In late 2007, Bo Bice joined veteran Southern rock legends Jimmy Hall-vocals / sax / harmonica ( Wet Willie Band ), Henry Paul-vocals / guitar / mandolin ( Outlaws, BlackHawk ), Steve Gorman-drums ( Black Crowes, Jimmy Page ), " Dangerous " Dan Toler-guitar ( The Gregg Allman Band, The Allman Brothers, Dickey Betts & Great Southern ), Reese Wynans-keyboards ( Stevie Ray Vaughan ), Mike Brignardello-bass ( Giant, renowned session player ), Jay Boy Adams-guitar ( Texas blues solo artist ) to record Brothers of the Southland celebrating Southern rock with a renewed spirit and maturity.

* Carnivore Kingdom: Features a family of six rare, playful Giant Otters, Southern Ground Hornbills, Red Pandas, and Canadian Lynx in unique naturalistic environments.

Other wildlife to be found in Doubtful Sound includes fur seals and penguins, or even rare large whales ( Southern Right Whale, Humpback Whale, Minke Whale, Sperm Whale and some Giant Beaked Whales ).

Seabirds of the Southern Ocean and West Antarctica found on the peninsula include: Southern Fulmar ( Fulmarus glacialoides ), the scavenging Southern Giant Petrel ( Macronectes giganteus ), Cape Petrel ( Daption capense ), Snow Petrel ( Pagodroma nivea ), the small Wilson's Storm-petrel ( Oceanites oceanicus ), Imperial Shag ( Phalacrocorax atriceps ), Snowy Sheathbill ( Chionis alba ), the large South Polar Skua ( Catharacta maccormicki ), Brown Skua ( Catharacta lönnbergi ), Kelp Gull ( Larus dominicanus ), and Antarctic Tern ( Sterna vittata ).

Threatened species include the Southern Cassowary, Southern Crowned Pigeon, Pesquet's Parrot, Salvadori's Teal and Macgregor's Giant Honeyeater.

Species for which the group is an important breeding site include Falkland Steamer Ducks ( 245 pairs ), Gentoo Penguins ( 2850 pairs ), Magellanic Penguins ( 2000 pairs ), and Southern Giant Petrels ( 300 pairs ).

Over 30 species have been recorded, including Gentoo Penguins ( 750 breeding pairs ), Southern Rockhopper Penguins ( 60, 000 pairs ), Macaroni Penguins, Magellanic Penguins, Black-browed Albatrosses ( 100, 000 pairs ), Fairy Prions ( 10, 000 pairs ), Sooty Shearwaters, Wilson's Storm-petrels, Grey-backed Storm-petrels, Common Diving Petrels, Southern Giant Petrels.

* " A Giant Planet Candidate Near a Young Brown Dwarf " ( PDF ) from the European Southern Observatory.

The seabirds are Southern Rockhopper and Erect-crested Penguins, Antipodean, Black-browed, Light-mantled and White-capped Albatrosses, and Northern Giant, Grey and White-chinned Petrels.

*** Southern Giant Pouched Rat, Cricetomys ansorgei

** Southern Giant Pouched Rat, Cricetomys ansorgei

*** Southern Giant Slender-Tailed Cloud Rat, Phloeomys cumingi

* 500 pairs of Southern Giant Petrels ( 10 % of South Georgia's total )

) The Green Window: Proceedings of the Giant City Conference on Performative Writing ( Southern Illinois Press ; 2001 ).

Barham later branched into Giant Slides, and the combination of food and entertainment were staples throughout fairs in Southern California.

Hornbill Hill is a steep and narrow pathway that featured enclosures for Waldrapp ibis, Southern ground hornbill, black hornbill, red-billed blue magpie and at the top of the hill there is an enclosure that has previously held snow leopard, fossa, Giant Anteater and various New World monkeys and an African aviary that normally holds purple gallinule, hamerkop, Von der Decken's hornbill and curlew.

* " A Giant Planet Candidate Near a Young Brown Dwarf " ( PDF ) from the European Southern Observatory.

* Southern Barred Frog, Giant Barred Frog Mixophyes iteratus

Gold Medal: Viola: The Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant, Shih-Ting Hung --- University of Southern California.

The forms breeding in Macaronesia on Madeira, Bugio in the Desertas Islands, and in the Cape Verde archipelago were long considered to be subspecies of the Southern Hemisphere Soft-plumaged Petrel, P. mollis, but mitochondrial DNA analysis, and differences in size, vocalisations, breeding behaviour, showed that the northern birds are not closely related to P. mollis, and that the Bermuda Petrel or Cahow may be the closest relative of the Macaronesian birds.

Both species are restricted to the Southern Hemisphere, and though their distributions overlap greatly with both species breeding on the Prince Edward Islands, Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands, Macquarie Island and South Georgia, many Southern Giant Petrel nest further south, with colonies as far south as Antarctica.

Long considered to be conspecific ( they were not established as separate species until 1966 ), the two species, the Southern Giant Petrel, Macronectes giganteus, and Northern Giant Petrel, Macronectes halli, are considered with the two fulmars, Fulmarus, to form a distinct sub-group within Procellariidae, and if you add in the Antarctic Petrel, Cape Petrel, and the Snow Petrel, they form a separate group from the rest of the family.

The Southern Giant Petrel is slightly larger than the Northern Giant Petrel, at, across the wings and.

The Southern Giant Petrel is more likely to form loose colonies than the Northern, both species laying a single egg in a rough nest built about off the ground.

The Southern Giant Petrel is listed as endangered on the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, while the Northern Giant Petrel is listed on the same Act as vulnerable.

* On the 2007 advisory list of threatened vertebrate fauna in Victoria, the Southern Giant Petrel is listed as vulnerable, while the Northern Giant Petrel is listed as near threatened.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

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.

But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

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.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

A recent editorial discussing a labor-management agreement reached between the Southern Pacific Co. and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers has been criticized on the grounds that it was not based on complete information.

The situation with regard to the Southern Pacific was therefore a special one and not necessarily applicable to other situations in other industries.

This, of course, was the sort of thing that used to take place in Southern cities -- putting white houses of prostitution with colored girls in colored neighborhoods and carrying them on openly.

The description of the car was immediately broadcast throughout Southern Maryland on police radio.

A wide-ranging, bipartisan force -- from Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey to Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall -- was drawn up against a solid phalanx of Southern Democrats, who have traditionally used the filibuster to stop civil rights bills.

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.

The passage of the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Acts was made possible by the absence of Southern congressmen and senators who had opposed the measures in the 1850s.

After four years of warfare, mostly within the Southern states, the Confederacy surrendered and slavery was abolished everywhere in the nation.

The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election.

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.

A social movement that was individualist, egalitarian and perfectionist grew to a political democratic majority attacking slavery, and slavery ’ s defense in the Southern pre-industrial traditional society brought the two sides to war.

Buddhism arrived in China around the 1st century AD, but it was not until the Northern and Southern, Sui and Tang Dynasties that it gained considerable influence and acknowledgement.

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.

This did not, however, lead to a demotion, as Alexios was needed to counter the expected invasion of the Normans of Southern Italy, led by Robert Guiscard.

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.

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

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.

Several recent authors have theorised that the Ark was taken from Jerusalem to the village of Rennes-le-Château in Southern France.