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	City of New Orleans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amtrak's City of New Orleans at the Memphis, Tennessee station.
		The City of New Orleans is a 926-mile (1490-km) nightly passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana.
		In 1995 the City of New Orleans shifted from the Grenada District (blue) to the Yazoo District (red) in northern Mississippi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/City_of_New_Orleans (719 words)

	New Orleans, Louisiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The population of the city doubled in the 1830s, and by 1840 the city's population was over 100,000—one of the largest cities in the U.S. Population growth was frequently interrupted by yellow fever epidemics, the last of which occurred in 1905.
		New Orleans' government is now largely centralized in the City Council and Mayor's office, but it maintains a number of relics from earlier systems when various sections of the city ran much of their affairs separately.
		The New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal is the central rail depot, and it is served by three trains: the Crescent to New York City, the City of New Orleans to Chicago, Illinois, and the Sunset Limited from Orlando to Los Angeles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Orleans (5618 words)

	A History of New Orleans
		New Orleans' growth between 1810 and 1860 was the result of its unique geographical situation, the increasing industrialization of the American Northeast and Great Britain, and the westward movement of the young United States.
		New Orleans was ther nearest distribution center for the upriver and inland communities of the Mississippi Valley for most of the period.
		New Orleans merchants were critical sources of credit for planters who borrowed in the spring and repaid in the winter from crop sales; but the merchants and their banks received credit from the New York or Liverpool cotton shipping and manufacturing interests.
	www.madere.com /history.html (11526 words)

	New Orleans: A Geopolitical Prize - News Archive - Stratfor
		It was in New Orleans that the barges from upstream were unloaded and their cargos stored, sold and reloaded on ocean-going vessels.
		New Orleans as a city and as a port complex had ceased to exist, and it was not clear that it could recover.
		New Orleans is gone, and the metropolitan area surrounding New Orleans is either gone or so badly damaged that it will not be inhabitable for a long time.
	www.stratfor.com /news/archive/050903-geopolitics_katrina.php (2283 words)

	The case against rebuilding the sunken city of New Orleans. By Jack Shafer
		New Orleans' public schools, which are 93 percent fl, have failed their citizens.
		The state of Louisiana rates 47 percent of New Orleans schools as "Academically Unacceptable" and another 26 percent are under "Academic Warning." About 25 percent of adults have no high-school diploma.
		It is a three-hundred-year-old American city, a place whose long, haunting, and instructive history is borne into the future in the personal lives of the people who live there currently, people for many of whom the deep associations of place constitute meaning.
	www.slate.com /?id=2125810 (1980 words)

	Settlement Agreement - Between The United States of America and The City of New Orleans, Louisiana
		The City is in the process of completing its self-evaluation and its transition plan, which will be provided to the Department within two years of the effective date of this Agreement.
		The City will take steps to ensure that all appropriate employees are trained and practiced in using a TTY and the Louisiana Relay Service to make and receive calls, and that the TTY is maintained in good working order through test calls every 6 months for the life of this Agreement.
		The City will not place a surcharge on a particular individual with a disability or any group of individuals with disabilities to cover the cost of providing auxiliary aids/services or reasonable modifications of policy, such as retrieving items from locations that are open to the public but are not accessible to persons who use wheelchairs.
	www.ada.gov /newola.htm (15501 words)

	New Orleans' Geography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The City of New Orleans is located exactly at 90 degrees west longitude, and 30 degrees north latitude.
		The city limits of New Orleans are co-terminous with the boundaries of Orleans Parish (outlined in yellow in the photo-map at left).
		The pumping stations were able to drain hundreds of square miles of swampland, pumping the excess water into Lake Pontchartrain to the north of the city and into the swamps and bayous to the south, thus leaving behind a dry, yet still spongy prairie upon which the city could sprawl.
	www.southbear.com /New_Orleans/Geography.html (2097 words)

	Katrina and the Lost City of New Orleans by Rod Amis (Book) in
		New Orleans has disappeared as surely as the lost city of Atlantis or the lost city of Pompeii, which former mayor Marc Morial and Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA.) have compared us to in their statements.
		That New Orleans, the New Orleans I mean to tell you about, that will never, ever, exist again--that city of love, lust, death and sex--will never exist again.
		So if he's saying New Orleans is dead, and here's why, as a prognostication and social, political and economic statement, then this book is no mere quick send-off to capitalize on a popular topic immediately after the storm.
	www.lulu.com /content/170780 (1170 words)

	Battle Summary: New Orleans, LA
		Benjamin Franklin Butler’s army began landing at New Orleans and occupying the city.
		New Orleans, considered an international city and the largest city in the Confederacy, had fallen.
		The Union occupation of New Orleans was an event that had major international significance.
	www.cr.nps.gov /hps/abpp/battles/la002.htm (164 words)

	City Of New Orleans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The City of New Orleans has begun issuing notification to property owners of structures, portions of structures, or partially or wholly collapsed properties that floated off their foundations, as a result of Hurricanes Katrina and/or Rita, and are now on public property including streets, sidewalks or rights of way.
		The City of New Orleans has partnered with One Economy, a national non-profit in Washington, DC, in collaboration with Cisco, who have created the Katrina Help Center to help the displaced residents of the Gulf Coast region.
		The City of New Orleans is currently formulating a plan to assist citizens within the parish with money set aside by the Federal Government for hazard mitigation.
	www.cityofno.com /portal.aspx (975 words)

	A Great and Growing City: New Orleans in the Era of the Louisiana Purchase--Introduction
		New Orleans was, of course, all that Jefferson had initially set out to acquire, and it proved to be the prize of the Purchase.
		The growth that New Orleans experienced in the nineteenth century was set in the Spanish period in Louisiana." [The New Orleans Cabildo, Colonial Louisiana's First City Government, 1769-1803 (Baton Rouge, 1996), 36].
		This exhibit, New Orleans Public Library's contribution to the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial celebration, is designed to tell the story of New Orleans during the fifteen years between 1797 and 1812.
	nutrias.org /~nopl/exhibits/purchase/lapintro.htm (566 words)

	CNN.com - New Orleans braces for monster hurricane - Aug 28, 2005
		NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans braced for a catastrophic blow from Hurricane Katrina overnight, as forecasters predicted the Category 5 storm could drive a wall of water over the city's levees.
		New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declared a state of emergency Sunday and ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city.
		City officials told stranded tourists to stay on third-floor levels or higher and away from windows.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WEATHER/08/28/hurricane.katrina (1062 words)

	New Orleans Independent Media Center
		These New Orleans residents are now largely without access to healthcare and have been forced to rely entirely on understaffed emergency rooms for basic health needs, such as monthly prescriptions and routine medical complaints.
		This shift has caused a healthcare catastrophe in the New Orleans metropolitan area and will be the focus of this rally, along with a discussion of the future of Charity Hospital and the fate of this city’s uninsured.
		New Orleans resident Sharon Hinton talks about growing up in her Gentilly neighborhood, her struggle to cope with a flooded house, and how she's trying to tackle life's problems one step at a time.
	neworleans.indymedia.org (1675 words)

	Risk & Insurance: The Lost City of New Orleans?
		New search indicates that just one major hurricane could put New Orleans under water.
		New research by the U.S. Geological Survey, however, indicates that New Orleans is sinking faster than many realize and could be under water within 50 years.
		The city is facing a series of issues--disappearing wetlands that protect from hurricanes, levees that are too low to hold back flood waters, rising water tables, to name a few--that if not addressed soon could have New Orleans suffering the same fate as Atlantis.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BJK/is_15_11/ai_68642805 (363 words)

	Amtrak City of New Orleans
		You are traveling on board the City Of New Orleans, an Amtrak®; Superliner® train, the delightful route between Chicago and New Orleans.
		This city was invaded by General Sherman three times during the Civil War and burned to the ground.
		NEW ORLEANS Welcome to "Nawlins," -- the Crescent City -- one of this nation's greatest ports are more popular places to visit.
	www.trainweb.com /routes/route_58/rg_58.htm (1978 words)

	City Park, in the heart of New Orleans
		While City Park sustained significant damage from Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding, we are currently making slow progress toward recovery.
		All City Park facilities and attractions are currently closed and all previously scheduled events are cancelled until further notice due to the effects of the storm.
		Due to the storm, we are not able to generate revenue and therefore we are currently unable to operate.
	www.neworleanscitypark.com (564 words)

	Arlo Guthrie and Friends: Ridin' On the City of New Orleans
		Arlo Guthrie and Friends will travel the Amtrak City of New Orleans train for twelve days in December, performing along the way to benefit the small venues in the train’s namesake city that were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
		“New Orleans is the city that truly began America’s contribution to the history of music worldwide.
		It was Arlo’s hit “City of New Orleans” song that prompted Amtrak to bring back that name for the train in 1981, after a 10-year hiatus.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/11/emw312613.htm (1145 words)

	City Pages - New Orleans: Survivor Stories
		A few first-hand accounts by New Orleans survivors did circulate via email lists and get posted at websites; these were more revealing, and more gripping, than the reports news media offered up regarding conditions in the city during the days between the storm and the eventual evacuation.
		The real measure of all that was done wrong by city, state, and federal governments, and of all that people trapped in New Orleans had to do and endure as a result, is in these tales and thousands of others like them.
		No part of this service may be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of City Pages LLC except that an individual may download and/or forward articles via e-mail to a reasonable number of recipients for personal, non-commercial purposes.
	citypages.com /databank/26/1294/article13694.asp (2607 words)

	New Orleans CityBusiness -- The Business Newspaper of Metropolitan New Orleans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The classic New Orleans-style architecture of houses along Huey P. Long Avenue attracts homebuyers to Old Gretna.
		NEW YORK - Employers added fewer workers to payrolls in May as the government's latest reading on labor market strength came in well below Wall Street expectations, raising hopes that the Federal Reserve will stop its course of rate hikes at its June meeting.
		After Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge overwhelmed the 17th Street Canal and flooded New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers used the lessons learned from the levee failure to build interim...
	www.neworleanscitybusiness.com (446 words)

	New Orleans City Park Weddings
		New Orleans City Park’s 1,500 acres offer wedding couples a taste of the city’s historical past in its natural splendor with old oak trees, bayous, bridges, and art.
		For a small weekend elopement or before a cruise departing from New Orleans there are other little out of the way places where a small wedding can take place, lovely walkways, large oak trees, fountains, small bridges, and statues.
		In New Orleans a Minister or Judge can waive the waiting period in writing for non-residents when good reasons exist.
	www.geocities.com /nolachapel (606 words)

	New Orleans Online - Things to See and Do
		Get information on the people and places that helped make New Orleans the city it is today.
		Learn about the people and cultures that helped shape the New Orleans we know and love.
		New Orleans isn't just for grown ups anymore.
	www.neworleansonline.com /neworleans (240 words)

	Louisiana Division/City Archives/Special Collections - New Orleans Public Library
		, the official repository for the records of New Orleans municipal government (1769-present), and holds on deposit the pre-1927 records of the civil courts and the pre-1932 records of the criminal courts of Orleans Parish.
		Administrations of the Mayors of New Orleans, 1803-1936
		Passenger Arrivals at the Port of New Orleans
	nutrias.org /~nopl/spec/speclist.htm (348 words)

	New Orleans City Council
		“The New Orleans City Council, the legislative branch of local government, enacts laws to protect the public health, safety and welfare of the citizens of New Orleans.”
		New Orleans native General P.G.T. Beauregard's statue graces the entrance to New Orleans City Park.
		City Park suffered significant damage from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita but is rebuilding.
	www.nocitycouncil.com (114 words)

	City of New Orleans
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		New Orleans - Regional Transit Authority (RTA) streetcar and bus.
		Amtrak's Metropolitan Lounge available in Chicago, and private waiting area available in New Orleans for First Class Service passengers.
	www.cwrr.com /Amtrak/w_cno.html (299 words)

	the train they call the city of new oOrleans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Immortalized by the magical voice of Arlo Guthrie and sung around campfires by millions, "City of New Orleans" narrates the journey of the train with that name as it runs from snowy, industrial Chicago through small Midwestern towns, Memphis, Tennessee, the Mississippi Delta, to lush Louisiana.
		On the City of New Orleans, you'll trace the history of jazz, ragtime, blues and rock and roll.
		Head from the glimmering skyscrapers of the Windy City to the cultural havens and stately plantations which make the South unique.
	www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/3131/cityofneworleans.html (467 words)

	Amtrak - Routes
		Boston - New York - Philadelphia - Washington, DC Adirondack
		New York - Washington, DC - Cincinnati - Indianapolis - Chicago
		New York - Washington, DC - Charleston - Savannah - Jacksonville - Orlando - Tampa/Miami
	www.amtrak.com /trains/cityofneworleans.html (232 words)

	New Orleans, Louisiana (LA) Detailed Profile - relocation, real estate, travel, jobs, hotels, hospitals, schools, crime
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	www.city-data.com /city/New-Orleans-Louisiana.html (1926 words)

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