Local myth describes how in years gone by, due to its supposed illegal nature, Blue Vinny would be left on the doorstep of those who ordered it on the black market.

Local myth claimed the town's name " Fredonia " was for the Republic of Fredonia movement of Mexican Texas in the 1820s by a group of Arkansas Cherokee Indians settled near Nacogdoches, Texas.

Local myth has it that everyone in Romoland is of Mexican descent.

Local myth tells that Henry Hanos of Port Tobacco killed Sims and his dog for Sim's gold and a deed to an estate.

Local tradition tells of a lost charter for the fair, but this is myth because it was determined by travelling justices of King Edward I in 1275 that the fair, then lasting eight days, had already been in existence since time immemorial and no royal charter was needed.

Local myth has it the reservoir is named after a collection of stones on the skyline that look like a dove.

Local folklore about hyenas often gives them powers such as gender switching ( males and females are difficult to distinguish ), shape shifting, and human speech — all of which encourages the belief that the hyena may have contributed to the original myth of the crocotta.

Local myth remembers the Outrages to have been enacted by " The Wyrley Gang ", although Conan Doyle believed that they were the work of a single person, a local butcher's boy and sometime sailor called Royden Sharp.

Local myth has it that it is the only wood that sinks in water, hence the name ( ironwood ).

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 ),

Local tradition has it that his wife would camp on the nearby Strawberry Island ( which was visible from the open sea ) and signal him with a fire on the island's summit to alert him to whether or not it was safe to bring his illegal cargo ashore.

Local archaeology has revealed instead the isolated enclosed farmsteads known locally as rounds.

Local lore from Seligenstadt portrays Einhard as the lover of Emma, one of Charlemagne's daughters, and has the couple elope from court.

The Milky Way galaxy is a member of an association named the Local Group, a relatively small group of galaxies that has a diameter of approximately one megaparsec.

Local deities of different village regions in India were often identified with " mainstream " Hindu deities, a process that has been called " Sanskritization ".

Every galaxy of sufficient mass in the Local Group has an associated group of globular clusters, and almost every large galaxy surveyed has been found to possess a system of globular clusters.

The reforms arising from the Local Government Act of 1972 resulted in the most uniform and simplified system of local government which has been used in England.

For general desktop computer use it has been supplanted by later buses such as IBM Micro Channel, VESA Local Bus, Peripheral Component Interconnect and other successors.

By 2003, the number of known Local Group members has increased from his initial twelve to thirty-six, by way of the discovery of almost two dozen low-luminosity galaxies.

Local application of estrogen in the rat hippocampus has been shown to inhibit the re-uptake of serotonin.

If the organization that is serving the content has control over the network between server and recipients ( i. e., educational, government, and corporate intranets ), then routing protocols such as Protocol Independent Multicast can be used to deliver stream content to multiple Local Area Network segments.

The innovative course structure of these programs has led numerous graduates to pursue careers in Finance Management, Government Administration, and Local Governance.

Each SM has Local Digital Service Units ( LDSU ) to provide various services to lines and trunks in the SM, including tone generation and detection.

Since the time of Bussard's original proposal, it has been discovered that the region surrounding the sun has a much lower density of interstellar hydrogen than was believed at that time ( see Local Interstellar Cloud ).

Local realism is a significant feature of classical mechanics, of general relativity, and of electrodynamics ; but quantum mechanics has shown that quantum entanglement is possible.

The city's Sesotho name is Mangaung, meaning " place of cheetahs " and it has been included in the Mangaung Local Municipality since 2000.

The city is home to 369, 568 residents, while the Mangaung Local Municipality has a population of 645, 455.

Local fish, such as mullets, bream, sea urchins, and anchovies ( alevins ) are used to a great extent, so much so that it has given birth to a proverb: " fish are born in the sea and die in oil ".

Sidereal time, at any moment ( and at a given locality defined by its geographical longitude ), more precisely Local Apparent Sidereal Time ( LAST ), is defined as the hour angle of the vernal equinox at that locality: it has the same value as the right ascension of any celestial body that is crossing the local meridian at that same moment.

Leadville's Annual Boom Days, which takes place the first full weekend in August, has been honored by the United States Congress as a Local Legacy Event.

Some Local Government Areas around Australia have introduced " anti-graffiti squads ", who clean graffiti in the area, and such crews as BCW ( Buffers Can't Win ) have taken steps to keep one step ahead of local graffiti cleaners.

His Surgical Observations on the Constitutional Origin and Treatment of Local Diseases ( 1809 ) — known as " My Book ", from the great frequency with which he referred his patients to it, and to page 72 of it in particular, under that name — was one of the earliest popular works on medical science.

The group is one of many located within the Virgo Supercluster ( i. e. the Local Supercluster ).

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.

The centerpiece of the deregulation was the establishment of two categories of basic services licenses: Local loop ( LL ), for fixed line telecommunication within the 14 PTCL regions, and Long-distance and International ( LDI ), for connectivity between regions .” Two sets of criteria set by the regulatory authorities must be met before an operator is allowed to start operation: one for the issuance of a license and another for the maintenance of service quality.

The PCI Local Bus was first implemented in IBM PC compatibles, where it displaced the combination of ISA plus one VESA Local Bus as the bus configuration.

The group is one of the closest groups of galaxies to the Local Group ; the distance to the center of the group from the Milky Way is approximately.

Local residents brought a class-action lawsuit, one of the first held in Massachusetts, against the United States Industrial Alcohol Company ( USIA ), which had bought Purity Distilling in 1917.

Most PCs that used VESA Local Bus had only one or two VLB capable ISA slots from the 5 or 6 available ( thus 4 ISA slots generally were just that, ISA only ).

Local police forced the event to end early amid safety concerns, overcrowding, and one death.

Local financial markets development is one of IFC ’ s strategic focus areas.

One example of the union's commitment to equality was Local 8, a longshoremen's branch in Philadelphia, one of the largest ports in the nation in the WWI era.

Some of the most famous samba-schools include GRES Estação Primeira de Mangueira, GRES Portela, GRES Imperatriz Leopoldinense, GRES Beija-Flor de Nilópolis, GRES Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel, and recently, Unidos da Tijuca and GRES União da Ilha do Governador Local tourists are allowed to participate, paying ($ 500 – 950 ), depending on the costume, to buy a Samba costume and dance in the parade through the Sambadrome with one of the schools.

Local performance groups include the Off Centre Theatre Company, Monmouth Operatic Society, Monmouth Choral Society, and the Merlin Society, one of the largest music societies in the country.

The Education Act 1918 raised the school leaving age to 14, increased the powers and duties of the Board of Education ( together with the money it could provide to Local Education Authorities ), and introduced a system of day-continuation schools which youths between the ages of 14 and 16 " could be compelled to attend for at least one day a week.

Local experts and criminologists cite gang recruitment as one possible cause of the rise in crime in Memphis, and a reduction of 66 % of federal funding to the Memphis Police Department.

Prior to 1953, a Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting combined both breaking and investigative reporting under one category.

There has been five referendums like this on a national level, one on a regional level ( Gozo Civic Council referendum, 1973 ) and a number of local referendums organised by single Local Councils.

A regional council means one of the regional councils listed in Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Local Government Act 2002.

Local Serbs have erected one of the most prominent monuments in central Trieste: the Serbian Orthodox Church of Saint Spyridon ( 1854 ).

Nevertheless he was appointed to de Valera's cabinet as Minister for Local Government, his close friendship with de Valera being one of the reasons he was chosen.