On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.

The University of Texas at Austin has also recognized Johnston with a statue on the South Mall.

The President sanctioned similar actions in other states, including South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida and Texas.

Forced by his son's respiratory illness to winter in the South, Stone moved to Arkansas and Texas.

Other well-known areas are: Chironico ( Switzerland ), Stanage ( UK ), Hueco Tanks ( Texas ), Val Masino and Val di Mello ( Italy ), Castle Hill ( New Zealand ), Bishop ( California ), Joe's Valley ( Utah ), Yosemite ( California ), Rocktown ( Georgia ), Rocklands ( South Africa ), Cocalzinho de Goiás ( Brazil ), Kjugekull ( Sweden ), Hampi ( India ) Horse Pens 40 ( Alabama ) and Horseshoe Canyon Ranch ( Arkansas ) amongst others.

Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin, who played steel guitar and bass.

Another group emigrated to British-ruled Kenya, from where most returned to South Africa during the 1930s, while a third group under the leadership of General Ben Viljoen emigrated to Mexico and to New Mexico and Texas in south-western USA.

" South El Paso, Texas, July 1972.

The cane toad is native to the Americas, and its range stretches from the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas to the central Amazon and southeastern Peru.

The cane toad naturally exists in South Texas, but attempts ( both deliberate and accidental ) have been made to introduce the species to other parts of the country.

Cascarones, a North-Eastern Mexican tradition now shared by many in South Texas, are an emptied and dried chicken egg stuffed with confetti and sealed with a piece of tissue paper.

The Gulf Coast of the United States, sometimes referred to as the Gulf South, South Coast, or 3rd Coast, comprises the coasts of American states that are on the Gulf of Mexico, which includes Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida and are known as the Gulf States.

Three-quarters of grits sold in the U. S. are sold in the South stretching from Texas to Virginia, also known as the " grits belt ".

Hoover managed to crack the so-called " Solid South ", winning such Democratic strongholds as Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Tennessee ; the Deep South stood with Smith.

* Tsesis, Alexander, Protecting Children Against Unnecessary Institutionalization, South Texas Law Review, vol.

By linking acquisition of new lands in Oregon ( with no slavery ) and Texas ( with slavery ), he hoped to satisfy both North and South.

Along with Texas, Memphis & North and South Carolina, Kansas City is a " world capital of barbecue.

The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska ; parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River ; most of North Dakota ; most of South Dakota ; northeastern New Mexico ; northern Texas ; the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide ; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans ; and small portions of land that would eventually become part of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

More recently, Texas artists such as Chingo Bling, Juan Gotti and South Park Mexican have enjoyed steady sales, and have headlined a number of successful Southwest tours.

Lemmy premiered on March 2010 at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.

California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington and Pennsylvania also add the following questions to comply with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.

The FLDS Church is estimated to have 10, 000 members residing in the sister cities of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona ; Eldorado, Texas ; Westcliffe, Colorado ; Mancos, Colorado ; Creston and Bountiful, British Columbia ; and Pringle, South Dakota.

In 1985, Kiribati was one of the nine initial endorsers of the Treaty of Rarotonga creating the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty.

Underwater scenes were filmed in the containment building of Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant, an unfinished nuclear power plant on Owensby Road, near Gaffney, South Carolina, in the United States.

The film was shot at the Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant outside of Gaffney, South Carolina.

Sherman's March: A Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love In the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation is a 1986 documentary film written and directed by Ross McElwee.

* Work on cleaning up the site of the Oldbury Nuclear Power Station near Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, England, which was decommissioned on 29 February 2012, is scheduled to be complete no earlier than 2092 ( and possibly as late as 2101 ).

North Korea joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) as a non-nuclear weapons state in 1985, and North and South Korean talks begun in 1990 resulted in a 1992 Denuclearization Statement.

Operation Argus was a series of nuclear weapons tests and missile tests secretly conducted during August and September 1958 over the South Atlantic Ocean by the United States's Defense Nuclear Agency, in conjunction with the Explorer 4 space mission.

Garrett's first attempt at entering politics was in 1984, when the Nuclear Disarmament Party invited him to stand for a New South Wales seat in the Australian Senate at the federal election in December.

In addition to power plants operating on each of the major lakes, waters of the Colorado are used for cooling the South Texas Nuclear Project, near Bay City.

Tuvalu endorsed the Treaty of Rarotonga joining itself to the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty in 1985.

Tonga endorsed the Treaty of Rarotonga ( the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty ) in 1995.

Robinson Nuclear Generating Station, a nuclear power plant in the U. S. state of South Carolina

The Carnegie Endowment office in Washington, D. C. is home to eight programs: The Nuclear Policy Program, Russia & Eurasia Program, South Asia Program, Democracy & Rule of Law Program, Asia Program, Energy & Climate Program, Middle East Program, and International Economics Program.

* Catawba Nuclear Generating Station near Rock Hill, South Carolina

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The park, which is maintained and operated by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, is located in the southwest corner of South Haven Township and the northwest corner of Covert Township, just north of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant.

* The Mini-Nuke Conspiracy: How Mandela Inherited a Nuclear Nightmare about nuclear weapons in South Africa, Viking ( 1 October 1995 ) ISBN 0-670-86925-2 ( with Steve McQuillan )

As it approaches South Haven, the freeway passes near the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station and Van Buren State Park.

Scottish Power was largely formed from the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the South of Scotland Electricity Board, whilst the other, the North of Scotland Hydro Board, eventually became part of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group ( the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, Scottish Nuclear, which was not sold off with Scottish Power and Scottish Hydro Electric, but was sold later as part of British Energy ).

Unable to get favorable prices from American steel manufacturers, and unhappy with the imported steel available at the time, Iverson ( a metallurgist by training ) decided to integrate Nuclear backwards into steel making by building its first steel bar mill in Darlington, South Carolina in 1968.

The South Texas Nuclear Generating Station is found in nearby Bay City.

In 1999 Catawba Nuclear Station employees spotted a 5 – 7 foot alligator in a nearby lagoon and South Carolina Department of Natural Resources officers captured an eight-foot alligator in August 2002.