Queen Victoria chose British Columbia to distinguish what was the British sector of the Columbia District from that of the United States (" American Columbia " or " Southern Columbia "), which became the Oregon Territory in 1848 as a result of the treaty.

The Democrats had championed the cause of expansion, informally linking the controversial Texas annexation issue with a claim to the entire Oregon Country, thus appealing to both Northern and Southern expansionists.

Jackson conducted an independent study in, Southern Oregon, to determine the effects of television on violence.

As the economy of the Sacramento Valley grew, the Southern Pacific Railroad established tracks along the river to connect California with Oregon following the ancient path of the Siskiyou Trail, in the 1880s and 1890s.

By informally tying the Oregon boundary dispute to the more controversial Texas debate, the Democrats appealed to both Northern expansionists ( who were more adamant about the Oregon boundary ) and Southern expansionists ( who were more focused on annexing Texas as a slave state ).

Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus, over nearly four centuries the Spanish Empire would expand across: most of present day Central America, the Caribbean islands, and Mexico ; much of the rest of North America including the Southwestern, Southern coastal, and California Pacific Coast regions of the United States ; and though inactive, with claimed territory in present day British Columbia Canada ; and U. S. states of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon ; and the western half of South America.

Many fast food operations have more local and regional roots, such as White Castle in the Midwest United States, along with Hardee's ( owned by CKE Restaurants, which also owns Carl's Jr., whose locations are primarily on the United States West Coast ); Krystal, Bojangles ' Famous Chicken ' n Biscuits, Cook Out, and Zaxby's restaurants in the American Southeast ; Raising Cane's in Louisiana ; Hot ' n Now in Michigan and Wisconsin ; In-N-Out Burger ( in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Texas ) and Original Tommy's chains in Southern California ; Dick's Drive-In in Seattle, Washington and Arctic Circle in Utah and other western states ; Halo Burger around Flint, Michigan and Burgerville in the Portland, Oregon area.

He subsequently married Rosalie, whom he referred to in a latter in the Southern Oregon Historical Society Archives as Rosalie McShane, although she wrote under the name Rosalie Bodrero.

* Bretnor Archives Virtual Exhibit by the Southern Oregon Historical Society

It is also called " The 101 " ( pronounced " the one oh one ") by Southern Californians or simply " Highway 101 " by residents of Northern California, Oregon, and Washington.

They separated when Winona was five and her mother took a position as an art instructor at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, then a small logging town.

In 1851, a group of prospectors moved to the Illinois Valley and made the first discovery of gold in Southern Oregon.

* Southern Oregon University

* Southern Oregon Speedway

The most predominant denominations among residents in Oregon County who adhere to a religion are Southern Baptists ( 36. 10 %), National Association of Free Will Baptists ( 34. 45 %), and Churches of Christ ( 9. 81 %).

The Southern Oregon Historical Society ( SOHS ) formed in 1946 to save the endangered 1880s Jackson County Courthouse.

The Southern Oregon Historical Society now operates Hanley Farm in Central Point and a Research Library in Medford.

White City is also served by RVTD Route 60 connecting to Medford, and by the Southwest POINT which is an intercity route connecting to a number of Southern Oregon cities.

Because of these budget cutbacks, Southern Oregon has used tourism as a means of attracting small businesses and retirees.

According to surveys conducted in 2006 by the Arts Council of Southern Oregon, the city sees a 30 – 50 % increase in sales and visitors during the event.

Southern Oregon is higher, and its climate is often warmer, than better known wine producing valleys such as Napa Valley to the south and Willamette Valley and Columbia Valley to the north.

Adrian is located on the Southern Alternate route of the Oregon Trail, a longer route that eliminated the need to cross the Snake River.

In November 1908, the Oregon Electric Railway ( OE ) began serving the city, and in January 1914, competitor Southern Pacific ( SP ) followed suit, opening its own line, separate from OE's.

Although myths and speculation about a Terra Australis (" Southern Land ") date back to antiquity, the first confirmed sighting of the continent of Antarctica is commonly accepted to have occurred in 1820 by the Russian expedition of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on Vostok and Mirny.

In O Sweet Saint Martin's Land, the lyrics for the Southern Cross are Thy Southern Cross the night.

The territory is also often called the French Southern Lands () or French Southern Territories, which excludes Adélie Land where French sovereignty is not recognized internationally.

The islands, along with Adélie Land, the Crozet Islands and the Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands are part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands and are administered as a separate district.

* Tales of the Reaching Moon # 11 ( 1994 ) Pamaltela: Great Southern Land

The rounding of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn in the 15th and 16th centuries proved that Terra Australis Incognita (" Unknown Southern Land "), if it existed, was a continent in its own right.

They sketched the outlines of the Terra Australis Incognita (" Unknown Southern Land "), a vast continent stretching in parts into the tropics.

Ships sailing from the United Kingdom to Sydney crossed the Indian Ocean and Southern Ocean, sailing around Van Diemen's Land before turning north to their destination.

* One overseas territory ( territoire d ' outre-mer, or TOM ): the French Southern and Antarctic Lands divided into 5 districts: Kerguelen Islands, Crozet Islands, Amsterdam Island and Île Saint-Paul, Adelie Land, and the Scattered islands ( Banc du Geyser, Bassas da India, Europa, Juan de Nova, Glorioso, and Tromelin ).

Like all religions, Odinani is the vehicle used by its practitioners to understand their World ( called " Uwa "), or more specifically, the part of the World that affects them — which is to say the dry Land on which the Igbo live and gather sustenance — and it is from this that the belief acquires its names: " Ọ di " () + n '( na-) + " Ani " ( or the Earth goddess ) in the Northern Igbo dialects and also " O me " () + n '( na-) + " Ala " ( or the physical manifestation of the Earth goddess as dry land ) as used primarily in the Southern Igbo dialects.

He led a life of restless wandering, which took him to North Africa, Egypt ( in 1109, maybe in the company of Yehuda Halevi ), the Land of Israel, Italy ( Rome in 1140-1143, Lucca, Mantua, Verona ), Southern France ( Rodez, Narbonne, Béziers ), Northern France ( Dreux ), England ( London, and Oxford in 1158 ), and back again to Narbonne in 1161, until his death on January 23 or 28, 1167, the exact location unknown: maybe at Calahorra at the border of Navarre and Aragon, or maybe in Rome or in the Holy Land.

Unofficial pop music anthems of Australia include Peter Allen's " I Still Call Australia Home ", Men at Work's " Down Under ", and Icehouse's " Great Southern Land.

Scott Island is a small uninhabited island of volcanic origin in the Ross Sea, Southern Ocean, northeast of Cape Adare, the northeastern extremity of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land.

* US Evangelical Christian leaders led by Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention send a letter to President Bush outlining the theological justification for a pre-emptive attack on Iraq.

To supply the markets of Southern China, Macassan trepangers traded with the Indigenous Australians of Arnhem Land.

As its foundation for support, the letter refers to the " criteria of just war theory as developed by Christian theologians in the late fourth and early fifth centuries A. D ." The letter was written by Richard D. Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Some Grecian " ancient synagogal " priestly rites and hymns have survived partially to the present in the distinct church services of the Melkite and Greek Orthodox communities of the Hatay Province of Southern Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and the Holy Land.

According to the Historical Text Archive on Revolution in the Land: Southern Agriculture in the 20th Century in a section called " The Changing Face of Sharecropping and Tenancy ":

** Allied Land Forces Southern Europe Verona, Italy