The popularity of local color literature before the Spanish-American War, the steady currency of the Lincoln myth, the increased emphasis on the frontier West in our mass media are cases in point.

* Willing participation in deception by local doctors who wish to take advantage of this aid money: " African doctors themselves participate in building the myth of the AIDS pandemic.

The abduction of Cephalus had special appeal for an Athenian audience because Cephalus was a local boy, and so this myth element appeared frequently in Attic vase-paintings and was exported with them.

In the small Scottish village of Kinloch Rannoch, a local myth to this effect concerns a local hill that apparently resembles the head, shoulders, and torso of a man, and has therefore been termed ' the sleeping giant '.

In his Life of Sertorius cited above, Plutarch recounts what he says to be a local myth, according to which Heracles consorted with Tinge after the death of Antaeus and had by her a son Sophax, who named a city in North Africa Tingis after his mother.

Based on the myth, the new dynasty was not immemorially ancient, but had widely remembered origins in a local, but non-priestly " outsider " class, represented by Greek reports equally as an eponymous peasant " Gordias " or the locally-attested, authentically Phrygian " Midas " in his ox-cart.

Since the mythic event drew together numerous heroes — among whom were many who were venerated as progenitors of their local ruling houses among tribal groups of Hellenes into Classical times — the Calydonian Boar hunt offered a natural subject in classical art, for it was redolent with the web of myth that gathered around its protagonists on other occasions, around their half-divine descent and their offspring.

Other versions of this myth: Gilgamesh, Osiris, Balder, Danaë, Balor in Ireland, the " May Count " in Sweden, and " it has even penetrated to Uganda, where it is told of a local chief.

According to local myth, a representation of the messenger of Viracocha (‘ The Creator of Civilization ’) named Wiracochan or Tunupa is shown in the small village of Ollantaytambo, southern Peru.

This is where, according to local myth, a dog belonging to one of the Chiefs jumped the river to get help from nearby clans after a surprise enemy attack.

A local quarry was used in 2009 by the Mythbusters to test the Knock Your Socks off myth.

A dubious local myth states that Coote did not burn the town as a favor to a local merchant who greeted him with a secret Masonic handshake.

Andover was the site of a large train wreck which common local myth incorrectly cites as the source of the name of the city.

The myth concerning the town's origins is popular and widely accepted among area residents, but local historians dispute this explanation.

Lede is known for a specific statue of St-Mary, " Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-Zeven-Smarten " ( Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows ), to which a local myth attributes magical powers, making Lede into a local pilgrimage destination.

The Icarus myth, where the island gets its name, is a major part of the local curriculum.

According to local myth, the area known as Kedu Plain is a Javanese ' sacred ' place and has been dubbed ' the garden of Java ' due to its high agricultural fertility.

Standing on a mound in the heath is the 400 tonne, 17 ft ( 5. 2 m ) high Agglestone Rock ; the local myth states that the devil threw it there from the Isle of Wight.

In the fifth century A. D., it is claimed that St. Michael, the Archangel appeared to local fishermen on the Mount, which according to author Richard Freeman Johnson is perhaps a nationalistic twist to a myth.

The Dollan Baths are the subject of a local urban myth, which told that the pool was built 5 cm short of Olympic size.

The myth that ' Greenock ' derives from ' Green Oak ' is also perpetrated in a local song ( The Green Oak Tree ).

He has frequently refused to move from white lunch counters, refused to obey local laws which he considers unjust, while in other cases he has appealed to federal laws.

`` The committee continues to feel that Florida has progressed in a sound and equitable program at both the state and local levels in its efforts to review and assess transition problems as they arise from time to time in the entire spectrum of civil rights ''.

Thus, there has come into being a situation in which the state must raise all of its own revenues and, in addition, must give assistance to its local governments.

This financial assistance from the state has become necessary because the local governments themselves found the property tax, or at least at the rates then existing, insufficient for their requirements.

Taxation of tangible movable property in Rhode Island has been generally of a `` hands off '' nature due possibly to several reasons: ( 1 ) local assessors, in the main, are not well paid and have inadequate office staffs, ( 2 ) the numerous categories of this component of personal property make locating extremely difficult, and ( 3 ) the inexperience of the majority of assessors in evaluating this type of property.

Interest has been shown for a number of years by local assessors in the possibility of taxing boats.

It has been said that when local government revenues were mostly produced locally from the property tax, the lack of a uniform fiscal year was no great handicap ; ;

Thus in a context in which there has been discussion of snow but mention of local conditions is new, dominant stress will probably be on here in it rarely snows here, but in a context in which there has been discussion of local weather but no mention of snow, dominant stress will probably be on snows.

While the U. S. Department of Labor has a program of projecting industry and occupational employment trends and publishing current outlook statements, there is little tangible evidence that these projections have been used extensively in local curriculum planning.

Geometric pottery has not yet received the thorough, detailed study which it deserves, partly because the task is a mammoth one and partly because some of its local manifestations, as at Argos, are only now coming to light.

Yet the truth, according to the New Testament, is that every local church has its existence only by being the embodiment of the whole church in that particular place.

The President has also called upon the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Secretary of Labor to coordinate their efforts `` in the development of a program of federal leadership to assist states and local communities in their efforts to cope with the problem.

Noting that President Kennedy has handed the Defense Department the major responsibility for the nation's civil defense program, Mr. Hawksley said the federal government would pay half the salary of a full-time local director.

The governor wrote Miss Grant that he has been concerned for some time `` with the continuous problem which confronts our local and state law enforcement officers as a result of the laws regulating Sunday sales ''.

The attorney general has advised local police that it is their duty to enforce the blue laws.

The local `` family of God '' has failed its new members through neglect and unconcern for their spiritual welfare.

After Larkin has been persuaded to restock his tangled acres with pheasants, he poaches only what he needs for the nourishment of his family and local callers.

This has got to be some kind of local phenomenon.

Ethnologists in these countries tended to focus on differentiating among local ethnolinguistic groups, documenting local folk culture, and representing the prehistory of what has become a nation through various forms of public education ( eg, museums of several kinds ).

Each church has its own doctrine and liturgy, based in most cases on that of the Church of England ; and each church has its own legislative process and overall episcopal polity, under the leadership of a local primate.