* Bethany Nazarene College, now called Southern Nazarene University

It also serves as a major artery for college students in the state, running near Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Rend Lake College in Ina, Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Parkland College in Champaign, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana-Champaign, Kankakee Community College in Kankakee, Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, and Governors State University in University Park.

The most predominant denominations among residents in Douglas County who adhere to a religion are Southern Baptists ( 22. 95 %), Church of the Nazarene ( 16. 28 %), and Mormons ( 13. 70 %).

Denominations include but are not limited to, Messianic, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Southern Baptist, Methodist, Church of God, Nazarene, Roman Catholic and others.

Churches established in the city in later years include Beech Grove Wesleyan Church ( formerly Pilgrim Holiness Church, in the 1920s ); Independent Nazarene Church ( in the 1950s ); Faith Assembly of God ( Assemblies of God, 1958 ); South Emerson Church of God ( Reformation Movement, Church of God ( Anderson ), 1961 ); Southwood Baptist Church ( Southern Baptist Convention, 1962 ); and Ascension Lutheran Church ( Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, 1972 ).

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The Western group was the Church of the Nazarene founded in October 1895 in Los Angeles, California by Dr. Phineas F. Bresee, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Dr Joseph Pomeroy Widney, a Methodist physician, and the second president of the University of Southern California.

In 1895 the name of the denomination was first recommended by Dr. Joseph Pomeroy Widney, a former president of the University of Southern California and an influential figure in the early days of the Church of the Nazarene on the West Coast, where with Bresee, he was elected as a general superintendent for life.

In February 2011 the General Board adopted the recommendation of the International Board of Education to merge Swaziland College of Nursing, Swaziland College of Education, and Swaziland College of Theology to establish Southern Africa Nazarene University, which reduced the number of Nazarene educational institutions to 52.

* Members of the Southern Gospel singing group the Speer Family ( which was inducted into the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame in 1998 ) have close associations with the Church of the Nazarene.

* Southern Gospel singer and songwriter Bill Gaither ( born March 28, 1936 ), winner of five Grammy Awards and 28 Dove Awards, and a 1982 inductee to the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, grew up in a Nazarene family, and became a member of the denomination at his home church in Alexandria, Indiana.

* American politician Gary Hart ( born Gary Warren Hartpence, November 28, 1936 ), who served as a United States Senator ( 1974 – 1980 ) and was a two-time candidate for President of the United States ( 1984, 1988 ), was raised as a member of the Church of the Nazarene ; married Oletha Ludwig, the daughter of the General Secretary of the denomination ; and also graduated from Southern Nazarene University ;

* Southern Gospel pioneer and music publisher James David Vaughan ( 1864 – 1941 ), the founder of the Vaughan Conservatory of Music ( 1911 ) and the James D. Vaughan Publishing Company ( 1902 ), who was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1997, became a member of the Church of the Nazarene in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee ( now known as Vaughan Memorial Church of the Nazarene ) in the 1920s, and brought the singing Speers Family into the denomination.

* Southern Nazarene University ( 2004 – 2012 )

Northwestern and Southern Nazarene are leaving for the newly formed NCAA Division II conference, the Great American Conference, in 2012.

In 2012 he took over for Lisa Love, formerly senior associate athletic director at the University of Southern California.

* Southern Illinois University Carbondale

* Fraser-Tytler, William Kerr ( 1953 ) Afghanistan: A Study of Political Developments in Central and Southern Asia Oxford University Press, London, OCLC 409453

Probably the ultimate development of graphic presentations was the Dynamic page implementation of the University of Southern California BBS ( USCBBS ) by Susan Biddlecomb, which predated the implementation of the HTML Dynamic web page.

From 1959 to 1970, Fuller taught at Southern Illinois University Carbondale ( SIU ).

These were donated by Professor Fred Wendorf of Southern Methodist University in Texas, and comprise the entire collection of artefacts and environmental remains from his excavations between 1963 and 1997.

Although she had no experience in cinema, she took summer courses at the University of Southern California and received personal instruction from Hollywood specialists, such as Rudolph Sternad.

Caltech offers Army and Air Force ROTC in cooperation with the University of Southern California.

In 1948, Lawrence " Herkie " Herkimer, of Dallas, Texas, a former cheerleader at Southern Methodist University, formed the National Cheerleaders Association ( NCA ) as a way to hold cheerleading clinics.

The risk of cheerleading was highlighted when Kristi Yamaoka, a cheerleader for Southern Illinois University, suffered from a fractured vertebra after she hit her head after falling from a human pyramid.

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.

Southern Illinois University Museum series, number 3.

After Kuttner's death in 1958, Moore wrote almost no fiction and taught his writing course at the University of Southern California.

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He received his master's degree in American Studies at the University of Southern California.

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A research from University of Southern California estimates that the amount of data stored in the world by 2007 was 295 exabytes and the amount of information shared on two-way communications technology, such as cell phones in 2007 as 65 exabytes.

" He brought in Nick Castle, a friend from his film school days at University of Southern California who played " The Shape " in Halloween.

At a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Britain, a team from University of Queensland described 40 unknown " dwarf " galaxies in this constellation ; follow-up observations with the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope revealed that ultra compact dwarfs are much smaller than previously known dwarf galaxies, about across.

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Gumby was created by Art Clokey in the early 1950s after finishing film school at University of Southern California.

Hackman is friends with Del Rio from Del Rio's playing days at the University of Southern California.

He financed his education at the Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences and the University of Southern California, from which Towers graduated with a law degree in 1967.

Hefner donated $ 100, 000 to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts to create a course called " Censorship in Cinema ," and $ 2 million to endow a chair for the study of American film.

It appears to be one of intense dislike, which he makes little effort to conceal even in the presence of Southern friends.

Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

Today the Negro must discover his role in an industrialized South, which indicates that the racial aspect of the Southern dilemma hasn't changed radically, but rather has gradually come to be reflected in this new context, this new coat of paint.

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.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

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.

He has employed from his section rich immediate materials which in a loose sense can be termed Southern.

The thoroughgoing idealization of the planter society did not come, however, until after the Civil War when Southern writers were eager to defend a way of life which had been destroyed.

The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.

As far as the color problem is concerned, there is but one great difference between the Southern white and the Northerner: the Southerner remembers, historically and in his own psyche, a kind of Eden in which he loved black people and they loved him.

Sponsor quotes John McLendon of the McLendon-Ebony station group as saying that the Southern Negro is becoming conscious of quality and `` does not wish to be associated with radio which is any way degrading to his race ; ;

As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean ( which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic ), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south.

During this same period, slave-holding border states had more free African-Americans and European immigrants than the lower South, which increased Southern fears that slavery was threatened with rapid extinction in this area.

The decisive battle was the election of 1866, in which the Southern states were not allowed to vote.

The two projects which Johnson had most at heart were the speedy admission of the Southern senators and representatives to Congress and the relegation of the question of negro suffrage to the States themselves.

In March, 2012 the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruling in an action brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council and others, ordered the FDA to revoke approvals for the use of antibiotics in livestock which violated FDA regulations.

Further south still is the Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front ( SACCF ), which is determined as the southernmost extent of Circumpolar Deep Water ( temperature of about 2 ° C at 400m ).

The Circumpolar Current is driven by the strong westerly winds which are found in the latitudes of the Southern Ocean.

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.

Alexandria is served by the Norfolk & Southern Railway with a connector which allows rail traffic to flow smoothly between lines servicing east – west and north – south destinations.