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Third Air Force. Alexandria Army Air Field, Alexandria; 517th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron Later: England Air Force Base (1950-1992) Now: Alexandria International Airport
The azimuthal equidistant projection is an azimuthal map projection. It has the useful properties that all points on the map are at proportionally correct distances from the center point, and that all points on the map are at the correct azimuth (direction) from the center point. A useful application for this type of projection is a polar ...
Rank Name Image Location Height feet (m) Floors Year Notes 1 Hancock Whitney Center: New Orleans: 697 (212) 51 1972 Has been the tallest building in New Orleans and Louisiana since 1972; tallest building in the Southeastern United States at the time of its completion; first Southeastern skyscraper to rise higher than 656 feet (200 m); tallest building constructed in the city in the 1970s.
In the 19th century, Michoud was a small rural village in Orleans Parish outside of the city limits on Gentilly Road, named after French sugar farmer Antoine Michoud. The original tract of land, located in eastern New Orleans, was part of a 34,500 acre French Royal land grant to local merchant, Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent. In 1827, the land ...
In 1942, a comprehensive criminal code revision was passed, reducing the maximum penalty for sodomy to five years' imprisonment, adding a fine of 2,000 dollars and making the hard labor provision optional. [1] The 2016 edition of New Orleans Pride The New Orleans Gay Easter Parade, French Quarter, April 2018
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 01:14, 8 July 2017: 512 × 663 (371 KB): Efram Stone: Changed 2 stop icons to be consistent. 23:18, 4 January 2017
1871 map showing the Texas and New Orleans Railroad in Texas, along with other railroads. The Texas and New Orleans Railroad was chartered as the Sabine and Galveston Bay Railroad and Lumber Company in 1856, and was formed to build a railroad from Madison (now Orange) in Orange County to tidewater at Galveston Bay.