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The 1853 yellow fever epidemic of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean islands resulted in thousands of fatalities. Over 9,000 people died of yellow fever in New Orleans alone, [1] around eight percent of the total population. [2]
On 21 May 1964, New Orleans businessman David Dixon met with the AFL owners to discuss various proposals that would bring football to his city. He hoped to host either postseason games or the All-Star game in Tulane Stadium, as a stepping stone to establishing a New Orleans franchise in either the AFL or the rival NFL.
Peters was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and grew up in the city's 9th Ward in a single parent household as his father was incarcerated for most of his childhood. [1] He attended Landry-Walker College and Career Preparatory High School, where he helped lead the Charging Buccaneers to back-to-back state championships in his sophomore and junior seasons.
The Archdiocese of New Orleans (Latin: Archidioecesis Novae Aureliae, French: Archidiocèse de la Nouvelle-Orléans, Spanish: Arquidiócesis de Nueva Orleans) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical division of the Catholic Church spanning Jefferson (except Grand Isle), [1] Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, and Washington civil parishes of southeastern ...
In 1938, General Lewis Kemper Williams [4] (1887-1971), a World War I veteran, Brigadier General in World War II, [5] [6] businessman, and honorary Consul General of Monaco in New Orleans, [7] from Patterson, Louisiana, [8] and his wife, Leila Hardie Moore Williams [9] (1901-1966) bought two properties in the French Quarter, the Spanish Colonial Merieult House on Royal Street and a late 19th ...
Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album for the Gulf Coast is an album which presents songs recorded in September and October 2005, shortly after the failure of misdesigned levees flooded New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina (see: Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans) With the destruction of their hometown fresh in their minds, New Orleans artists set about making music that directly ...
The 2011 R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, part of the 2011–12 bowl game season, took place on December 17, 2011, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.The 11th edition of the game featured the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns from the Sun Belt Conference (Sun Belt), and the San Diego State Aztecs from the Mountain West Conference.
The Advocate was a weekly newspaper founded in Melbourne, Victoria in 1868 and published for the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne from 1919 to 1990. It was first housed in Lonsdale Street , then in the grounds of St Francis' Church, and from 1937 in a'Beckett Street, Melbourne.