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Southend-on-Sea
Southend-on-Sea is a city and unitary authority in Essex on the Thames Estuary, about 40 miles from London. Known for the world's longest pleasure pier (1.34 miles) and city status granted in 2022 honoring Sir David Amess; population about 180,700.
Southern 100
Southern 100 Road Races: annual July mass-start motorcycle road race meeting on the 4.25-mile Billown Course near Castletown, Isle of Man, first run 14 July 1955; named for its 100-mile 500cc feature race, unlike the TT time-trial format.
Southern accent (United States)
Southern accent (United States), or Southern American English, the regional accent of the US South, defined by /aɪ/ monophthongization, the Southern Vowel Shift, the pen-pin merger, y'all and multiple modals; fading in cities like Atlanta and Raleigh amid heavy in-migration.
Southern Accents
Southern Accents: sixth 1985 studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, a troubled loose concept album about the modern South on MCA, produced by Petty, Jimmy Iovine, Mike Campbell, Dave Stewart, and Robbie Robertson, best known for "Don't Come Around Here No More" and its title track.
Southern Administration (Namianguan)
The Southern Administration (南面官) was the Liao dynasty's Tang-style system of Chinese offices, governing the sedentary Chinese population in parallel with the Northern Administration for the nomads.
Southern Africa
Southern Africa: the continent's southernmost sub-region; UN M49 lists Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa (SACU), the world's most unequal region, average Gini about 59.
Southern African Customs Union
The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is a customs union of Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa that shares a common external tariff and pooled customs revenue.
Southern African Development Community
Southern African Development Community (SADC), formerly SADCC, is a Southern African regional integration bloc founded by the 1980 Lusaka Declaration, transformed by the 1992 Windhoek Treaty, headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana.
Southern African theatre traditions
Southern African theater traditions are the theatrical practices of the sub-continent, rooted in indigenous oral narrative, praise poetry, and dance, and reshaped by colonial and protest theater.
Southern Agrarians
The Southern Agrarians, also called the Nashville Agrarians, were twelve writers centered at Vanderbilt University in Nashville who in 1930 published I'll Take My Stand, defending agrarian society against industrialism.
Southern Airways Flight 242
Southern Airways Flight 242 was a DC-9 that crashed at New Hope, Georgia, on April 4, 1977, after both engines failed in a severe thunderstorm, killing 72 people.
Southern Airways Flight 49
Southern Airways Flight 49 was a Memphis-to-Miami DC-9 flight hijacked by three fugitives at Birmingham, Alabama, in November 1972; the 30-hour ordeal ended in Havana and prompted universal US passenger screening.
Southern Airways Flight 932
Southern Airways Flight 932, also known as the Marshall plane crash, was a 1970 crash near Huntington, West Virginia, that killed all 75 aboard, including the Marshall University football team.
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), founded 1916 as PITA, is a publicly funded Calgary polytechnic offering apprenticeship, diploma, and certificate programs to over 40,000 students annually.
Southern Algeria Gas Transmission Network
The Southern Algeria Gas Transmission Network is the name under which the Global Energy Monitor tracks two operating gas pipelines in the Algerian Sahara, both owned by Sonatrach.
Southern All Stars (group)
Southern All Stars (サザンオールスターズ) is a Japanese rock band formed in 1975 around Keisuke Kuwata. Its 1979 hit Itoshi no Ellie and 1999 single TSUNAMI made it one of Japan's best-selling groups.
Southern Alps/Kā Tiritiri o te Moana
The Southern Alps/Kā Tiritiri o te Moana, meaning "mountains of the ocean" in Māori, is the chief mountain chain on New Zealand's South Island, running about 500 kilometers.
Southern American English
Southern American English, also called Southern, is the regional dialect cluster of the U.S. South, marked by the Southern Vowel Shift, monophthongal /aɪ/, the Southern drawl, a-prefixing, and a now-receding accent in cities.
Southern Anatolia
Southern Anatolia (FEOW ecoregion 432) is a temperate coastal rivers freshwater ecoregion covering southern Anatolian Turkey, Cyprus, and Crete, with Taurus-origin rivers Aksu, Göksu, Seyhan, and Ceyhan, roughly 20% endemic fish species, and Ramsar sites including the Göksu Delta and Lake Burdur.
Southern Annam
Southern Annam (FEOW ecoregion 730) is a Vietnamese freshwater ecoregion of short coastal rivers draining the Annamite Range's eastern slopes to the South China Sea, with endemic Balitoridae loaches and Mekong-affinity fauna.
Southern Annular Mode
The Southern Annular Mode, also called the Antarctic Oscillation, is the leading pattern of Southern Hemisphere climate variability, a north-south shift of the westerly winds circling Antarctica.
Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve
Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve (Southern Appalachian Biosphere Region, SABR), a UNESCO MAB reserve nominated in 1988 across six to seven southeastern U.S. states, 15,863,740 ha, anchored by Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Coweeta, coordinated by the SAMAB cooperative.
Southern Army
The Southern Army (南军) was one of the palace-guard forces of China's Western Han dynasty, placed under Lü Chan at Empress Gao's death in 180 BC.
Southern Asia
Southern Asia (South Asia), the southern region of Asia centered on the Indian subcontinent; UN definition covers nine countries from Afghanistan and Iran to Sri Lanka and Maldives, population about 2.09 billion in 2025.
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), founded in Atlanta in 1895, is a private nonprofit body accrediting schools and colleges across the southern United States.
Southern Baltic Lowlands
Southern Baltic Lowlands: FEOW freshwater ecoregion 408, Palearctic temperate coastal rivers in Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia, draining the Neva, Daugava, Narva, and Venta rivers to the Baltic Sea.
Southern Baptist Convention
The Southern Baptist Convention, also known as Southern Baptists or Great Commission Baptists, is a network of autonomous Baptist churches in the United States, organized in 1845 in Augusta, Georgia.
Southern Barbarians Come to Trade
Southern Barbarians Come to Trade (南蛮人来朝図, Nanbanjin raichō zu) is the title of a pair of six-panel folding screens at the Kobe City Museum, attributed to Kanō Naizen.
Southern belle
The Southern belle is a romanticized archetype of an upper-class white young woman in the antebellum South, first appearing in literature in 1832 and later popularized by Gone with the Wind.
Southern black racer
Southern black racer (Coluber constrictor priapus), a non-venomous subspecies of the North American racer; glossy black with white chin, diurnal and fast, ranging from North Carolina to eastern Texas, diet heavy in lizards and snakes.