Sandras was at various times curator of the science center's planetarium and observatory in Kenner, Louisiana, at the Louis Roussell Planetarium, and at the time of his death from complications of diabetes as manager of the Gretna Observatory.
A suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana was named Arabi, a corruption of "Orabi" in solidarity with his revolt against the British occupation.
Amite City, Louisiana, town in and the parish seat of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States
The song tells the story of a one-armed Cajun alligator hunter named Amos Moses, son of Doc and Hanna Milsap, who lives "about 45 minutes southeast of Thibodaux, Louisiana".
The Nechalacho Project is planned to consist of facilities at three separate sites: an underground mine and concentrator at Thor Lake, a hydrometallurgical plant at the Pine Point Mine site and a rare earth refinery to be located in Geismar, Louisiana.
Rebel Garnett Ryland (born April 22, 1953), an attorney in Columbia in Caldwell Parish died eighteen days before his older brother, Judge Ryland.
Bas Clas (pronounced ‘bahs clahs’) is a rock band formed in Lafayette, Louisiana in the late 1970s by brothers Donnie and Steve Picou.
Looney was born in the Yellow Pine community, located south of Sibley, Louisiana, to Julian A. Looney (1871–1958) and the former Mollie McKinney (1872–1932).
Robert Troy Kimball was born in Orange, Texas, and was raised in nearby Vinton, Louisiana, as Vinton did not have a hospital (thus, he was born across the state line).
Breard was arrested for going door to door in the City of Alexandria soliciting magazine subscriptions.
30 of the artist's works were a part of the major retrospective exhibition Artistry in Nature: The Wildlife Paintings of Carl Brenders which opened at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky, and Shreveport, Louisiana.
It was divided in 1877 into East Carroll Parish and West Carroll Parish.
Dykes was born in Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish in northwestern Louisiana to David L. Dykes, Sr. (1883–1964) and the former Ruby Perley (1896–1944).
Andrew R. Johnson (1856–1933), Louisiana state senator from 1916–1924 and mayor of Homer in the 1910s, was born in Dadeville.
MP 7100 was built for service with the Delta Eagle passenger train, which ran between Memphis, Tennessee and Tallulah, Louisiana.
As of August 2013, Gene Gotti is imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution, Pollock in Pollock, Louisiana, where he has been since 1989.
The three instruments (LIGO's instruments are located near Livingston, Louisiana and on the Hanford Site, Washington in the U.S.) will collect data for more than a year, with breaks for tuning and updates.
He preached at many revivals in small towns in Louisiana such as Starks, Clarks, Eros, and Hodge.
After his release in 1957, then aged 23, he hitchhiked his way to California, stopping in Shreveport, Louisiana where he purchased a revolver using an alias.
Graves Erskine was born in Columbia, Louisiana, on June 28, 1897, where he graduated from high school at age 15 as class valedictorian.
Lutcher purchased more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km²) of land in the southwest Louisiana parishes of Calcasieu and Beauregard.
He served as chief judge from 1949 to 1967, and continued on the court thereafter until his death, in Kentwood, Louisiana.
Hesham Tillawi is a Palestinian-American writer, TV talk show host, and political analyst living in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Innis High School was a high school located in the village of Innis in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States, at 6450 Louisiana Highway 1.
In the April 1862 Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Richmond fought Confederate ships in the Mississippi and passed artillery batteries at Chalmette, Louisiana, leading to the capture of New Orleans.
Mayo was a candidate in Louisiana's 5th congressional district special election, 2013, held on October 19, to fill the seat vacated by the resignation of Republican Rodney Alexander.
Noone was born in Cut Off, Louisiana, and started playing guitar in his home town; at the age of 15, he switched to the clarinet and moved to New Orleans, where he studied with Lorenzo Tio and with the young Sidney Bechet, who was only 13 at the time.
In 1969, he completed the dissertation entitled "Carpetbagger Extraordinary: Marshall Harvey Twitchell, 1840-1905", a study of Marshall H. Twitchell, the Louisiana Republican state senator from Bienville and Red River parishes.
He was survived by his mother; a son Timothy French "Tim" Upton (born 1971), a New Orleans lawyer, and his wife, Patricia Upton; a daughter, Allison Upton Cooper and husband, Brett Cooper, of Jena in La Salle Parish; sister, Ellen Upton Madden of Bossier City, and one grandchild.
His father, Joe Peace, Sr. (1920–1992), a native of Magnolia, Arkansas, was a successful high school football coach from 1948–1975 at Sicily Island in Catahoula Parish.
Lapira graduated from St. Louis Catholic High School in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
On 3 April 1864, while off Grand Ecore, Louisiana, he was shot during an ambush and died the following day.
KBXS-CA, a low-power television station (channel 50) licensed to serve Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
One informant lived in a section of Sibley, Louisiana known as Yellow Pine, within which there is a community formerly known as King Solomon Hill centred on an actual hill on which stood King Solomon Hill Baptist Church.
KLAX was launched on March 3, 1983 originally operating as an independent station, owned by the late Don Lyons and his wife, the former Rebecca Payton (1937-2012), a native of Saline in Bienville Parish.
A businessman in Pineville, Henry served on the Rapides Parish Police Jury (equivalent to county commission in other states) from, first, 1956–1960, and, again, from 1968-1992.
The modern development company, which controls properties in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean, was started in 1971 when the current CEO Gerald G. Barton took control of Godchaux Sugar Company, a bankrupt Louisiana corporation established in 1865.
When Hurricane Katrina hit the city in 2005, Collins and his family had to leave, and eventually settled in Geismar, Louisiana.
A statue of St. Landry stands behind the altar of St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana.
Louisiana Highway 100 (LA 100) is a state highway located in Acadia Parish, Louisiana.
Louisiana Highway 101 (LA 101) is a state highway located in Calcasieu and Jefferson Davis Parishes.
Louisiana Highway 102 (LA 102) is a state highway located in Jefferson Davis Parish.
Near the east end of its route, LA 106 passes through an interchange with Interstate 49 (I-49) between Opelousas and Alexandria in the southwest corner of Avoyelles Parish.
From the northwest, LA 3127 begins at a junction with LA 70 east of Donaldsonville and immediately enters St. James Parish.
Louisiana Highway 3166 is a state highway that serves Jefferson Davis.
Louisiana Highway 3193 (LA 3193) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves St. James Parish.
Louisiana Highway 3214 (LA 3214) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves St. James Parish.
Louisiana Highway 454 (LA 454) is a state highway in Rapides and Avoyelles Parishes in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
The road connects Iberville Parish with areas along the Atchafalya Swamp in Assumption and St. Mary Parish.
Louisiana Highway 696 (LA 696) is a state highway that serves Vermilion parish.
Louisiana Highway 697 (LA 697) is a state highway that serves Vermilion parish.
In 1958, a swing bridge was built on Belle River, and the road was extended southward to parallel the Atchafalaya River through Lower St. Martin and upper St. Mary Parish to reach Morgan City.
The highway begins at the Acadia Parish county line, and goes east-west for a short time until it turns south and combines with LA 719.
Louisiana Highway 761 is a state highway that serves St. Landry parish.
Louisiana Highway 85 (LA 85) is a state highway located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana.
To enhance economic opportunity in these impoverished areas, the LSU AgCenter has established the Delta Rural Development Center in Oak Grove in the northeastern corner of the state.
Louisiana gained its 2nd and 3rd Congressional Districts in 1823 as part of the 18th United States Congress.
Parker was stuffed into the back seat of one and the two cars sped off west toward Bogalusa, Louisiana on Mississippi Highway 26.
In 2008, MBP partnered with Terrebonne General Medical Center and Cancer Care Specialists in Houma, creating MBP's fourth location—Mary Bird Perkins at TGMC.
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In 2009, in partnership with St. Elizabeth Hospital, MBP opened a fifth location in Gonzales.
He was transferred to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he headed the military district but commanded no troops directly.
Michael B. Shepherd (born 1977) is the John and Allie Fogleman Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana as well as professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at the Caskey School of Divinity.
A 20-year professor of English, she was a retired chairman of the Graduate Studies Division at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches.
Mooretown (also known as Motown by many of its residents) is a neighborhood within the city limits of Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.
Morganza High School was a high school located at 752 South Louisiana Highway 3050 in the village of Morganza, Louisiana.
However, he did not immediately attempt the capture of Port Hudson, Louisiana, the main Confederate stronghold below Vicksburg, because the garrison was reported to be large.
The league eventually expanded to include public and private schools in the Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard parishes.
The journal accepts articles for possible publication which focus on any part of Louisiana north of and including Alexandria.
Paul Aaron Brown (January 15, 1932—July 3, 1996) was only the second Republican since Reconstruction to have served as mayor of the small city of Minden in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.
In 1900 Henry N. Pharr for a number of years was a director of the State National Bank of New Iberia, Louisiana, and was a former president of the Louisiana - Rio Grande Sugar Company and the Louisiana - Rio
Born in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and lived until he was 5 mostly on his grandfather’s cotton plantation in nearby Campti.
Walmart has a large distribution center east of Robert on the road (US 190) to Goodbee, Louisiana.
It was unveiled in a solemn ceremony on October 17, 2009 at the East Bank Bridge Park in Destrehan, Louisiana.
Any Presidential ambitions which Long might have had were cut short when he was shot by an assassin on September 8, 1935, in Baton Rouge; he died two days later on September 10, 1935.
In 1990, Mack graduated from Holden High School in Holden in Livingston Parish.
There is a scholarship in his name at a Branson school music department and a community center in Oak Grove, Louisiana, named in his honor.
Hinton and Alcorn later participated in the fatal ambush that halted Barrow and Parker's spree on May 23, 1934 near Gibsland, Louisiana.
The Southwestern Power Administration, U. S. Department of Energy, markets the power and energy generated by the hydropower plant to the Sam Rayburn Municipal Power Agency for distribution to its customers in Jasper, Liberty, and Livingston, Texas and Vinton, Louisiana.
A fragment of the shell of this brackish water species has been found near Alexandria, Louisiana.
In 1811 their chief, Awahakei, died during a visit to Americans in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
The team of Buddy Roberts (billed as "Dale Roberts") and Jerry Brown were the first to adopt the name "The Hollywood Blonds" in wrestling when they began teaming together in 1970 in the “NWA Tri-State” territory (NWA Tri State promoted in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi).
Filmed in Clinton, Louisiana, the film's cast was composed mostly of former Actors Studio students, whom Ritt met while he was an assistant teacher to Elia Kazan.
This Week in Louisiana Agriculture, or TWILA, is an agricultural television program produced by the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
In 1841 he found work as a clerk for a provision dealer in either Natchez, Mississippi or Natchitoches, Louisiana (the latter place seems more likely).
One of Drew's brothers, Richard Maxwell Drew, held several public offices in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, including that of state representative from 1848 until his death in 1850 at the age of twenty-eight.
He favored (though he could not vote in the primary at the time) John Willard "Jack" Montgomery, a Springhill native and Minden lawyer who was challenging two-term State Senator Harold Montgomery of Doyline, also in Webster Parish.
Wiseau spent some time in France before moving to Chalmette, Louisiana.
Tweety Carter had one of the greatest high school careers in the history of the sport while attending Reserve Christian School in Reserve, Louisiana.
Following the war, LSM-216 was decommissioned on 2 May 1946 at Calcasieu River, Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Victor "Money" Morris (born on September 1, 1985 in Minden, Louisiana) is an American professional basketball player currently playing for the Windsor Express of the National Basketball League of Canada.
Wendy Dascomb (born c. 1949) is a pageant titleholder from Metairie, Louisiana, who held the Miss USA 1969 title.
The capital of the Republic of West Florida was St. Francisville in present-day Louisiana, on a bluff along the Mississippi River.
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The Republic of West Florida Historical Museum is located in Jackson run by the Republic of West Florida Historical Association.
Christopher Columbus Nash, a Confederate veteran, former prisoner of war at Johnson's Island in Ohio, and the former sheriff of Grant Parish, led companies of white militias at Colfax, the seat of Grant Parish, and killed tens of blacks in the Colfax Massacre.
Reed showed athletic ability at an early age and played basketball at West Side High School in Lillie.
Upon its initial sign-on which took place on May 26, 2010 just days before the construction permit expiration date, WRMW initially aired separate pre-recorded programming from the network archives while it was awaiting the installation of its satellite receiver and dish antenna from originating station KJMJ 580 kHz in Alexandria, Louisiana.
According to a Springfield News-Sun story dated March 10, 2008, the station was purchased by Radio Maria, an Italian-based Catholic radio network which owns and operates KJMJ, its originating USA English-language station in Alexandria, Louisiana.
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It is a repeater of KJMJ 580 kHz in Alexandria, Louisiana, the originating English-language station of Radio Maria USA.
The Federals did not make it to Texas but by November 17 were marching back into New Iberia, having gotten no farther than Opelousas.
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A seiche was observed on Lake Pontchartrain in the US state of Louisiana, and sediment was stirred up in several Louisiana wells.
John Bear states that Adam Smith University has been located in Hawaii, Louisiana, Montana, and South Dakota in the past.
He was the brother of U.S. Senator John Slidell of Louisiana, who was later involved in the American Civil War's "Trent Affair."
The Houston SPCA served as the coordinator of relief efforts for animals trapped in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Archbishop Rummel High School, Roman Catholic secondary school Metairie, Louisiana
The Department No. 2 (Western Department) was created on June 25, 1861, under the command of Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk, and had military jurisdiction and control over parts of Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Hagerman succeeded Karen Elliot in 1981 and recorded an overall record of 40-36 in three seasons as head coach of the Lady Tigers, including the Louisiana AIAW Championship in 1981.
In 2007, he defeated the Republican candidate, Raymond "La La" Lalonde, a former Democratic member of the Louisiana House.
Charles Étienne Arthur Gayarré (January 9, 1805 – February 11, 1895) was an American historian, attorney and politician born to a French Creole planter's family in New Orleans, Louisiana.
More recently, in 2008, Hurricanes Gustav and Ike have left their mark on Louisiana's Coastal Wetlands.
Jim Letten, the U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, vowed his office would take "as much time and resources as necessary" to resolve the case.
Charles and Sam Wyly, businessmen who endowed Wyly Tower of Learning at Louisiana Tech.
Her father was the warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary until he was dismissed in a dispute with then Governor Huey P. Long, Jr. Moore spent her early years growing up at the manager's residence when the penitentiary was in Baton Rouge, instead of the present site at rural Angola in West Feliciana Parish near St. Francisville.
The Army Corps of Engineers signed a contract with G.L. Christian and Associates to build 2,000 housing units for soldiers at Fort Polk, Louisiana, under the "Capehart Act".
For example, Charles T. Howard of the Louisiana State Lottery Company actively lobbied state legislators and the governor of Louisiana for the purpose of getting a license to sell lottery tickets.
James Howard Mitcham (1917 in Winona, Mississippi – August 22, 1996 in Hyannis, Massachusetts) was an American artist, poet, and cook best known for his books on Louisiana's Creole and Cajun cuisines and that of New England, with an emphasis on seafood.
In 1968 Domengeaux accepted an appointment from Louisiana Governor John J. McKeithen, his fellow Democrat, to preside over a new state-charted organization called the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, commonly known by the acronym CODOFIL.
Riser is supported by three sitting Republican congressmen from Louisiana; McAllister, a native of West Carroll Parish, carries the celebrity endorsement of Phil Robertson of the A&E Network reality show, Duck Dynasty, filmed in West Monroe.
Geoff Macdonald, former head women’s tennis coach at Louisiana State University
St. John Richardson Liddell (1815–1870), Louisiana planter and Confederate general
KFXZ-FM, a radio station (105.9 FM) licensed to Opelousas, Louisiana, United States
A "smaller, more convenient" kickstand was developed by Joseph Paul Treen, the father of former Louisiana Governor, Dave Treen.
In 1903, Louisiana Gov. William Heard issued a proclamation declaring the site the Village of Kinder.
KLAX-TV, a television station (channel 31) licensed to Alexandria, Louisiana
KLWB-FM, a radio station (103.7 FM) licensed to Opelousas, Louisiana, United States
The Mayor of Baton Rouge, Mayor-President Kip Holden, declared March 20, 2009 to be "Louisiana Culinary Institute Day," and awarded members of the team the titles of "Honorary Mayor-Presidents" of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish.
Louisiana Highway 1112 (LA 1112) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves Acadia Parish.
Delta is headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia and owns schools in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana and Georgia.
Tom McVea (born 1945), former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
Mrs. Schwegmann is a past president of the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
As well as recovering the Space Shuttle SRB's Freedom Star has since 1998 been used to tow the Space Shuttle external fuel tanks from their assembly plant at Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
A portion of the Navarre neighborhood is also included within the boundaries of the City Park / N. O. Museum Cultural District, designated by Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu on November 1, 2008.
He retired in 1972, but then was called to serve as Bishop of the Houston Episcopal Area for three years, and for one additional year in Louisiana.
Over the 1980s Bullard widened his study of environmental racism to the whole American South, focusing on communities in Houston, in Dallas, Texas, Alsen, Louisiana, Institute, West Virginia, and Emelle, Alabama.
Valeria of Milan, often known as St Valerie, venerated in Thibodaux, Louisiana
Sipprelle was criticized later in January for his contribution to the congressional campaigns of Blue Dog Democrats Allen Boyd of Florida, Charlie Melancon of Louisiana, Heath Shuler of North Carolina, Baron Hill of Indiana, and Stephanie Herseth Sandlin of South Dakota.
By August 2009, they had become abundant in the Mississippi River watershed from Louisiana to South Dakota and Illinois, and had grown close to invading the Great Lakes via the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
Simon Woodson Tudor (November 5, 1887—May 10, 1956) was a prominent educator, businessman, church and civic leader, and philanthropist in the central Louisiana city of Pineville in the first half of the twentieth century.
Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Jeb Bush of Florida, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and John Thune of South Dakota all succeeded in leading polls in their home states at some point in 2011, although only Pawlenty actually launched a campaign.
Tariq Hanna is Executive Pastry Chef and partner of the Sucré dessert boutique in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Thomas D. "Tommy" Wright (born 1956), former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
1978's Tropical Storm Debra, a short-lived tropical storm that caused minimal damages in Louisiana
Matt Lowe (January 1, 1872–March 4, 1955) was a merchant and public official in the city of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.
Additionally, he served as a Judicial Intern for the Honorable Judge Morey Leonard Sear, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Willie Stark is an opera in three acts and nine scenes by Carlisle Floyd to his own libretto, after the novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, which in turn was inspired by the life of the Louisiana governor Huey Long.