because it is located along the Yukon River and also the name resembles that of a ruby gemstone.

Local traditions include a Butterfly Parade, in which elementary schoolchildren dress in various costumes and march through town, and the Feast of Lanterns, a Chinese-styled pageant in which a high school girl and her companions act out a melodrama.

Local tradition associates the name of the town of Jennings with the family.

Local farmers brought their tractors and bulldozers to town to clear rubble and reopen the streets.

Local tradition says the town was named for its first settler, a Spanish laborer working on the Wabash and Erie Canal who built a shack in the area.