An IAU interpretation would recognise Crux ( the Southern Cross ) above the emu's head and Scorpius on the left.

Its name is Latin for cross, and it is dominated by a cross-shaped asterism that is commonly known as the Southern Cross.

The two stars of Alpha and Beta Centauri are often referred to as the " Southern Pointers " or just " The Pointers ", allowing people to easily find the asterism of the Southern Cross or the constellation of Crux.

It is the dimmest of the Southern Cross stars.

The 15th century Venetian navigator Alvise Cadamosto made note of what was probably the Southern Cross on exiting the Gambia River in 1455, calling it the carro dell ' ostro (" southern chariot ").

The most prominent feature of Crux is the distinctive asterism known as the Southern Cross.

In Australia, the Southern Cross played a crucial role as symbol of the Eureka Stockade.

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.

" Of the Australian national flag, the Australian poet Banjo Paterson wrote in 1893: The English flag may flutter and wave, where the world wide oceans toss, but the flag the Australian dies to save, is the flag of the Southern Cross.

The Southern Cross was written into the lyrics of " Advance Australia Fair " in 1901: " Beneath our radiant Southern Cross "; the song was adopted as the Australian National Anthem in 1984.

The victory song of the Australian national cricket team is entitled " Under the Southern Cross I Stand ".

The Southern Cross was included in the lyrics of the Brazilian National Anthem ( 1909 ): " A imagem do Cruzeiro resplandece " (" the image of the Cross shines ").

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

The Māori name for the Southern Cross is Te Punga (" the anchor ").

In Mapudungun, the language of Patagonian Mapuches, the name of the Southern Cross is Melipal, which means " four stars ".

The peoples of the Solomon Islands saw several figures in the Southern Cross.

In the Victory At Sea suite, Richard Rodgers wrote " Beneath The Southern Cross " to depict the battleships in convoy and the loneliness of the sailors in the Southern Pacific during World War II.

Johnson was the only Southern senator who did not resign his seat during the Civil War ; he became the most prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies.

Thus the possibility of re-incorporating Portugal ( up to then Southern Galicia ) into a Kingdom of Portugal and Galicia as before was eliminated and Afonso became sole ruler ( Duke of Portugal ) after demands for independence from the county's church and nobles.

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.

His first releases under his own name, " Booster Blues " and " Dry Southern Blues ," were hits ; this led to the release of the other two songs from that session, " Got the Blues " and " Long Lonesome Blues ," which became a runaway success, with sales in six figures.

Interestingly, even after Southern Cameroons voted in 1961 to leave Nigeria and became a part of Cameroon, Bakassi remained under Calabar administration in Nigeria until ICJ judgement of 2002.

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.

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

Subsequently, Germanic languages became dominant among many European countries but in Southern and Eastern Europe the Germanic elite eventually adopted the native Slavic or Latin dialects.

In 1726 the city of Les Cayes was founded on the Southern coast which became the biggest settlement in the south.

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.

In 1898 ' Southern Rhodesia ' became the official denotation for the region south of the Zambezi, which later became Zimbabwe.

Southern Rhodesia became a self-governing British colony in October 1923, subsequent to a 1922 referendum.

Southern Ireland shortly afterwards became the Irish Free State.

" According to Martin Noth, at the Southern Palestinian stage of the growth of the Pentateuch tradition, Isaac became established as one of the biblical patriarchs, but his traditions were receded in the favor of Abraham.

In 1985, under the management of Giovanni Trapattoni, who led the Torinese team to thirteen official trophies in ten years until 1986, including six league titles and five international titles ; Juventus became the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major competitions organised by the Union of European Football Associations: the European Champions ' Cup, the ( now-defunct ) Cup Winners ' Cup and the UEFA Cup ( the first Italian and Southern European side to win the tournament ).

That same year they collectively became known as ( French Southern and Antarctic Lands ) and were administratively part of the French.

After the Eighty Years ' War, Luxembourg became a part of the Southern Netherlands, which passed to the Austrian line of the Habsburg dynasty in 1713.

Aoraki, the tallest, became the highest peak, and his brothers created the Kā Tiritiri o te Moana, the Southern Alps.

After defeat the king of Jersika, Visvaldis, became the vassal of the Bishop of Livonia and received part of his country ( Southern Latgale ) as a fiefdom.

France and the Ottoman Empire, united by mutual opposition to Habsburg rule in both Southern and Central Europe, became strong allies during this period.

Sleepy, self-sufficient Paraguay, whose advances in agriculture and quality of life had been the envy of many in the Southern Cone, became the most backward nation in that subregion.

Lee became the great Southern hero of the War, a postwar icon of the " Lost Cause of the Confederacy " to some.

In April 1992 a trial was held in Miami, Florida, at the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida in which he was tried and convicted on eight counts of drug trafficking, racketeering and money laundering.

An international research team working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Southern Sudan, and Angola involving Immtech International and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have completed a Phase IIb clinical trial and began a Phase III trial in 2005 testing the efficacy of the first oral treatment for sleeping sickness, pafuramidine ( DB289 ).

INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science and control in Grenoble, France ran MTS on a trial basis, as did the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, Southern Illinois University, the Naval Postgraduate School, Amdahl Corporation, ST Systems for McGill University Hospitals, Stanford University, and University of Illinois in the United States, and a few other sites.

Smith was never brought to trial because he committed suicide on July 4, 1999 after he crashed his car into a metal post during a high-speed chase in Southern Illinois.

As far back as 1885, the then Engineer-in-Chief for the Southern Division Railways arranged for the trial rail survey being done in South Brisbane to be extended across the river to the main western line near Countess Street.

This can be an additional complication on the length of the study, yet proper planning and the use of trial sites in the Southern, as well as the Northern Hemisphere allows for year-round trials, which can reduce the length of the studies.

The Tom Robinson trial of To Kill a Mockingbird is often said to be based on the Scottsboro case, however, Harper Lee said in 2005 that she had in mind something less sensational, although the Scottsboro case served " the same purpose " to display Southern prejudices.

American Airlines filed a " third-party complaint " lawsuit for contribution against Jeppesen and Honeywell, who made the navigation computer database and failed to include the coordinates of Rozo under the identifier " R "; the case went to trial in United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami.

Morris Seligman Dees, Jr. ( born December 16, 1936 ) is the co-founder and chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center ( SPLC ), and a former direct mail marketeer for book publishing.

At their trial, evidence was presented that the Five infiltrated the Miami-based Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue, obtained employment at the Key West Naval Air Station in order to send the Cuban government reports about the base, and had attempted to penetrate the Miami facility of U. S. Southern Command.

This case, the first Federal trial involving the Duragesic fentanyl patch, was tried in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Florida, West Palm Beach Division.

Hasenfus subsequently unsuccessfully sued Secord, Albert Hakim, Southern Air Transport and Corporate Air Services over issues relating to Hasenfus ' capture and trial.

After the Supreme Court denied a trial from the Southern Pacific, the merger took effect on December 22, 1982, at 2: 55 p. m.

GNER introduced wireless Internet connectivity as a trial from December 2003 and introduced it into service from April 2004 making it the first service of its kind in the United Kingdom ( similar services are now offered by Virgin Trains and Southern ).

The federal trial court for the Southern District of New York, though expressing some doubt over the constitutionality of § 4952, declined to invalidate it and awarded a $ 610 judgment to Sarony ( the equivalent of just over $ 12, 000 in 2005 ).

Section 1981, which had lain dormant and unenforced for a century after its passage, allowed plaintiffs to seek compensatory damages and trial by jury ; Title VII, passed in the 1960s when it was assumed that Southern juries could not render a fair verdict, allowed only trial by the court and provided for only traditional equitable remedies: backpay, reinstatement and injunctions against future acts of discrimination.

After the British Canon John Collins ( priest ) learnt about the trial, and the calls for the death penalty, he set up the Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa in order to pay all legal expenses and look after the families of those on trial.

Maclean has written a fourth book, about Southern California's Esperanza Fire of 2006 that killed a five-man Forest Service engine crew, and the subsequent trial and conviction of Raymond Oyler, the arsonist convicted of setting the fire.

A three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York conducted a trial, and in 2005 found that Nitke and the NCSF had presented insufficient evidence that the variation in community standards is substantial enough to chill the plaintiffs ' speech.

A " backwoods Southern lawyer " doesn't keep the sheriff and a judge from convicting the brother in a kangaroo court (" the judge said ' guilty ' in a make-believe trial / slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile "), and hang him that same night, effectively lynching him.

* John Koeltl, U. S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York ; presided over trial of Lynne Stewart