Southern Iraq during Akkadian period seems to have been approaching its modern rainfall level of less than per year, with the result that agriculture was totally dependent upon irrigation.

A large number of myths about Enki have been collected from many sites, stretching from Southern Iraq to the Levantine coast.

During the Uruk phase, colonists and traders from Southern Iraq established important quarters in settlements throughout the northern part of the Levantine region ( e. g. Amuq ).

The Ground Self-Defense Force also dispatched their troops to Southern Iraq for the restoration of basic infrastructures.

Dust storm over Kuwait and Southern Iraq, April 16, 2003

* c. 5400 BC: Irrigation and the beginning of the Sumerian civilization in Southern Iraq.

Image: Kuwait. A2003106. 0805. 250m. jpg | Dust storm over Kuwait and Southern Iraq, April 16, 2003

Its administration in Southern Iraq has been criticized as corrupt and as " theocracy mixed with thuggery " According to a 2005 report by journalist Doug Ireland, the Badr Organization has been involved in many incidents of attacking and killing gays in Iraq.

Sumerian cylinder seals also depict houses built from reeds not unlike those built by the Marsh Arabs of Southern Iraq until as recently as 400 AD.

Southern Iraq was also the home of one of the world's first known civilisations, Sumer, which began about 6, 000 B. C.

They flew missions enforcing United Nations Security Council resolutions of a no-fly zone over Southern Iraq.

* 2004-Four Southern Baptist missionaries are killed by gunman in Iraq

They include in particular the communities living in, or coming from, Southern Arabia ( Yemen ), Mesopotamia ( Iraq ), Syria, Persia ( Iran ) and India.

Early contact with Europeans came about in the mid-16th century, when Portuguese missionarries encountered Mandaeans in Southern Iraq and controversially designated them " Christians of St. John ".

* A No-Fly Zone, which prohibits the flights of Iraqi aircraft, was established in southern Iraq, south of latitude 32 degrees north to protect the Shiite's population, codename Operation Southern Watch.

* 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.

* U. S. Intelligence reports that Iraqi soldiers in Southern Iraq have been armed with chemical weapons.

Iraq challenged the no-fly zone beginning in December 1992 when a USAF F-16 fighter plane shot down an Iraqi MiG-25 Foxbat fighter which had locked on to it in the Southern no-fly zone.

* June 24-Six British Royal Military Police killed by a mob in Al Majar Al Kabir in Southern Iraq.

Speakers from across the world included Cindy Sheehan, the American mother whose son died in Iraq ; and Hassan Juma, president of the Iraqi Southern Oil Workers Union.

The Air National Guard participated widely in that long campaign, which featured U. S. and coalition aircraft maintaining two no-fly zones over portions of Iraq: Operation Southern Watch and Operation Northern Watch.

The Danish government strongly supported the US-led invasion of Iraq, 2003, and in what was seen as recognition of the Scandinavian country's support for the coalition, Olsen was appointed to the position as coordinator for one of the four U. S .- led provisional authorities, that in Southern Iraq, stationed in Basra.

Many believe -- and understandably -- that the great difference between the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy and the Federal Constitution was that the former recognized the right of each state to secede.

In early March Congress, led in part by Radical Republicans, passed the first in a series of four Reconstruction Acts, initially providing for the recognition of provisional governments to be established thereunder by the Southern states, on the condition that each state ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and assure suffrage for freedmen.

On July 19, 2007, the Iles Eparses entry and redirects for each island were dropped due to the group becoming a district of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands in February.

Finally, near the end of the Southern and Northern Dynasties era, both Buddhist and Taoist followers compromised and became more tolerant of each other.

In the Eureka Oath from Peter Lalor's famous speech in 1854 under the Eureka Flag he proclaimed " We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and liberties.

The schedules are based on three routes-a Northern Shuttle and the Southern Shuttle that each have one flight a day and the East-West Shuttle that has a morning and an evening flight every day.

Tasmanian State League football features five clubs from Hobart, and other leagues such as Southern Football League and the Old Scholars Football Association are also played each Winter.

Southern parts of the province, located just north of Tornado Alley, experience tornadoes each year, with 15 confirmed touchdowns in 2006.

The Southern Hemisphere will see each phase rotated through 180 °.

The second diagram shows how this fragment size variation would look on a Southern blot, and how each allele ( two per individual ) might be inherited in members of a family.

Star names from these catalogues include the initials of which of the four catalogues they are from ( though the Southern follows the example of the Bonner and uses BD ; CPD is often shortened to CP ), followed by the angle of declination of the star ( rounded towards zero, and thus ranging from + 00 to + 89 and-00 to-89 ), followed by an arbitrary number as there are always thousands of stars at each angle.

Thai cuisine is more accurately described as four regional cuisines corresponding to the four main regions of the country: Northern, Northeastern ( or Isan ), Central, and Southern, each cuisine sharing similar foods or foods derived from those of neighboring countries and regions: Burma to the northwest, the Chinese province of Yunnan and Laos to the north, Vietnam and Cambodia to the east and Malaysia to the south of Thailand.

Besides on-campus libraries, the UC system also maintains two regional library facilities ( one each for Northern and Southern California ), which each accept older items from all UC campus libraries in their respective region.

each Southern, vodka, cream ", with " Southern " referring to Coffee Southern, a contemporary brand of coffee liqueur.

The Federation's government assigned roles to each of the three territories: Southern Rhodesia was assigned the responsibility of providing managerial and administrative skills ; Northern Rhodesia provided copper revenues ; and Nyasaland provided the Black labour.

The Southern Methodist University band will wear a different combination of jackets, vests, ties, shirts, and pants for each half ( changing before halftime ) of each game and no clothing / uniform combinations are repeated during the marching season.

The circuit sponsors fourteen field show competitions each summer and the circuit championships move on a three-year-rotation from Calgary, AB, Canada, to Traverse City, MI, to the Southern Wisconsin / Northern Illinois area.

By the end of the period three clearly defined tribal dialectical areas: Northern Estonia, Southern Estonia, and Western Estonia including the islands had emerged, the population of each having formed its own understanding of identity.

Another famous set of six tapestries of Dame à la licorne (" Lady with the unicorn ") in the Musée de Cluny, Paris, were also woven in the Southern Netherlands before 1500, and show the five senses ( the gateways to temptation ) and finally Love (" A mon seul desir " the legend reads ), with unicorns featured in each piece.

By December the new album, which was recorded at Southern Tracks Recording Studios in Atlanta, GA was recorded live, opposed to recording each instrument at separate times, and was produced by Brendan O ' Brien ( Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Rage Against the Machine, Stone Temple Pilots ) was completed and scheduled for release.