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Both New Orleans East and the Westbank were settled by the Vietnamese at the same time. [3] In later periods, Vietnamese settlements spread to other parts of the metropolitan New Orleans area including other sections of New Orleans East, Avondale, [2] and the City of Gretna. [4] The New Orleans East section was flooded by Hurricane Katrina in 2005
The New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) is the public library of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Succeeding earlier libraries in the city, it opened in 1897. Three branches were added by 1908. Carnegie library branches were added in 1911 and 1915. By 2005 a dozen branches were open.
By 1989, there were approximately 15,300 Vietnamese refugees resettled in Louisiana. [4] Catholic dioceses of Louisiana were active in this process, with the Archdiocese of New Orleans sponsoring resettlement in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Houma–Thibodaux sponsoring resettlement in St. Mary Parish ...
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 ...
Dong Phuong Oriental Bakery (Vietnamese: Đông Phương, literally "The Orient") is a Vietnamese retail and wholesale bakery, restaurant, and catering business in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is known for supplying the baguette style bread for many of the city's restaurants that offer banh mi or other sandwiches, and has its own popular banh mi ...
John-Nhan Tran was born in the Bình Giã district of South Vietnam on February 6, 1966, to Dung Van Tran and Lai Thi Nguyen. [3] [4] When Tran was two years old, his mother was shot and killed during the Vietnam War. Tran's older brother was also killed by a land mine. [5] When Tran was nine, his family fled from Saigon, South Vietnam on a ...
The current state library was not the first. The Louisiana State Library was created in 1838. It was originally located in New Orleans, which was the state capital at the time. In 1849 the capital was moved to Baton Rouge, and the library also moved. [2] During the Civil War the library was moved back to New Orleans to protect the collection ...
Vienna (Viên in Vietnamese) is the only city whose name in Vietnamese is borrowed from French [citation needed]. Hong Kong and Macau names are borrowed from English by direct transliteration into Hồng Kông and Ma Cao instead of Hương Cảng and Áo Môn in Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation.