Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.

This led to the first of a number of periods in which an outside power controlled Athens ; Often the outside power set up a local agent as political boss in Athens ; but when Athens was independent, it operated under its traditional form of government ; even the bosses, like Demetrius of Phalerum, kept the traditional institutions in formal existence.

The town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders holds a traditional week-long " Beltane Fair " every year in June, when a local girl is crowned Beltane Queen on the steps of the parish church.

Practitioners of Blissymbolics ( that is, speech and language therapists and users ) maintain that some users who have learned to communicate with Blissymbolics find it easier to learn to read and write traditional orthography in the local spoken language than do users who did not know Blissymbolics.

* Sharing, in a fair and equitable way, the results of research and development and the benefits arising from the commercial and other utilization of genetic resources with the Contracting Party providing such resources ( governments and / or local communities that provided the traditional knowledge or biodiversity resources utilized ).

* Access to and transfer of technology, including biotechnology, to the governments and / or local communities that provided traditional knowledge and / or biodiversity resources.

He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne.

Barna concluded, “ The data indicates that millions of gay people are interested in faith but not in the local church and do not appear to be focused on the traditional tools and traditions that represent the comfort zone of most churched Christians.

In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, it was decided to leave the celebration of the feast of St Peter of Verona to local calendars, because he was not as well known worldwide, and Saint Catherine's feast was restored to its traditional date of April 29.

This more precise usage enables one to distinguish between varieties of a language, such as the French spoken in Nice, France, and local languages distinct from the superordinate language, e. g. Nissart, the traditional native Romance language of Nice, known in French as Niçard.

Changing technologies however, strained traditional ways of resolving disputes of resource use and local governments had limited control over powerful special interests.

It is generally performed by a traditional circumciser, usually an older woman known as a " gedda ," without anaesthesia or sterile equipment, though richer families may pay instead for the services of a nurse, midwife, or doctor using a local anaesthetic.

In many European countries guilds have had a revival as local organizations for craftsmen, primarily in traditional skills.

Those chiefs who went along gave up their traditional roles in leading soldiers and running local courts.

Areas that were shired by 1607 and continued in existence down to the local government reforms of 1836, 1898 and 2001 are sometimes referred to as " traditional " or " historic " counties.

In the Republic of Ireland the traditional counties are, in general, the basis for local government, planning and community development purposes, are governed by county councils and are still generally respected for other purposes.

In Northern Ireland, a major reorganisation of local government in 1973 replaced the six traditional counties and two county boroughs ( Belfast and Derry ) with 26 single-tier districts for local government purposes.

The first 32 divisions listed below are the " traditional " counties, 20 of which still have administrative functions as local government divisions in the Republic of Ireland ( in some cases with slightly redrawn boundaries ).

The game is also played extensively in the small town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders, mainly in the local primary school playground, where it is favored to more traditional childhood past-times such as ' British bulldogs ' and ' Kiss, Cuddle and Torture '.

Murray Bookchin has put it this way " what of the syndicalist ideal of " collectivized " self-managed enterprises that are coordinated by like occupations on a national level and coordinated geographically by " collectives " on a local level ?... Here, the traditional socialist criticism of this syndicalist form of economic management is not without its point: the corporate or private capitalist, " worker-controlled " or not "” ironically, a technique in the repertoire of industrial management that is coming very much into vogue today as " workplace democracy " and " employee ownership " and constitutes no threat whatever to private property and capitalism ... In any case, " economic democracy " has not simply meant " workplace democracy " and " employee ownership.

The Japanese enlarged administration and appointed local leaders, which weakened the authority of local traditional leaders.

In order to overcome issues relating to distance and lack of traditional infrastructure in telecommunications Mongolia has utilized wireless local loop ( WLL ) technology.

The traditional legend has it that Byzas from Megara ( a town near Athens ), founded Byzantium in 657 BC, when he sailed northeast across the Aegean Sea.

It is based on a traditional Brazilian legend involving the loss of a fisherman in a seafaring accident.

According to the legendary account in the Kojiki, Emperor Jimmu would have been born on 13 February 711 BC ( the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar ), and died, again according to legend, on 11 March 585 BC ( both dates according to the lunisolar traditional Japanese calendar ).

The distinction between myth, legend, and folktale is meant simply as a useful tool for grouping traditional stories.

Myth, legend, and folktale are only a few of the categories of traditional stories.

Aspects of the legend have been considered to have pagan overtones or influences — this may represent a fusion of his status as a traditional Germanic warrior-king with Christianity.

Rather, the term is used to differentiate modern legend from traditional folklore in pre-industrial times.

The legend has been interpreted as a traditional folk tale which has been subjected to Christianization where the familiar story of the seduction of a human being by an elf or fairy leads to the delights of the fairy-realm but later the longing for his earthly home is overwhelming.

The founding of Rome can be investigated through archaeology, but traditional stories handed down by the ancient Romans themselves explain the earliest history of their city in terms of legend and myth.

Shamrock, the traditional Irish symbol, which according to legend was coined by Saint Patrick for the Holy Trinity, is commonly associated with clover, though sometimes with Oxalis species, which are also trifoliate ( i. e., they have three leaves ).

Charles's subsequent flight has become the stuff of legend and is commemorated in the popular folk song " The Skye Boat Song " ( lyrics 1884, tune traditional ) and also the old Irish song Mo Ghile Mear by Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill.

* The Wild Hunt in Orcadian traditional legend at Orkneyjar

Gwalchmei was a traditional hero of Welsh legend whose popularity greatly increased after foreign versions, particularly those derived from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, became known in Wales.

It is not known when the game of Liubo originated, although according to legend it was invented by Wu Cao ( 烏曹, called Wu Zhou 烏胄 in the early 2nd century CE Shuowen Jiezi dictionary ), a minister to King Jie, the last king of the Xia Dynasty, who according to traditional chronology reigned 1728 BCE – 1675 BCE.

* Merlin's Apprentice, a loose 2006 sequel to the 1998 film mini-series, one which was much more connected with traditional Arthurian legend.

The latter film was also based on a traditional Korean legend.

This long, sprawling, and often lyrical work ( the modern edition takes up thirteen volumes ) follows Tristan from the traditional legend into the realm of King Arthur where Tristan participates in the Quest for the Holy Grail.

In 1983, Russian composer Nikita Koshkin wrote a classical guitar solo entitled Tristan Playing the Lute, evoking the spirit of Tristan from the legend of " Tristan and Isolde ", initially set in a playful adaptation of traditional English lute music.

Evola states " the Christian legend of the three magi is an attempt to claim for Christianity a traditional character in the superior sense I give to the term " ( The Mystery of the Grail, p. 45 ).

The traditional origin of the surname ( Old Chinese: * C. traŋ ) is rooted in Chinese legend.

The Pakistani band Junoon popularised a genre of music called Sufi rock ( influenced from legend Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ) that blended traditional Pakistani folk and Sufi music with western rock.

Kenzo's traditional funeral was attended by karate masters from around Japan and the world, including his older brother Kenei Mabuni, which is common when a son of a legend dies.

A traditional legend holds that if visitors throw a coin into the fountain, they are ensured a return to Rome.

Citing the Boeotian orthography of her surviving fragments, David Campbell, who edited a modern version of her fragments, argues that she lived about 200 BC, and that her traditional biography, replete with contradictory accounts of her character, emerged as legend at a much later date.