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Southern medical journal
Southern Medical Journal (South Med J), the peer-reviewed monthly journal of the Southern Medical Association, published since 1908, MEDLINE-indexed, online-only since 2020, with over 46,000 archived articles.
Southern Medical University
Southern Medical University (南方医科大学), a public medical university in Guangzhou, formerly the PLA First Military Medical University, founded 1951, transferred to Guangdong in 2004; 3rd in ShanghaiRanking 2026 medical universities.
Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University (SMU), a private university in University Park, Dallas, Texas, founded 1911 by Texas Methodist conferences, opened 1915; today Carnegie R1, ACC member, 12,544 students, $2.3 billion endowment.
Southern Methodist University football scandal
The SMU football scandal: illegal booster payments to players led the NCAA in 1987 to impose its only football death penalty, canceling the 1987 and 1988 seasons and crippling the program for decades.
Southern Min (闽南语)
Southern Min (闽南语, Minnan, Hokkien) is a branch of Min Chinese from southern Fujian, not mutually intelligible with Mandarin, spoken in Taiwan and Southeast Asia; Hokkien is its largest variety, with layered historical strata and 8-tone phonology.
Southern Ming
The Southern Ming (南明) is the collective name for short-lived Ming princely regimes in southern China that resisted the Qing conquest from 1644 until 1662.
Southern Miss Golden Eagles football
Southern Miss Golden Eagles football, University of Southern Mississippi FBS program in Hattiesburg, playing since 1912; two UPI College Division titles (1958, 1962), 24 bowls, Sun Belt member, home of Favre and Ray Guy.
Southern Movement
Southern Movement (al-Hirak, al-Hirak al-Janoubi) is Yemen's southern protest and separatist movement founded in 2007 after the 1994 civil war; its UAE-backed offshoot, the Southern Transitional Council, collapsed in January 2026.
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR): former Ethiopian regional state (1995–2023), the country's most ethnically diverse with 56 groups, dissolved into Sidama, South West, South Ethiopia, and Central Ethiopia regions.
Southern Natural Gas Pipeline
The Southern Natural Gas pipeline (SNG, SONAT) is an interstate natural gas pipeline in the southeastern United States, in service since 1929 and owned by Kinder Morgan and Southern Company.
Southern New Hampshire University
Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), founded in 1932 as a Manchester, NH accounting school, is a private nonprofit NECHE-accredited university and one of America's largest, with over 200,000 online students, College for America competency-based degrees, and a 36% eight-year completion rate.
Southern noir
Southern noir (rural noir, country noir, grit lit) is crime fiction fusing hardboiled tradition with Southern Gothic, set in small-town and rural South; key authors Daniel Woodrell, S.A. Cosby, Attica Locke.
Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean, the ocean encircling Antarctica to 60°S, is defined by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and takes up roughly 43% of oceanic anthropogenic CO2 and 75% of ocean heat uptake.
Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling
SOCCOM, the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling project, is a US research program launched in 2014 to observe the Southern Ocean's carbon cycle with profiling floats.
Southern Ocean fisheries enforcement
Southern Ocean fisheries enforcement covers the patrols, inspections, and port and market controls used to stop illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing for Antarctic and Patagonian toothfish.
Southern Ocean Time Series
The Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) is an Australian ocean observatory of automated deep-water moorings southwest of Tasmania that has measured air-sea heat and carbon exchange since 1998.
Southern Ohio Correctional Facility
The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is a maximum-security men's prison in Lucasville, Ohio, opened in 1972 to replace the Ohio Penitentiary and site of the 1993 Lucasville riot.
Southern Ontario
Southern Ontario: sedimentary-basin region of Ontario south of 45°N, bounded by the Canadian Shield and Great Lakes; Canada's most densely populated region, about one quarter of national GDP, centered on Toronto and the Golden Horseshoe.
Southern Operations Room (غرفة عمليات الجنوب)
Southern Operations Room (غرفة عمليات الجنوب): coalition of former reconciled rebels and Druze militias from Daraa, Quneitra, and Sweida formed in late 2024; expelled Assad government forces and first entered Damascus on 8 December 2024.
Southern Oromo language
Southern Oromo, or Borana (Afaan Borana), ISO 639-3 gax, Glottocode bora1271, is a Lowland East Cushitic Oromo variety with about 9.6 million speakers in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya; dialects include Borana, Arsi, Guji, Karayu, Salale, and Gabra, written in Latin script.
Southern Pacific 4294
Southern Pacific 4294 is a 4-8-8-2 cab forward articulated steam locomotive built by Baldwin in 1944, the only surviving Southern Pacific cab forward, on display at the California State Railroad Museum.
Southern Pacific 4449
Southern Pacific 4449, known as the Daylight, is a streamlined 1941 steam locomotive, the only surviving GS-4, that pulled Southern Pacific's San Francisco to Los Angeles passenger trains.
Southern Pacific Railroad
The Southern Pacific Railroad, chartered in California in 1865, grew into a transcontinental system spanning the Pacific Northwest to New Orleans and merged into Union Pacific in 1996.
Southern Palace of Babylon
The Southern Palace of Babylon was a royal residence of Nebuchadnezzar II on the Southern Citadel, built over an earlier palace of Nabopolassar and excavated by Robert Koldewey from 1899 to 1917.
Southern Patagonian Ice Field
The Southern Patagonian Ice Field (Spanish: Hielo Patagónico Sur) is a continental ice mass straddling the Andes on the Chile–Argentina border, the largest temperate ice mass outside Antarctica.
Southern Pine Lumber Co. 28
Southern Pine Lumber Co. 28 is a preserved 2-8-0 steam locomotive built by Baldwin in 1917 for the United States Army, now operating on the Texas State Railroad.
Southern Poverty Law Center
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Alabama-based civil rights nonprofit founded 1971 by Morris Dees and Joe Levin; known for impact litigation and hate group tracking, and in 2026 under a federal wire fraud and money laundering indictment it denies.
Southern Province, Rwanda
Southern Province (Intara y'Amajyepfo), one of Rwanda's four provinces, formed from Gitarama, Butare, and Gikongoro prefectures; capital Nyanza; 8 districts, 5,701 km2, about 3.0 million people, Governor Alice Kayitesi.
Southern Province, Sierra Leone
Southern Province is a Sierra Leone administrative division comprising the districts of Bo, Bonthe, Moyamba, and Pujehun, with Bo serving as its center.
Southern Province, Sri Lanka
Southern Province (දකුණු පළාත) is a Sri Lankan province on the island's south coast, capital Galle, with districts Galle, Matara, and Hambantota; 5,544 km², about 2.6 million people (2024), known for beaches, Galle Fort, cinnamon, and tea.