• Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (art gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States)

    Andres Serrano: …image was exhibited at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1988, as part of that institution’s Awards in the Visual Arts series, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Many viewers found the image profane and irreverent and further objected…

  • Southeastern Community College v. Davis (law case)

    Alexander v. Choate: Citing Southeastern Community College v. Davis (1979), “our major previous attempt to define the scope of [Section] 504,” the court acknowledged that, to avoid disparate-impact discrimination, a federal grantee must make “reasonable accommodations” in its program or benefit to “otherwise qualified handicapped individuals” in order to…

  • Southeastern Conference (American sports organization)

    Southeastern Conference (SEC), American collegiate athletic association that grew out of the Southern Conference. The SEC has 16 members. The conference was formed in 1932 when its members left the 11-year-old Southern Conference, believing that it had grown too large for competitive balance. In

  • southeastern four-eyed opossum (marsupial)

    four-eyed opossum: The southeastern four-eyed opossum (P. frenatus) is known from southeastern Brazil south to Paraguay and Argentina. Olrog’s four-eyed opossum (P. olrogi) occurs in Peru and Bolivia.

  • southeastern four-eyed possum (marsupial)

    four-eyed opossum: The southeastern four-eyed opossum (P. frenatus) is known from southeastern Brazil south to Paraguay and Argentina. Olrog’s four-eyed opossum (P. olrogi) occurs in Peru and Bolivia.

  • southeastern Karakum (desert, Turkmenistan)

    Karakum Desert: Physiography: …low-lying Central Karakum; and the southeastern Karakum, through which runs a chain of salt marshes. Along the border of the Trans-Unguz and Central Karakum runs the Unguz chain of saline, isolated, eolian (wind-formed) hollows.

  • Southeastern Massachusetts University (university, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States)

    University of Massachusetts: …Dartmouth campus, previously known as Southeastern Massachusetts University, was also founded as two separate institutions—both textile schools—in 1895. Both the Lowell and the Dartmouth campuses were incorporated into the University of Massachusetts system in 1991.

  • Southeastern Turkic languages

    history of Central Asia: Timur: …the arts, and architecture, with Chagatai Turkish, a dialect derived partly from Khakani, the language spoken at the Karakhanid court (and a precursor of modern Uzbek), emerging as a flexible vehicle for sophisticated literary expression. These Timurid epigones, however, were locked in unceasing rivalry with each other and were unable…

  • Southeastern Woodland Indians (people)

    Indigenous peoples of the American Southeast, any of the Native American peoples of what is now the Southeastern United States. The boundaries of this culture area are somewhat difficult to delineate, because the traditional cultures in the Southeast shared many characteristics with those from

  • Southeastern Yiddish language (language)

    West Germanic languages: Dialects: …consisting of Central Yiddish and Southeastern Yiddish. The phonological criteria on which this division is based are typically reflected in the variants of the phrase ‘to buy meat’: Western Yiddish kāfn flāš, Central Yiddish kojfn flajš, Southeastern Yiddish kojfn flejš, Northeastern Yiddish kejfn flejš. Other phonological and many lexical differences…

  • Southend-on-Sea (England, United Kingdom)

    Southend-on-Sea, town and unitary authority, southeastern geographic and historic county of Essex, England. It lies on the Thames estuary and the North Sea. The nearest major seaside resort to London, 40 miles (64 km) away, Southend attracts millions of visitors, and there are many resident

  • Souther, J. D. (American musician)

    Christopher Cross: …collaborating with singers Michael McDonald, J.D. Souther, Don Henley, and Nicolette Larsen. The album was a huge success. Backed by such hits as “Ride Like the Wind” and “Sailing,” it stayed on the charts for more than two years, eventually achieving platinum status. Cross also made Grammy history with the…

  • Souther-Hillman-Furay Band (American musical group)

    Poco: …Furay joined in a short-lived collaboration with former Byrd Chris Hillman and songwriter J.D. Souther, and in 1977 Schmit replaced Meisner in the Eagles. Poco had only modest commercial success throughout its career. Legend (1978) was its top-selling album. A reunion of the original quintet in 1989 yielded the highly…

  • Southerly Buster (wind)

    Sydney: Climate: …known locally as the “Southerly Buster.” In winter (June–August), however, the westerly wind is cool.

  • Southern 500 (race)

    Darlington: …March and the Mountain Dew Southern 500 in September, on Labor Day. A stock-car museum was opened in 1965. Inc. town, 1835; city, 1950. Pop. (2000) 6,720; (2010) 6,289.

  • Southern Africa (region, Africa)

    Southern Africa, southernmost region of the African continent, comprising the countries of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The island nation of Madagascar is excluded because of its distinct language and cultural heritage. The

  • Southern Africa, Anglican Church of (South African Anglican denomination)

    Anglican Church of Southern Africa, independent church that is part of the Anglican Communion. In 2020 the church claimed a membership of about 3.57 million throughout 26 dioceses in 4 southern African countries (South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, and Namibia) and on the island of St. Helena. Its

  • Southern Africa, Church of the Province of (South African Anglican denomination)

    Anglican Church of Southern Africa, independent church that is part of the Anglican Communion. In 2020 the church claimed a membership of about 3.57 million throughout 26 dioceses in 4 southern African countries (South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, and Namibia) and on the island of St. Helena. Its

  • Southern African Customs Union (African organization)

    Botswana: Trade: …and Namibia, belongs to the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), which allows for the free exchange of goods between member countries. Botswana is also a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a regional organization focused on economic cooperation and integration.

  • Southern African Development Community (African organization)

    Southern African Development Community (SADC), regional organization of southern African countries that works to promote economic cooperation and integration among the member states and to preserve their economic independence. The member states are Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Eswatini, Democratic

  • Southern African Development Coordination Conference (African organization)

    Southern African Development Community (SADC), regional organization of southern African countries that works to promote economic cooperation and integration among the member states and to preserve their economic independence. The member states are Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Eswatini, Democratic

  • Southern African Large Telescope (telescope, South Africa)

    Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere, with a mirror measuring 11.1 by 9.8 metres (36.4 by 32.2 feet). It is located at the South African Astronomical Observatory near Sutherland, South Africa, at an elevation of 1,798 metres (5,899 feet). SALT is

  • Southern African Monetary Union (African organization)

    Eswatini: Finance and trade: …also a member of the southern African monetary union (with Lesotho and South Africa), which seeks to ensure that currencies are on par and funds move freely between the member countries.

  • Southern Alichur Range (mountain range, Asia)

    Pamirs: Physiography: Still farther south are the Southern Alichur Range and, to the west of the latter, the Shugnan Range. The extreme southwestern Pamirs are occupied by the Shakhdarin Range, composed of north-south (Ishkashim Range) and east-west elements, rising to Mayakovsky Peak (19,996 feet [6,095 metres]) and Karl Marx (Karla Marksa) Peak

  • Southern Alps/Kā Tiritiri o te Moana (mountains, New Zealand)

    Southern Alps/Kā Tiritiri o te Moana, mountain range on South Island, New Zealand. It is the highest range in Australasia. Making up the loftiest portion of the mountains that extend the length of the island, the Southern Alps/Kā Tiritiri o te Moana extend from Haast Pass, at the head of

  • southern anaconda (snake)

    anaconda: The yellow, or southern, anaconda (E. notaeus), however, is much smaller, adult females reaching a maximum length of about 4.4–4.6 meters (roughly 14.4–15.1 feet) long. Historically, two additional forms, the beni (E. beniensis) and the dark-spotted anaconda (E. deschauenseei), which are closely related to E. notaeus,…

  • Southern Andes (mountains, South America)

    Andes Mountains: Physical features: …to north these are the Southern Andes, consisting of the Chilean, Fuegian, and Patagonian cordilleras; the Central Andes, including the Peruvian cordilleras; and the Northern Andes, encompassing the Ecuadorian, Colombian, and Venezuelan (or Caribbean) cordilleras.

  • Southern Anthracite Belt (geological formation, Pennsylvania, United States)

    Carboniferous Period: Pennsylvanian cyclothems, tillites, and turbidites: …Mammoth coal bed of the Anthracite Belt in eastern Pennsylvanian has an average thickness of 10–12 metres (35–40 feet) throughout its extent. The Pittsburgh seam in western Pennsylvania averages 4 metres (13 feet) thick and is reported workable over 15,540 square km (6,000 square miles). More than 60 coal seams…

  • Southern Anthracite Field (geological formation, Pennsylvania, United States)

    Carboniferous Period: Pennsylvanian cyclothems, tillites, and turbidites: …Mammoth coal bed of the Anthracite Belt in eastern Pennsylvanian has an average thickness of 10–12 metres (35–40 feet) throughout its extent. The Pittsburgh seam in western Pennsylvania averages 4 metres (13 feet) thick and is reported workable over 15,540 square km (6,000 square miles). More than 60 coal seams…

  • Southern Antilles (submarine formation, Atlantic Ocean)

    Scotia Arc: …system consisting of the submarine Scotia Ridge, mountainous south Atlantic islands (clockwise from the north, the South Georgia, South Sandwich, and South Orkney islands), and the Antarctic Peninsula. This arc trends northward along the Antarctic Peninsula, then swings eastward to form a hairpin curve that returns to connect with Tierra…

  • Southern Arkansas University (university, Magnolia, Arkansas, United States)

    Magnolia: Magnolia is the home of Southern Arkansas University (founded as an agricultural school in 1909). To the north is Logoly State Park, and Lafayette Wildlife Management Area is about 25 miles (40 km) southwest. Inc. town, 1855; city, 1949. Pop. (2000) 10,858; (2010) 11,577.

  • southern Asia (region, Asia)

    South Asia, subregion of Asia, consisting primarily of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and peninsular India. It includes the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka; Afghanistan and the Maldives are often considered part of South Asia as well, as members of the South Asian

  • Southern Aslian languages

    Semelaic languages, (from Malay orang asli, “aborigines”), subbranch of the Aslian branch of the Mon-Khmer language family, which is itself a part of the Austroasiatic stock. The subbranch consists of three languages spoken in southern and central Malaysia: Betise’ (previously known as Mah Meri, or

  • Southern Associated Press (American news agency)

    Adolph Simon Ochs: …was a founder of the Southern Associated Press and was its chairman from 1891 to 1894; from 1900 until his death he was a director of the Associated Press.

  • southern Australian bottlenose dolphin (mammal)

    bottlenose dolphin: The southern Australian bottlenose dolphin (T. australis), or Burrunan dolphin, is considered by some researchers to be a third species, whereas others argue that it is a subspecies of the Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin. It frequents the waters off Australia’s southern and southeastern shores and has…

  • Southern Bantoid languages

    Benue-Congo languages: Bantoid: Southern Bantoid comprises 11 subgroups, of which Bantu is the largest. The 10 other subgroups consist of more than 100 languages spoken in eastern Nigeria and Cameroon. This is an area of great linguistic fragmentation with scores of languages spoken in a comparatively small area.…

  • Southern Baptist Convention (American religious organization)

    Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest Baptist group in the United States, organized at Augusta, Georgia, in 1845 by Southern Baptists who disagreed with the antislavery attitudes and activities of Northern Baptists. By the late 20th century, however, it had repudiated its history of

  • Southern Baptist Seminary (school, Louisville, Kentucky, United States)

    Furman University: …in 1858 and became the Southern Baptist Seminary (located in Louisville, Kentucky, since 1877). The university operated a law school in the 1920s. The Woman’s College, which had been coordinated with the university since 1933, was closed in 1961 when Furman adopted a coeducational policy.

  • southern beech (plant)

    southern beech, (genus Nothofagus), genus of 35–40 species of trees and shrubs in the family Nothofagaceae, native to cooler regions of the Southern Hemisphere. Several species are grown as ornamentals or for their useful wood. The southern beeches were formerly placed in the beech and oak family

  • southern blue monkshood (plant)

    monkshood: Major species: carmichaelii), and southern blue monkshood (A. uncinatum). All species contain the powerful poison aconitine. The common monkshood, or friar’s cap (A. napellus), native to mountain slopes in Europe and east to the Himalayas, has been the most important source of this drug, which in ancient times was…

  • southern blue-ringed octopus (mollusk)

    blue-ringed octopus: Description and distribution: H. maculosa—the southern, or lesser, blue-ringed octopus—is about 22 cm (8.7 inches) long and weighs about 26 grams (0.9 ounce). It is found at depths of about 50 meters (160 feet) in the waters along Australia’s southern coastline and around Tasmania. H. fasciata, the blue-lined…

  • southern bluefin tuna (fish)

    tuna: albacares), southern bluefin tuna (T. thynnus maccoyii), bigeye tuna (T. obesus), blackfin tuna (T. atlanticus), and longtail tuna (T. tonggol). These different species range from moderate to very large in size. The giant of the group is the northern bluefin tuna, which grows to a maximum…

  • southern bottlenose whale (mammal)

    bottlenose whale: The maxillary crests of the southern bottlenose whale (H. planifrons) are more modestly developed.

  • Southern Buh (river, Ukraine)

    Southern Buh, river, southwestern and south-central Ukraine. The Southern Buh is 492 miles (792 km) long and drains a basin of 24,610 square miles (63,740 square km). It rises in the Volyn-Podilsk Upland and flows east and southeast, first through a narrow valley with rapids and then across rolling

  • southern bush honeysuckle (plant)

    bush honeysuckle: Species: The southern bush honeysuckle (D. sessilifolia) has stalkless leaves and angled branches.

  • Southern California Institute of Architecture (educational institution, Los Angeles, California, United States)

    Ray Kappe: …in 1972 to inaugurate the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He won numerous awards for his designs, including the Richard Neutra International Medal for Design Excellence and the California Council/AIA Bernard Maybeck Award for Design. The house he designed for his family in the Pacific Palisades section of Los Angeles,…

  • Southern California Logistics Airport (airport, Victorville, California, United States)

    Victorville: …1992 and is now the Southern California Logistics Airport. Victorville and its backcountry have been used as settings for many western movies. A community college was established in the city in 1960. The San Bernardino County Fair is held annually in Victorville (May). Inc. 1962. Pop. (2010) 115,903; (2020) 134,810.

  • Southern California Selene Group (American engineering group)

    Harold Rosen: In 2007 he founded the Southern California Selene Group, one of the teams competing for the Google Lunar X Prize to build the first private lunar rover, but the team withdrew in 2008.

  • Southern California, University of (university, Los Angeles, California, United States)

    University of Southern California (USC), private coeducational institution of higher education in Los Angeles, California, U.S. It comprises the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, the Graduate School, and 19 professional schools. The university offers undergraduate degrees in about 75 fields

  • southern cane (plant, Arundinaria species)

    Arundinaria: Giant cane, also known as river cane and canebrake bamboo (Arundinaria gigantea), was once widely utilized as a forage plant in the southeastern United States, from eastern Texas and Oklahoma to the Atlantic coast and north to the Ohio River valley. It produces green leaves…

  • Southern Carpathians (mountains, Romania)

    Transylvanian Alps, mountainous region of south-central Romania. It consists of that section of the Carpathian Mountain arc from the Prahova River valley (east) to the gap in which flow the Timiş and Cerna rivers. Average elevation in the Transylvanian Alps is 4,920–5,740 feet (1,500–1,750 metres).

  • southern cassowary (bird)

    cassowary: The common, or southern, cassowary, Casuarius casuarius, which inhabits New Guinea, nearby islands, and Australia, is the largest—almost 1.5 metres (5 feet) tall—and has two long red wattles on the throat. The dwarf cassowary (C. bennetti) is native to higher elevations of New Guinea and can…

  • southern catalpa (tree)

    catalpa: …common, or southern, catalpa (C. bignonioides), which yields a durable timber, is one of the most widely planted ornamental species.

  • Southern Caucasia (region, Eurasia)

    Transcaucasia, small but densely populated region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains. It includes three independent states: Georgia in the northwest, Azerbaijan in the east, and Armenia, situated largely on a high mountainous plateau south of Georgia and west of Azerbaijan. Together these

  • southern cave fish (fish species)

    cave fish: There are three species: Typhlichthys subterraneus, Amblyopsis rosae, and A. spelaea. The first two lack pelvic fins; the third, the blind fish of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, possesses these fins. All have small but nonfunctional eyes and tactile organs that are sensitive to touch; these are arranged over the body,…

  • Southern Choco (people)

    Chocó: …of Colombia’s Pacific coast; the Southern Chocó are concentrated around the Río San José; and the Catio inhabit the eastern portions of the Atrato valley.

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (American organization)

    Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), nonsectarian American agency with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, established by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights activists in 1957 to coordinate and assist local organizations working for the full equality of African

  • Southern colonial style (architecture)

    Western architecture: Colonial architecture in North America: (5) The Southern colonial flourished in Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas. Story-and-a-half brick houses, sometimes with large projecting end chimneys and decorative brick masonry, prevailed. (6) The French colonial, stemming from medieval French sources, evolved in Canada in the Maritime Provinces and the St. Lawrence Valley. The…

  • Southern Colorado, University of (university, Pueblo, Colorado, United States)

    Pueblo: The University of Southern Colorado originated as Pueblo Junior College (1933). A flood-control system along the Arkansas River was constructed to prevent recurrence of the 1921 flood disaster, and a dam impounds a large reservoir 6 miles (10 km) upstream from the city. San Isabel National…

  • Southern Common Market (South American economic organization)

    Mercosur, South American regional economic organization. Mercosur grew out of earlier efforts to integrate the economies of Latin America through the Latin American Free Trade Association (1960) and its successor, the Latin American Integration Association (1980). In 1985 Argentina and Brazil

  • Southern Conference (sports organization)

    Atlantic Coast Conference: …as an offshoot of the Southern Conference. Member schools are Boston College (joined 2005), the University of California, Berkeley (joined 2024), Clemson University, Duke University, Florida State University (joined 1990), the

  • Southern Connecticut State University (university, New Haven, Connecticut, United States)

    Southern Connecticut State University, public, coeducational institution of higher education in New Haven, Conn., U.S. It is one of four institutions in the Connecticut State University system; the others are located in New Britain (Central Connecticut State), Willimantic (Eastern Connecticut

  • southern coquina clam (mollusk)

    clam: The southern coquina (Donax variabilis), 1 to 2.5 cm long and pink, yellow, blue, white, or mauve, occurs on sandy beaches from Virginia to the Gulf of Mexico. The northern coquina (D. fossor), 6 to 12 mm long, is yellowish white with bluish rays and inhabits shallow waters…

  • southern corroboree frog (amphibian)

    Australia: Conservation: …National Recovery Plan for the southern and northern corroboree frogs. (The northern corroboree frog [Pseudophryne pengilleyi] is found mostly in the Bimberi and Brindabella Ranges of New South Wales, and the southern corroboree [P. corroboree] lives only in the Jagungal Wilderness Area of Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales.)…

  • Southern Court (Japanese history)

    Japan: The Kemmu Restoration and the dual dynasties: …power was divided between the Southern Court in Yoshino and the Northern Court in Kyōto. It remained for Takauji’s grandson Yoshimitsu to establish peace (1392) between the two courts; thereafter, imperial succession remained with the descendants of the Northern Court. Throughout the long dispute, however, local warriors attached themselves to…

  • southern crabapple (tree)

    crabapple: Major species: ioensis), and southern crabapple (M. angustifolia).

  • southern cranberry (plant)

    cranberry: Major species: The southern cranberry, or red huckleberry (V. erythrocarpum), is found in mountainous areas from West Virginia to Georgia; its large berries are dark red in colour and of exceptionally fine flavour. The fruit of the cranberry tree (see Viburnum) is sometimes substituted for true cranberries in…

  • Southern Cross, The (collection of poems by Wright)

    Charles Wright: The Southern Cross (1981) features long poems of broad scope gathered in fragments, like a daily journal. Despite their autobiographical quality, the poems are not solely expressions of the poet’s inner life. Five poems titled “Self Portrait” typify Wright’s reticence and affirm the indeterminacy of…

  • Southern Cross, The (constellation)

    Crux, constellation lying in the southern sky at about 12 hours 30 minutes right ascension and 60° south declination and visible only from south of about latitude 30° N (i.e., the latitude of North Africa and Florida). It appears on the flags of Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and

  • Southern Development Fund (Italian government program)

    Italy: Public and private sectors: The Southern Development Fund (Cassa per il Mezzogiorno), a state-financed fund set up to stimulate economic and industrial development between 1950 and 1984, met with limited success. It supported early land reform—including land reclamation, irrigation work, infrastructure building, and provision of electricity and water to rural…

  • southern drama (Chinese drama)

    nanxi, one of the first fully developed forms of Chinese drama. Nanxi emerged in the area around Wenzhou in southern China during the Song dynasty (960–1279). Originally the creation of folk authors, the earliest nanxi combined Song plays with local folk songs and ballads. They were characterized

  • Southern Dynasties (Chinese history)

    Southern Dynasties, (ad 420–589), four succeeding short-lived dynasties based at Jiankang (now Nanjing), which ruled over a large part of China south of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) during much of the Six Dynasties period. The four dynasties were the Liu-Song (420–479), the Nan (Southern) Qi

  • southern elephant seal (mammal)

    Antarctica: Sea life: …Antarctic zone, and another, the southern elephant seal, breeds near the Convergence at South Georgia, Kerguelen, and Macquarie islands. The sea lion, an otariid, is plentiful in the Falkland Islands but probably never ventures into the cold Antarctic waters. The fur seal and the elephant seal are now regenerating after…

  • southern emu-wren (bird)

    emu-wren: The most widespread species, the southern emu-wren (S. malachurus), is streaked brown, with pale-blue throat in the male. Emu-wrens are shy inhabitants of wet and dry scrublands.

  • Southern Fish (constellation)

    Piscis Austrinus, constellation in the southern sky at about 22 hours right ascension and 30° south in declination. Its brightest star is Fomalhaut (from the Arabic for “the fish’s mouth”), the 17th brightest star in the sky, with a magnitude of 1.16. The connection of this constellation with a

  • southern fulmar (bird)

    fulmar: The southern fulmar (F. glacialoides) has a comparable distribution in the Southern Hemisphere. Both fulmars are typically predominately white with a pearly gray mantle, but darker colour phases occur in some populations.

  • Southern Fund (Italian government program)

    Italy: Public and private sectors: The Southern Development Fund (Cassa per il Mezzogiorno), a state-financed fund set up to stimulate economic and industrial development between 1950 and 1984, met with limited success. It supported early land reform—including land reclamation, irrigation work, infrastructure building, and provision of electricity and water to rural…

  • southern fur seal (mammal)

    fur seal: The eight species of southern fur seals (Arctocephalus) are distributed in the Southern Hemisphere, except for a herd of Guadalupe fur seals (A. townsendi) on Guadalupe Island off the northwest coast of Baja California. Southern fur seals are gray to brown or black in colour with chestnut-coloured underfur. Length…

  • Southern gastric brooding frog (extinct amphibian)

    Myobatrachidae: Rheobatrachus silus, an extinct species, swallowed its eggs and brooded them in its stomach.

  • Southern Gates of Arabia, The (book by Stark)

    Freya Stark: …books include Beyond Euphrates (1928), The Southern Gates of Arabia (1936), Letters from Syria (1942), Alexander’s Path (1958), The Minaret of Djam (1970), several volumes of collected letters, and four volumes of memoirs. She was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972.

  • southern giraffe (mammal)

    giraffe: camelopardalis), the southern giraffe (G. giraffa), the Masai giraffe (G. tippelskirchi), and the reticulated giraffe (G. reticulata).

  • Southern gothic (American literature)

    Southern gothic, a style of writing practiced by many writers of the American South whose stories set in that region are characterized by grotesque, macabre, or fantastic incidents. Flannery O’Connor, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, and Carson McCullers are among the best-known

  • Southern Grand Canal (canal, China)

    Grand Canal: …centuries has been called the Southern Grand Canal (Nan Yunhe). This ancient waterway was first constructed as early as the 4th century bce, was rebuilt in 607 ce, and has been used ever since.

  • southern grasshopper mouse (rodent)

    grasshopper mouse: The southern grasshopper mouse (O. torridus) is found from southern California, Nevada, and Utah southward to northeastern Mexico. Mearns’ grasshopper mouse (O. arenicola) ranges from the southwestern United States to central Mexico. The last two species prefer warm, very arid, scrubby desert habitats. All are stout…

  • southern green anaconda (snake)

    anaconda: murinus, the southern green anaconda) are among the largest snakes in the world, growing up to 9 meters (29.5 feet) long—rivaling the reticulated python (Python reticulatus) in length—and weighing up to 250 kg (550 pounds). The yellow, or southern, anaconda (E. notaeus), however, is much smaller, adult…

  • southern green stinkbug (insect)

    stink bug: Major species: The southern green stink bug, or green vegetable bug (Nezara viridula), which occurs worldwide, damages beans, berries, tomatoes, and other garden crops. The rice stink bug (Oebalus pugneax) causes severe losses to the rice crop in North America. Control measures include the use of pesticides and…

  • Southern Guaymí (people)

    Guaymí: …the Northern Guaymí and the Southern Guaymí. The Guaymí language is one of the Chibchan group. The Northern Guaymí live in a tropical forest environment in which hunting and gathering of wild foods are nearly as important as agriculture. The Southern Guaymí also gather wild plants but are more heavily…

  • southern hairy-nosed wombat (marsupial)

    wombat: The southern hairy-nosed wombat (L. latifrons) is smaller than the common wombat; it lives in semiarid country mainly in South Australia, extending through the Nullarbor Plain into the southeast of Western Australia. The very rare Queensland, or northern, hairy-nosed wombat (L. barnardi) is larger and differs…

  • Southern Hemisphere (geography)

    scrubland: Biota: …distinct from that of the Southern Hemisphere. The wide variety of shrubs excludes proteoids, while some common groups of plants in the north such as oaks (Quercus) do not occur in the south. Other, more widespread, plant groups tend to be represented in northern scrublands by distant relatives of southern…

  • Southern Hemisphere Polar Front

    Antarctic Convergence, transition region of the Southern Hemisphere, a major boundary zone of the world’s oceans that separates the waters surrounding Antarctica into Antarctic and sub-antarctic regions. (It is sometimes referred to as a polar front, but use of this term can cause it to be confused

  • Southern Highlands (region, Mexico)

    Mexico: Physiographic regions: The Southern Highlands are a series of highly dissected mountain ranges and plateaus, including the Sierra Madre del Sur, Mesa del Sur, and the Chiapas Highlands, also called the Sierra Madre de Chiapas. On their southwestern side, approximately from Puerto Vallarta to the Gulf of Tehuantepec,…

  • southern hornworm (insect)

    hawk moth: …destructive North American species, the tobacco, or southern, hornworm (Manduca sexta) and the tomato, or northern, hornworm (M. quinquemaculata), attack tomato, tobacco, and potato crops. These leaf-feeding pests are green and can be 10 cm (4 inches) long. Control includes the use of a natural enemy, the braconid wasp (Apanteles…

  • southern house mosquito (mosquito)

    Culex: Natural history: …the southern house mosquito (Culex quinquefasciatus), which is found mostly at low to moderate elevations in tropical and subtropical regions, and the abundant northern, or common, house mosquito (C. pipiens), which tends to live in more-temperate areas in the Northern Hemisphere.

  • Southern Ibibio (people)

    Ibibio: (Eket), Delta (Andoni-Ibeno), Western (Anang), and Eastern (the Ibibio proper).

  • Southern Illinois Normal University (university, Illinois, United States)

    Southern Illinois University, public coeducational institution of higher education in Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois, U.S. It was chartered in 1869 as Southern Illinois Normal University and opened that same year. It grew to become one of the largest teachers colleges in the state. In 1943

  • Southern Illinois University (university, Illinois, United States)

    Southern Illinois University, public coeducational institution of higher education in Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois, U.S. It was chartered in 1869 as Southern Illinois Normal University and opened that same year. It grew to become one of the largest teachers colleges in the state. In 1943

  • Southern Indiana, University of (university, Evansville, Indiana, United States)

    Evansville: …University of Evansville (1854), the University of Southern Indiana (1965), and several vocational institutions.

  • Southern Karoo (plateau, South Africa)

    Little Karoo, intermontane plateau basin in Western Cape province, South Africa, lying between the east-west oriented Groot-Swart Mountains (north), the Lange Mountains (southwest), and the Outeniqua Mountains (southeast), with the discontinuous Kammanassie Mountains running between those ranges.

  • Southern Khoisan languages

    Khoisan languages: Classification of the Khoisan languages: groups: Northern, Central, and Southern. Sandawe of Tanzania has a distant relationship to the Central group, but the place of Hadza even in relation to Sandawe has always been unclear; and the status of Kwadi, an extinct language of Namibe (formerly Moçâmedes) in southwestern Angola, remains uncertain. Kwadi may…

  • Southern Kosala (state, India)

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