Louisiana

Yes it is. You can go to this website: http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/tabid/217/Default.aspx to see for yourself. It is under State Dog, after State Tree. I also put a link on the page. It is called Louisiana Secretary of State: Louisiana Facts.

in 1987, the legal drinking age in Louisiana was raised from 18, to 21.

Whenever the boat is underway properly size personal flotation device is must be worn by children of what age in Louisiana

300 miles roughly... About a 5 and a 1/2 hour drive if you do the speed limit...

cotton. sugar cane. rice. indigo. shrimp.crawfish.

Two of them are Charles Sergeant Floyd and Private John Shields.

Although the state of Louisiana does not offer a domestic partnership registry, the City of New Orleans does and it is open to both same-sex and opposite-sex couples.

Your entire life until you die.

False, each State Government and Federal Government has their own laws pertaining to life imprisonment. Arkansas's definition of a life sentence is 40 years, you would be eligible for parol after serving 75% of that time, you would be completely released from prison (go out flat) after your 40 year term. This is why a lot of courts and jury's will sentence a person to multiple life sentences. You must serve all of the first life sentence to get to the 2nd life sentence.

46 miles, 51 min. by car

Yes, but not often. Last time it snowed in Louisiana was Thursday, December 11, 2008.

And then again almost 1 year later Friday, December 4, 2009.

Oscar Dunn was the first black lieutenant governor.

Google Maps estimates the driving time as 21 hours and 8 minutes.

France and Spain

August but studies prove its july. August has always been the hottest personally here in south LA

In February of 1882, R. C. Cameron reported evidence of placer mining for gold on Rocky Bayou and Bayou Darro. He was ridiculed and scoffed at so he sent samples of the creek bottom sands to New Orleans and the Assayers, Claussen and Lynch, reported that the sands of these creek bottoms would yield per ton; $19.80 in silver ore and $179.84 in gold.

In April, 1887, Edourd Gillard took 150 workers into the area and made a number of excavations. The project was successful as far as finding gold and silver but was not profitable and the project was abandoned.

Don Jose Bernardo Maxmillio Gutierrez de Lardo was a merchant and blacksmith at Revilla, a village near the junction of the Rio Salado and the Rio Grande in Mexico. Gutierrez was a follower of Padres Hidalgo Castillo and Jose Maria Moralas who were encouraging a revolt among the Peons and Mestizos (half breeds) to overthrow the government of Mexico.

Gutierrez, with Captain Jose Janchesca, a deserter of the Mexican Royalist army, and ten others left Revilla with $30,000 in Mexican gold with which they were to finance a filibustering expedition into Texas. The men were pursued by the Mexican Royalist milita as far as La Ville Du Bayou (now Jordan Ferry, 3 miles west of Lake End). There are several confusing reports that the gold was taken by the Royalists troops and squandered by them. Gutierrez stated this fact but Manchaca stated that the gold was lost to bandits while Gutierrez was on his way overland to Natchez. Gutierrez was transporting the gold in a two-wheeled cart when he left Natchitoches but did not have the gold or cart when he had reached the land of Fiol who supposedly had a way station near present Day Dry Prong. Fiol did have several way stations along the Natchez Trace. Not long thereafter Gutierrez returned to Natchitoches and reported losing the gold to Land Pirates and procured a loan of $200.00 from Dr. John Sibley with which he went to Washington to seek support for his filibustering expedition into Texas. The question remains; did he hide the gold or was he robbed? None of Mexican minted gold eagles ever turned up in the Natchitoches area. This is just one of the many stories of lost treasures in the Grant Parish area.

In March, 1887, a number of Indian relics, such as flints, pottery, etc., was unearthed on

the main street of Colfax, by Lindsey, who was excavating a ditch. Among the old

Creoles and their slaves, a belief existed that Spanish treasure was buried in Indian

Hill, two miles east of the present town of Colfax, and in another hill three miles north

of the town. R. C. Cameron, who gave the subject some attention, writes, in February,

1887, that indications of old placer mines existed here, the waters of Rocky Bayou and

Bayou Darro being used for washing. Indeed, Mr. Cameron round what he termed

gold, but the discovery was ridiculed until April, 1887, when Claussen & Lynch, assayers,

of New Orleans, showed $ 19.80 in silver and $ 179.84 in gold per ton of sand. In 1830

a Spaniard, named Raphael, told Edourd Gillard that there was gold in the hills. Both

went thither, and collecting a small quantity of earth and rocks, shipped it to Washington,

D. C. for assay. The report was not favorable, and the mine was abandoned.

Mrs. Cora Lacour recollects hearing her father and others speak of this venture.

Yes gold has been and is still being found in Louisiana. The creek beds around Jena and Natchitoches have produced gold. There is even a gold hunting club that hunts around Jena. We have not even mention the ancient caves in the Natchitoches area. So ya people :)

The first capital of Louisiana- The New France or French Louisiana- was Mobile (1702-1720), then Biloxi (1720-1723), then New Orleans (1723). Baton Rouge is now the capital of Louisiana and has been since 1846.

lol basically nothing

unless you get some lion's tail or blue lotus

Zebulon Pike.

Louisiana, it was named after the French King Louis XIV. When René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claimed the territory drained by the Mississippi River for France, he named it La Louisiane, meaning "Land of Louis". Louisiana was also part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain of the Spanish Empire. The territory was acquired in 1803 by the United States through the Louisiana Purchase from France. Also, a big city in the US was named after a French King, Louis XVI: Louisville in Kentucky.

There are two main reasons on why the federalist party purchased Louisiana territory. The main two reasons for doing this was because the tie they had with Britain and compromising with Napoleon.

All the traditions of the Louisiana cuisine are embodied in a single dish: gumbo. Everybody makes it. Nobody makes it the same. Nobody has a recipe. The best gumbo is served at New Orleans destination restaurants. The best gumbo is dished up in roadside dives you are happy to visit and happier to leave before nightfall. The best gumbo is waiting at your friend's kitchen table. All you have to do is show up and dig in. The best gumbo is served to fans of the opposing team from a tailgate at an LSU game. The best gumbo ever was made two days ago, and I just now looked. It's all gone. Gumbo stretches that cheap bag of rice. Gumbo does justice to leftovers while obscuring their identity.. Seasonal seafood changes the dish from one month into the next. Gumbo expands to accommodate any number of unexpected guests. Use oil, flour, onions, celery, bell pepper, gumbo file' (ground sassafras), whatever meat is available - or not - then add patience, attention to detail, recollections of how your mama did it, and her mama, then pour over rice. Gumbo always comes out good, or at least good enough. Gumbo is important to the entire nation because it speaks of a time and a place and a people - almost all of whom are not Louisiana natives - who maintain the tradition because the results are GOOD, exactly like your own regional cuisine, which I make a deliberate effort to experience when I land in your State. Yall stop by on the way through town. Have a bowl of gumbo. You'll want to be back on the road before nightfall, though.