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A. N. Yiannopoulos
Athanassios Nicholas "Thanassi" Yiannopoulos (March 13, 1928, in Thessaloniki, Greece – February 1, 2017, in New Orleans, Louisiana) was a professor at Tulane University Law School, expert on civil law and comparative law, and founder of the Civil Law Commentaries.
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
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Acadia
Acadia (Acadie) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River.
Acadiana
Acadiana (French and Louisiana French: L'Acadiane), also known as the Cajun Country (Louisiana French: Le Pays Cadjin, País Cajún), is the official name given to the French Louisiana region that has historically contained much of the state's Francophone population.
Acadians
The Acadians (Acadiens) are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Admission to the Union
Admission to the Union is provided by the Admissions Clause of the United States Constitution in Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1, which authorizes the United States Congress to admit new states into the Union beyond the thirteen states that already existed when the Constitution came into effect. Louisiana and Admission to the Union are states of the United States.
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Adolph Meyer
Adolph Meyer (October 19, 1842 – March 8, 1908) was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana.
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African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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African Americans in Louisiana
African Americans in Louisiana or Black Louisianians are residents of the U.S. state of Louisiana who are of African ancestry; those native to the state since colonial times descend from the many African slaves working on indigo and sugarcane plantations under French colonial rule.
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African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era
More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern states.
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Agate
Agate is the banded variety of chalcedony, which comes in a wide variety of colors.
Agricultural productivity
Agricultural productivity is measured as the ratio of agricultural outputs to inputs.
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Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. Louisiana and Alaska are states of the United States.
Alberta
Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
Alcée Fortier
Alcée Fortier (June 5, 1856 – February 14, 1914) was a renowned Professor of Romance Languages at Tulane University in New Orleans.
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Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton
Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton (27 October 177412 May 1848) was a British politician and financier, and a member of the Baring family.
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Alexander State Forest
Alexander State Forest is located in Rapides Parish, Louisiana near the town of Woodworth.
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Alexandria International Airport (Louisiana)
Alexandria International Airport is a public use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) west of the central business district of Alexandria, in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Alexandria, Louisiana
Alexandria is the ninth-largest city in the state of Louisiana and is the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Ali Landry
Ali Germaine Landry (born July 21, 1973) is an American actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss USA 1996.
Allegheny Mountains
The Allegheny Mountain Range (also spelled Alleghany or Allegany), informally the Alleghenies, is part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the Eastern United States and Canada and posed a significant barrier to land travel in less developed eras.
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American alligator
The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), sometimes referred to as a gator or common alligator, is a large crocodilian reptile native to the Southeastern United States and a small section of northeastern Mexico.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
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American Community Survey
The American Community Survey (ACS) is an annual demographics survey program conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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American English
American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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American green tree frog
The American green tree frog (Dryophytes cinereus or Hyla cinerea) is a common arboreal species of New World tree frog belonging to the family Hylidae.
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Amite River
The Amite River (Rivière Amite) is a tributary of Lake Maurepas in Mississippi and Louisiana in the United States.
Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is the national passenger railroad company of the United States.
Angela Kinsey
Angela Faye Kinsey (born June 25, 1971) is an American actress.
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Anglicisation
Anglicisation is a form of cultural assimilation whereby something non-English becomes assimilated into, influenced by or dominated by the culture of England.
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Anglo-Americans
Anglo-Americans are a demographic group in Anglo-America.
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Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress
Perhaps the most accurate and current data on homelessness in the United States is reported annually by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (AHAR).
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Antoine Crozat, 1st Marquis of Châtel
Antoine Crozat, 1st Marquis of Châtel (c. 1655 – 7 June 1738), French founder of an immense fortune, was the first proprietary owner of French Louisiana, from 1712 to 1717.
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Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz
Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz (1695?–1775), Discovering Lewis & Clark was a French ethnographer, historian, and naturalist who is best known for his Histoire de la Louisiane.
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Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, are a mountain range in eastern to northeastern North America.
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Archaic period (North America)
In the classification of the archaeological cultures of North America, the Archaic period in North America, taken to last from around 8000 to 1000 BC in the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages, is a period defined by the archaic stage of cultural development.
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Arkansas
Arkansas is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. Louisiana and Arkansas are Contiguous United States, southern United States and states of the United States.
Armand Duplantis
Armand Gustav Duplantis (born 10 November 1999) is a Swedish-American pole vaulter, the current world outdoor and indoor record holder (and), the current Olympic and two time World outdoor (2022 and 2023) and two-time indoor champion, the current European champion, and the current Diamond League champion.
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Arrow
An arrow is a fin-stabilized projectile launched by a bow.
Asian Americans
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).
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Assassination of Huey Long
On September 8, 1935, United States senator and former Louisiana governor Huey Long was fatally shot at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Atakapa
The Atakapa Sturtevant, 659 or Atacapa were an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, who spoke the Atakapa language and historically lived along the Gulf of Mexico in what is now Texas and Louisiana.
Atchafalaya Basin Mounds
The Atchafalaya Basin Mounds (16 SMY 10) (variously known as the Patterson Mounds, Patterson site, Moro Plantation Mounds and as the protohistoric village of Qiteet Kuti´ngi Na´mu by the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana) is an archaeological site originally occupied by peoples of the Coastal Coles Creek and Plaquemine cultures beginning around 980 CE, and by their presumed historic period descendants, the Chitimacha, during the 18th century.
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Atchafalaya National Heritage Area
Atchafalaya National Heritage Area is a federally designated National Heritage Area encompassing parts of fourteen parishes along the Atchafalaya River in the U.S. State of Louisiana.
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Atchafalaya River
The Atchafalaya River (La Rivière Atchafalaya, Río Atchafalaya) is a distributary of the Mississippi River and Red River in south central Louisiana in the United States.
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Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
Atlantic hurricane
An Atlantic hurricane is a type of tropical cyclone that forms in the Atlantic Ocean primarily between June and November.
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Atlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas.
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Avery Island (Louisiana)
Avery Island (historically Île Petite Anse) is a salt dome best known as the source of Tabasco sauce.
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Avoyel
The Avoyel or Avoyelles were a small Native American tribe who at the time of European contact inhabited land near the mouth of the Red River at its confluence with the Atchafalaya River near present-day Marksville, Louisiana.
Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Avoyelles (Paroisse des Avoyelles) is a parish located in central eastern Louisiana on the Red River where it effectively becomes the Atchafalaya River and meets the Mississippi River.
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Barings Bank
Barings Bank was a British merchant bank based in London, and one of England's oldest merchant banks after Berenberg Bank, Barings' close collaborator and German representative.
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Barrier island
Barrier islands are a coastal landform, a type of dune system and sand island, where an area of sand has been formed by wave and tidal action parallel to the mainland coast.
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Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport
Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, also known as Ryan Field, is a public use airport located four miles (7 km) north of the central business district of Baton Rouge, a city in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Baton Rouge metropolitan area
The Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area, as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget, or simply the Baton Rouge metropolitan area or Greater Baton Rouge, is a sprawling metropolitan statistical area surrounding the city of Baton Rouge.
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge (French: Baton Rouge or Bâton-Rouge,; Batonrouj) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Bayou
In usage in the Southern United States, a bayou is a body of water typically found in a flat, low-lying area.
Bayou Classic
The Bayou Classic is an annual college football classic rivalry game between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars, first held under that name in 1974 at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, although the series itself actually began in 1932.
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Bayou Lafourche
Bayou Lafourche, originally called Chetimachas River or La Fourche des Chetimaches, (the fork of the Chitimacha), is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Bayou Manchac
Bayou Manchac is an U.S. Geological Survey.
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Bayou Teche
Bayou Teche (Louisiana French: Bayou Têche) is a U.S. Geological Survey.
Baytown culture
The Baytown culture was a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that existed from 300 to 700 CE in the lower Mississippi River Valley, consisting of sites in eastern Arkansas, western Tennessee, Louisiana, and western Mississippi.
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BCS National Championship Game
The BCS National Championship Game, or BCS National Championship, was a postseason college football bowl game, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), first played in the 1998 college football season as one of four designated bowl games, and beginning in the 2006 season as a standalone event rotated among the host sites of the aforementioned bowls.
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Before Present
Before Present (BP) or "years before present (YBP)" is a time scale used mainly in archaeology, geology, and other scientific disciplines to specify when events occurred relative to the origin of practical radiocarbon dating in the 1950s.
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Belcher Mound Site
The Belcher Mound Site (16CD13) is an archaeological site in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
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Bill Cassidy
William Morgan Cassidy (born September 28, 1957) is an American physician and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Louisiana, a seat he has held since 2015.
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Billy Nungesser
William Harold Nungesser (born January 10, 1959) is an American politician serving as the 54th lieutenant governor of Louisiana since 2016.
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Biloxi, Mississippi
Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.
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Biome
A biome is a distinct geographical region with specific climate, vegetation, and animal life.
BNSF Railway
BNSF Railway is the largest freight railroad in the United States.
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Bobby Jindal
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971) is an American politician who served as the 55th governor of Louisiana from 2008 to 2016.
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Boeuf River
The Boeuf River is a tributary of the Ouachita River in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana.
Bogalusa, Louisiana
Bogalusa is a city in Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Boll weevil
The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) is a species of beetle in the family Curculionidae.
Bow and arrow
The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles (arrows).
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British America
British America comprised the colonial territories of the English Empire, and the successor British Empire, in the Americas from 1607 to 1783.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer.
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Brown pelican
The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a bird of the pelican family, Pelecanidae, one of three species found in the Americas and one of two that feed by diving into water.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Buddy Caldwell
James David Caldwell Sr., known as Buddy Caldwell (born May 20, 1946), is an American attorney and politician from the state of Louisiana.
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Bulk cargo
Bulk cargo is commodity cargo that is transported unpackaged in large quantities.
Caddo
The Caddo people comprise the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, a federally recognized tribe headquartered in Binger, Oklahoma.
Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Caddo Parish is a parish located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Caddoan languages
The Caddoan languages are a family of languages native to the Great Plains spoken by tribal groups of the central United States, from present-day North Dakota south to Oklahoma.
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Caddoan Mississippian culture
The Caddoan Mississippian culture was a prehistoric Native American culture considered by archaeologists as a variant of the Mississippian culture.
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Caesars Superdome
The Caesars Superdome (originally Louisiana Superdome and formerly Mercedes-Benz Superdome), commonly known as the Superdome, is a domed multi-purpose stadium located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
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Cahokia
The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (11 MS 2) is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed 1050–1350 CE) directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis, Missouri.
Cajuns
The Cajuns (French: les Cadjins or les Cadiens), also known as Louisiana Acadians (French: les Acadiens), are a Louisiana French ethnicity mainly found in the U.S. state of Louisiana and surrounding Gulf Coast states.
Calcasieu River
The Calcasieu River (Rivière Calcasieu) is a river on the Gulf Coast in southwestern Louisiana.
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Canada–United States border
The Canada–United States border is the longest international border in the world.
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Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company (Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
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Canadian Pacific Kansas City
Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, doing business as CPKC, is a Canadian railway holding company that resulted from the merger of Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) on April 14, 2023.
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Canal
Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi).
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands (Canarias), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Cane River Creole National Historical Park
Established in 1994, the Cane River Creole National Historical Park serves to preserve the resources and cultural landscapes of the Cane River region in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
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Cane River National Heritage Area
The Cane River National Heritage Area is a United States National Heritage Area in the state of Louisiana.
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Capital Area Transit System
Capital Area Transit System, labeling itself CATS, is a public transportation provider in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
Carnivorous plant
Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods, and occasionally small mammals and birds.
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Carville, Louisiana
Carville is a neighborhood of St. Gabriel, located in Iberville Parish in southern Louisiana, sixteen miles south of Baton Rouge, on the Mississippi River.
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Catahoula Leopard Dog
The Catahoula Leopard Dog is an American dog breed named after Catahoula Parish, Louisiana.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Cenozoic
The Cenozoic is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history.
Center of population
In demographics, the center of population (or population center) of a region is a geographical point that describes a centerpoint of the region's population.
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Central Louisiana
Central Louisiana (French: Centre du Louisiane), also known as the Crossroads, is a region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Central Time Zone
The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America and some Caribbean islands.
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Charles E. Nash
Charles Edmund Nash (May 23, 1844 – June 21, 1913) was an American politician who served a single two-year term as Republican in the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana.
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Charles Gayarré
Charles-Étienne Arthur Gayarré (January 9, 1805 – February 11, 1895) was an American historian, attorney, slaveowner and politician born to a Spanish and French Creole planter family in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (2 February 1754 – 17 May 1838), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand, was a French secularized clergyman, statesman, and leading diplomat.
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Charter school
A charter school is a school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located.
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Chennault International Airport
Chennault International Airport is a public aerospace/industrial complex in Lake Charles, in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Civil law (legal system)
Civil law is a legal system originating in Italy and France that has been adopted in large parts of the world.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.
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Coast
A coastalso called the coastline, shoreline, or seashoreis the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.
Coastwise slave trade
The coastwise slave trade existed along the southern and eastern coastal areas of the United States in the antebellum years prior to 1861.
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Code Noir
The Code noir (Black code) was a decree passed by King Louis XIV of France in 1685 defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire and served as the code for slavery conduct in the French colonies up until 1789 the year marking the beginning of the French Revolution.
Code of law
A code of law, also called a law code or legal code, is a systematic collection of statutes.
Coffee
Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted coffee beans.
Coles Creek culture
Coles Creek culture is a Late Woodland archaeological culture in the Lower Mississippi valley in the Southeastern Woodlands.
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Common law
Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.
Community property
Community property (United States) also called community of property (South Africa) is a marital property regime whereby property acquired during a marriage is considered to be owned by both spouses and subject to division between them in the event of divorce.
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Competitive Enterprise Institute
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a non-profit libertarian think tank founded by the political writer Fred L. Smith Jr. on March 9, 1984, in Washington, D.C., to advance principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty.
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Confederate States Army
The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting against the United States forces to win the independence of the Southern states and uphold and expand the institution of slavery.
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Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.
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Congressional district
Congressional districts, also known as electoral districts in other nations, are divisions of a larger administrative region that represent the population of a region in the larger congressional body.
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Consolidated city-county
In United States local government, a consolidated city-county (also known as either a city-parish or a consolidated government in Louisiana, depending on the locality, or a unified municipality, unified home rule borough, or city and borough, from Alaska Municipal League in Alaska) is formed when one or more cities and their surrounding county (parish in Louisiana, borough in Alaska) merge into one unified jurisdiction.
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Constitution of Louisiana
The Louisiana Constitution is legally named the Constitution of the State of Louisiana and commonly called the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, and the Constitution of 1974.
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Continental shelf
A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea.
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Council for the Development of French in Louisiana
The Council for the Development of French in Louisiana (CODOFIL; Conseil pour le développement du français en Louisiane) is Louisiana's Office of Francophone Affairs (Agence des affaires francophones).
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County (United States)
In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.
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Covenant marriage
Covenant marriage is a legally distinct kind of marriage in three states of the United States (Arizona, Arkansas, and Louisiana), in which the marrying spouses agree to obtain pre-marital counseling and accept more limited grounds for later seeking divorce (the least strict of which being that the couple lives apart from each other for two years).
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COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana
The first presumptive case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana was announced on March 9, 2020.
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Crappie
Crappies are two species of North American freshwater fish of the genus Pomoxis in the family Centrarchidae (sunfishes).
Crayfish
Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Astacidea, which also contains lobsters.
Creoles of color
The Creoles of color are a historic ethnic group of Louisiana Creoles that developed in the former French and Spanish colonies of Louisiana (especially in New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, and Northwestern Florida, in what is now the United States.
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Crescent (train)
The Crescent is a daily long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between New York City and New Orleans (the "Crescent City").
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Crescent City Classic
The Crescent City Classic is an annual 10-kilometer race held in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
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CSX Transportation
CSX Transportation, known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
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Cuban Americans
Cuban Americans (cubanoestadounidenses or cubanoamericanos) are Americans who immigrated from or are descended from immigrants from Cuba, regardless of racial or ethnic origin.
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Culture of Africa
The Culture of Africa is varied and manifold, consisting of a mixture of countries with various tribes depicting their unique characteristic and trait from the continent of Africa.
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Culture of Quebec
The culture of Quebec emerged over the last few hundred years, resulting predominantly from the shared history of the French-speaking North American majority in Quebec.
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Culture of Spain
The culture of Spain is influenced by its Western origin, its interaction with other cultures in Europe, its historically Catholic religious tradition, and the varied national and regional identities within the country.
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Cypress dome
A cypress dome is a type of freshwater forested wetland, or a swamp, found in the southeastern part of the United States.
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Danville, Illinois
Danville is a city in and the county seat of Vermilion County, Illinois, United States.
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David Brion Davis
David Brion Davis (February 16, 1927 – April 14, 2019) was an American intellectual and cultural historian, and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world.
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David Vitter
David Bruce Vitter (born May 3, 1961) is an American politician, attorney, and lobbyist who served as a United States Senator from Louisiana from 2005 to 2017.
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Deacons for Defense and Justice
The Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed African-American self-defense group founded in November 1964, during the civil rights era in the United States, in the mill town of Jonesboro, Louisiana.
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Dead zone (ecology)
Dead zones are hypoxic (low-oxygen) areas in the world's oceans and large lakes.
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Death Penalty Information Center
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on disseminating studies and reports related to the death penalty.
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Deep South
The Deep South or the Lower South is a cultural and geographic subregion of the Southern United States.
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Denham Springs, Louisiana
Denham Springs is a city in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Dew point
The dew point of a given body of air is the temperature to which it must be cooled to become saturated with water vapor.
Diatonic button accordion
A melodeon or diatonic button accordion is a member of the free-reed aerophone family of musical instruments.
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Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era
Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era in the United States, especially in the Southern United States, was based on a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices in the South that were deliberately used to prevent black citizens from registering to vote and voting.
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District of Louisiana
The District of Louisiana, or Louisiana District, was an official and temporary United States government designation for the portion of the Louisiana Purchase that had not been organized into the Territory of Orleans or "Orleans Territory" (the portion of the Louisiana Purchase south of the 33rd parallel, which is now the Arkansas–Louisiana state line).
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Dixie Alley
"Dixie Alley" is a colloquial term sometimes used for areas of the southern United States which are particularly vulnerable to strong to violent tornadoes.
Dixiecrat
The States' Rights Democratic Party (whose members are often called the Dixiecrats), also colloquially referred to as the Dixiecrat Party was a short-lived segregationist political party in the United States, active primarily in the South.
DJ Khaled
Khaled Mohammed Khaled (Arabic: خالد محمد خالد; born November 26, 1975), known professionally as DJ Khaled, is an American DJ, record producer, and record executive.
Donaldsonville, Louisiana
Donaldsonville (historically Lafourche-des-Chitimachas) is a city in, and the parish seat of Ascension Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Driskill Mountain
Driskill Mountain (also referred to as Mount Driskill) is the highest natural summit in Louisiana, with an elevation of above sea level.
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Dustin Poirier
Dustin Glenn Poirier (born January 19, 1989) is an American professional mixed martial artist.
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East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish (Paroisse de Bâton-Rouge Est; Parroquia del Este de Bastón Rojo) is the most populous parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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East Texas
East Texas is a broadly defined cultural, geographic, and ecological region in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Texas that comprises most of 41 counties.
Economy of Greece
The economy of Greece is the 54th largest in the world, with a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of $250.276 billion per annum.
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Economy of New Zealand
The economy of New Zealand is a highly developed free-market economy.
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Economy of Peru
The economy of Peru is an emerging, mixed economy characterized by a high level of foreign trade and an upper middle income economy as classified by the World Bank.
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Egret
Egrets are herons, generally long-legged wading birds, that have white or buff plumage, developing fine plumes (usually milky white) during the breeding season.
Election Day (United States)
Election Day in the United States is the annual day for general elections of federal public officials.
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Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American comedian, actress, television host, and writer.
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Encyclopedia of Arkansas
The Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) Encyclopedia of Arkansas is a web-based encyclopedia of the U.S. state of Arkansas, described by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as "a free, authoritative source of information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of the state of Arkansas." The encyclopedia is a project of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Little Rock-based CALS.
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England Air Force Base
England Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base in Louisiana, located northwest of Alexandria and about northwest of New Orleans.
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English Americans
English Americans (historically known as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.
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Epps, Louisiana
Epps is a village in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Erosion
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
Evangeline Parish, Louisiana
Evangeline Parish (Paroisse d'Évangéline) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Expulsion of the Acadians
The Expulsion of the Acadians was the forced removal of inhabitants of the North American region historically known as Acadia between 1755 and 1764 by Great Britain.
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FAA airport categories
The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a system for categorizing public-use airports (along with heliports and other aviation bases) that is primarily based on the level of commercial passenger traffic through each facility.
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Fauna of Louisiana
The fauna of Louisiana is characterized by the region's low swamplands, bayous, creeks, woodlands, coastal marshlands and beaches, and barrier islands covering an estimated, corresponding to 40 percent of Louisiana's total land area.
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Federalist Party
The Federalist Party was a conservative and nationalist American political party and the first political party in the United States.
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Fifth Military District
The Fifth Military District of the U.S. Army was one of five temporary administrative units of the U.S. War Department that existed in the American South from 1867 to 1870.
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Filipino Americans
Filipino Americans (Mga Pilipinong Amerikano) are Americans of Filipino ancestry.
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Fishery
Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life or, more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place (a.k.a., fishing grounds).
Fitzhugh Mounds
Fitzhugh Mounds is an archaeological site in Madison Parish, Louisiana from the Plaquemine\Mississippian period dating to approximately 1200–1541 CE.
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Flatboat
A flatboat (or broadhorn) was a rectangular flat-bottomed boat with square ends used to transport freight and passengers on inland waterways in the United States.
Flatwoods
Flatwoods, pineywoods, pine savannas and longleaf pine–wiregrass ecosystem are terms that refer to an ecological community in the southeastern coastal plain of North America.
Florida panhandle
The Florida panhandle (also known as West Florida and Northwest Florida) is the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Florida.
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Florida Parishes
The Florida Parishes (Parroquias de Florida, Paroisses de Floride), on the east side of the Mississippi River—an area also known as the Northshore or Northlake region—are eight parishes in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Fort Miami (Indiana)
Fort Miami, originally called Fort St.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States.
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Fourche Maline culture
The Fourche Maline culture (pronounced foosh-ma-lean) was a Woodland Period Native American culture that existed from 300 BCE to 800 CE, November 15, 2016.
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François Barbé-Marbois
François Barbé-Marbois, marquis de Barbé-Marbois (31 January 1745 – 12 February 1837) was a French politician.
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Francois Xavier Martin
François Xavier Martin (March 17, 1762 – December 10, 1846), was a Franco-American lawyer and author, the first Attorney General of State of Louisiana, and longtime Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
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Fred L. Smith (political writer)
Fred L. Smith Jr. is founder and former president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit libertarian think tank.
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Free people of color
In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Native American descent who were not enslaved.
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Freedman
A freedman or freedwoman is a person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.
French Americans
French Americans or Franco-Americans (Franco-américains) are citizens or nationals of the United States who identify themselves with having full or partial French or French-Canadian heritage, ethnicity and/or ancestral ties.
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.
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French Canadians
French Canadians (referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century; Canadiens français,; feminine form: Canadiennes françaises), or Franco-Canadians (Franco-Canadiens), are an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to French colonists who settled in France's colony of Canada beginning in the 17th century.
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French colonial empire
The French colonial empire comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. Louisiana and French colonial empire are former French colonies.
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French colonization of the Americas
France began colonizing the Americas in the 16th century and continued into the following centuries as it established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere. Louisiana and French colonization of the Americas are former French colonies.
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French franc
The franc (franc français,; sign: F or Fr), also commonly distinguished as the (FF), was a currency of France.
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French Louisiana
The term French Louisiana (Louisiane française, Lwizyàn françé) refers to two distinct regions.
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French Louisianians
The French Louisianians (Louisianais), also known as Louisiana French, are Latin French people native to the states that were established out of French Louisiana.
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French people
The French people (lit) are a nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France.
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French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
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Gahagan Mounds Site
The Gahagan Mounds Site (16RR1) is an Early Caddoan Mississippian culture archaeological site in Red River Parish, Louisiana.
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General American English
General American English, known in linguistics simply as General American (abbreviated GA or GenAm), is the umbrella accent of American English spoken by a majority of Americans, encompassing a continuum rather than a single unified accent.
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German Americans
German Americans (Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.
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German Coast
The German Coast (French: Côte des Allemands, Spanish: Costa Alemana, German: Deutsche Küste) was a region of early Louisiana settlement located above New Orleans, and on the west bank of the Mississippi River.
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Give Me Louisiana
"Give Me Louisiana" It was written in 1970 by Doralice Fontane and arranged by John Croom.
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Government bond
A government bond or sovereign bond is a form of bond issued by a government to support public spending.
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Grace King
Grace Elizabeth King (November 29, 1851 – January 14, 1932) was an American author of Louisiana stories, history, and biography, and a leader in historical and literary activities.
Grambling State University
Grambling State University (GSU, Grambling, or Grambling State) is a public historically black university in Grambling, Louisiana.
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Great Britain in the Seven Years' War
Great Britain was one of the major participants in the Seven Years' War, which in fact lasted nine years, between 1754 and 1763.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.
Great Migration (African American)
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.
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Great Recession
The Great Recession was a period of marked decline in economies around the world that occurred in the late 2000s.
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Gross regional domestic product
Gross regional domestic product (GRDP), gross domestic product of region (GDPR), or gross state product (GSP) is a statistic that measures the size of a region's economy.
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Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe (Gwadloup) is an overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean.
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) is the portion of the Intracoastal Waterway located along the Gulf Coast of the United States.
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Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.
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Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (June 27, 1929 – August 29, 2022) was an American historian who focused on the history of slavery in the Caribbean, Latin America, Louisiana (United States), Africa, and the African Diaspora in the Americas.
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Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution (révolution haïtienne or La guerre de l'indépendance; Lagè d Lendependans) was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti.
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Haitian Vodou
Haitian Vodou is an African diasporic religion that developed in Haiti between the 16th and 19th centuries.
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Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto (1497 – 21 May 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hispanic and Latino Americans
Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.
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Historically black colleges and universities
Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving African Americans.
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History of New Orleans
The history of New Orleans, Louisiana traces the city's development from its founding by the French in 1718 through its period of Spanish control, then briefly back to French rule before being acquired by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
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Home rule
Home rule is government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens.
Homelessness
Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.
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Honey bee
A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia.
Hope & Co.
Hope & Co. was a Dutch bank that existed for two and a half centuries.
Hopewell tradition
The Hopewell tradition, also called the Hopewell culture and Hopewellian exchange, describes a network of precontact Native American cultures that flourished in settlements along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern Eastern Woodlands from 100 BCE to 500 CE, in the Middle Woodland period.
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Houma, Louisiana
Houma is the largest city in and the parish seat of Terrebonne Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Huey Long
Huey Pierce Long Jr. (August 30, 1893September 10, 1935), nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935.
Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton
Hugh Swynnerton Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (21 October 1931 – 7 May 2017) was an English historian and writer, best known for his book The Spanish Civil War.
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Humid subtropical climate
A humid subtropical climate is a temperate climate type characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters.
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Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was a devastating and deadly Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $186.3 billion (2022 USD) in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area.
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Hypoxia (environmental)
Hypoxia (hypo: "below", oxia: "oxygenated") refers to low oxygen conditions.
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Ian Somerhalder
Ian Joseph Somerhalder (born December 8, 1978) is an American retired actor.
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Ibis
The ibis (collective plural ibises; classical plurals ibides and ibes) are a group of long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae that inhabit wetlands, forests and plains.
Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Louisiana and Illinois are Contiguous United States, former French colonies and states of the United States.
Illinois Country
The Illinois Country (Pays des Illinois;, i.e. the Illinois people) (Spanish: País de los ilinueses) — sometimes referred to as Upper Louisiana (Haute-Louisiane; Alta Luisiana)—was a vast region of New France claimed in the 1600s in what is now the Midwestern United States. Louisiana and Illinois Country are former French colonies.
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Illinois River
The Illinois River (Inoka Siipiiwi) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River at approximately in length.
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Immigration to the United States
Immigration to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of its history.
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Incarceration in the United States
Incarceration in the United States is one of the primary means of punishment for crime in the United States.
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Income tax
An income tax is a tax imposed on individuals or entities (taxpayers) in respect of the income or profits earned by them (commonly called taxable income).
Independence Bowl
The Independence Bowl is a post-season National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-sanctioned Division I college football bowl game that is played annually each December at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana.
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Index of Louisiana-related articles
The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Indiana
Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Louisiana and Indiana are Contiguous United States and states of the United States.
Inhuman Bondage
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World is a book by American cultural and intellectual historian David Brion Davis, published by Oxford University Press in 2006.
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Insurgency
An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare against a larger authority.
Intermodal passenger transport
Intermodal passenger transport, also called mixed-mode commuting, involves using two or more modes of transportation in a journey.
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Irreligion
Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.
Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Isleño Spanish
Isleño Spanish (Spanish: español isleño, espagnol islingue) is a dialect of Canarian Spanish spoken by the descendants of immigrant Canary Islanders who settled in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States, during the late 18th century.
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Isleños
Isleños are the descendants of Canarian settlers and immigrants to present-day Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Texas, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and other parts of the Americas.
Isleños (Louisiana)
Isleños (Islingues) are a Spanish ethnic group living in the state of Louisiana in the United States, consisting of people primarily from the Canary Islands.
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Isleños Fiesta
La Fiesta de los Isleños, often referred to as Los Isleños Fiesta, is an annual festival held in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, celebrating the Spanish heritage and culture of the Canary Islanders who settled in St.
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Italian Americans
Italian Americans (italoamericani) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry.
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Ivan L. R. Lemelle
Ivan L. R. Lemelle (born June 29, 1950) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
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Jackson Barracks
Jackson Barracks is the headquarters of the Louisiana National Guard.
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James Carville
Chester James Carville Jr. (born October 25, 1944) is an American political consultant, author, and occasional actor who has strategized for candidates for public office in the United States and in at least 23 nations abroad.
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James Hillhouse
James Hillhouse (October 20, 1754 – December 29, 1832) was an American lawyer, real estate developer, and politician from New Haven, Connecticut.
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James Monroe
James Monroe (April 28, 1758July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825, a member of the Democratic-Republican Party.
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James Wilkinson
James Wilkinson (March 24, 1757 – December 28, 1825) was an American soldier, politician, and Spanish secret agent #13, who was associated with several scandals and controversies.
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Jamie Lynn Spears
Jamie Lynn Marie Spears (born April 4, 1991) is an American actress and singer.
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Jared Leto
Jared Joseph Leto (born December 26, 1971) is an American actor and musician.
Jay Dardenne
John Leigh "Jay" Dardenne, Jr. (born February 6, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who served as commissioner of administration for Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards.
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Jean Lafitte
Jean Lafitte (–) was a French pirate and privateer who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century.
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Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve (Parc historique national et réserve Jean Lafitte) protects the natural and cultural resources of Louisiana's Mississippi River Delta region.
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Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe
Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe (4 February 1683 in Saint-Malo – 26 September 1765) was a French explorer who is credited with using the name "Little Rock" in 1722 for a stone outcropping on the bank of the Arkansas River used by early travelers as a landmark.
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Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (February 23, 1680 – March 7, 1767), also known as Sieur de Bienville, was a French-Canadian colonial administrator in New France.
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Jeff Landry
Jeffrey Martin Landry (born December 23, 1970) is an American politician and attorney who has served since 2024 as the 57th governor of Louisiana.
Jefferson Transit (Louisiana)
Jefferson Transit, badged as The JeT, is a public transportation provider in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
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Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935October 28, 2022) was an American pianist, singer and songwriter.
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John Kennedy (Louisiana politician)
John Neely Kennedy (born November 21, 1951) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Louisiana since 2017.
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John S. Harris
John Spafford Harris (December 18, 1825January 25, 1906) was an American politician for the state of Louisiana and member of the Republican Party.
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Jonesboro, Louisiana
Jonesboro is a town in, and the parish seat of, Jackson Parish in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Judah P. Benjamin
Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to Britain at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister.
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Judiciary of Louisiana
The Judiciary of Louisiana is defined under the Constitution and law of Louisiana and is composed of the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal, the District Courts, the Justice of the Peace Courts, the Mayor's Courts, the City Courts, and the Parish Courts.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kevin Gates
Kevin Jerome Gilyard (born February 5, 1986), better known by his stage name Kevin Gates, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur.
Killing of Alton Sterling
On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot and killed by two Baton Rouge Police Department officers, Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Kingdom of Great Britain
The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800.
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Kisatchie National Forest
Kisatchie National Forest, the only National forest in Louisiana, United States, is located in the forested piney hills and hardwood bottoms of seven central and northern parishes.
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Know Nothing
The Know Nothings were a nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s, officially known as the Native American Party before 1855, and afterwards simply the American Party.
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Korean War
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups.
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La Balize, Louisiana
La Balize, Louisiana was a French fort and settlement near the mouth of the Mississippi River, in what later became Plaquemines Parish.
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Lafayette metropolitan area, Louisiana
Lafayette, Vermilionville, or the Lafayette metropolitan statistical area per the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, is the third largest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Lafayette Regional Airport
Lafayette Regional Airport(French: Aéroport régional de Lafayette) is a public use airport two miles (4 km) southeast of Lafayette, in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Lafayette Transit System
Lafayette Transit System (LTS) is the operator of public transportation in metropolitan Lafayette, Louisiana.
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Lafayette, Indiana
Lafayette is a city in and is the county seat of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States, located northwest of Indianapolis and southeast of Chicago.
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Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette is the most populous city in and parish seat of Lafayette Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located along the Vermilion River.
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Lake Charles Regional Airport
Lake Charles Regional Airport is a public use airport located five nautical miles (9 km) south of the central business district of Lake Charles, a city in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Lake Charles, Louisiana
Lake Charles is the fifth-most populous city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the parish seat of Calcasieu Parish, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River.
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Lake Maurepas
Lake Maurepas (Lac Maurepas) is located in southeastern Louisiana, approximately halfway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, directly west of Lake Pontchartrain.
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Lake Pontchartrain
Lake Pontchartrain is an estuary located in southeastern Louisiana in the United States.
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Law of Louisiana
Law in the state of Louisiana is based on a more diverse set of sources than the laws of the other 49 states of the United States.
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Law of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has three distinctly different legal systems, each of which derives from a particular geographical area for a variety of historical reasons: English law, Scots law, Northern Ireland law, and, since 2007, calls for a fourth type, that of purely Welsh law as a result of Welsh devolution, with further calls for a Welsh justice system.
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Levee
A levee, dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure used to keep the course of rivers from changing and to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river or coast.
LGBT rights in Louisiana
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the U.S. state of Louisiana may face some legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.
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Library of Congress Country Studies
The Country Studies are works published by the Federal Research Division of the United States Library of Congress, freely available for use by researchers.
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Lil Wayne
Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. (born September27, 1982), known professionally as Lil Wayne, is an American rapper.
Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Lincoln Parish (French:Paroisse de Lincoln) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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List of attorneys general of Louisiana
The office of attorney general of Louisiana (Procureur général de la Louisiane) has existed since the colonial period.
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List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska
The U.S. state of Alaska is divided into 19 organized boroughs and 1 unorganized borough.
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List of colleges and universities in Louisiana
The following is a list of colleges and universities in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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List of colonial governors of Louisiana
This is a list of the colonial governors of Louisiana, from the founding of the first settlement by the French in 1699 to the territory's acquisition by the United States in 1803.
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List of countries by GDP (nominal)
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year.
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List of demonyms for US states and territories
This is a list of demonyms used to designate the citizens of specific states, federal district, and territories of the United States of America.
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List of Louisiana state historic sites
This List of Louisiana state historic sites contains the 17 state historic sites governed by the Office of State Parks, a division of Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism in the U.S. state of Louisiana, as of 2011.
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List of Louisiana state parks
The state of Louisiana has 38 state parks, which are governed by the Office of Lieutenant Governor, a division of the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.
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List of parishes in Louisiana
The U.S. state of Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes in the same manner that Alaska is divided into boroughs, and the remaining 48 other states are divided into counties.
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List of political parties in the United States
This is a list of political parties in the United States, both past and present.
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List of states and territories of the United States
The United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. Louisiana and List of states and territories of the United States are states of the United States.
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List of U.S. states and territories by area
This is a complete list of all 50 U.S. states, its federal district (Washington D.C.) and its major territories ordered by total area, land area and water area.
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List of U.S. states and territories by GDP
This is a list of U.S. states and territories by gross domestic product (GDP).
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List of U.S. states and territories by income
This is a list of U.S. states, territories, and Washington, D.C. by income.
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List of U.S. states and territories by intentional homicide rate
This is a list of U.S. states and territories by intentional homicide rate. It is typically expressed in units of deaths per 100,000 individuals per year; a homicide rate of 4 in a population of 100,000 would mean 4 murders a year, or 0.004% out of the total.
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List of U.S. states and territories by population
The states and territories included in the United States Census Bureau's statistics for the United States population, ethnicity, and most other categories include the 50 states and Washington, D.C. Separate statistics are maintained for the five permanently inhabited territories of the United States: Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S.
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List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union
A state of the United States is one of the 50 constituent entities that shares its sovereignty with the federal government.
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Literacy test
A literacy test assesses a person's literacy skills: their ability to read and write.
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Longleaf pine
The longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) is a pine species native to the Southeastern United States, found along the coastal plain from East Texas to southern Virginia, extending into northern and central Florida.
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Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport is an international airport under Class B airspace in Kenner city, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Louis Hennepin
Louis Hennepin, OFM (born Antoine Hennepin;; 12 May 1626 – 5 December 1704) was a Belgian Catholic priest and missionary best known for his activities in North America.
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Louis Juchereau de St. Denis
Louis Antoine Juchereau de St.
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Louis XIV
LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
Louisiana (New France)
Louisiana (Louisiane) or French Louisiana (Louisiane française) was an administrative district of New France. Louisiana and Louisiana (New France) are former French colonies.
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Louisiana (New Spain)
Louisiana (La Luisiana), or the Province of Louisiana (Provincia de La Luisiana), was a province of New Spain from 1762 to 1801 primarily located in the center of North America encompassing the western basin of the Mississippi River plus New Orleans. Louisiana and Louisiana (New Spain) are former Spanish colonies.
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Louisiana Air National Guard
The Louisiana Air National Guard (LA ANG) (Garde Nationale Aérienne de Louisiane; Guardia Nacional Aérea de Luisiana) is the aerial militia of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Louisiana Army National Guard
The Louisiana Army National Guard (Garde Nationale de l'Armée de Louisiane; Guardia Nacional del Ejército de Luisiana) is a component of the Louisiana National Guard, and the state's reserve force within the United States Army.
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Louisiana black bear
The Louisiana black bear (Ursus americanus luteolus), one of 16 subspecies of the American black bear, is found in parts of Louisiana, mainly along the Mississippi River Valley and the Atchafalaya River Basin.
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Louisiana black church fires
Three Louisiana black churches were set alight by a suspected arsonist between March 26 and April 4, 2019.
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Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal
The Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal are the intermediate appellate courts for the state of Louisiana.
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Louisiana Civil Code
The Louisiana Civil Code (LCC) constitutes the core of private law in the State of Louisiana.
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Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) is a governmental authority created by the Louisiana State Legislature in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to combat the ongoing erosion of Louisiana's coast.
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Louisiana Creole
Louisiana Creole is a French-based creole language spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, mostly in the US state of Louisiana.
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Louisiana Creole people
Louisiana Creoles (Créoles de la Louisiane, Moun Kréyòl la Lwizyàn, Criollos de Luisiana) are a Louisiana French ethnic group descended from the inhabitants of colonial Louisiana before it became a part of the United States during the period of both French and Spanish rule.
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Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) is a state government organization in the United States, in charge of maintaining public transportation, roadways, bridges, canals, select levees, floodplain management, port facilities, commercial vehicles, and aviation which includes 69 airports, in the U.S.
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Louisiana French
Louisiana French (Louisiana French: français de la Louisiane; françé la lwizyàn) is an umbrella term for the dialects and varieties of the French language spoken traditionally by French Louisianians in colonial Lower Louisiana.
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Louisiana Governor's Mansion
The Louisiana Governor's Mansion is the official residence of the governor of Louisiana and their family.
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Louisiana House of Representatives
The Louisiana House of Representatives (Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane; Cámara de Representantes de Luisiana) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Louisiana National Guard Training Center Pineville
Louisiana National Guard Training Center Pineville (previously Camp Beauregard) is a Louisiana National Guard installation located northeast of Pineville, Louisiana, primarily in Rapides Parish, but also extending northward into Grant Parish.
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Louisiana pine snake
The Louisiana pine snake (Pituophis ruthveni) is a species of large, non-venomous, constrictor in the family Colubridae.
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Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (translation) was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803.
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Louisiana Science Education Act
The Louisiana Science Education Act, Act 473 (SB733) of 2008 is a controversial anti-evolution law passed by the Louisiana Legislature on June 11, 2008 and signed into law by Governor Bobby Jindal on June 25.
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Louisiana State Arboretum
The Louisiana State Arboretum, is an arboretum located on Louisiana Highway 3042, approximately 13 km (eight miles) north of Ville Platte, Louisiana inside of Chicot State Park, United States, and bordering a branch of Lake Chicot.
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Louisiana State Capitol
The Louisiana State Capitol (Capitole de l'État de Louisiane) is the seat of government for the U.S. state of Louisiana and is located in downtown Baton Rouge.
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Louisiana State Legislature
The Louisiana State Legislature (Législature de l'État de Louisiane; Legislatura del Estado de Luisiana) is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Louisiana State Penitentiary
The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm"Sutton, Keith "Catfish". "". ESPN Outdoors. May 31, 2006. Retrieved on August 25, 2010.) is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections.
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Louisiana State Police
The Louisiana State Police (French: Police d’Etat de Louisiane) is the state police agency of Louisiana, which has jurisdiction anywhere in the state, headquartered in Baton Rouge.
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Louisiana State Senate
The Louisiana State Senate (Sénat de L'État de Louisiane; Senado del Estado de Luisiana) is the upper house of the state legislature of Louisiana.
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Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is an American public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Louisiana State University Press
The Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) is a university press at Louisiana State University.
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Louisiana statistical areas
The U.S. currently has 25 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
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Louisiana Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Louisiana (Cour suprême de Louisiane; Corte Suprema de Luisiana) is the highest court and court of last resort in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Louisiana Tech University
Louisiana Tech University (Louisiana Tech, La. Tech, or simply Tech) is a public research university in Ruston, Louisiana.
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Louisiana Territory
The Territory of Louisiana or Louisiana Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805, until June 4, 1812, when it was renamed the Missouri Territory.
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Louisiana Voodoo
Louisiana Voodoo (Vaudou louisianais, Vudú de Luisiana, Voudou Lalwizyàn), also known as New Orleans Voodoo, is an African diasporic religion that originated in Louisiana.
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Louisiana's 6th congressional district
Louisiana's 6th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers
The LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers (also known as the Fighting Tigers) are the athletic teams representing Louisiana State University (LSU), a state university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Luis de Unzaga
Luis de Unzaga y Amézaga (1717–1793), also known as Louis Unzaga y Amezéga le Conciliateur, Luigi de Unzaga Panizza and Lewis de Onzaga, was governor of Spanish Louisiana from late 1769 to mid-1777, as well as a Captain General of Venezuela from 1777 to 1782 and Cuba from 1782 to 1785.
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Lynching
Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
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Magnolia
Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 to 340The number of species in the genus Magnolia depends on the taxonomic view that one takes up.
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48. Louisiana and Maine are Contiguous United States and states of the United States.
Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada
Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada traditionally include four leagues: Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), and the National Hockey League (NHL).
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Manila galleon
The Manila galleon (Galeón de Manila; Galyon ng Maynila), originally known as La Nao de China, and Galeón de Acapulco,.
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Mannie Fresh
Byron Otto Thomas (born March 20, 1969), better known by his stage name Mannie Fresh, is an American record producer, DJ and rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Maringouin, Louisiana
Maringouin is a town in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Marksville culture
The Marksville culture was an archaeological culture in the lower Lower Mississippi valley, Yazoo valley, and Tensas valley areas of present-day Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and extended eastward along the Gulf Coast to the Mobile Bay area, from 100 BCE to 400 CE.
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Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site
Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site, also known as the Marksville site, (16 AV 1) is a Marksville culture archaeological site located southeast of Marksville in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.
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Maroons
Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas and Islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery, through flight or manumission, and formed their own settlements.
Martinique
Martinique (Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.
Medora site
The Medora site (16WBR1) is an archaeological site that is a type site for the prehistoric Plaquemine culture period.
Memphis massacre of 1866
The Memphis massacre of 1866 was a rebellion with a series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866 in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Mermentau River
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Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans (mexicano-estadounidenses, mexico-americanos, or estadounidenses de origen mexicano) are Americans of Mexican heritage.
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Michael Hahn
George Michael Decker Hahn (November 24, 1830 – March 15, 1886), was an attorney, politician, publisher and planter in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Minden, Louisiana
Minden is a small city and the parish seat of Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Mississippi
Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Louisiana and Mississippi are Contiguous United States, former French colonies, southern United States, states of the Gulf Coast of the United States and states of the United States.
Mississippi Alluvial Plain
The Mississippi River Alluvial Plain is an alluvial plain created by the Mississippi River on which lie parts of seven U.S. states, from southern Louisiana to southern Illinois (Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana).
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Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.
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Mississippi River System
The Mississippi River System, also referred to as the Western Rivers, is a mostly riverine network of the United States which includes the Mississippi River and connecting waterways.
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Mississippian culture
The Mississippian culture was a Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1600, varying regionally.
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Missoula, Montana
Missoula (script; script) is a city in and the county seat of Missoula County, Montana, United States.
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Missouri Territory
The Territory of Missouri was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 4, 1812, until August 10, 1821. Louisiana and Missouri Territory are states and territories established in 1812.
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Mobile, Alabama
Mobile is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.
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Modern Language Association
The Modern Language Association of America, often referred to as the Modern Language Association (MLA), is widely considered the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature.
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Monroe Regional Airport (Louisiana)
Monroe Regional Airport is a public use airport in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Monroe Transit
Monroe Transit is the operator of public transportation in metropolitan Monroe, Louisiana.
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Monroe, Louisiana
Monroe is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and parish seat of Ouachita Parish.
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Morgue
A morgue or mortuary (in a hospital or elsewhere) is a place used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification (ID), removal for autopsy, respectful burial, cremation or other methods of disposal.
Mound Builders
Many pre-Columbian cultures in North America were collectively termed "Mound Builders", but the term has no formal meaning.
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Multilingualism
Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers.
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Multiracial Americans
Multiracial Americans or mixed-race Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races. The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million individuals or 10.2% of the population, self-identified as multiracial.
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Multiracial people
The terms multiracial people or mixed-race people refer to people who are of more than two ''races'', and the terms multi-ethnic people or ethnically mixed people refer to people who are of more than two ethnicities.
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Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
Napoleonic Code
The Napoleonic Code, officially the Civil Code of the French (simply referred to as Code civil), is the French civil code established during the French Consulate in 1804 and still in force in France, although heavily and frequently amended since its inception.
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Natalbany River
The Natalbany River drains into Lake Maurepas in Louisiana in the United States.
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Natchez people
The Natchez are a Native American people who originally lived in the Natchez Bluffs area in the Lower Mississippi Valley, near the present-day city of Natchez, Mississippi, in the United States.
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Natchez, Mississippi
Natchez, officially the City of Natchez, is the only city in and the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States.
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Natchitoches, Louisiana
Natchitoches (Les Natchitoches), officially the City of Natchitoches, is a small city and the parish seat of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Nation of Islam
The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious and political organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930.
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National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and one in Canada.
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National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).
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National forest (United States)
In the United States, national forest is a classification of protected and managed federal lands that are largely forest and woodland areas.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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National Wild and Scenic Rivers System
The National Wild and Scenic Rivers System was created by the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-542), enacted by the U.S. Congress to preserve certain rivers with outstanding natural, cultural, and recreational values in a free-flowing condition for the enjoyment of present and future generations.
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Native American religions
Native American religions are the spiritual practices of the Native Americans in the United States.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.
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NBA All-Star Game
The National Basketball Association All-Star Game is a basketball exhibition game hosted every February by the National Basketball Association (NBA) and showcases 24 of the league's star players.
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NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played in the United States to determine the men's college basketball national champion of the Division I level in the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
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New Brunswick
New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
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New France
New France (Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris. Louisiana and New France are former French colonies.
New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
New Orleans Bowl
The New Orleans Bowl is an NCAA-sanctioned post-season college football bowl game that has been played annually since 2001.
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New Orleans Massacre of 1866
The New Orleans Massacre of 1866 occurred on July 30, when a peaceful demonstration of mostly Black Freedmen was set upon by a mob of white rioters, many of whom had been soldiers of the recently defeated Confederate States of America, leading to a full-scale massacre.
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New Orleans metropolitan area
The New Orleans metropolitan area, designated the New Orleans–Metairie metropolitan statistical area by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, or simply Greater New Orleans (Grande Nouvelle-Orléans, Gran Nueva Orleans), is a metropolitan statistical area designated by the United States Census Bureau encompassing seven Louisiana parishes—the equivalent of counties in other U.S.
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New Orleans Pelicans
The New Orleans Pelicans are an American professional basketball team based in New Orleans.
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New Orleans Police Department
The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has primary responsibility for law enforcement in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
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New Orleans Regional Transit Authority
The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA or NORTA) is a public transportation agency based in New Orleans.
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New Orleans Saints
The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans.
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New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal
New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal (NOUPT) is an intermodal facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, US.
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New Orleans–Metairie–Slidell combined statistical area
The New Orleans–Metairie–Slidell combined statistical area is made up of nine parishes in southeastern Louisiana and one county in Mississippi.
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New Roads, Louisiana
New Roads (historically Poste-de-Pointe-Coupée) is a city in and the parish seat of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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New South
New South, New South Democracy or New South Creed is a slogan in the history of the American South first used after the American Civil War.
New Spain
New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain. Louisiana and New Spain are former Spanish colonies.
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to vote.
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Non-denominational Muslim
Non-denominational Muslims are Muslims who do not belong to, do not self-identify with, or cannot be readily classified under one of the identifiable Islamic schools and branches.
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Non-Hispanic whites
Non-Hispanic Whites or Non-Latino Whites are White Americans classified by the United States census as "white" and not Hispanic.
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Nonpartisan blanket primary
A nonpartisan blanket primary is a primary election in which all candidates for the same elected office run against each other at once, regardless of the political party.
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Norfolk Southern Railway
The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States.
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North American Vertical Datum of 1988
The North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88) is the vertical datum for orthometric heights established for vertical control surveying in the United States of America based upon the General Adjustment of the North American Datum of 1988.
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North Louisiana
North Louisiana (Louisiane du Nord), also known locally as Sportsman's Paradise, (a name sometimes attributed to the state as a whole) is a region in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.
Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.
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Obergefell v. Hodges
Obergefell v. Hodges,, is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.
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Ocean Springs, Mississippi
Ocean Springs is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States, approximately east of Biloxi and west of Gautier.
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Ohio
Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Louisiana and Ohio are Contiguous United States, former French colonies and states of the United States.
Ohio River
The Ohio River is a river in the United States.
Oil and gas law in the United States
Oil and gas law in the United States is the branch of law that pertains to the acquisition and ownership rights in oil and gas both under the soil before discovery and after its capture, and adjudication regarding those rights.
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Opelousas, Louisiana
Opelousas (Les Opélousas; Los Opeluzás) is a small city and the parish seat of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Orchid
Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae, a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant.
Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Judaism.
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Oscar Dunn
Oscar James Dunn (1822 – November 22, 1871) served as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana during the era of Reconstruction and was the first African American to act as governor of a U.S. state.
Ouachita River
The Ouachita River is a river that runs south and east through the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana, joining the Tensas River to form the Black River near Jonesville, Louisiana.
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Ouiatenon
Ouiatenon (waayaahtanonki) was a dwelling place of members of the Wea tribe of Native Americans.
Outline of Louisiana
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Louisiana: Louisiana – U.S. state located in the southern region of the United States of America.
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P. B. S. Pinchback
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (May 10, 1837 – December 21, 1921) was an American publisher, politician, and Union Army officer.
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Pacific Islander Americans
Pacific Islander Americans (also colloquially referred to as Islander Americans) are Americans who are of Pacific Islander ancestry (or are descendants of the indigenous peoples of Oceania or of Austronesian descent).
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Paddlefish
Paddlefish (family Polyodontidae) are a family of ray-finned fish belonging to order Acipenseriformes, and one of two living groups of the order alongside sturgeons (Acipenseridae).
Palmoxylon
Palmoxylon (petrified palmwood) is an extinct genus of palm named from petrified wood found around the world.
Pantera
Pantera is an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas, formed in 1981 by the Abbott brothers (guitarist Dimebag Darrell and drummer Vinnie Paul), and currently composed of vocalist Phil Anselmo, bassist Rex Brown, and touring musicians Zakk Wylde and Charlie Benante.
Parish (administrative division)
A parish is an administrative division used by several countries.
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Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an American actress.
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Pánfilo de Narváez
Pánfilo de Narváez (born 1470 or 1478, died 1528) was a Spanish conquistador and soldier in the Americas.
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Pearl River (Mississippi–Louisiana)
The Pearl River is a river in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Louisiana.
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Peoria, Illinois
Peoria is a city in and county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, United States.
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Per capita personal income in the United States
As per United States Census Bureau 2022 data, the mean per capita income in the United States is $37,683, while median household income is around $69,021.
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Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center (also simply known as Pew) is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
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Peyton Manning
Peyton Williams Manning (born March 24, 1976) is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons.
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PGA Tour
The PGA Tour (stylized as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in North America.
Phil Anselmo
Philip Hansen Anselmo (born June 30, 1968) is an American heavy metal musician best known as the lead singer for Pantera, Down, and Superjoint, amongst other musical projects.
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Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnial, marquis de Vaudreuil (22 November 1698 – 4 August 1778) was a Canadian-born colonial governor of French Canada in North America.
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Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (16 July 1661 – 9 July 1706) or Sieur d'Iberville was a French soldier, explorer, colonial administrator, and trader.
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Pierre-Clément de Laussat
Pierre-Clément de Laussat (23 November 1756 – 10 April 1835) was a French politician, and the 24th Colonial Governor of Louisiana, the last under French rule.
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Pineville, Louisiana
Pineville is a city in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Plain Dealing, Louisiana
Plain Dealing is a town in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Plaquemine culture
The Plaquemine culture was an archaeological culture (circa 1200 to 1700 CE) centered on the Lower Mississippi River valley.
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Platform mound
A platform mound is any earthwork or mound intended to support a structure or activity.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
Plurality voting
Plurality voting refers to electoral systems in which the candidate in an electoral district who poll more than any other (that is, receive a plurality) are elected.
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Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
Pointe Coupee Parish (or; Paroisse de la Pointe-Coupée) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Political geography
Political geography is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures.
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Poll taxes in the United States
A poll tax is a tax of a fixed sum on every liable individual (typically every adult), without reference to income or resources.
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Port of South Louisiana
The Port of South Louisiana (Port de la Louisiane du Sud) extends 54 miles (87 km) along the Mississippi River between New Orleans, Louisiana and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, centering approximately at LaPlace, Louisiana, which serves as the Port's headquarters location.
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Poverty Point
Poverty Point State Historic Site/Poverty Point National Monument (Pointe de Pauvreté; 16 WC 5) is a prehistoric earthwork constructed by the Poverty Point culture, located in present-day northeastern Louisiana.
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Poverty Point culture
The Poverty Point culture is the archaeological culture of a prehistoric indigenous peoples who inhabited a portion of North America's lower Mississippi Valley and surrounding Gulf coast from about 1730 – 1350 BC.
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Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
Prairie du Chien is a city in and the county seat of Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States.
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Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island (PEI;;; colloquially known as the Island) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
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Private prison
A private prison, or for-profit prison, is a place where people are imprisoned by a third party that is contracted by a government agency.
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ProPublica
ProPublica, legally Pro Publica, Inc., is a nonprofit organization based in New York City dedicated to investigative journalism.
Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Provinces and territories of Canada
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.
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Public Religion Research Institute
The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) is an American nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization that conducts public opinion polls on a variety of topics, specializing in the quantitative and qualitative study of political issues as they relate to religious values.
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Public transport
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.
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Puerto Ricans
Puerto Ricans (Puertorriqueños), most commonly known as '''Boricuas''', but also occasionally referred to as Borinqueños, Borincanos, or Puertorros, are an ethnic group native to the Caribbean archipelago and island of Puerto Rico, and a nation identified with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico through ancestry, culture, or history.
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Quranism
Quranism (translit) is an Islamic movement that holds the belief that the Quran is the only valid source of religious belief, guidance, and law in Islam.
Railroad classes
Railroad classes are the system by which freight railroads are designated in the United States.
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Reconstruction Acts
The Reconstruction Acts, or the Military Reconstruction Acts (March 2, 1867, 14 Stat. 428-430, c.153; March 23, 1867, 15 Stat. 2-5, c.6; July 19, 1867, 15 Stat. 14-16, c.30; and March 11, 1868, 15 Stat. 41, c.25), were four statutes passed during the Reconstruction Era by the 40th United States Congress addressing the requirement for Southern States to be readmitted to the Union.
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Reconstruction era
The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States.
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Red River of the South
The Red River, or sometimes the Red River of the South to differentiate it from the Red River in the north of the continent, is a major river in the Southern United States. It was named for its reddish water color from passing through red-bed country in its watershed. It is known as the Red River of the South to distinguish it from the Red River of the North, which flows between Minnesota and North Dakota into the Canadian province of Manitoba.
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Red-cockaded woodpecker
The red-cockaded woodpecker (Leuconotopicus borealis) is a woodpecker endemic to the southeastern United States.
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Reese Witherspoon
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress and producer.
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Reform Judaism
Reform Judaism, also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism, is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of Judaism, the superiority of its ethical aspects to its ceremonial ones, and belief in a continuous revelation which is closely intertwined with human reason and not limited to the Theophany at Mount Sinai.
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René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (November 22, 1643 – March 19, 1687), was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Robert R. Livingston
Robert Robert Livingston (November 27, 1746 (Old Style November 16) – February 26, 1813) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat from New York, as well as a Founding Father of the United States.
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Rock 'n' Roll New Orleans Marathon
The Rock 'n' Roll New Orleans Marathon & 1/2 Marathon was an annual international road running marathon hosted in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, between 1965 and 2022.
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Rock Island, Illinois
Rock Island is a city in and the county seat of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.
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Rock River (Mississippi River tributary)
The Rock River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey.
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Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America.
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans
The Archdiocese of New Orleans (Archidioecesis Novae Aureliae, Archidiocèse de la Nouvelle-Orléans, Arquidiócesis de Nueva Orleans) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical division of the Catholic Church spanning Jefferson (except Grand Isle), Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge
The Diocese of Baton Rouge (Latin Dioecesis Rubribaculensis; French Diocèse de Bâton-Rouge; Spanish: Diócesis de Baton Rouge), is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese in the Florida Parishes region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana
The Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana (Latin: Dioecesis Lafayettensis, Diocèse de Lafayette en Louisiane), is a Latin Catholic ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States.
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Roman law
Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables, to the (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I. Roman law forms the basic framework for civil law, the most widely used legal system today, and the terms are sometimes used synonymously.
Sabine River (Texas–Louisiana)
The Sabine River is a long riverU.S. Geological Survey.
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Saint Malo, Louisiana
Saint Malo was a small fishing village that existed along the shore of Lake Borgne in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana as early as the mid-eighteenth century until it was destroyed by the 1915 New Orleans hurricane.
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Saint-Domingue
Saint-Domingue was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1697 to 1804. Louisiana and Saint-Domingue are former French colonies.
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Saint-Domingue Creoles
Saint-Domingue Creoles (Créoles de Saint-Domingue, Moun Kreyòl Sen Domeng) or simply Creoles, were the people who lived in the French colony of Saint-Domingue prior to the Haitian Revolution.
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Sales tax
A sales tax is a tax paid to a governing body for the sales of certain goods and services.
Salt dome
A salt dome is a type of structural dome formed when salt (or other evaporite minerals) intrudes into overlying rocks in a process known as diapirism.
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex.
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Sanctuary city
A sanctuary city is a municipality that limits or denies its cooperation with the national government in enforcing immigration law.
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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a province in Western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the United States (Montana and North Dakota).
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Savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
School voucher
A school voucher, also called an education voucher in a voucher system, is a certificate of government funding for students at schools chosen by themselves or their parents.
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Scott Place Mounds
Scott Place Mounds is an archaeological site in Union Parish, Louisiana from the Late Coles Creek-Early Plaquemine period, dating to approximately 1200 CE.
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Scottish Americans
Scottish Americans or Scots Americans (Ameireaganaich Albannach; Scots-American) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Scotland.
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Sea mark
A sea mark, also seamark and navigation mark, is a form of aid to navigation and pilotage that identifies the approximate position of a maritime channel, hazard, or administrative area to allow boats, ships, and seaplanes to navigate safely.
Second Great Migration (African American)
In the context of the 20th-century history of the United States, the Second Great Migration was the migration of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the Northeast, Midwest and West.
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Secretary of state (U.S. state government)
The secretary of state is an official in the state governments of 47 of the 50 states of the United States, as well as Puerto Rico and other U.S. possessions.
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Sediment
Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.
Sephardic Jews
Sephardic Jews (Djudíos Sefardíes), also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).
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Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas.
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Shane West
Shannon Bruce Snaith (born June 10, 1978), better known as Shane West, is an American actor, singer and songwriter.
Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
Shreveport Area Transit System
The Shreveport Area Transit System, commonly known as SporTran, is a public transportation bus system based in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.
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Shreveport Regional Airport
Shreveport Regional Airport is a public use airport in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.
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Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area
The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, officially designated Shreveport–Bossier City by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, or simply Greater Shreveport, is a metropolitan statistical area in northwestern Louisiana that covers three parishes: Caddo, Bossier, and DeSoto.
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Sims site
The Sims site (16SC2), also known as Sims Place site, is an archaeological site located in Saint Charles Parish, Louisiana, near the town of Paradis.
Slidell, Louisiana
Slidell is a city on the northeast shore of Lake Pontchartrain in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Snow in Louisiana
Snow in the southern part of Louisiana presents a rare and serious problem because of South Louisiana’s subtropical climate.
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Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States.
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Southern American English
Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a regional dialect or collection of dialects of American English spoken throughout the Southern United States, though concentrated increasingly in more rural areas, and spoken primarily by White Southerners.
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Southern University
Southern University and A&M College (Southern University, Southern, SUBR or SU) is a public historically black land-grant university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Southwest Louisiana
Southwest Louisiana (SWLA) is a five-parish area intersecting the Acadiana and Central Louisiana regions in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Southwestern Athletic Conference
The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which is made up of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southern United States.
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Sovereign state
A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.
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Soybean
The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (Glycine max) is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses.
Spaniards
Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.
Spanish missions in Louisiana
The Spanish missions in Louisiana were religious outposts in Spanish Louisiana (La Luisiana) region of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, located within the present-day U.S. states of Louisiana and East Texas.
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St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
St.
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St. Bernard Urban Rapid Transit
St.
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St. Louis
St.
Starved Rock State Park
Starved Rock State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by the many canyons within its.
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Sturgeon
Sturgeon (from Old English styrġa ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *str̥(Hx)yón-) is the common name for the 28 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae.
Subsea technology
Subsea technology involves fully submerged ocean equipment, operations, or applications, especially when some distance offshore, in deep ocean waters, or on the seabed.
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Sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.
Sugar Bowl
The Sugar Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Sugarcane
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.
Suicideboys
Suicideboys (stylized as $UICIDEBOY$) is an American hip hop duo from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
Sunset Limited
The Sunset Limited is a long-distance passenger train run by Amtrak, operating on a route between New Orleans and Los Angeles.
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Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the annual league championship game of the National Football League (NFL) of the United States.
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
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Swamp
A swamp is a forested wetland.
Swing state
In American politics, a swing state (also known as battleground state, toss-up state, or purple state) is any state that could reasonably be won by either the Democratic or Republican candidate in a statewide election, most often referring to presidential elections, by a swing in votes.
Tabasco sauce
Tabasco is an American brand of hot sauce made from tabasco peppers, vinegar and salt.
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Taensa
The Taensa (also Taënsas, Tensas, Tensaw, and Grands Taensas in French) were a Native American people whose settlements at the time of European contact in the late 17th century were located in present-day Tensas Parish, Louisiana.
Tangipahoa
The Tangipahoa were a Native American tribe that lived just north of Lake Pontchartrain and between the Pearl River and the Mississippi River.
Taxodium distichum
Taxodium distichum (baldcypress, bald-cypress, bald cypress, swamp cypress; cyprès chauve; cipre in Louisiana) is a deciduous conifer in the family Cupressaceae.
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Tchefuncte River
The Tchefuncte River drains into Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana in the United States.
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Tchefuncte site
The Tchefuncte site (16ST1) is an archaeological site that is a type site for the prehistoric Tchefuncte culture period.
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Tchula period
The Tchula period is an early period in an archaeological chronology, covering the early development of permanent settlements, agriculture, and large societies.
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Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים|ʿĂsereṯ haDəḇārīm|The Ten Words), or the Decalogue (from Latin decalogus, from Ancient Greek label), are religious and ethical directives, structured as a covenant document, that, according to the Hebrew Bible, are given by Yahweh to Moses.
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Tensas Parish, Louisiana
Tensas Parish (Paroisse des Tensas) is a parish located in the northeastern section of the State of Louisiana; its eastern border is the Mississippi River.
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Tensas River
The Tensas River is a river in Louisiana in the United States.
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Territory of Orleans
The Territory of Orleans or Orleans Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from October 1, 1804, until April 30, 1812, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Louisiana.
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Terry Bradshaw
Terry Paxton Bradshaw (born September 2, 1948) is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States. Louisiana and Texas are Contiguous United States, former Spanish colonies, southern United States, states of the Gulf Coast of the United States and states of the United States.
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Plain Dealer
The Plain Dealer is the major newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio; it is a major national newspaper.
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The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate
The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Third Treaty of San Ildefonso
The Third Treaty of San Ildefonso was a secret agreement signed on 1 October 1800 between Spain and the French Republic by which Spain agreed in principle to exchange its North American colony of Louisiana for territories in Tuscany.
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Thirteen Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In the old calendar, the new year began on March 25, not January 1.
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Tickfaw River
The Tickfaw River runs U.S. Geological Survey.
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Tidal marsh
A tidal marsh (also known as a type of "tidal wetland") is a marsh found along rivers, coasts and estuaries which floods and drains by the tidal movement of the adjacent estuary, sea or ocean.
Tim McGraw
Samuel Timothy McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American country singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor.
Tornado
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.
Treaty of Amiens
The Treaty of Amiens (la paix d'Amiens) temporarily ended hostilities between France, the Spanish Empire, and the United Kingdom at the end of the War of the Second Coalition.
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Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762)
The Treaty of Fontainebleau, signed on November 3, 1762, was a secret agreement of 1762 in which the Kingdom of France ceded Louisiana to Spain.
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Tree frog
A tree frog (or treefrog) is any species of frog that spends a major portion of its lifespan in trees, known as an arboreal state.
Tremé
Tremé is a neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.
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Troyville culture
The Troyville culture is an archaeological culture in areas of Louisiana and Arkansas in the Lower Mississippi valley in the Southeastern Woodlands.
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Tulane University
Tulane University, officially the Tulane University of Louisiana, is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Tumulus
A tumulus (tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
Two-round system
The two-round system (TRS or 2RS), also called ballotage, top-two runoff, or two-round plurality (as originally termed in French), is a voting method used to elect a single winner.
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Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry Jr.; September 13, 1969) is an American actor, filmmaker, and playwright.
Type site
In archaeology, a type site is the site used to define a particular archaeological culture or other typological unit, which is often named after it.
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report (USNWR, US NEWS) is an American media company publishing news, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.
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U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking
The U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking is an annual set of rankings of colleges and universities in the United States, first published in 1983.
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U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Louisiana and U.S. state are states of the United States.
Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
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United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.
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United States Electoral College
In the United States, the Electoral College is the group of presidential electors that is formed every four years during the presidential election for the sole purpose of voting for the president and vice president.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.
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United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.
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University of Alabama Press
The University of Alabama Press is a university press founded in 1945 and is the scholarly publishing arm of the University of Alabama.
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University of Louisiana at Lafayette
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette, University of Louisiana, ULL, or UL) is a public research university in Lafayette, Louisiana.
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Upland and lowland
Upland and lowland are conditional descriptions of a plain based on elevation above sea level.
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Urban sprawl
Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses, dense multi family apartments, office buildings and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a more or less densely populated city".
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Use tax
A use tax is a type of tax levied in the United States by numerous state governments.
USRC Louisiana
USRC Louisiana, was a wood hull topsail schooner designed by William Doughty that was commissioned in the United States Revenue Marine from 1819 to 1824.
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USS Louisiana
Five ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Louisiana in honor of the 18th state.
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Vermilion River (Louisiana)
The Vermilion River (or the Bayou Vermilion, Rivière Vermilion) is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Vermilion River (Wabash River tributary)
The Vermilion River is a tributary of the Wabash River in the states of Illinois and Indiana, United States.
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Vincennes, Indiana
Vincennes is a city in, and the county seat of, Knox County, Indiana, United States.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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Wabash River
The Wabash River (French: Ouabache) is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America.
War on terror
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a global counterterrorist military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars.
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Watson Brake
Watson Brake is an archaeological site in present-day Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, from the Archaic period.
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West South Central states
The West South Central states, colloquially known as the South Central states, is a region of the United States defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as covering four states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas.
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West Virginia
West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. Louisiana and West Virginia are Contiguous United States, southern United States and states of the United States.
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Western Gulf coastal grasslands
The Western Gulf coastal grasslands (Pastizales costeros del Golfo Occidental) are a subtropical grassland ecoregion of the southern United States and northeastern Mexico.
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Western Hemisphere
The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian—which crosses Greenwich, London, England—and east of the 180th meridian.
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Wet season
The wet season (sometimes called the rainy season or monsoon season) is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.
Wetland
A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.
Wetlands of Louisiana
The wetlands of Louisiana are water-saturated coastal and swamp regions of southern Louisiana, often called 'Bayou'.
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Whig Party (United States)
The Whig Party was a political party that existed in the United States during the mid-19th century.
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White Americans
White Americans (also referred to as European Americans) are Americans who identify as white people.
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White League
The White League, also known as the White Man's League, was a white supremacist paramilitary terrorist organization started in the Southern United States in 1874 to intimidate freedmen into not voting and prevent Republican Party political organizing, while also being supported by regional elements of the Democratic Party.
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White supremacy
White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races and thus should dominate them.
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Wildfire suppression
Wildfire suppression is a range of firefighting tactics used to suppress wildfires.
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Wildlife management area
A wildlife management area (WMA) is a protected area set aside for the conservation of wildlife and for recreational activities involving wildlife.
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William C. C. Claiborne
William Charles Cole Claiborne (1773–1775 – November 23, 1817) was an American politician and military officer who served as the governor of Louisiana from April 30, 1812 to December 16, 1816.
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Winn Parish, Louisiana
Winn Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Woodland period
In the classification of archaeological cultures of North America, the Woodland period of North American pre-Columbian cultures spanned a period from roughly 1000 BCE to European contact in the eastern part of North America, with some archaeologists distinguishing the Mississippian period, from 1000 CE to European contact as a separate period.
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World Athletics Awards
The World Athletics Awards is a prize that can be won by athletes participating in events within the sport of athletics organised by World Athletics (formerly named IAAF), including track and field, cross country running, road running, and racewalking.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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WWL-TV
WWL-TV (channel 4) is a television station in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with CBS.
You Are My Sunshine
"You Are My Sunshine" is an American standard of Old-time and Country music and one of the official state songs of Louisiana.
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YoungBoy Never Broke Again
Kentrell DeSean Gaulden (born October 20, 1999), known professionally as YoungBoy Never Broke Again or NBA YoungBoy, is an American rapper and singer.
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Zachary Richard
Ralph Zachary Richard (born September 8, 1950) is an American singer-songwriter and poet.
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Zurich Classic of New Orleans
The Zurich Classic of New Orleans is a professional golf tournament in Louisiana on the PGA Tour, currently held at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, a suburb southwest of New Orleans.
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1810 United States census
The 1810 United States census was the third census conducted in the United States.
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1996 United States presidential election in Louisiana
The 1996 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 5, 1996.
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2004 Washington Initiative 872
Initiative 872 was a 2004 ballot initiative that replaced the open primary being used in Washington state with a top-two nonpartisan blanket primary.
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2010 California Proposition 14
Proposition 14 is a California ballot proposition that appeared on the ballot during the June 2010 state elections.
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2016 Louisiana floods
In August 2016, prolonged rainfall from an unpredictable storm resulted in catastrophic flooding in the state of Louisiana, United States; thousands of houses and businesses were submerged.
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2020 United States census
The 2020 United States census was the 24th decennial United States census.
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2020 United States presidential election in Louisiana
The 2020 United States presidential election in Louisiana was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated.
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225th Engineer Brigade (United States)
The 225th Engineer Brigade is a combat heavy engineer brigade of the Louisiana Army National Guard.
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256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team
The 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team ("Louisiana Brigade") is a modular infantry brigade combat team (IBCT) of the Louisiana Army National Guard.
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33rd parallel north
The 33rd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 33 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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4th millennium BC
The 4th millennium BC spanned the years 4000 BC to 3001 BC.
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See also
1812 establishments in the United States
- 22nd Infantry Regiment (United States)
- 4th Infantry Regiment (United States)
- 6th Infantry Regiment (United States)
- 7th Infantry Regiment (United States)
- American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
- Fort Holmes
- Fort Lisa (Nebraska)
- Hull's Trace North Huron River Corduroy Segment
- Louisiana
- National Presbyterian Church
- Sisters of Loretto
- The New England Journal of Medicine
- United States Army Ordnance Corps
- United States General Land Office
States and territories established in 1812
- Bessarabia Governorate
- Bhaisunda
- Cahul County
- Carmen de Areco Partido
- General Confederation of the Kingdom of Poland
- Kamta-Rajaula State
- Lithuanian Provisional Governing Commission
- Louisiana
- Mendoza Province
- Missouri Territory
- Pahra
- Paldeo
- Republic of East Florida
- Sègre (department)
- Taraon State
- Viipuri Province
States of the Gulf Coast of the United States
- Alabama
- Florida
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Texas
References
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