Louisiana

It has the 25th largest population on the US.

the fleur de lis which was associated with french monarchy is recognized in north Americas to where the french settled. the french settled in quebec and Louisiana. The fleur de lis is a sign of hope and recovery since hurricane Katrina. It reminds us that we love our city. we will never forget hurricane Katrina

Mardi Gras, New Orleans, the Jazz Music, and the food- gumbo, jumbalaya, beignets, crayfish.

The tallest natural point or mountain in Louisiana is Driskill Mountain at 155 m or 508.5 ft above MSL.

It is located southeast of Bryceland, Louisiana within Bienville Parish

Latitude/Longitude 32.425 N / 92.897 W

The tallest building in Louisiana is One Shell Square in downtown New Orleans, 697 feet tall.

In Louisiana, counties are actually called parishes. There are 64 in the state.

According to mapquest, 5 hours, however the traffic through Beaumont to the State Line is slow due to construction, so unless you travel at night, expect to add another 30 minutes to an hour. The five hour mark is from I-45 and the Southernmost Conroe Exit, just above The Woodlands, TX.

This land was purchased from France in 1803 for $15,000,000.

The location on the Mississippi River where land is at the highest elevation and at the lowest point (about 90 miles from the mouth) on the river was chosen as a possible location in 1699 by Pierre LeMoyne, Sieur d'Iberville and his brother Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienville. It took nineteen years for the first actual settlement to rise out of the swamp. By this time d'Iberville had died allowing for his brother Bienville to formally establish a city in honor of the reagent of France, duke Phillipe de Orleans in march of 1718 and called it New Orleans.

Yes, but only those territories acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.

In 1754 the french took over the louisana and in 1763 it was the new spain who at least took it or ruled it

Louisiana is basically shaped as an L but squigles at the bottom

The origins of Mardi Gras can be traced to Medival Europe but the traditions celebrated today are traced to New Orleans. A French-Canadian explorer, Jean Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville, landed 60 miles directly south of New Orleans in 1699 and called it "Pointe due Mardi Gras." He also established "Fort Louis de la Louisiane" (which is now Mobile) in 1702. In 1703, the tiny settlement of Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrated the very first Mardi Gras. In 1704, Mobile established a secret society (Masque de la Mobile) similar to those who form our current Mardi Gras Krewes. In 1710, the "Boeuf Graf Society" was formed and paraded from 1711 through 1861. The procession was held with a huge bull's head pushed alone on wheels by 16 men on Fat Tuesday. New Orleans was established in 1718 by Jean-Baptise Le Moyne. By the 1730s, Mardi Gras was celebrated openly in New Orleans without the parades. In the early 1740s, Louisiana's Governor The Marquis de Vaudreuil established elegant society balls. The earliest reference to Mardi Gras "Carnival" appears in a 1781. That year, the Perseverance Benevolent & Mutual Aid Association is the first of hundreds of clubs and carnival organizations formed in New Orleans. By the late 1830s, New Orleans held street processions of maskers with carriages and horseback to celebrate Mardi Gras. Newspapers began to announce Mardi Gras events in advance. In 1871, Mardi Gras's second "Krewe" is formed, the Twelfth Night Reveler's, with the first account of Mardi Gras "throws." In 1872, a group of businessmen invented a King of Carnival -- Rex -- to parade in the first daytime parade. They introduced the Mardi Gras colors of purple, green and gold; the Mardi Gras song, and the Mardi Gras flag. In 1873, the first floats were constructed entirely in New Orleans instead of France. In 1875, Governor Warmoth of Louisiana signs the "Mardi Gras Act" making it a legal holiday in Louisiana, which it remains.

In Buddhism, alms or almsgiving is the respect given by a lay Buddhist to a Buddhist monk. The monk will then pray for the giver's family or requested others. It is not charity as presumed by Western interpreters. It is closer to a symbolic connection to the spiritual and to show humbleness and respect in the presence of normal society.[1] The visible presence of monks is a stabilizing influence. The act of alms giving assists in connecting the human to the monk and what he represents. As the Buddha has stated: : Householders & the homeless [monastics] : in mutual dependence : both reach the true Dhamma.... (Itivuttaka 4.7)[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alms#Buddhism

Some were named for people in the area such as Acadia Parish after the Acadians or Allen Parish named after Henry Watkins Allen who was the Confederate governor of Louisiana. Catahoula Parish is named for Catahoula Lake from a Native American word meaning "big clear lake."

Louisiana's official flag was adopted in 1912, one hundred years after Louisiana became a state. The flag has a blue background (symbolizing truth) with a white pelican mother feeding her three chicks in a nest (the pelican is an old symbol of protection - an old legend tells of a mother pelican tearing flesh from herself to feed her young; this pelican represents the state protecting the people and their land). The ribbon reads "Union, Justice, and Confidence."

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Yes and no. Certainly today there are Cherokee living there, and there have been in the past. By the time of the treaty period with European immigrants there were no official tribes living in the boundaries of Florida.

The us purchased the louisiana territory from Napoleon Bonaparte. It cost about 15 million dollars.

It depends on the religion in some countries. Islamic laws allows you to marry four times if your previous wife is not good or you want to marry a women for her orphan children to give them shelter for the sake of help. You can live with two or more wives if you know you are honest with all of them. Women in Islam can also marry if her husband gives divorce or her husband died (After 40 days of her husband death she can marry again). There is no restrictions on women for remarriage in Islam as long as they are unmarried at the time of the marriage.

Hinduism allows you to marry once. You can marry again after the divorce but not in the presence of your wife. Women in Hinduism cannot marry again. In some modern cultures they are doing this but in old cultures remarriage for women is prohibited. Hinduism doesn't allow women to remarry.

There is no limit to the number of times you can be married in the United States. However, the law in every state is that you can only be married to one person at a time. If you wish to remarry, you must obtain a divorce from your present spouse. Any subsequent marriage would be invalid if you have not obtained a divorce.

Ernie Fletcher (born November 12, 1952 in Mount Sterling, Kentucky) succeeded Paul E. Patton as the sixtieth Governor of Kentucky, serving between December 9, 2003 and December 11, 2007, including the whole of 2005.

New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Lafayette, and Houma are listed as the five largest metropolitan areas, but several of these include other cities in their metro area. See the Related Link listed below for more information:

$300 or more is a felony. Anything less than $300--even if it is $299.99 is a misdemeanor.