They may even enroll a colored student or two for show, though he usually turns out to be from Thailand, or any place other than the American South.

In 1879 the same Clark Wait, with H. H. Holley of South Dorset, formed the `` American Telegraph Line '', extending from Manchester Depot via Factory Point and South Dorset to Dorset.

For he seemed to sense at once that before him was no South Sea, but the solid bulk of the North American continent.

I once tried to describe to a very well-known American intellectual the conditions among Negroes in the South.

`` Billions of American dollars, not only from capital investors but also from the pockets of U.S. taxpayers '', this author states, `` are being poured into South Africa to support a system dedicated to the oppression, the persecution, and the almost diabolical exploitation of 12 million people the color of whose skins happens not to be white ''.

Though the subject -- segregation in her native South -- has been thoroughly worked, Miss McCullers uses her poet's instinct and storyteller's skill to reaffirm her place at the very top of modern American writing.

The South American caecilian, Siphonops paulensis

The aardvark is not closely related to the South American anteater, despite sharing some characteristics and a superficial resemblance.

* Mwakikagile, Godfrey Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era, Third Edition, Pretoria, South Africa, 2006, on Angola in Chapter 11, " American Involvement in Angola and Southern Africa: Nyerere's Response ", pp. 324 – 346, ISBN 978-0-9802534-1-2.

* 1861 – American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.

* 1947 – A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile.

Harvesting Freedom: African American Agrarianism in Civil War Era South Carolina ( 2007 )

* American Samoa ( IOC country code ), an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa ( formerly known as Western Samoa )

Instead, he left home and became a traveling salesman in the American South, peddling books and merchandise.

Dasyproctidae is a family of large South American rodents, comprising the agoutis and acouchis.

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden – The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.

* 1863 – American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.

Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

The Kingdom of Peru was the entire South American Sub-continent.

At the time both South African and South American plants were placed in the same genus ; subsequently they were separated into two different genera.

The key question is whether Linnaeus's type was a South African plant or a South American plant.

The loss of syllable-final r in North America is confined mostly to the accents of eastern New England, New York City and surrounding areas and the coastal portions of the South, and African American Vernacular English.

* 1964 – South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.

These include the Suva sports stadium, built for the South Pacific Games of 2003.

The new South Stand opened in 1956, in time for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.

It would turn out to be the last time that South Africa would participate in the Games until 1994.

South Africa withdrew from the Commonwealth Games in 1961.

* South East Asian Games

* South Asian Games

* Carrier ( game ), a South Pacific World War II board game from Victory Games

The next Special Olympics World Winter Games will be in Pyeongchang, South Korea from January 29 to February 5, 2013 ..

* regional, such as the East Asian Games and the South American Games

* South American Games, began in 1978.

* South Asian Games, for nations in South Asia

* South Pacific Games, held first in 1963 for countries around the South Pacific

The sports activities in vogue are football ( Drukstar is the popular team in Thimphu ), basketball, golf, Kwon do ( Bhutan earned a gold medal in this game in the South Asia Federation Games in 2004, squash, golf ( popular among the elite middle class ) and in recent years cricket.

Category: Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa

The Festival of Britain emblem – the Festival Star – designed by Abram Games, from the cover of the South Bank Exhibition Guide, 1951

It was the third time that the Summer Olympic Games were held in Asia, after Tokyo, Japan, in 1964 and Seoul, South Korea, in 1988.

The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.

The 1964 Summer Games were the first Olympics held in Asia, and the first time South Africa was barred from taking part due to its apartheid system in sports.

The Triangle is one of the venues in the South East supporting the London 2012 Olympic Games, and will serve as a base and training centre for teams from around the world.

The 1934 Games had originally been awarded to Johannesburg, South Africa, but were changed to London because of concerns ( particularly from Canada ) about the way South Africa would treat black and Asian athletes.