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The SRRC laboratory was established as a result of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 by the United States Congress. Construction on the laboratory commenced in 1939 at its current 40 acre (162,000 m 2) building site, a tract in the northeast corner of City Park on Allen Toussaint Boulevard near Bayou St. John, New Orleans, Louisiana. The ...
The Agriculture Street Landfill was a dump located in the Desire Area of New Orleans, Louisiana. The area was later developed for residential use, with unfortunate environmental consequences. It became a Superfund cleanup site in 1994.
New Orleans is known for specialties including beignets (locally pronounced like "ben-yays"), square-shaped fried dough that could be called "French doughnuts" (served with café au lait made with a blend of coffee and chicory rather than only coffee); and po' boy [231] and Italian muffuletta sandwiches; Gulf oysters on the half-shell, fried ...
The French word filé is the past participle of the verb filer, meaning (among other things) "to turn into threads", "to become ropy". [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The name gumbo may derive from the word ki ngombo , often shortened to gombo , which meant okra in the Central Bantu dialect. [ 9 ]
The grain adapted well to its new environment, and within a few years, rice was commonly grown along the Mississippi River. [30] In 1721, 125 Germans settled 40 miles (64 km) from New Orleans, and introduced the art of making sausage. [31] By 1746, the white population of Louisiana was estimated to be 3,200, with an estimated 4,730 black people.
A swamp in the Atchafalaya Basin. The Atchafalaya Basin, or Atchafalaya Swamp (/ ə ˌ tʃ æ f ə ˈ l aɪ ə /; Louisiana French: Atchafalaya, [atʃafalaˈja]), is the largest wetland and swamp in the United States.
New Orleans Central Business District; New Orleans dock workers and unionization; 1895 New Orleans dockworkers massacre; New Orleans slave market; 1929 New Orleans streetcar strike; New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia is one of the most famous of the early works of Clifford Geertz.Its principal thesis is that many centuries of intensifying wet-rice cultivation in Indonesia had produced greater social complexity without significant technological or political change, a process Geertz terms—"involution".