What is Local: Definition and 519 Discussions

Local history is the study of history in a geographically local context and it often concentrates on the local community. It incorporates cultural and social aspects of history. Local history is not merely national history writ small but a study of past events in a given geographical but one that is based on a wide variety of documentary evidence and placed in a comparative context that is both regional and national. Historic plaques are one form of documentation of significant occurrences in the past and oral histories are another.
Local history is often documented by local historical societies or groups that form to preserve a local historic building or other historic site. Many works of local history are compiled by amateur historians working independently or archivists employed by various organizations. An important aspect of local history is the publication and cataloguing of documents preserved in local or national records which relate to particular areas.
In a number of countries a broader concept of local lore is known, which is a comprehensive study of everything pertaining to a certain locality: history, ethnography, geography, natural history, etc.

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  1. DrChinese

    Local Realism After Bell: Can Quantum Mechanics and Local Realism Coexist?

    I will split this post so to make it easier to reply, if needed. I. Background ============= The EPR Paradox (1935) left the scientific community in a divided state. Some saw QM, even then a successful theory, as the likely victor in the debate over realism. But many remained unconvinced...
  2. C

    Find the Local Maxima of f(x)=2x^3-3x^2-12x+3

    Find the local maxima: f(x)=2x^3 - 3x^2 -12x + 3
  3. T

    Can you prove the existence of a local minimum between two local maxima?

    Suppose that c1 < c2 and that f takes on local maxima at c1 and c2. Prove that if f is continuous on [c1, c2], then there is at least one c in (c1, c2) at which f takes on a local minimum. This question seems common sense, but does anyone know how to actually prove this?
  4. T

    Local Max & Min of Continuous Function f on [a,b]

    what can be said about the function f, if f is continuous on [a,b], and for some c in (a,b), f(c) is both a local maximum and a local minimum?
  5. U

    Local Approximation Mistake: g'(2.5)=-3

    when: g'(2)=1 g'(3)= -2 msec=mtan g'(2.5)=(y2-y1)/(x2-x1) =(-2-1)/(3-2) =-3/1 =-3 I got this question wrong on a test, were was my mistake?
  6. C

    Strict local minimizer (multivariate)

    I'm stuck on this question Show that f(x1,x2) has a strict local minimizer at t=0 along every line { x1=at { x2=bt through (0,0). Any hints or tips would be great thanks
  7. motai

    Jim Riis for FL House: Web Design by Student

    My webdesign teacher assigned me a special project a while back, and needed it to get done as soon as possible. It was to be a campaign webpage for one of the school's teachers, Jim Riis, who was running for a district seat in the House of Representatives here in Florida. After rushing...
  8. marcus

    Global particles, local particles (Colosi, Rovelli)

    We already had some brief discussion (2 posts) of this paper in the "Intuitive...Program" thread that is serving as a catch-basket for Loop-and-allied Quantum Gravity links. It probably could use its own thread, to allow space for more discussion, if desired. After I posted this mention of the...
  9. T

    News Local democrat discriminates during civil rights tour -

    Catching the winds of inspiration from the White Racist Republican Wins Seat thread -------- I had heard about Councilman Joe Brown, from Memphis, Tennessee, but not until this thread was it worth posting ---- So, as Exhibit 1 - if you would take a look at some real down home racism – I give...
  10. M

    Local operations and classical communication

    What are the Local operations and classical communication that i keep hearing about? It arises in quantum teleporting. Though i know that to perform quantum teleporting you need a classical channel (a phone line, an e-mail, etc) and I guess that classical communication refers to that, I still...
  11. turbo

    Orientation of virtual particle pairs in local fields?

    Can the presence of gravitational, or electro-magnetic fields cause virtual particles to arise with a preferential physical orientation? Logically, the virtual particles should not emerge in a preferred orientation if they arise spontaneously, and can't be acted upon by local fields until...
  12. Antonio Lao

    Exploring LIM: Local Infinitesimal Motion

    LIM stands for Local Infinitesimal Motion. LIM is motion of two exclusive space points at the local infinitesimal region of space. The metric can be theorized to be smaller than the Planck length of 10^{-33} cm . It is known that all fermions possesses a magnetic moment. The existence of...
  13. Loren Booda

    Local inflation realizes Bell inequality violation

    Just as the thermal equilibrium between two relatively receding (c<v<2c) cosmological horizons is justified by inflation, such a Higgs phase transition could account locally for correlations violating the Bell inequality through superluminal (c<v<2c) "signaling."
  14. marcus

    Background Independence for the local Xray technologist

    A PF poster recently asked about the Background Independence feature that distiguishes classical 1915 General Relativity from Stringy theories. She suggested that the explanation be at the "basic Xray tech" level. That probably means starting with a short exerpt from Smolin article in...
  15. S

    Basics of the local spin density approximation?

    Does anyone know the basics of the local spin density approximation?
  16. marcus

    Q'izing GR retains local Lorentz invariance after all?

    maybe someone else can clarify; these recent papers suggest a surprising turnaround in the quantization of General Relativity, contrary to some earlier papers by other people, they predict no quantum gravity dispersion in longrange transmission of light: On low energy quantum gravity induced...
  17. Ivan Seeking

    Local Resident Presents bigfoot As Biological Fact

    Local Resident Presents "bigfoot" As Biological Fact ""The more evidence that comes forth, the harder it is to refute," Brown continued. "People just can't seem to come to grips with the fact that there is a possibility that one of the most important biological finds possibly exists right here...
  18. M

    Music What local bands deserve more attention? Share your recommendations!

    I met a guy from PA the other night who is in a band called Co-Evolution. Check them out at http://www.odin-tech.com/evolution/home.html After speaking to him, I'm sure he would not mind the attention. Although some/most of you may not enjoy this, you can tell your young assistants about...
  19. M

    Explore the Local Space in 3D: Download Celestia for Free!

    Want to see the 'local' space (milkyway galaxy) in a 3D (controlable) video graphic, try clicking http://www.shatters.net/celestia/" to go to the download site. Enjoy, have fun, it's free, it's neat (my opinion) and it is very well done graphics for a free download.
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