Faulkner's low-class characters had but few counterparts in earlier Southern novels dealing with plantation life.

There, along the east bank of the Southern Bug, opposite the hamlet of Zhitzhakli a few miles north of the Black Sea, he arrived at General Headquarters of the Russian Army.

Since moving from a Chicago suburb to Southern California a few months ago, I've been introduced to a new game called Lanesmanship.

Reverend Joshual Corder, a Baptist minister, gathered a few citizens of Southern sympathies, to call on Jones and plead with him to spare the structure ; ;

The size of click inventories ranges from as few as three ( in Sesotho ) or four ( in Dahalo ), to dozens in the Kx ' a and Tuu ( Northern and Southern Khoisan ) languages.

A few months before his arrival Garibaldi had seized the Kingdom of Naples, and all of Southern Italy and Sicily had been annexed to the new Kingdom of Italy.

These may be standalone committees, or they may be organized by an existing local group ; a few groups such as MCFI in Boston and SCIFI ( Southern California Institute for Fan Interests ), Inc. in southern California are permanent corporations set up to run Worldcons ( or other one-off / rotating conventions ) in different years in the same area.

† The Negro Southern League was considered a de facto major league in 1932 because it was the only league to play a full season schedule, and many players ( and a few teams ) from the original Negro National League played there.

The traders and British government agents dealing with the Southern tribes in general and the Cherokee in particular were nearly all of Scottish extraction, especially from the Highlands, though a few were Scots-Irish, English, French, even German ( see Scottish Indian trade ).

According to an historical narrative on the event titled " Chief Left Hand ", by Margaret Coel, contributing factors that led to the massacre were: Governor Evans ' desire to hold title to the resource rich Denver-Boulder area ; government trust officials ' avoidance of Chief Left Hand ( a linguistically gifted Southern Arapaho chief ), when executing a legal treaty that transferred title of the area away from Indian Trust ; a local cavalry stretched thin by the demands of the Civil War ; the hijacking of their supplies by a few stray Indian warriors who had lost respect for their chiefs and followers of Chief Left Hand ( including a group of Cheyenne and Arapaho elders, a few well behaved warriors, and mostly women and children ), who had received a message to report to Fort Lyon with the promise of safety and food at the Fort, or risk being considered " hostile " and ordered killed by the cavalry.

In 1946 Sardinians voted for more than 60 % in favor of monarchy like the rest of the Southern Italy, but but a few days later will be declared the Italian Republic.

Southern Xiongnu now dominated Bingzhou ( in modern Shanxi province ) and their horsemen could arrive at Jinyang ( Taiyuan ) in half-a-day's ride and Luoyang, the capital, in a few days.

Many Southern states and school districts interpreted " Brown II " as legal justification for resisting, delaying, and avoiding significant integration for years — and in some cases for a decade or more — using such tactics as closing down school systems, using state money to finance segregated " private " schools, and " token " integration where a few carefully selected black children were admitted to former white-only schools but the vast majority remained in underfunded, unequal black schools.

Until a few decades ago, Abruzzo was a region of poverty in Southern Italy ; over the past decades, however, it has developed to such an extent that it has escaped from the spiral of underdevelopment to become the ' first ' region of the ' Italian Mezzogiorno '.

After some initial victories, intervention by Russia turned the tide and forced the Turks to conclude peace in 1681, effectively returning the Cossack lands to Russian rule with the exception of a few forts on the Dnieper and Southern Bug rivers.

The archive of networked programmes made by Southern Television, for example, is now owned by the Australian media company Southern Star Group ( no connection ) – but Southern's regional output is in the hands of ITV plc, whilst the few surviving tapes of Associated-Rediffusion belong to many different organisations ( the majority of Associated-Rediffusion's tapes were recorded in monochrome and therefore deemed of no use upon the arrival of colour broadcasting ; as such they were disposed of by their successor Thames Television ), although in recent years there have been occasional discoveries such as a 1959 episode of Double Your Money and the remaining missing episode of Around the World with Orson Welles, found by Ray Langstone in 2011.

As a result, the band nearly called it quits in 1996 after their final U. S. tour, a few years after Daugherty, Hindalong and Michaels moved from their homes in Southern California to Nashville, Tennessee, since much of the CCM industry is now based there.

A curious political fact about Wilkes County is that it is one of the few counties in the Southern United States which has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since the 1830s.

Governor's office, and within a few days the location was identified as Bruce Karatz's home in Southern California.

There are a number of insular species, including the Clarion Wren and Socorro Wren from the Revillagigedo Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and the Cobb's Wren in the Falkland Islands, but few Caribbean islands have a species of wren, with only the Southern House Wren in the Lesser Antilles, the Cozumel Wren of Cozumel Island, and the highly restricted Zapata Wren in a single swamp in Cuba.

There were few opportunities for punk rock bands to perform in Southern California.

Into the 2000s the area still lagged behind Eastern and Southern Jefferson County, with one of its few remaining large retail centers, the Dillard's on Dixie Highway, which had opened in 1956, closing in 2007 due to unusually slow sales at that location ( the chain itself was profitable in the Louisville region ).

But Interior Secretary Udall warns that there is a race on between those who would develop our few surviving open shorelines and those who would save them for the enjoyment of all as public preserves.

He took the title of the latter from a speech by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes: " Our ancestors did not fight for the right of a few Lords of the Press to have almost exclusive control of and censorship over the dissemination of news and ideas.

Along with the Ozark Mountains, the Ouachita Mountains form the U. S. Interior Highlands, one of the few major mountainous regions between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains.

After his return from the United States, and faced with failing health, he transferred his presidential powers to his minister of the Interior Alfredo Duhalde ( January 17, 1946 ) and died a few months later, on June 27.

Between 1920 and 1937, multiple proposals were made to Congress and the Department of the Interior to construct dams of various sizes at the Yellowstone Lake outlet or a few miles downstream.

A 1951 law gave the Ministry of Interior jurisdiction over associations, and in the 1960s there were only a few hundred societies still in existence.

In September 1996, the United States Department of the Interior signed a 45 million dollar resettlement agreement with the islanders, stipulating that the islanders themselves will scrape off a few inches of Rongelap's still contaminated surface.

It was one of the few industrialized centres in the Beira Interior region, even supplanting Seia until the middle of the 20th century.

In France, supporters of Battisti, such as Gilles Perrault, have called this arrest, a few weeks before the April 2007 presidential election, an " electoral feat ," closely timed by the then Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, candidate for the UMP conservative party.

A few Pages from the Diary of Emil Holub, M. D., written during His third Trip into the Interior of Southern Africa ( Grahamstown: no publisher, reprinted Bulawayo: Books of Zimbabwe 2004 )

A few million years later, this sea would expand to the north, becoming the Western Interior Seaway and dividing North America in two for nearly the entire Late Cretaceous.

There are over twenty undergraduate major programs at UC, with two majors being somewhat unique to the region, with few other colleges offering similar programs: Interior Design and Radiologic Science.

Late Cretaceous elasmosaurids from the Western Interior of North America have few features that separate them and are morphologically primitive.

Broadbent, a former Boulder City mayor, Clark County commissioner, assistant secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, and McCarran International Airport director, died in 2003, a few months before the system's scheduled opening.

During the frontier era it was a major obstacle between the Lower Mainland and the Interior Plateau, and the slender trails along its rocky walls-many of them little better than notches cut into granite, with a few handholds-were compared to goat-tracks.

Calapan boasts of many notable achievements and awards that it had garnered under its belt in the past years ever since becoming a city, such as when it was recognized as one of the " Most Competitive Cities in the Philippines " and being awarded with an ISO certification both in 2008, the Calapan City Accounting office being awarded with " Most Outstanding Accounting Office in the Philippines " in 2009, the new city public market being adjudged as the " Most Outstanding Infrastructure Project in Asia " by the Association of Development Financing Institution in Asia and the Pacific, the city being " One of the Top 12 Most Business-Friendly Cities of the Philippines " out of 60 city-applicants in the country, the Calapan City PESO being " No. 2 Best PESO in the Philippines ", being awarded with the " Seal of Good Housekeeping " by the Department of the Interior and Local Government, being chosen as one of the only four City Governments in the country which was able to maintain its ISO certification, and being awarded with the " The Trailblazer Award " by the Institute for Solidarity in Asia to name a few.

From 1985 until 1991 he served as the state secretary general of Nuevo León and for a few years he served as undersecretary of political development at the Mexican Secretariat of the Interior during the Ernesto Zedillo administration.

Apparently some militants briefly entered the Ministry of the Interior, but Borghese suspended the coup few hours before its final phase.

Access inland from the coast is limited to a few narrow valleys because mountain ridges.

The few valleys and plains in these mountains tend to be fertile and to support diverse agriculture.

West of Markovo it is in the Anadyr Highlands ( moderate mountains and valleys with a few trees ) and east of Markovo it moves into the Anadyr lowlands ( very flat treeless tundra with lakes and bogs ).

Blue Cranes are birds of the dry grassy uplands, usually the pastured grasses of hills, valleys, and plains with a few scattered trees.

In Sutherland quite a few are placed along the sides and at the mouths of deep valleys.

Only a few interior valleys and coastal strips are flat enough for soil accumulations of consequence, however.

But the presence of apparently extensive land is misleading because the nation's rugged, mountainous terrain restricts large-scale agricultural production to narrow strips on the coasts and to a few fertile valleys.

Except for a few valleys, the mountain area proper is suitable only for grazing in the foothills and steppes ; adequate soil and rainfall, however, make cultivation possible.

However, except for a few sheltered inland valleys during December and January, precipitation in Japan is above of rainfall equivalent in all months of the year, and in the wettest coastal areas it is above per month throughout the year.

The country consists mainly of a plateau between 700 and 1, 200 meters high, divided into ridges by valleys and gorges, and a few mountainous areas.

The cities were very small, really no more than towns, and were concentrated along the coast and in a few inland valleys.

Access inland from the coast is limited to a few narrow valleys because mountain ridges, with elevations of 1, 525 to 1, 800 meters in the west and 3, 000 to 4, 000 meters in the east in Kaçkar Mountains, form an almost unbroken wall separating the coast from the interior.

The few valleys and plains in these mountains tend to be fertile and to support diverse agriculture.

A large portion of the Californian sparkling wine industry uses Chardonnay grapes from Carneros, Alexander and Russian River valleys with these areas attracting the attention of Champagne producers like Bollinger, Louis Roederer, Moët et Chandon and the Taittinger family who have opened up wineries in last few decades.

Both of these valleys were formed within the last few million years and both are bounded by north – south-trending mountain ranges.

Control of the central and southern regions, such as the Guadalquivir and Ebro valleys, presented few problems for the newcomers, who used the existing Visigothic administrative structures, ultimately of Roman origin.

The county is generally composed of rolling hills and valleys with elevations ranging anywhere between 1100 and 2100 feet, although the land within a few miles of Lake Erie is generally flat and at an elevation of 1000 feet or lower.

In 1598 his son and successor Ferdinand suppressed all Protestant schools and expelled the teachers and preachers: Protestant doctrines were maintained only in a few isolated mountain valleys, as in the valley of the Inn and the valley of the Mur.

The northern portion is generally level ; the soil is of indifferent quality, strong and marly in a few places, but rocky in all the valleys of the Sierra de Ávila ; and the climate alternates from severe cold in winter to extreme heat in summer.

There are very few flood meadows left along the river valleys although some significant areas remain on the lower reaches of the River Derwent.

In 1968 American anthropologist Johan Reinhard located a few of the last surviving Kusunda near Gorkha in Central Nepal, and in 1969 and 1975 he found further members in Dang and Surkhet valleys in western Nepal, collecting basic linguistic and ethnographic data ( see references below ).

Snow falls a few times a year on the highest ridges, and more rarely the higher valleys receive light dustings.

The new border between France and Germany mainly followed the geolinguistic divide between Romance and Germanic dialects, except in a few valleys of the Alsatian side of the Vosges mountains, the city of Metz and in the area of Château-Salins ( formerly in the Meurthe département ), which were annexed by Germany despite the fact that people there spoke French.

Until then few Pākehā had even penetrated the range, which consists of steep valleys and thick bush-clad hills frequently hidden by mist.