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 Louisiana - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Louisiana
The Louisiana coast is a land of bayous and marshes, salt domes such as Avery Island, islets and channels that are constantly changing shape, and lakes such as Pontchartrain and Maurepas.
Louisiana is densely forested and almost half the state is covered in trees such as cypresses, magnolias, oaks, longleaf pines, and shortleaf pines, with Spanish moss draping cypress and oak trees.
Louisiana is the state most closely associated with the global development of jazz and the blues, particularly in the city of New Orleans.
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 Wikinfo | Louisiana
Louisiana is bordered to the west by the state of Texas, to the north by Arkansas, to the east by the state of Mississippi, and to the south by the Gulf of Mexico.
Louisiana was named by the French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle in honour of Louis XIV in 1682.
The ancestors of Creoles generally came to Louisiana directly from France or from the French colonies in the Caribbean and settled in New Orleans or in South Eastern Louisiana.
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 Louisiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Louisiana (pronounced /luːˌiːzɪˈænə/ or /ˌluːzɪˈænə/) (French: Louisiane, pronounced /lwizjan/) is a Southern state of the United States of America.
Louisiana was long inhabited by Native American tribes before the arrival of Europeans.
The rest of Louisiana became a colony of Spain by the Treaty of Fountainebleau of 1762.
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 Louisiana - Gurupedia
Louisiana is bordered to the west by the state of Texas, to the north by Arkansas, to the east by the state of
Orleans Territory (which became the state of Louisiana in 1812) and the District of Louisiana (which consisted of all the land not included in Orleans Territory).
Louisiana is unique among U.S. states in using a runoff in state, local, and congressional elections.
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 jazz - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Also contributing to this trend was a tightening of Jim Crow (racial segregation) laws in Louisiana in the 1890s, which caused the expulsion from integrated bands of numbers of talented, formally trained African-American musicians.
Arguably the single most important was that of the New Orleans, Louisiana area, which was the first to be commonly given the name "jazz" (early on often spelled "jass").
African musical celebrations held at least as late as the 1830s in New Orleans' "Congo Square" were attended by interested whites as well, and some of their melodies and rhythms found their way into the compositions of white Creole composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
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 Louisiana, USA, hotels, cars, information, tips
Louisiana is the only state whose legal system is based on Roman, Spanish, and French civil law as opposed to British common law.
It is important to note that the Louisiana Civil Code and the French Civil Code, often referred to as the Napoleonic Code, came into existence at roughly the same time.
Louisiana is also the name of a museum of modern art close to Copenhagen, Denmark.
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 Top20Louisiana.com - Your Top20 Guide to Louisiana!
Louisiana (pronounced /luːˌiːziˈænə/ or /ˌluːziˈænə/) (French: Louisiane, pronounced Image:Ltspkr.png/lwizjan/) is a Southern state of the United States of America.
Louisiana was named by the French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle in honor of Louis XIV in 1682.
The ancestors of Creoles generally came to Louisiana directly from France, Spain, or from the French colonies in the Caribbean and settled in New Orleans or in South Eastern Louisiana.
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Thomas of Illinois now proposed as a and west line be drawn across the Louisiana cession, north of which seventy-six Southern members to form.html">form.html">form a bare majority against prohibiting question was where the line should be drawn: the parallel of 36 degrees 30' slaveholding.
Nearly the whole Northern vote in the brought about a compromise by which the Missourians were to agree not to understanding Missouri was finally admitted.
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 The Ultimate Mississippi River - American History Information Guide and Reference
The Atchafalaya River in Louisiana is a major distributary of the Mississippi.
The United States bought the territory from France in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
The first steamboat to travel the full length of the Mississippi from the Ohio River to the city of New Orleans, Louisiana was the New Orleans in December 1811.
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 Hurricane Katrina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Louisiana governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco declared a state of emergency for state agencies.
On August 31, the Harris County, Texas Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and the State of Louisiana came to an agreement to allow at least 25,000 evacuees from New Orleans, especially those who were sheltered in the Louisiana Superdome, to move to the Astrodome until they could return home.
Areas affected include southern Florida, Louisiana (especially the Greater New Orleans area), Mississippi, Alabama, the western Florida Panhandle, western and north Georgia (hit by tornadoes), the Tennessee Valley and Ohio Valley regions, the eastern Great Lakes region and the length of the western Appalachians.
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 Louisiana (disambiguation) - LoveToKnow 1911
There is more than one meaning of Louisiana discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.
We are planning to let all links go to the correct meaning directly, but for now you will have to search it out from the list below by yourself.
This page was last modified 18:41, 14 Apr 2006.
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 mardi gras   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
There are also Mardi Gras parades in Northern Louisiana in Shreveport, Louisiana by the Krewe of Centaur and the Krewe of Gemini and in Monroe and West Monroe by the Krewe of Janus.
Lake Charles, in southwest Louisiana, hosts a Krewe of Krewes parade, which is the second largest parade in the state.
Mardi Gras is one of the exceptions to the Louisiana law against wearing hoods and masks in public, the other two being Halloween and religious beliefs.
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 United States - Tardis - A Wikia wiki
The war resulted in France ceding Canada and the Great Lakes region to Britain, and Spain gaining Louisiana in compensation for its loss of Florida to Britain.
Later that year, the British government under George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763 that placed a boundary upon the westward expansion of the British North American colonies.
During the war (after the Battle of Antietam), President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, mandating the freedom of slaves located in the states in rebellion.
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 TRAM : Encyclopedia Entry
The first trams, known as streetcars or horsecars in North America, were built in the United States and developed from city stagecoach lines and omnibus lines that picked up and dropped off passengers on a regular route and without the need to be pre-hired.
Multiple functioning experimental electric trams were exhibited at the 1884 World Cotton Centennial World's Fair in New Orleans, Louisiana; however they were deemed as not yet adequately perfected to replace the Lamm fireless engines then propelling the St.
Electric-powered trams (trolley cars, so called for the trolley pole used to gather power from an unshielded overhead wire), were first successfully tested in service in Richmond, Virginia in 1888, in an installation by Frank J. Sprague.
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 Storm Charity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is possible that Katrina was the largest hurricane of its strength to approach the United States in recorded history; its sheer size caused devastation over 100 miles from the center.
The storm surge caused major or catastrophic damage along the coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, including the cities of Mobile, Alabama, Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi, and Slidell, Louisiana.
Levees separating Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, Louisiana were breached by the surge, ultimately flooding roughly 80% of the city and many areas of neighboring parishes.
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 Airport City Louisiana Morgan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Morgan City, Louisiana - Morgan City (also known as Lake Morgan) is a city in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, United States.
City of Monroe Louisiana - City of Monroe Louisiana Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization by Arnold R. Hirsch, This collection of six original essays explores the peculiar ethnic composition city of monroe louisiana and history of New Orleans, which the authors persuasively argue is unique among American cities.
See live article   Council for the Development of French in Louisiana = Council for the Development of French in Louisiana = The Council for the Development of French in Louisiana (CODOFIL) was created in 1968 by the Louisiana state...
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 About Topics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
State of Louisiana État de Louisiane (Flag of Louisiana) (Seal of Louisiana) State nickname: Pelican...
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, or simply Louisiana State University (LSU) is a public, coeducational university located in Baton Ro...
The Louisiana State University System is the largest public university system in Louisiana.
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 Louisiana (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, museum of modern art close to Copenhagen, Denmark
Louisiana, name of an important road connexion in Croatia
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louisiana_(disambiguation)   (99 words)

  
 James Wilkinson Summary
Later, in his position in St. Louis as governor of the upper Louisiana Territory, Wilkinson was visited by Burr and then kept in regular communication with him.
He was appointed governor of the Louisiana Territory in 1805.
Wilkinson's Spanish involvement, although suspected, was not proven until 1854, with the publication by Louisiana historian Charles Gayarré of his correspondence with Miro, the Spanish governor of Louisiana.
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They inform us that transmission of the lexifier (a topic to which I return below) need not be associated with the presence of native speakers in a particular community.
Of all the other places where the French left linguistic footprints, New Caledonia, Reunion, Louisiana (and indeed North America generally), the Caribbean, French Guiana, Mauritius, and the Ivory Coast have been chosen as representative cases.
Other places such as Algeria, Tahiti, parts of subSaharan Africa and so on, are just as interesting linguistically, but are subsumed to a great degree by the places and languages dealt with here.
humanities.uchicago.edu /faculty/mufwene/mufwe_Corne.html   (2742 words)

  
 AMTA SIG-IL Workshop on Interlinguas Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Fourth Workshop was held in October 2000 in conjunction with the AMTA 2000 conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
It dealt with a comparison of three current interlingual approaches to a few MT tasks (the representation of tense and aspect, lexical disambiguation and the treatment of cross-language mismatches).
The Sixth Workshop was held at MT Summit IX in New Orleans, Louisiana in October 2003.
crl.nmsu.edu /Events/FWOI/index.html   (565 words)

  
 Sports :: Camps : Gourt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For other senses of that word, see sports (disambiguation).
A sport consists of a physical and mentally competitive activity carried out with a recreational purpose for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of a skill, or some combination of these.
Held at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana.
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 louisiana - OneLook Dictionary Search
Louisiana : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Louisiana : The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy [home, info]
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