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| Nereyda, Maria and Ana's wishes |
Today, The Beans have visited New Orleans in Lousiana. They are excited with this trip because they love blues and jazz and they want to know more things about the Creole culture which has great roots in this city.
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The family has revised the future of probabilities with May and has started to talk about Countable and Uncountable and some kinds of containers.
Paqui Bean is a little sad because his last Amish friend has decided to begin a new path far away the family and The Beans have dedicated some wonderful wishes and hopes to him in a local way.
Finally, the family has finished a new chapter of Christmas Carol and they have reviewed numbers with two intensive bingos and letters with the IATA codes, in an attempt to choose their last destination.
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New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The population of the city was 343,829 as of the 2010 U.S. Census. Before Hurricane Katrina, Orleans Parish was the most populous parish in Louisiana. As of 2015, it ranked third, trailing neighboring Jefferson Parish and East Baton Rouge Parish.
The city is known for its distinct French and Spanish Creole architecture, as well as its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage. New Orleans is famous for its cuisine, music -particularly as the birthplace of jazz- and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The city is often referred to as the most unique in the United States.
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| Manuel Bean playing Bingo |
New Orleans is located in southeastern Louisiana, and occupies both sides of the Mississippi River. The heart of the city and its French Quarter is on the river's north side. The city and Orleans Parish, in French paroisse d'Orléans, are coterminous. The city and parish are bounded by the parishes of St. Tammany to the north, St. Bernard to the east, Plaquemines to the south, and Jefferson to the south and west. Lake Pontchartrain, part of lies within the city limits, lies to the north and Lake Borgne lies to the east.
As a port New Orleans played a major role during the antebellum era in the Atlantic slave trade. The port handled commodities for export from the interior and imported goods from other countries, which were warehoused and transferred in New Orleans to smaller vessels and distributed along the Mississippi River watershed. The river was filled with steamboats, flatboats and sailing ships. Despite its role in the slave trade, New Orleans at the time had the largest and most prosperous community of free persons of color in the nation, who were often educated, middle-class property owners.
The Civil Rights Movement's success in gaining federal passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 renewed constitutional rights, including voting for blacks. Together, these resulted in the most far-reaching changes in New Orleans' 20th century history.
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| The Beans visiting Southern Charm in New Orleans |
Though legal and civil equality were re-established by the end of the 1960s, a large gap in income levels and educational attainment persisted between the city's White and African-American communities.
New Orleans was catastrophically affected when the Federal levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As the hurricane passed through the Gulf Coast region, the city's federal flood protection system failed, resulting in the worst civil engineering disaster in American history. Floodwalls and levees constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers failed below design specifications and 80% of the city flooded.
More than 1,500 people were recorded as having died in Louisiana, most in New Orleans, while others remain unaccounted for. Before Hurricane Katrina, the city called for the first mandatory evacuation in its history, to be followed by another mandatory evacuation three years later with Hurricane Gustav.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
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