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  Jazz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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.
According to many New Orleans musicians who remembered the era, the key figures in the development of the new style were flamboyant trumpeter Buddy Bolden and the members of his band.
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 Encyclopedia: Louisiana
Orleans Territory was a historic, organized territory of the United States formed out of the first subdivision of the Louisiana Purchase.
New Orleans was captured by Federal troops on April 25, 1862.
As significant portions of the population had Union sympathies, the Federal government took the unusual step of recognizing the areas of Louisiana under Federal control as a state within the Union with elected representatives who were sent to the congress in Washington, D.C. throughout the rest of the war.
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 Orleans (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Orleans is the name of a number of places:
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
If an article link referred you to this title, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
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 Encyclopedia: Chicago
The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 northern states of the Union – and the newly-formed Confederate States of America, which consisted of 11 southern states that had declared their secession.
In the field of popular cuisine, Chicago style Pizza provides the antithesis to New York styles and hot dogs, being synonymous with deep-dish and stuffed pizza in addition to being linked to a robustly complex Chicago style Hot Dog (often called "the garbage dog") that challenges the relative simplicity of a New York coney dog.
For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed...
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 HURRICANE KATRINA FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The CSX (former Louisville_and_Nashville_Railroad) main line from Mobile to New Orleans is believed to have suffered extensive damage, especially in coastal Mississippi, but repair crews were not able to reach most parts of the line as of August_30.
In Orleans Parish that responsibility fell to Mayor Ray_Nagin.
The U.S._Census_Bureau estimates the 2004 New Orleans population to be 20.0% white and 67.9% fl.
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 Jazz - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The New Orleans style players also adopted much of the vocabularity of the blues, including bent and blue notes and instrumental "growls" and smears otherwise not used on European instruments.
While the city soon fell heavily under the influence of the waves of New Orleans musicians, this older style blending with the New Orleans style to form what would be called "Chicago Jazz" starting in the late 1910s.
A vaudeville promoter caught the band playing to ethusiastic crowds in between rounds at a boxing match, and booked the band to tour the nation on the Orpheum Circuit.
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 LOUISIANA FACTS AND INFORMATION
The western boundary of Louisiana with Spanish Texas remained in dispute until the Adams-Onís_Treaty in 1819, with the Sabine_Free_State serving as a neutral buffer zone as well as a haven for criminals.
The ''Islenos'' are direct descendants of Canary Islanders forced to migrate by the Spanish King beginning in the mid-1770s.
Since Louisiana is under constant threat from hurricanes, the Louisiana State Police are sponsoring a contraflow_lane_reversal_program in order to evacuate the New_Orleans metropolitan area as quickly as possible.
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 Hurricane Katrina Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The New Orleans Convention Center was broken into by August 30th, and by September 1, the facility, like the Superdome, was overwhelmed and declared unsafe and unsanitary.
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.
Three levees in New Orleans gave way, and 80% of the city was under water at peak flooding, which in some places was 20 to 25 feet (7 or 8 meters) deep[39].
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The U.S. divided the newly acquired land into two territories: the 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).
As some portion of the population had Union sympathies, unusually the portions of Louisiana under Federal control were recognized as a state within the Union and elected representatives who were sent to the congress in Washington, D.C. through the rest of the war.
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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 Ellis Marsalis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
, died September 2004, was a New Orleans, Louisiana businessman.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
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 Battle_of_New_Orleans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In the Battle of New Orleans of the War of 1812, the United States forces defeated the British on January 8, 1815.
The first British troops reached the American position on January 1, and in an exchange of artillery fire, the Americans held their ground.
However, by the terms of the treaty, the war was not officially over until ratifications were exchanged on February 17, 1815 and proclaimed the following day.
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 Greenie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The campus police force at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Slang term used by Baseball players in the late 1960's refering to a commonly used amphetamine pill, which was often green.
The slang term used by LDS proselyting missionaries referring to new missionaries in the field.
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 NTU Info Centre: Joan of Arc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The religious play in her honor at Orleans was declared by the 15th century Church to be a pilgrimage site meriting an indulgence, and she was subsequently used as a symbol of the Catholic League during the 16th century.
After the execution of the Maid of Orleans, there were number of impostors who claimed to be Joan, having escaped from the fire.
For the next three years the town of Orleans stopped the memorial services for the Maid of Orleans and, according to town records, paid some of her expenses.
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National Endowment for the Humanities: "...a fl musical spirit (involving rhythm and melody) was bursting out of the confines of European musical tradition, even though the performers were using European styled instruments.
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
Tim Brymn give later generations another look at the northeastern hot style with little of the New Orleans influence yet evident.
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Since a canal was built in the early nineteenth century, the river has been seeking the Atchafalaya River mouth, some 60 miles (95 km) from New Orleans.
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.
Huey Long Bridge in New Orleans, LA The Crescent City Connection in New Orleans, the
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 Argonaut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Four ships of the Royal Navy named HMS Argonaut.
The Argonaut, a passenger train operated by the Southern Pacific railroad between Los Angeles, CA and New Orleans, LA.
The Toronto Argonauts, a team in the Canadian Football League.
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 Orleans (disambiguation) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Orleans (disambiguation) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Orleans is the name of a number of places in the (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States of America:
There is a (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s soft rock band named (A long siege by the English was relieved by Joan of Arc in 1429) Orleans.
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 Louisiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Chitimachas occupied the southeastern parishes of Iberia, Assumption, St Mary, Lower St. Martin, Terrebone, LaFourche, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St.Bo St. Charles, Jefferson, Orleans, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines.
The Charlotte Hornets moved to New Orleans in 2002 - Now known as The New Orleans Hornets.
Bernard Parish, in the river passes east of the city, along an old mouth of the Mississippi River which they named Terre Aux Bouefs (literally "Land of the Cows" for the cattle living there).
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 Charlotte, North Carolina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
For other smaller places named Charlotte, see Charlotte (disambiguation).
Charlotte is the largest city in North Carolina near the border of South Carolina, and is the economic center of the Carolinas.
The New Orleans Hornets played in Charlotte from 1988 until their move to New Orleans, Louisiana in 2002.
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 orleans - OneLook Dictionary Search
ORLEANS : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
Phrases that include orleans: new orleans, greater new orleans bridge, siege of orleans, battle of new orleans, ile d’ orleans, more...
Words similar to orleans: siege of orleans, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=orleans&ls=a   (239 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Francis II of France
Events February 27 - The Treaty of Berhick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland The first tulip bulb was brought from Turkey to the Netherlands.
Orleans cathedral, dedicated to the Holy Cross, built from 1278 to 1329; after being pillaged by Huguenots in the 1560s, the Bourbon kings restored it in the 17th century.
Loiret is a département in north-central France named after the Loiret River.
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 Placing Search in Context: The Concept Revisited
Among the rest, context should be utilized to expand the augmented queries in a disambiguated manner.
In fact, this disambiguation process could be used to concomitantly determine the extent of the context which is most relevant for processing the specific query in hand.
More work could be done on specifically tailoring the generic approach shown here for maximizing the context-guided capabilities of individual search engines (applying our algorithm in such a manner to one of the leading major search engines has provided very encouraging results).
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 Atlanta - Wikitravel
Atlanta is served by Amtrak's Crescent train, which runs daily and serves New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans (and vice-versa).
In Atlanta, the train calls at the Amtrak station at 1688 Peachtree St. N.W., which is several miles north of downtown and not well served by local public transport.
The principal interstates serving the city are I-75 (serving traffic from Chicago and Detroit to Florida), I-85 (connecteding the North-East to New Orleans) and I-20 (connecting California and Texas to South Carolina), all of which cross through the downtown.
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 AMTA SIG-IL Workshop on Interlinguas Series
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.
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 battle of new orleans and other new orleans related information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Narrative by Jimmy Driftwood: “After the Battle of New Orleans, which Andrew Jackson won on January the 8th eighteen and fifteen, the boys played the...
The Battle of New Orleans The fighting in Louisiana was really a series of battles for New Orleans, lasting from December...
The Battle of New Orleans Race, Class Disparity Set Stage for New Orleans Disaster by Dru Oja Jay photo: DirectNIC.com In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast, the Bush...
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 Orléans
Orléans is about as far as the English went when they tried to invade France in the early 15th century.
Orleans city official web site : " class="external">http://www.orleans.fr/
Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
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 Pavillon New Orleans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
:''This article is about Orléans, France; for other meanings see Orleans (disambiguation).'', built from 1278 to 1329; the Protestants pillaged it in the 1560s; the Bourbon kings restored it in the 17th century.]] Orléans is a city and commune in north-central France, about 200 km (130 miles) south-west of Paris.
Why don't we keep the French city with the accent, thus using it as a disambiguation tool?
- User:Olivier Should we link Joan of Arc to this page, since she was the famous "Maid of Orleans"?
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 orleans - OneLook Dictionary Search
Orleans : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
orleans : Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
orleans : WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
www.onelook.com /?w=orleans&ls=a   (239 words)

  
 Publications
Oviatt, S. Mutual disambiguation of recognition errors in a multimodal architecture, Proceedings of Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI '99, New York, N.Y.: ACM Press, 1999, 576-583.
"Mutual Disambiguation of 3D Multimodal Interaction in Augmented and Virtual Reality," Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2003), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, November 2003, pgs.
McGee, D. and Cohen, P.: "Augmenting Physical Tools: Bridging the Chasm of Late Adoption with Multimodal Language," to appear in proceedings of HCI International 2001, the 9th International Conference of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI'01) in New Orleans, August 5-10, 2001.
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