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South Shore, Chicago

South Shore is Chicago community area 43, a lakefront South Side neighborhood from 67th to 79th Street, annexed in 1889, transformed from a middle-class white enclave to a predominantly Black community between 1950 and 1980.

South Side (TV series)

South Side is an American sitcom created by Bashir Salahuddin, Diallo Riddle, and Sultan Salahuddin, set and shot in Englewood, Chicago, around a Rent-T-Own store. Premiered July 24, 2019 on Comedy Central, later moved to HBO Max for three seasons.

South Side Park

South Side Park (Schorling Park), Chicago wooden ballpark at 39th and Princeton/Wentworth; first American League game April 24, 1901; White Sox home 1901-10, American Giants 1911-40; burned 1940, site now Wentworth Gardens.

South Side, Chicago

South Side, Chicago: largest of the city's three traditional sides, shaped by steel and meatpacking industry, the Great Migration, the Black Belt, and the Obama Presidential Center.

South Sister

South Sister, highest peak of the Three Sisters volcano cluster in the Oregon Cascades at 3,157 m, a silicic stratovolcano built 50,000 to 2,000 years ago with ongoing uplift west of its summit.

South Slavic epic poetry

South Slavic epic poetry is a living oral tradition of narrative song sung by bards called guslari to the gusle, a stringed instrument, especially among Serbs, Montenegrins, and Bosnian Muslims.

South Slavic languages

South Slavic languages: the Balkan branch of Slavic, with seven official standards (Slovene, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian), split into West and East subgroups, shaped by Balkan contact features.

South Slavs

South Slavs: the Slavic peoples of the Balkans, including Slovenes, Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians, and Bulgarians; settled the peninsula in the 6th and 7th centuries.

South Slope Spring

South Slope Spring: natural spring on the south slope of the Acropolis of Athens, sacred to the nymphs and Pan, later the South Slope Spring House at the western end of the Asklepieion, with a late 6th-century BC polygonal reservoir.

South Station

South Station, opened in 1899, is Boston's main intermodal transit hub, serving Amtrak, MBTA commuter rail, the Red and Silver Lines, and intercity buses from the Financial District.

South Stoa I

South Stoa I: Classical stoa on the south side of the Athenian Agora, built ca. 430-420 BC with fifteen dining rooms, later used commercially, demolished mid-2nd century BC for South Stoa II.

South Stream

South Stream (Yuzhny Potok) was a Gazprom-led project for a 63-billion-cubic-meter-per-year pipeline carrying Russian gas across the Black Sea to Bulgaria and Central Europe, canceled in December 2014.

South Street Seaport

South Street Seaport: historic district on Manhattan's East River waterfront, once New York's principal port, home to the 1967 South Street Seaport Museum and redeveloped under lease by the Howard Hughes Corporation.

South Sudan

South Sudan (Republic of South Sudan), Africa's newest state, independent from Sudan 9 July 2011 after a 98.83 percent referendum vote; capital Juba; civil war 2013-2018, 2018 R-ARCSS, oil-dependent economy, December 2026 first elections.

South Sudanese Civil War

South Sudanese Civil War (2013–2018): conflict between Salva Kiir's government and Riek Machar's SPLM-IO that killed an estimated 400,000; ended by the 2018 R-ARCSS, which collapsed after Machar's 2025 arrest.

South Sudanese pound

The South Sudanese pound (SSP) is the currency of South Sudan, introduced by the Bank of South Sudan in July 2011 to replace the Sudanese pound at par.

South Sudanese refugees in Uganda

South Sudanese refugees in Uganda are people who fled conflict in South Sudan for asylum in Uganda, largely through land-based settlements like Bidibidi, opened in 2016.

South Sydney Rabbitohs

South Sydney Rabbitohs, Sydney NRL rugby league club founded 1908; record 21 Australian premierships including the inaugural 1908 title (14-12 v Eastern Suburbs); excluded 2000-2001, reinstated 2002 after Federal Court appeal; red and green, Accor Stadium.

South Tangerang

South Tangerang (Kota Tangerang Selatan, Tangsel) is a city in Banten, Indonesia, split from Tangerang Regency by Law 51/2008 on 26 November 2008; about 1.5 million people, 7 districts, private new towns BSD City, Bintaro Jaya, Alam Sutera.

South Terrebonne High School

South Terrebonne High School, home of the Gators, is a public 9-12 high school in Bourg, Louisiana, in the Terrebonne Parish School District. Opened 1961, A-rated, rebuilt after Hurricane Ida, reopened 2026.

South Texas nuclear power plant

The South Texas Project Electric Generating Station (STP) is a two-unit nuclear power plant near Bay City in Matagorda County, Texas, producing about 2,700 megawatts.

South Thailand insurgency

South Thailand insurgency: Malay Muslim separatist conflict in Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat led by the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) and PULO, ongoing since 2004, killing nearly 7,900, with Malaysia-facilitated peace talks since 2013.

South Tombs Cemetery, Amarna

The South Tombs Cemetery is a large non-elite burial ground at Amarna, Egypt, serving about 6,000 people of Akhetaten during the reign of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, c. 1349–1332 BC.

South Tyrol

South Tyrol, also known as Alto Adige, is a predominantly German-speaking autonomous province in northern Italy, a noted case of successful power-sharing between language groups.

South Tyrolean People's Party

South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP, Südtiroler Volkspartei), founded 8 May 1945 in Bolzano, is the Christian democratic ethnic catch-all party of South Tyrol's German and Ladin speakers; it governed with DC 1948-1993, lost its absolute majority in 2013, and has since ruled with right-wing Italian partners.

South Uist

South Uist (Uibhist a Deas) is a 36,467 ha island in the southern Outer Hebrides, Scotland, linked to Benbecula by causeway, known for machair landscapes, Cladh Hallan mummies, brochs, Norse sites, kelp-era clearance and crofting.

South Ukraine nuclear power plant

The South Ukraine nuclear power plant (SUNPP) stands on the Southern Buh River near Pivdennoukrainsk, Ukraine; operating since 1982, it runs three VVER-1000 reactors totaling 3,000 MW.

South Umm-Gudair gas field

South Umm-Gudair (Arabic: أُمّ قُدَيْر) is a petroleum field at the north-western corner of the Kuwait–Saudi Arabia Partitioned Neutral Zone, with main production from the Lower Cretaceous Minagish Oolite reservoir.

South Valley Gas Pipeline

The South Valley Gas Pipeline (خط غاز الصعيد), also called the Upper Egypt Gas Pipeline, is a 930 km natural gas pipeline in Egypt from Dahshour to Aswan.

South Vietnam

South Vietnam (Việt Nam Cộng hòa), the Republic of Vietnam, was the US-backed anticommunist state in southern Vietnam, 1954/1955–1975, created by the Geneva Accords partition, ruled from Saigon by Diệm and later Thiệu, and collapsed in April 1975.