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Southern University
Southern University is a historically black university system in Louisiana, headquartered in Baton Rouge and created in 1974, whose flagship, Southern University and A&M College, was chartered in 1880.
Southern Upper Guinea
Southern Upper Guinea (FEOW ecoregion 512) is a West African freshwater ecoregion covering nearly all of Liberia, southern Guinea, and western Côte d'Ivoire, defined by the short Mano, Lofa, St. Paul, St. John, Cestos, and Cavally river basins with about one-fifth of 151 fish species endemic.
Southern Utah University
Southern Utah University, known as SUU, is a public university in Cedar City, Utah, founded in 1897 as the Branch Normal School with over 150 academic programs.
Southern Victory
Southern Victory (Timeline-191) is Harry Turtledove's 11-book alternate history series, 1997 to 2007, in which the Confederacy wins the Civil War from an 1862 Special Order 191 divergence and the rival American nations fight through 1945.
Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory
The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) is a planned ground-based gamma-ray observatory at 4,770 meters in Chile's Atacama Astronomical Park, with construction expected from 2026.
Southern Xiongnu (Huhanye's polity)
The Southern Xiongnu (呼韩邪单于政权) was a Xiongnu state founded by Huhanye Chanyu after the confederacy split, which submitted to Han China and received grain, cavalry protection, and Wang Zhaojun in marriage in 33 BC.
Southern Xiongnu submission to Han
The Southern Xiongnu submission to Han (南匈奴内附) was the 48 CE offer of vassalage by the Xiongnu prince Bi and eight southern tribes to Eastern Han.
Southern Yan
Southern Yan (南燕) was a Xianbei Murong state of the Sixteen Kingdoms, founded by Murong De in Shandong, centered on Guanggu in Qingzhou and later destroyed by Liu Yu of Jin.
Southernmost settlements
The southernmost settlements on Earth are Puerto Toro, Chile, a hamlet of 36 people and the southernmost permanent settlement; Puerto Williams, the southernmost city; and Ushuaia, Argentina, the largest southern city.
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik is OutKast's debut album, released April 26, 1994 on LaFace Records. Produced entirely by Organized Noize, it reached number 20 on the Billboard 200, went platinum within a year, and helped Southern rap gain mainstream acceptance.
Southfield, Michigan
Southfield, Michigan is an inner-ring Detroit suburb in Oakland County, incorporated April 28, 1958, with about 76,000 residents, over 27 million square feet of office space, and 774 acres of park land.
Southlake, Texas
Southlake, Texas: affluent Tarrant County suburb northwest of Fort Worth-Dallas, incorporated 1956 near Lake Grapevine, population 31,265 (2020), served by Carroll ISD, median home value about $1 million.
Southland (TV series)
Southland is an American LAPD crime drama created by Ann Biderman, aired on NBC in 2009 and on TNT 2010-2013 across five seasons and 43 episodes, known for hand-held documentary realism and two stunt-coordination Emmys.
Southland Conference
The Southland Conference is a 12-member NCAA Division I athletic conference founded in 1963 in Dallas, based in Frisco, Texas, competing in FCS football and hosting the FCS championship game.
Southland Tales
Southland Tales (2006) is Richard Kelly's dystopian sci-fi comedy-drama, follow-up to Donnie Darko, starring Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Seann William Scott; booed at Cannes, it earned $273.4K and 41% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Southpaw (film)
Southpaw (2015) is an American boxing drama directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by Kurt Sutter, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as champion Billy Hope, with Rachel McAdams and Forest Whitaker; originally developed for Eminem, released by The Weinstein Company, grossing $52.4M in the US.
Southpaw stance
Southpaw stance: right hand and foot forward, left rear power hand, mirror of orthodox. Also the disputed baseball-vs-boxing etymology, prevalence (25% elite boxers, 17.4% MMA), contested advantage, and Hagler, Whitaker, Pacquiao.
Southport
Southport is a seaside resort in Sefton, Merseyside, England, founded in 1792 by William Sutton. Known for Lord Street, the 1860 Southport Pier (Britain's second longest, closed since 2022), Victorian parks, and the Sefton Coast dunes.
Southport F.C.
Southport F.C., the Sandgrounders, an English club founded 1888 as Southport Central, Football League member 1921–1978, Fourth Division champions 1972/73, last club voted out of the League in 1978, now in National League North at Haig Avenue.
Southside (record producer)
Southside (Joshua Howard Luellen, born 1989, Atlanta) is a trap record producer and rapper, co-founder of 808 Mafia, known for Future's DS2 and 56 Nights, "Fuck Up Some Commas," and G Herbo's Swervo.
Southside with You
Southside with You is Richard Tanne's 2016 romantic drama, also called Southside With You, dramatizing Barack and Michelle Obama's 1989 first date across Chicago's South Side, starring Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter, a Sundance 2016 premiere that grossed $6.3 million.
Southward Migration of the Song Court
The Southward Migration of the Song Court (建炎南渡) was Emperor Gaozong's flight south of the Yangtze after the Jin invasion of 1127, establishing the Southern Song.
Southwark
Southwark is a south London borough on the Thames opposite the City, formed in 1965 by merging the metropolitan boroughs of Southwark, Bermondsey, and Camberwell; settled since Roman times.
Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company
The Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company, formally the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, was a private London water supplier formed by an 1845 merger, remembered for John Snow's 1854 cholera investigation.
Southwell
Southwell, Nottinghamshire: site of a large 1st-4th century Roman courtyard villa east of Southwell Minster, excavated by Charles Daniels in 1959, later an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon Christian cemetery, now Scheduled Monument 1003528.
Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines is a Dallas, Texas-based low-cost airline founded by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher in 1971, whose all-Boeing 737, point-to-point model became the template for budget carriers worldwide.
Southwest Airlines fleet
The Southwest Airlines fleet is the all-Boeing 737 jet fleet flown by Southwest Airlines since 1971, apart from a few Boeing 727s; it numbered 803 aircraft as of December 31, 2025.
Southwest Airlines Flight 1248
Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 was a passenger flight that overran the runway landing at Chicago Midway in snow on December 8, 2005, killing a boy in a car.
Southwest Airlines Flight 1380
Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 was a domestic passenger flight that suffered an engine fan blade failure on April 17, 2018, killing one passenger before landing safely in Philadelphia.
Southwest Asia Service Medal
The Southwest Asia Service Medal (SWASM) is a US campaign medal established by Executive Order 12754 on March 12, 1991, for service from August 2, 1990 to November 30, 1995 in support of Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Provide Comfort, and the Southwest Asia Cease Fire Campaign, distinct from Canada's same-named medal.