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... to make her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). S... ...tionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's cons... ...ocytes to other parts of the body. The appendix is not, therefore, useless, as most people think. It is part of the immune system. The GALT disappea... ...ebruary 1, 1861. They were: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Another four - Virginia, North Carolin... ... the Senate. Reconstruction started long before the war ended, in Union-occupied Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Slave tax was an important s... ...an filibuster record. In 1964, a group of southern senators led by Russell Long of Louisiana extended the debate on the Civil Rights Act for 74 day... ...er etymologies attributing OK to a host of other languages, from Native-American to Creole, and to everything from telegraphic signaling to German ...

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...abor of love and wouldn’t have been possible without the support of a lot of people. First I’d like to thank Lynne for making me get off my butt to ... ...hase, who was the inspiration for my heroine. Finally I’d like to thank the people who kept telling me I could do it when I wanted to chuck it and ... ...with love and harsh words when that’s what it takes. See, it takes a lot of people to force an author to finish a book and you thought it was a one... ...er and hid the body in the nearest deep dank bayou I could find. This being Louisiana, locating one shouldn’t have been too hard. Only the gators ... ...wenty active Slayers at this time. Of those twenty, only four actually call Louisiana their base of operation. Do you know what that means?” Soun... ...ondemned man or woman deserved one last meal before biting the dust. Shrimp Creole looked to be mine, though the Crawfish Acadian looked pretty good...

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...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ... his great intellect were engaged in the patriotic effort to secure to the people of France the blessings that Democracy in America had ordained and e... ...rm a book, and a book upon a very useful and curious subject. The State of Louisiana would in particular afford the curious phenomenon of a French and... ...I, Section 23; Kentucky, art. 2, Section 26; Tennessee, art. 8, Section I; Louisiana, art. 2, Section 22. 341 Tocqueville natural contempt of existen... ...deavored by various little artifices to attract the attention of the young Creole. The child displayed in her slightest gestures a conscious- ness of ... ...numerous band of Choctaws (or Chactas, as they are called by the French in Louisiana). These savages had left their country, and were endeavoring to g...

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...the elbows and toes of the crowd, he concluded his opera- tions by bidding people stand still more aside, when, jumping on a stool, he hung over his d... ...full regimentals; slaves, black, mu- latto, quadroon; modish young Spanish Creoles, and old- fashioned French Jews; Mormons and Papists; Dives and Laz... ...eece and good-natured, honest black face rubbing against the upper part of people’s thighs as he made shift to shuffle about, making music, such as it... ...lephant for tossed apples at a menagerie; when, making a space before him, people would have a bout at a strange sort of pitch-penny game, the cripple... ...ins, not improbably his child, but evidently of alien maternity, per- haps Creole, or even Camanche. Her eye would have been large for a woman, and wa... ...y well. He cited an example: Only three bottles, faithfully taken, cured a Louisiana widow (for three weeks sleepless in a darkened chamber) of neural... ...ed firm of Fever & Ague is still settling up its unfinished business; that Creole grave-digger, Yellow Jack—his hand at the mattock and spade has not ...

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...over to the Cheniere Caminada in Beaudelet’s lugger to hear mass. Some young people were out under the wateroaks playing cro quet. Mr. Pontellier’s t... ...it had again assumed its entertaining aspect; about the wind, the trees, the people who had gone to the Cheniere; about the children playing croquet u... ...d himself and changed the subject. Mrs. Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles; never befor... ...; never before had she been thrown so intimately among them. There were only Creoles that summer at Lebrun’s. They all knew each other, and felt like ... ...she had no difficulty in recon ciling it with a lofty chastity which in the Creole woman seems to be inborn and unmistakable. Never would Edna Pontel... ...e, and you would be unfit to asso ciate with the wives and daughters of the people who trust you.” Madame Ratignolle had spoken what she believed to ... ...neat, were flowers and plants of every description which flourishes in South Louisiana. The Awakening – Chopin 37 Within doors the appointments were... ... fee, seated upon the stone flagged portico whose canopy was the blue sky of Louisiana. They loved to sit there in the silence, with only each other a... ...matter about a name when he could give her one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana? He ordered the corbeille from Paris, and con tained himself w...