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Southern Carpathians
The Southern Carpathians (Carpații Meridionali, Transylvanian Alps) are the highest part of the Romanian Carpathians in southern and central Romania, featuring Moldoveanu Peak at 2,544 m.
Southern cassowary
Southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius, double-wattled cassowary), a large flightless ratite of New Guinea and north Queensland rainforests; up to 2 m and 76 kg, fruit-eating keystone seed disperser, IUCN Vulnerable, EPBC Endangered in Australia.
Southern Central Sumatra
Southern Central Sumatra (FEOW ecoregion 738) is an Indonesian freshwater ecoregion of tropical coastal rivers draining to the Strait of Malacca, including the Rokan, Siak, Kampar, Indragiri, and Batang Hari rivers, with about 20 endemic fish species and the highest functional richness (154 FEs) among Sundaland's 13 freshwater ecoregions.
Southern Charm
Southern Charm is a Bravo reality TV series premiering March 3, 2014, following socialites in Charleston, South Carolina. Eleven seasons, spinoffs Southern Charm New Orleans and Southern Hospitality, streaming on Peacock, renewed for Season 12.
Southern chivalry
Southern chivalry: the antebellum South's elite white male honor code of duels, reputation, and Cavalier medievalism, tied to slavery; also the name of a Southern California political faction and a lasting Lost Cause image.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), founded in Atlanta in 1957 and led by Martin Luther King Jr. until 1968, coordinated nonviolent civil rights campaigns including Birmingham and Selma, spurring the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Southern Colonies
The Southern Colonies were Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, British plantation colonies founded 1607-1732 whose tobacco, rice, and indigo economies rested on enslaved labor, with Georgia initially banning slavery.
Southern Combination Football League
The Southern Combination Football League, formerly the Sussex County League, is an English football league for Sussex clubs, formed in 1920 and renamed in 2015.
Southern Comfort
Southern Comfort (SoCo) is an American whiskey-based liqueur created in 1874 by M.W. Heron in New Orleans, originally called Cuffs & Buttons. Owned by Sazerac since 2016, reformulated with real whiskey in 2017; Original is 70 proof.
Southern Comfort (1981 film)
Southern Comfort is Walter Hill's 1981 survival thriller in which Louisiana National Guardsmen steal Cajun canoes during a training exercise and are hunted through the bayou; read as a Vietnam allegory, it stars Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, and Fred Ward, with music by Ry Cooder.
Southern Company
Southern Company is an Atlanta-based holding company, formed in 1947, whose vertically integrated electric utilities in the Southeast and natural gas businesses serve about 9 million customers nationwide.
Southern Cone
Southern Cone (Cono Sur), southernmost South American region: core Argentina, Chile, Uruguay; extended definitions add Paraguay and southern Brazil; home of MERCOSUR, founded 1991 by the Treaty of Asunción.
Southern Conference
Southern Conference (SoCon), NCAA Division I athletic conference founded February 25, 1921 in Atlanta; fifth-oldest DI league, headquartered in Spartanburg, S.C., with ten members and FCS football; predecessor of the SEC (1932) and ACC (1953).
Southern Cook Islands
Southern Cook Islands: the southern of the two Cook Islands groups, nine islands including Rarotonga (capital Avarua), Aitutaki, and makatea islands Mangaia, Atiu, Mauke, Mitiaro; volcanic, populous, Marae Moana reserve.
Southern Copper
Southern Copper Corporation is an integrated copper mining, smelting, and refining company with four large open-pit mines in Peru and Mexico, controlled by Grupo México.
Southern corn leaf blight
Southern corn leaf blight is a fungal disease of maize caused by Bipolaris maydis, producing lesions on leaves, stalks, husks, and ears in warm, humid weather.
Southern Counties East Football League
Southern Counties East Football League (SCEFL), formerly the Kent League, an English non-league football league founded 1966 for Kent and southeast London clubs, with a Step 5 Premier Division and Step 6 First Division feeding the Isthmian League.
Southern Court
The Southern Court (南朝) was the imperial court established at Yoshino by Emperor Go-Daigo in 1336, claiming legitimate imperial succession against the Northern Court until reunification in 1392.
Southern Court counteroffensives of 1351–1352
The Southern Court counteroffensives of 1351–1352 were risings in Japan's Kinai region during the Kanno Disturbance that briefly occupied Kyoto and captured Emperor Sukō, reviving the Southern Court.
Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills and Nash song)
Southern Cross is a 1982 Crosby, Stills & Nash song by Stephen Stills, Rick and Michael Curtis, reworked from "Seven League Boots"; a No. 18 Billboard hit from Daylight Again on which Crosby does not sing.
Southern Cross (wordless novel)
Southern Cross is the sole wordless novel (1951) by Canadian artist Laurence Hyde: 118 wood engravings telling a fictional Bikini Atoll-style nuclear-test story, published by Ward Ritchie Press with a Rockwell Kent introduction, reprinted in 2007.
Southern Cross Group (private equity firm)
Southern Cross Group, also known as Southern Cross Capital Management, is a private equity firm founded in 1998 making control investments in Latin American companies.
Southern Crossing (San Francisco Bay)
The Southern Crossing is a proposed automobile bridge across San Francisco Bay south of the Bay Bridge, first planned in 1946, proposed over a dozen times, and never built.
Southern Darfur
South Darfur (Southern Darfur) is a state of southwestern Sudan with capital Nyala, 81,000 km², 21 localities, heavy displacement and famine risk since the 2023 civil war.
Southern Deccan Plateau
Southern Deccan Plateau, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 714 in peninsular India: the Krishna basin and adjacent basins north of Pulicat Lake, draining to the Bay of Bengal, with at least 15 endemic fish species.
Southern Democrats
Southern Democrats, or Dixiecrats, were the Democratic Party's conservative Southern faction dominating the region from 1877 to the 1960s, forming the conservative coalition with Republicans and backing the 1948 Thurmond revolt before realigning to the GOP after civil rights.
Southern District, Israel
Southern District (מחוז הדרום), Israel's largest district, stretches from Ashdod to Eilat with its center at Be'er Sheva; 14,185 km², about 1.4 million residents, Ashkelon and Be'er Sheva sub-districts, lowest density.
Southern Dynasties Buddhist Sangha Administration
Southern Dynasties Buddhist Sangha Administration (南朝僧官制度) was the system of monk-officials through which the Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen courts supervised monks and nuns and administered Buddhist affairs.
Southern Dynasties Jiaozhou Administration
The Southern Dynasties Jiaozhou Administration governed Jiaozhou through a court-appointed governor, held for three generations by the Du family, who defeated the invader Lu Xun.
Southern Eastern Rift
Southern Eastern Rift, FEOW ecoregion 566, a freshwater ecoregion of the Gregory Rift Valley in Kenya and Tanzania; xeric, endorheic basins with soda lakes (Natron, Magadi, Nakuru), endemic Oreochromis fish, and over a million flamingos and wetland birds at key sites.