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 ).

In Southern Iraq each city had a patron god, worshipped in a massive central temple called a ziggurat, and was ruled by a priest-king ( ishakku ).

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.

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.

Lincoln had begun putting Reconstruction policies in place during the war, but Northern anger over his assassination and the losses of the war, led to demands for more severe policies toward the Southern states.

* Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona.

Southern and mid-western states also passed numerous laws to protect Sunday during the mid to late 19th century.

Boer (,, or ; ) is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal ( which are together known as the Boer Republics ), and to a lesser extent Natal.

As Moism lost support by the time of the Han, the main philosophical contenders were Legalism, which Confucian thought somewhat absorbed, the teachings of Lao-tzu, whose focus on more mystic ideas kept it from direct conflict with Confucianism, and the new Buddhist religion, which gained acceptance during the Southern and Northern Dynasties era.

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.

Melbourne's Southern Cross Hotel was built and named in 1962 and was one of the city's foremost hotels during the decade.

Southern Hemisphere native varieties of English began to develop during the 18th century, with the colonisation of Australasia and South Africa.

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 >

However, during the era of segregation many Southern Democrats were conservatives, and they played a key role in the Conservative Coalition that controlled Congress from 1937 to 1963.

The fall occurred when Yamaoka lost her balance during a basketball game between Southern Illinois University and Bradley University at the Savvis Center in St. Louis on March 5, 2006.

In some Southern states during the 1960s, school vouchers were used as a method of perpetuating segregation.

) ( May 25, 1334 – January 31, 1398 ) was the third of Ashikaga Pretenders during the Period of the Northern and Southern Courts in Japan.

Emperor Go-Kōgon ( 後光厳天皇 Go-Kōgon-tennō ) ( 23 March 1338 – 12 March 1374 ) was the 4th of the Ashikaga Pretenders during the Period of the Northern and Southern Courts.

In 1583, during the Eighty Years ' War, Habsburg Spain recovered the Southern Netherlands from the rebellious Dutch.

The show's additional legacy — probably its main one to most of the Southern and rural viewers in particular — was the hundreds of performances of country music, bluegrass, gospel music, and other traditional styles, that were featured on it during its run.

The Old Norse name for the Hebrides during the Viking occupation was Suðreyjar, which means " Southern Isles ".

With the invasion of Southern Italy, the Allies restored the authority of the mafia families lost during the Fascist period and used their influence to maintain public order.

Voroshilov was active as a commander of the Southern Front during the Russian Civil War and the Polish-Soviet War while with the 1st Cavalry Army.

Staffan de Misura, Personal Representative of the Secretary-General for Southern Lebanon stated that he was " deeply concerned that air violations by Israel across the Blue Line during altercations with Hezbollah are continuing to take place ", calling " upon the Israeli authorities to cease such violations and to fully respect the Blue Line ".

In 1969 the revolutionary government officially changed the regional designation of Tripolitania to Western Libya, of Cyrenaica to Eastern Libya, and of Fezzan to Southern Libya ; however, the old names were intimately associated with the history of the area, and during the 1970s they continued to be used frequently.