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Louisiana

the US state of Louisiana

geographical area, US state, administrative area within a nation, sovereign state, country, trading day area, geographical subdivision of the US, populated place, administrative area within a nation above city-level

Capital, State Capital: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Currency: United States dollar
Languages: English, written English
Abbreviation, Short Form: "LA"
Nickname: ▶
"Pelican State", "Bayou State Child of the Mississippi", "Creole State Pelican State (official) Sportsman's Paradise Sugar State", "Bayou StateChild of the Mississippi", "Creole StatePelican State (official)", …
"Sportsman's ParadiseSugar State", "Creole StatePelican State"
Population: 4,400,000
Website: http://www.louisiana.gov
Area: 134,382 square kilometres; 135,382 square kilometres; 134,264 square kilometres
Births: ▶
Lil Wayne, Reese Witherspoon, Louis Armstrong, Randy Jackson, Bobby Jindal, …
Tyler Perry, Peyton Manning, Ellen DeGeneres, Brian Williams, Jared Leto, Lee Harvey Oswald, DJ Khaled, Eli Manning, Truman Capote, Stormy Daniels, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kellie Pickler, Master P, Juvenile, Pauley Perrette, Campbell Brown, Richard Simmons, B.G., Shane West, Stanley Williams, Pat Morita, Anne Rice, Pimp C, Tim McGraw, Ronnie Coleman, Lloyd, Ali Landry, Karl Malone, Danneel Harris, Bill Russell, Dawn Angelique Richard, Romeo, Huey Long, Terry Bradshaw, Johnnie Cochran, Hurricane Chris, Ashley Scott, Anthony Mackie, Mannie Fresh, Fats Domino, Trace Adkins, Zachary Levi, Sherri Martel, Ian Somerhalder, Angela Kinsey, Carly Patterson, Sean Patrick Flanery, Little Walter, Huey P. Newton, Taryn Terrell, Donna Douglas, Mahalia Jackson, Jimmy Swaggart, C Miller, Delphine LaLaurie, Patricia Clarkson, Stephanie Swift, Ed Reed, Hank Williams, Shannon Leto, Cameron Richardson, Bryant Gumbel, Lucinda Williams, Clyde Drexler, Sarah Connor, Marshall Faulk, LoLo Jones, Johnny Rebel, James Dobson, Rashard Lewis, Wynton Marsalis, Calvin Borel, Leadbelly, Dr. John, John Larroquette, Vince Gill, Norma McCorvey, Glen Davis, John Allen Muhammad, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Donna Brazile, Andrew Young, Jeffrey Hunter, David Vitter, Jeff Mangum, Paul Mooney, Wesley Eure, Collie Buddz, Lynn Whitfield, Kordell Stewart, Ray Nagin, Clay Shaw, John David Booty, Vivien Thomas, Andy Pettitte, Marie Laveau, Sabrina Le Beauf, Sam Trammell, Carlene Begnaud, Faith Ford, Brandon Jacobs, Elmore Leonard, Johnny Rivers, Lillian Hellman, Robert Parish, Lil' Fizz, Susan Ward, Ray Walston, David Filo, Veronica Porsche Ali, Avery Johnson, Garrett Morris, Kyle Hebert, Warrick Dunn, Cokie Roberts, Dorothy Lamour, Danny Granger, John Kennedy Toole, Eugene Roe, Don Lemon, Danny Rolling, William J. Jefferson, Branford Marsalis, Tommy Maddox, Rodney Begnaud, Melvin Guillard, Valerie Mason, Antawn Jamison, Lisa P. Jackson, K. D. Aubert, Pat Carroll, Cheryl Holdridge, H. Rap Brown, Kathleen Blanco, Michael E. DeBakey, Joe Dumars, Von Wafer, Van Cliburn, Keith Thibodeaux, Countee Cullen, Michael Sarver, Kevyn Aucoin, Wendell Pierce, Alan Autry, Glenn Dorsey, P.G.T. Beauregard, Faron Young, P. G. T. Beauregard, Chris Duhon, Edwin Edwards, Jenny Craig, Mia X, James Burton, Brent Albright, Michael Wolff, Sidney Bechet, Ken Thompson, Ron Guidry, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Ryan Perrilloux, Sammy Kershaw, Colleen Clinkenbeard, Letha Weapons, Katherine La Nasa, Chris Cagle, Iron Eyes Cody, Greg Gumbel, Ernie Ladd, Major Applewhite, Grace Zabriskie, Paul Morphy, Marques Johnson, Michael Clayton, Willis Reed, Edward Douglass White, Paul Prudhomme, Tia Texada, Roy Nelson, Helen Prejean, D. J. Augustin, Mel Ott, Jerry Pournelle, Alicia Morton, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Muse Watson, Tyrus Thomas, Chris Henry, Justin Wilson, Vance DeGeneres, Al Hirt, Ed Orgeron, Penelope Spheeris, Will Clark, Jacob Hester, Kevin Faulk
Origin of: ▶
Lil Wayne, Brian Williams, Juvenile, Lil Boosie, Hot Boys, …
Phil Anselmo, Dawn Angelique Richard, Hurricane Chris, Mannie Fresh, Down, Webbie, Harry Connick, Big Tymers, Better Than Ezra, Johnny Rebel, Dr. John, Aaron Neville, Imagination Movers, Cash Money Millionaires, Superjoint Ritual, Allen Toussaint, Branford Marsalis, Telefon Tel Aviv, Eyehategod, Mack Maine, Soilent Green, Sammy Kershaw, Foxx, Goatwhore, Ledisi, 504 Boyz, Exhorder, Mac, Lonnie Johnson, Joe "King" Oliver, Big Mike, Memphis Minnie, Professor Longhair, Kix Brooks, Jimmy Bower, Mercedes, Slim Harpo, Ha*Ash, Ashley Pérez Moza, Snooks Eaglin, Curren$y, Huey Long, Kat Swift, Idris Muhammad, Paul Meany, Young Bleed, Ivan Neville, Amanda Shaw, 3 Deep, Earl King, Taylor Horn, Baby Boy da Prince, Iwrestledabearonce, Johnny Adams, Opprobrium, Mable John, Christian Scott, BeauSoleil, Agents of Oblivion, Claude King, Lonnie Brooks, Chocolate Milk, Paul Sanchez, Joe Stampley, Mr. Serv-On, Eric Lindell, Hot 8 Brass Band, Mark Klein, Baby Dodds, Queen Ida, Mr. Quintron, Skull Duggery, Hamid Drake, Ed Blackwell, The Subdudes, Heather Martin, Pops Foster, Alcide Nunez, Rod Bernard, Kenny Gradney, Boozoo Chavis, Karima Kibble, Little Brother Montgomery, Dewey Balfa, "Sweet Emma" Barrett, Tommy Ladnier, Fred Anderson, Henry Butler, J. D. "Jay" Miller, Will Clarke, Adam LaClave, Lisa Angelle, Iry LeJeune, Kidd Jordan, Sonya C, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Matt Brunson, Emile Christian, Blue Lu Barker, Dennis McGee, Buddie Petit, Robert Mizzell, Gambino Family, Pine Leaf Boys, River Road, PJ Morton, Johnny Indovina, Trini Triggs, Dave Alexander, Mo B. Dick, Phillip Walker, Rock Whittington, The Hong Kong, tetrafusion, Victor Goines, Mr. Marcelo, Evangeline, Cea serin, Generationals, Travis McNabb, Lil Soldiers, Danny Bourgeois, Steven Spooner, Forgotten Souls Brass Band, Lab Ox, Ghetto Commission, Alverez, Gudda Gudda, Luther Kent, Ashley Forrestier, U.N.L.V., 54th Platoon, To Be Continued Brass Band, TPIshz, Troy Verges, Crowbar, Jay Sustain, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Alecia Nugent, John Boutté, Tyler Read, Lil Brotha, Gudda gudda
Location: ▶
the United States, North America, The Confederate States of America, the world, the Americas, …
the Northern Hemisphere, North America, the area using the NANP, the continental United States, the G8, the US dollar zone, the contiguous United States, the Central Standard Time region
Location of: ▶
Hurricane Katrina; Hurricane Ike; Hurricane Gustav; New Orleans, Louisiana; Hurricane Andrew; …
Hurricane Rita; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Hurricane Ivan; Hurricane Camille; Galveston Hurricane of 1900; Louisiana State University; Lake Pontchartrain Causeway; Shreveport, Louisiana; Lake Pontchartrain; Tulane University; Lafayette, Louisiana; Tabasco sauce; Softdisk; Hurricane Alicia; Lake Charles, Louisiana; Hurricane Betsy; Monroe, Louisiana; Tropical Storm Allison; the Louisiana 504 telephone code area; Alexandria, Louisiana; Lake Peigneur; Grambling State University; Houma, Louisiana; Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport; Coleco; Southern University; Metairie, Louisiana; the Louisiana 318 telephone code area; Hurricane Georges; Natchitoches, Louisiana; University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Manchac Swamp bridge; 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident; Freeport-McMoRan; Myrtles Plantation; Louisiana Tech University; 1926 Miami hurricane; Battle of New Orleans; the Louisiana 225 telephone code area; Bossier City, Louisiana; Jena, Louisiana; Kentwood, Louisiana; Loyola University New Orleans; the Louisiana 985 telephone code area; Louisiana State Capitol; Barksdale Air Force Base; Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana; Xavier University of Louisiana; Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; Atchafalaya River; Hurricane Lili; University of New Orleans; the Louisiana 337 telephone code area; Slidell, Louisiana; Hurricane Audrey; St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana; Oak Alley Plantation; New Iberia, Louisiana; Grand Isle, Louisiana; Huey P. Long Bridge; I-10 Twin Span Bridge; Ruston, Louisiana; Northwestern State University; Kenner, Louisiana; University of Louisiana at Monroe; Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana; Hammond, Louisiana; Kadesh, Louisiana; Mandeville, Louisiana; Thibodaux, Louisiana; 1915 Galveston Hurricane; Dillard University; Gretna, Louisiana; Isidore Newman School; Louisiana's 2nd congressional district; Smoothie King; CenturyTel; Tropical Storm Hanna; Louisiana Technical College; Hurricane Isidore; Ark-La-Tex; Bienville Parish, Louisiana; Bienville Parish, LA; Covington, Louisiana; New Orleans metropolitan area; Southeastern Louisiana University; New Orleans Mint; Centenary College of Louisiana; Hurricane Elena; Morgan City, Louisiana; Opelousas, Louisiana; Venice, Louisiana; Hurricane Humberto; Chalmette, Louisiana; Driskill Mountain; Poverty Point; Charity Hospital; Caddo Lake; Atchafalaya Basin Bridge; Entergy; Nicholls State University; Siege of Port Hudson; Alex Box Stadium; Leesville, Louisiana; Iberia Parish, Louisiana; Lafourche Parish, Louisiana; Bonnet Carré Spillway; Benjamin Franklin High School; Saint Martinville, Louisiana; Lafayette Parish, Louisiana; St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana; Saint Tammany Parish, LA; Sulphur, Louisiana; Pineville, Louisiana; Minden, Louisiana; The Cabildo; East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana; Tulane University Law School; Michoud Assembly Facility; One Shell Square; Ruth's Chris Steak House; Breaux Bridge, Louisiana; Old River Control Structure; Old River Control Structure; Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana; Calcasieu Parish, LA; St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; Ferriday, Louisiana; Crowley, Louisiana; Crystal Hot Sauce; Cameron Parish, Louisiana; Cameron Parish, LA; Caddo Parish, Louisiana; Caddo Parish, LA; St. Charles Parish, Louisiana; Acadia Parish, Louisiana; Acadia Parish, LA; Marrero, Louisiana; Louisiana's 4th congressional district; Belle Chasse, Louisiana; Bogalusa, Louisiana; Abbeville, Louisiana; Ouachita River; Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana; Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana; DeRidder, Louisiana; Saint Francisville, Louisiana; Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve; Spain in the American Revolutionary War; 1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane; Laplace, Louisiana; Ascension Parish, Louisiana; Ascension Parish, LA; Florida Parishes; Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana; Avoyelles Parish, LA; Hurricane Cindy; Cameron, Louisiana; Avery Island, Louisiana; Eunice, Louisiana; Old Louisiana State Capitol; Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport; Jesuit High School; Maison Blanche; St. Mary Parish, Louisiana; Southern University at New Orleans; Delhi, Louisiana; Hurricane Edith; Donaldsonville, Louisiana; Evangeline Parish, Louisiana; Brother Martin High School; Harvey, Louisiana; Bastrop, Louisiana; Hurricane Danny; St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; Vermilion Parish, Louisiana; Jena High School; Cut Off, Louisiana; Catahoula Parish, Louisiana; Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana; Rapides Parish, Louisiana; Louisiana College; Lamar Advertising; Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana; Bossier Parish, Louisiana; Bossier Parish, LA; Red River Parish, Louisiana; West Monroe, Louisiana; Griff's Hamburgers; Rosedown Plantation; Franklin, Louisiana; Arabi, Louisiana; Ouachita Parish, Louisiana; Louisiana's 6th congressional district; Washington Parish, Louisiana
Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana
Broadcast Area of: KQHN
Slogan: ▶
"é Konfyans (Louisiana Creole)", "Jistis", "et confyans (Louisiana Creole)", "justis", "Lunyon", …
"et confiance (French)", "justice", "and Confidence", "Justice", "Union"
Closest Airport: Harry P. Williams Memorial Airport
Deaths: ▶
Bonnie and Clyde; Jayne Mansfield; Jefferson Davis; Huey Long; Shannon Hoon; …
Johnny Thunders; Jean Lafitte; Clay Shaw; Marie Laveau; David Ferrie; John Kennedy Toole; John Bell Hood; Frank Sutton; Walker Percy; P.G.T. Beauregard; P. G. T. Beauregard; Robert Asprin; Carlos Marcello; Paul Morphy; Justin Wilson; Al Hirt; Barry Seal; VL Mike; Professor Longhair; Jimmie Davis; Guy Banister; Hank Stram; Rusty Hamer; Lee Dorsey; Sarah Knox Taylor; Earl Long; Theodore G. Bilbo; Bobby Sheehan; Mark Essex; Charles Erwin Wilson; Benjamin Latrobe; Clifton Chenier; Robert Neyland; Jean-Joseph Mouret; William W. Johnstone; Bobby Charles; Walter Inglis Anderson; Maggie Renfro; Eugene J. Martin; William March; George Alec Effinger; Harry Lee; David C. Treen; Barry Cowsill; Clarence John Laughlin; Fred Niblo; Bunk Johnson; Jerry Fowler; Ernest Nathan Morial; Amédé Ardoin; Harry Lee; Grits Gresham; Jorge Ubico; Charles McClendon; John McKeithen; Ronald Ridenhour; Willie Pastrano; Alton Ochsner; Jefferson J. DeBlanc; Sam Zemurray; Robert Rhett; Rezin Bowie; Ronald A. Williams II; Robert F. Kennon; John B. Weller; Emile Meyer; Oscar K. Allen; Francis Xavier Seelos; John Minor Wisdom; John Rarick; Isaac Johnson; David William Thomas; Henry C. Warmoth; Claude Kirkpatrick; William H. Stewart; Walter Stauffer McIlhenny; Joseph Broussard; Alexander Mouton; Charles Magill Conrad; Harry T. Hays; George Cooke; Jacques Villeré; Francis Grevemberg; Richard W. Leche; Alfred Mouton; Hart Wand; Gwen Bristow; Jefferson Caffery; Alvin Olin King; Pierre Soulé; Murphy J. Foster; Henry Johnson; Lovell Rousseau; Arsène Pujo; Joseph A. Mower; Thomas Overton Moore; Felix Edward Hébert; Benjamin Flanders; T. Harry Williams; Martin Behrman; Eddie Robinson; Lamar McHan; Kenneth L. Dixon; James Madison Wells; Allen Bares; William C.C. Claiborne; Adras LaBorde; Michael P. Dunne; Etienne de Boré; Blue Lu Barker; Patrick LeBlanc; Noah W. Cross; Daniel Weissiger Adams; Franklin Gardner; John Smith; William J. "Bill" Dodd; Clyde E. Fant; Ossie Brown; John Desmond; Henry Adams Bullard; Algie D. Brown; Pierre Derbigny; Jerrel Wilson; Andre B. Roman; Edward Douglass White Sr.; John Bordenave Villepigue; Billy Boles; Charlton Lyons; Joseph E. Ransdell; Henry S. Thibodaux; William Kelly; Jacques Dupre; Sol Rosenberg; Sixty Rayburn; Newton C. Blanchard; Donelson Caffery; John H. Cade; Eligius Fromentin; William C. Feazel; Jamar Adcock; Edwin S. Broussard; Thomas Williams; Samuel D. McEnery; Louis A. Wiltz; Charles deGravelles; John Evans; Robert F. Broussard; Douglas Fowler; James D. Henry; Armand Beauvais; Paul Octave Hébert; George R. Swift; Joseph Marshall Walker; Jared Y. Sanders, Sr.; Robert Ewing, III; D. L. Dykes, Jr.; John Baldwin; Roderick Miller; Glenn Hardin; Ken Case; Charles E. Nash; Robert C. Nicholas; Thomas Jenkins Semmes; Gaynell Tinsley; George A. Waggaman; Earl Williamson; Eleazer Wheelock Ripley; Lloyd E. Lenard; Jack Breaux; Ashton J. Mouton; Ace Mumford; James E. Bolin; John S. Hunt, III; William R. Peck; William Plummer Benton; Henry Warren Ogden; Irvan Perez; George Croghan; Bannon Goforth Thibodeaux; John Sidney Garrett; William "Billy" Nungesser; Virginia Martinez; Eddy Shell; S. S. DeWitt; Fred Baden; J. Rayburn Bertrand; Josiah S. Johnston; John Wesley Hillman; Philemon Thomas; Edward James Gay; Elmer Litchfield; John Newell; Morgan W. Walker, Sr.; Grady A. Dugas; John D. Ewing
Coordinates: 31°00'00"N, 92°00'00"W
End of: ▶
Interstate 10 in Texas, Interstate 10 in Mississippi, Interstate 55 in Mississippi, Interstate 59 in Mississippi, Arkansas Highway 7, …
Arkansas Highway 29, Arkansas Highway 3, Arkansas Highway 133
Overlaps: ▶
The Mississippi River; Red River; Interstate 49; Interstate 10 in Louisiana; Interstate 12; …
Bayou Lafourche; Bayou Teche; Calcasieu River; Pontchartrain Expressway; Airline Highway; Amite River; Interstate 110; Interstate 310; Interstate 220; Interstate 210; Bayou Manchac; Boeuf River; Bogue Falaya; Interstate 20 in Louisiana; Interstate 55 in Louisiana; Earhart Expressway; Dugdemona River; Judge Perez Drive; Abita River; Bayou Plaquemine Brule; Black Lake Bayou; Vermilion River; Mermentau River; Tangipahoa River; Little River; Dorcheat Bayou; Pearl River; Red River; Ponchatoula Creek; River Road, Louisiana; Interstate 59 in Louisiana; Loggy Bayou; Sabine River; Bayou Macon; Ouiski Chitto Creek; Berwick Bay
Nearest Settlement of: ▶
Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Peigneur, Barksdale Air Force Base, Caddo Lake, Lake Borgne, …
Toledo Bend Reservoir, Lake Charles, Lake Maurepas, Cross Lake, Black Lake, Lake Salvador, Spanish Lake, Calcasieu Lake, Spanish Lake, Spanish Lake, Murphy Lake, Catahoula Lake, Lake Catouatchie, Prien Lake
Pet Name: ▶
"Creole StatePelican State", "Sportsman's ParadiseSugar State", "Creole StatePelican State (official)", "Bayou StateChild of the Mississippi", "Creole State Pelican State (official) Sportsman's Paradise Sugar State", …
"Bayou State Child of the Mississippi", "Pelican State"
Borders: Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas
Politicians: ▶
David Vitter, Mary Landrieu, William J. Jefferson, Joseph Cao, Russell B. Long, …
John Slidell, John Breaux, Bob Livingston, Billy Tauzin, Lindy Boggs, Don Cazayoux, Steve Scalise, Steve Scalise, Jim McCrery, Chris John, Charlie Melancon, Charles Boustany, Rodney Alexander, Rose McConnell Long, Allen J. Ellender, Cleo Fields, Bennett Johnston Jr., William P. Kellogg, Elaine S. Edwards, Jimmy Hayes, Gillis William Long, Pierre Soulé, Murphy J. Foster, Speedy O. Long, Clyde C. Holloway, John H. Overton, Richard Baker, Henry Adams Bullard, James Brown, Joseph E. Ransdell, Alcée Louis la Branche, Newton C. Blanchard, Donelson Caffery, Eligius Fromentin, William C. Feazel, Edwin S. Broussard, Randall L. Gibson, Allan B. Magruder, Samuel D. McEnery, Mary Catherine Small Long, Charles E. Nash, John S. Harris, Robert C. Nicholas, George A. Waggaman, Alexander Barrow, Alexander Porter, Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, Paul H. Maloney, Joseph R. West, James B. Eustis, Solomon W. Downs, Bannon Goforth Thibodeaux, Miles Taylor, Josiah S. Johnston, Philemon Thomas, Edward James Gay, Charles Dominique Joseph Bouligny, Walter Guion, Jeff Landry, John Thornton, Jean Noel Destréhan, John Fleming, Cedric Richmond, Joseph Aristide Landry, John Bennett Dawson, Claude "Buddy" Leach, Joseph P. Newsham, Theodore Gaillard Hunt, Joseph Aristide Landry, Thomas Withers Chinn, Henry Hosford Gurley
Residents: ▶
Lil Wayne, Reese Witherspoon, Bobby Jindal, Peyton Manning, Lee Harvey Oswald, …
Truman Capote, Jerry Lee Lewis, Juvenile, Hot Boys, Anne Rice, Tim McGraw, Ali Landry, Karl Malone, Bill Russell, Archie Manning, David Duke, Hurricane Chris, Rocsi, Ian Somerhalder, Carly Patterson, Harry Connick, Stephanie Swift, Buddy Guy, Kate Chopin, Shannon Leto, Memphis Monroe, Madam C. J. Walker, Cameron Richardson, Turk, Rashard Lewis, Calvin Borel, John Larroquette, Norma McCorvey, Glen Davis, Paul Mooney, Bobbie Brown, Jim Bowie, Jean Lafitte, Kordell Stewart, Ray Nagin, Jake Delhomme, Elmore Leonard, Johnny Rivers, Lillian Hellman, Robert Parish, Lil' Fizz, Susan Ward, Tom and Eileen Lonergan, Kyle Hebert, Pat Garrett, Ben Sheets, Danny Granger, Don Lemon, P. B. S. Pinchback, Tommy Maddox, K. D. Aubert, Cheryl Holdridge, Michael E. DeBakey, Von Wafer, Van Cliburn, Walker Percy, P. G. T. Beauregard, Chris Duhon, Edwin Edwards, Robert Penn Warren, Jenny Craig, James Burton, Albert Belle, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Ryan Perrilloux, Sammy Kershaw, Iron Eyes Cody, Homer Plessy, Beth Moore, Marques Johnson, Willis Reed, Edward Douglass White, Paul Prudhomme, Tia Texada, Hale Boggs, Shelley Hennig, James Lee Burke, Muse Watson, Matt Forté, Chris Henry, Vance DeGeneres, Lloyd Price, Tony Joe White, Vida Blue, Eddie Jemison, LaRon Landry, Judah P. Benjamin, Faith Domergue, Earl Holliman, Catherine Dent, Johnny Grunge, Patrick Ramsey, Antoinette Frank, Elvin Hayes, Elmo Patrick Sonnier, Floyd Cramer, Brock Berlin, Cheryl Ford, Evelyn Ashford, Lash La Rue, Felix Moncla, Claire Lee Chennault, Brandon Hammond, Walter Isaacson, John A. Lejeune, Mike Murdock, Marguerite Perrin, Robert Crais, Joe McKnight, Russell B. Long, Derrick Todd Lee, Emanuel Augustus, Mewelde Moore, Kent Desormeaux, Paul Burke, Howard K. Smith, Robert Charles Browne, Geoffrey Beene, Pat Williams, Sarah Knox Taylor, Tony Perkins, David Andrews, William J. Seymour, Anthony Thomas, Bobby Hebert, Lee Smith, Louise Peete, Cassidy O'Reilly, Fred Dean, Moses Austin, Shan Foster, Yusef Komunyakaa, Kid Ory, Huey Long, Bob Love, Earl Long, Brian Blade, Dedrick D. Gobert, Theresa Andersson, Vincent Jackson, Marc Morial, J.R. Richard, Andy Griggs, Ed Cullen, Marcia Ball, Craig Davis, Lindy Boggs, Kevin Griffin, Frank Ticheli, David Toms, Lindsey Cardinale, Marty Booker, Doug Kershaw, George Huff, Chanda Rubin, Hodding Carter, John David Crow, Doug Williams, Cameron Dye, John LeRoux, Mary Miles Minter, Dale Hawkins, Bradie James, Faye Emerson, David Houston, Chris John, Keith Smart, Chad Gaudin, Lisa Landry, Anne Armstrong, Eddie Bo, Mark Duper, Mary Gauthier, Casey Viator, Paul Rae, Charlie Joiner, Hal Sutton, Josh Reed, Orlando Woolridge, Bill Jordan, Darius Reynaud, Mike Scifres, Frankie Ford, Bobby Charles, Mable John, Ryan Francis, Justin Vincent, Peter Renaday, Dave Bartholomew, Murphy J. Foster, Chris Kenner, Kim Mulkey-Robertson, Leander Perez, Merritt Cabal, Johnny Copeland
The Area Served By: American Electric Power; City Year; Sonny's Real Pit Bar-B-Q; Acadian Ambulance; Mexican Restaurants, Inc.
Area Served: Louisiana Public Broadcasting
Class: ▶
US state, administrative area within a nation, sovereign state, country, trading day area, …
geographical subdivision of the US, populated place, administrative area within a nation above city-level, geographical area
Named-for Thing of: Louis XIV of France
Featured in: The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Theme of: ▶
The Awakening; A Lesson Before Dying; The Pelican Brief; Blackwood Farm; The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman; …
The Witching Hour; Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood; Black Sunday; A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain; Blow Fly; Little Altars Everywhere; The Thanatos Syndrome; Night Game; Property; The Great Deluge; Crusader's cross; Huey Long; Louisiana Breakdown; Black Cherry Blues; New Orleans Mourning; Twelve Bar Blues; Come Hell or High Water; Dead to the World; Definitely Dead; Dead Until Dark; From Dead to Worse; Swan Peak; 1 Dead in Attic; People of the owl; Secret place of thunder; Cajun and Creole music makers =; Cajun country; Streetwise New Orleans; Huey Long invades New Orleans; The big lie; Private justice; Trial by fire; Never again good-bye; Shadow of doubt; Broken wings; Ghost moon; Intimate enemies; Morning Comes Softly; Strange true stories of Louisiana; Madame Delphine; Old Creole days; Same place, same things; Welding with children; The next step in the dance; The clearing; Walk of the Spirits; French, Cajun, Creole, Houma; Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous; The Founding of New Acadia; Marie Adrien Persac; Chita; The Earl of Louisiana; More Cajun humor; Mardi Gras in the country; Tah-Tye; Clovis Crawfish and Raoul Raccoon; The Story Of Louisiana; Four of a kind; And then there were two; Deadly deception; The immortelles; The alchemy; After the night; New Orleans; The scent of betrayal; Deep in the shade of paradise; One Big Self; Oyster; Spelling Mississippi; No Place, Louisiana; The only piece of furniture in the house; The awakening, and other stories; Complete novels and stories; At fault; Bayou folk; A vocation and a voice; Lilacs and other stories; The right hand of evil; The Great Divorce; Voodoo River; The French Quarter; The Gangs of New Orleans; THE NEON RAIN; Purple cane road; Burning angel; Sunset limited; Cadillac jukebox; STAINED WHITE RADIANCE; White doves at morning; The convict; Half of paradise; Last car to Elysian Fields; Blood and Thunder
Place Of Incorporation of: ▶
The Shaw Group; Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, Llc; Entergy New Orleans Inc; Global Industries Ltd; Akorn, Inc.; …
PHI, Inc.; Stewart Enterprises, Inc.; Whitney Holding Corporation; MidSouth Bancorp; OMNI Energy Services Corp.; Harger And Company, Inc.; Center Street Securities, Inc.; Profinancial, Inc.; Kinsell, Newcomb & De Dios, Inc; Johnson Rice & Company L.l.c.; Cullen Investment Group, Ltd.; Sisung Securities Corporation; First Commonwealth Securities Corporation; American Republic Variable Annuity Account; Kroll Laboratory Specialists, Inc.; Domestic Financial Services, Inc.; Tlc Properties Inc; Dorsey & Company, Inc.; Notami Hospitals Of Louisiana Inc; Sisk Investment Services, Inc.; Louisiana Bancorp Inc; Bol Bancshares Inc; Home Bancorp, Inc.; Cleco Katrina/rita Hurricane Recovery Funding Llc; First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc.; Ckx Lands Inc; Teche Holding Co; Iberiabank Corp; Gulf Island Fabrication Inc; Whitney Holding Corp
Iso 3166:2 Code: "US-LA"
Partly in: the United States
Language: English, written English, written US English
Telephone Code: +1.985, +1.504, +1.337, +1.318, +1.225
Wordnet Synset ID: "109090825"
Governor: Bobby Jindal
Often Found: ▶
Arisaema triphyllum, Switchgrass, Saw Palmetto, Yellow Jessamine, Allium canadense, …
Spanish dagger, Vallisneria americana, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Hydrangea arborescens, Lindera benzoin, Oenothera speciosa, Vaccinium darrowii, Asarum canadense, Ambrosia trifida, Phlox divaricata, Viburnum acerifolium, Gaura lindheimeri, Eastern prickly pear, Nymphaea mexicana, Iris giganticaerulea, Polygonatum biflorum, Opuntia engelmannii, Sesuvium portulacastrum, Vitis mustangensis, Commelina erecta, Calopogon tuberosus, Hydrocotyle ranunculoides, Dodecatheon meadia, Talinum paniculatum, Phoradendron leucarpum, Utricularia cornuta, Utricularia inflata, Hexastylis arifolia, Bouteloua dactyloides, Amaranthus crassipes, Calamagrostis purpurascens, Liatris acidota, Athyrium asplenioides, Cnidoscolus texanus, Purple Reedgrass, Ceanothus americanus, Vitis palmata, Echinacea sanguinea, Utricularia juncea, Utricularia radiata, Amaranthus greggii
Freebase ID: "/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000024ba1"
Legal Driving Age: 16 years
Age of Consent: 17 years
Median Household Income: $40,866
Open Calais URI: http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/provinceorstate/ralg-geo1/53940ca4-8e02-bdb2-662f-6adae1a31394
Visited by: Bobby Jindal, Aaron Burr, William Tecumseh Sherman, Meriwether Lewis, Norbert Rillieux
Related Websites: ▶
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Attributes: geographical parents are statically known
Things Running Through: The Mississippi River
Separate From: Washington, D.C.
Founded: David Duke (1974)
Latitude North: Arkansas
Unemployment: 7.4%
Craigslist page: http://geo.craigslist.org/iso/us/la
State Bird: Brown Pelican
Senator: David Vitter, Mary Landrieu
GeoNames URL: http://sws.geonames.org/4331987/
OpenCyc ID: "Mx4rvVkBDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA"
DBPedia URI: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Louisiana
State Motto: "Union, Justice and Confidence"; "Union, Justice, and Confidence"
Newspapers: ▶
The Courier, The Times, The Town Talk, Minden Press-Herald, The Independent, …
The Gonzales Weekly Citizen, Daily World, The Houma Courier, Daily Iberian, The Angolite, New Orleans CityBusiness, The Daily Advertiser, The News-Star, The Contraband, The Best of Times, Plaquemine Post South, St. Bernard Voice, Donaldsonville Chief, Daily Star
Rare Terms: "louisiana usa", "state of louisiana", "la.", "la"
Fips State Code: "22"
Female Population: 2,308,927
Male Population: 2,183,149
White Population: 2,902,958
Hispanic Population: 49,080
Black Population: 1,443,141
Asian Population: 65,928
Average Household Income: $43,635
Mean House Value: $85,000
Representative: ▶
Huey Long, David Vitter, Mary Landrieu, Edward Douglass White, Russell B. Long, …
Thomas Posey, Jean Noel Destréhan
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