RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook South Ossetia (redirected fromRepublic of South Ossetia) Encyclopedia South Ossetia A region of northern Georgia in the central Caucasus bordering on Russia. Annexed by Russia in the early 1800s, South Ossetia be...
South Dakota is one of only nine states – Wyoming, Nevada, Alaska, Washington, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming and South Dakota — that doesn’t have a state income tax. This is a major reason why under-funded South Dakota ranks, to cite just a few examples,worst in the natio...
The unreachable doorbells of South Texas: community engagement in colonias on the US-Mexico border for mosquito control Mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit continue to place millions of people at risk of infection around the world. Novel methods of vector control are b... JG Juarez,E Car...
The SouthUnited States of America The southern United States includes the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Florida and Texas. The region covers a vast distance and includes many differ...
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin. Author ofAndean Ecology: Adaptive Dynamics in Ecuador; and Latin America in the Twenty-First Century:... Gregory W. KnappAll Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britann...
LeadershipMexican AmericansSchoolsDiscusses two topics: (1) the way in which the control of schools and school leadership have historically operated to maintain the subordinate power position of Mexican Americans, and (2) the effects of power struggle on school leadership. (Author/AM)doi:10.1080/...
Hurricane Ritahugely impacted the Texas-Louisiana bordercoastal region, but also affected the Florida panhandle, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas. The Category 3 hurricane brought strong storm surges of up to 15 feet, wind damage, and inland flooding, and spawned at least 92 tornadoes. At least...
Watiki is just doing God’s work. “I have people from Texas and California coming up to me and saying, ‘Thank you for being open and being somewhere I can bring my family,’” a staffer tells me. Another asks me if I need a towel. ...
Hackberry, a community in Cameron Parish, witnessed the state's heaviest rainfall between Aug. 28 and 29 in 1962. Atropical depressionthat had first formed in the western Gulf of Mexico eventually struck the Texas and Louisiana border two days later before finally subsiding on Aug. 30, 1962....