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Southern blot
Southern blot: DNA detection method invented by Edwin Southern (1975, J Mol Biol); restriction-digested DNA is electrophoresed, capillary-transferred to nitrocellulose or nylon, and probed by hybridization; namesake of Northern and Western blots.
Southern Branch of the Office of Imperial Clan at Quanzhou
The Southern Branch of the Office of Imperial Clan at Quanzhou (南外宗正司) was the Southern Song agency that administered the imperial Zhao clan resettled at Quanzhou from the 1130s.
Southern Bug
Southern Bug (Південний Буг), 806 km river entirely within Ukraine, flowing from the Volyn-Podilska Highlands to the Dnipro-Buzky Firth; third-longest such river, historically Hypanis, heavily regulated, and since 2022 Mykolaiv's proposed drinking-water source.
Southern California
Southern California, often shortened to SoCal, is the southern region of California, generally extending from San Diego north to San Luis Obispo County and centered on Los Angeles.
Southern California Coastal - Baja California
Southern California Coastal - Baja California, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 159, spans coastal southern California and the Baja California Peninsula, an arid region of seasonal streams, springs, and oases with few endemic fishes and 27 introduced species.
Southern California Edison
Southern California Edison, also known as SoCal Edison or the Southern California Edison Company, is an investor-owned electric utility and Edison International subsidiary serving over 15 million Californians across roughly 50,000 square miles.
Southern California Seismic Network
The Southern California Seismic Network, operated jointly by Caltech and the U.S. Geological Survey, monitors earthquakes across southern California, keeping a continuous catalog of over 1,000,000 events since 1932.
Southern Cameroons
Southern Cameroons was a British mandate and UN trust territory, administered as part of Nigeria from 1922 until it voted to join the Republic of Cameroun in 1961.
Southern Canyons Pathways UNESCO Global Geopark
Southern Canyons Pathways (Caminhos dos Cânions do Sul) UNESCO Global Geopark, Brazil, designated 2022: 2,830.8 km², 74,120 inhabitants, Serra Geral canyons, Gondwana geology, Mylodon paleoburrows.
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.