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Southern and Hemisphere
The equivalent polar circle in the Southern Hemisphere is called the Antarctic Circle.
The Asteliaceae is a family of two to four genera of plants found in the Southern Hemisphere.
In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.
American Samoa, located within the geographical region of Oceania, is one of only two possessions of the United States in the Southern Hemisphere, the other being Jarvis Island.
The majority of abalone species are found in cold waters, off the Southern Hemisphere coasts of New Zealand, South Africa and Australia, and Western North America and Japan in the Northern Hemisphere.
The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through its summer and the Southern Hemisphere halfway through its winter on this day.
It shares most similarity with other Southern Hemisphere accents, in particular New Zealand English.
The region covers some 20 % of the Southern Hemisphere, of which 5. 5 % ( 14 million km < sup > 2 </ sup >) is the surface area of the continent itself.
Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, in September ( Northern Hemisphere ) or March ( Southern Hemisphere ) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier.
For approximately two to three weeks on either side of November 30, Antares is not visible in the night sky, because it is near conjunction with the Sun ; this period of invisibility is longer in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere, since the star's declination is significantly south of the celestial equator.
Combined rugby union sides from the then United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland toured in the Southern Hemisphere from 1888 onwards.
The first tour, although unsanctioned by rugby bodies, had established the notion of touring Northern Hemisphere sporting sides to Southern Hemisphere locations.
There are two more groups in the North Atlantic, and at least two in the Southern Hemisphere.
2 ( 1988 ): " The Southern Hemisphere to + 6 °", by Wil Tirion, Barry Rappaport and George Lovi, ISBN 0-943396-15-8 hardcover, printed boards ( red ).
Southern Celestial Hemisphere & South Circumpolar Region:
Chile ’ s position in the Southern Hemisphere leads to an agricultural season cycle opposite to those of the principal consumer markets, primarily located in the Northern Hemisphere.
The constellation was also used on the dark blue, shield-like patch worn by personnel of the U. S. Army's Americal Division, which was organized in the Southern Hemisphere, on the island of New Caledonia, and also the blue diamond of the U. S. 1st Marine Division, which fought on the Southern Hemisphere islands of Guadalcanal and New Britain.

Southern and all
Indeed, it seems that only in today's Southern fiction does Tobacco Road, with all the traditional trimmings of sowbelly and cornbread and mint juleps, continue to live -- but only as a weary, overexploited phantom.
Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.
Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.
Southern China, all of southeast Asia, southern India and Ceylon, these states of the Malay Federation spoke Bazaar.
Winning entirely on the strength of his support in the North and West, no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.
Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.
At a time when the Southern United States was segregated racially, Bill's grandparents sold goods on credit to people of all races.
Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).
Croatia and Slavonia became a part of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs composed out of all Southern Slavic territories of the now former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy with a transitional government headed in Zagreb.
), tigers ( Panthera tigris subspecies ), Asiatic lion ( Panthera leo persica ), leopards ( Panthera pardus ), Jaguar ( Panthera onca ), Cheetah ( Acinonyx jubatus ), Asian elephant ( Elephas maximus ), some populations of African Elephant ( Loxodonta africana ), the dugong and manatees ( Sirenia ), and all Rhinoceros species ( except some Southern African subspecies populations ).
Not all of the stars of Centaurus can be seen from China, and the unseen stars were classified among the Southern Asterisms by Xu Guangqi, based on his study of western star charts.
FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >
* California coastal sage and chaparral: In coastal Southern California and northwestern coastal Baja California, as well as all of the Channel Islands off California and Guadalupe Island ( Mexico ).
By law and Southern social convention, household heads were adult, white propertied males, and all white women and all African Americans were thought to require protection and guidance because they lacked the capacity for reason and self-control.
Control of trade, the flow of resources and prestige goods, became ever more important to the elites of Southern Britain ; as the provider of relatively limitless wealth and patronage, Rome steadily became the biggest player in all their dealings.
The empire dominated all of Southern India and fought off invasions from the five established Deccan Sultanates.
At the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990, despite the Taif Agreement asking for the " disbanding of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias ," Syria, in control of Lebanon at that time, allowed Hezbollah to maintain their arsenal, and control the Shiite areas in Southern Lebanon along the border with Israel.
The East Angles, Middle Angles, Mercians and " all those north of Humber " arrived from the region of Anglia ( a peninsula in Southern Schleswig, Northern Germany ) " which has ever since remained waste between the Jutes and Saxons ".
European Regional Development Fund 2007-2013: Southern Italy is almost all classified under the Regional policy of the European Union | Convergence objective ( GDP per capita less than 75 % of the EU average ).
Fascist policy aimed at the creation of an Italian empire and Southern Italian ports were strategic for all commerce towards the colonies.
In the 1950s the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno was set up as a huge public master plan to help industrializing the South, aiming to do this in two ways: through land reforms creating 120, 000 new smallholdings, and through the " Growth Pole Strategy " whereby 60 % of all government investment would go to the South, thus boosting the Southern economy by attracting new capital, stimulating local firms, and providing employment.
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.

Southern and Tierra
There are six species of tree found in Tierra del Fuego: Canelo or Winter's Bark ( Drimys winteri ), Maytenus magellanica, Pilgerodendron uviferum the southernmost conifer in the world, and three kinds of Southern Beech ; Nothofagus antarctica, Nothofagus pumilio and the evergreen Nothofagus betuloides.
Ferdinand Magellan, who passed through the Straits of Magellan in 1520, assumed that the islands of Tierra del Fuego to the south were an extension of this unknown southern land, and it appeared as such on a map by Ortelius: Terra australis recenter inventa sed nondum plene cognita (" Southern land recently discovered but not yet fully known ").
The amount of peat is smaller in the southern hemisphere, partly because there is less land, yet South America ( Southern Patagonia / Tierra del Fuego ) has one of the world's largest wetlands, the vast Magellanic Moorland, with extensive peat dominated landscapes.
The Black-necked Swan breeds in Chilean Southern Zone, Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and on the Falkland Islands.
After chapter X on Tierra del Fuego, chapter XI had the revised heading " Strait of Magellan – Climate of the Southern Coasts ".
* A. c. cunicularia: Southern Burrowing Owl – Lowlands of S Bolivia and S Brazil south to Tierra del Fuego.
In the Southern Hemisphere, it occurs as far south as Tierra del Fuego, South Africa, southern Australia, New Zealand, and the Chatham Islands.
It is most common in the Southern Hemisphere along the coast of Antarctica and on most sub-Antarctic islands, but can also be found on the coasts of southern Australia, Tasmania, South Africa, New Zealand, Lord Howe Island, Tierra del Fuego, the Cook Islands, and the Atlantic coast of South America.
Today BIM-5, together with the 4th Marine Infantry Battalion ( BIM-4 ), is based at Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego Province as part of the Argentine Navy's Fuerza de Infantería de Marina Austral ( Southern Marine Corps Force, FAIA ), formerly Fuerza de Infantería de Marina N ° 1 ( First Marine Force, FIM1 ).
In the Southern Hemisphere, the Striated Caracara inhabits the Falkland Islands and Tierra del Fuego, just off the coast of the southernmost tip of South America.
Detail of the American Coast Map by Diego Ribero ( 1529 ), where the Southern Half of the East coast of the current US is named as Tierra de Ayllón
There are six species of tree found in Tierra del Fuego: Canelo or Winter's Bark ( Drimys winteri ), Maytenus magellanica, Pilgerodendron uviferum the southernmost conifer in the world, and three kinds of Southern Beech ; Nothofagus Antarctica, Nothofagus pumilio and the evergreen Nothofagus betuloides.
It can be found in the Southern part of South America ; in Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, and the Falkland Islands.
The Southern Giant Petrel was first described as Macronectes giganteus by Johann Friedrich Gmelin, in 1789, based on a specimen from Staten Island off Tierra del Fuego.

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