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2 days ago · McFadden is not a native of Louisiana but has adopted the city as her home base. Her new book explores her life in Brooklyn, New York, and as a world traveler. From her first experience, dying in a car crash and being brought back to life by her mother, to her development as a writer, McFadden shows in this memoir the reason that she is beloved by readers throughout the United States and abroad.
5 days ago · Louisiana - Politics, Economy, Culture: Louisiana’s current constitution, its 11th, was adopted in 1974; it requires a two-thirds majority of each house of the state legislature, and then a majority of the electorate, to amend it. Louisiana has had more constitutions than any other state in the country. The constitution that was adopted in 1921 was Louisiana’s 10th in 108 years. It remained in force for more than 50 years, a period during which the state underwent more fundamental change ...
5 days ago · Louisiana - Oil, Agriculture, Culture: Louisiana’s economy began to diversify significantly in the late 1800s with the emergence of a large timber industry, which continued as a major part of the state’s economy into the 21st century. Extensive lumbering attracted large corporations to Louisiana for three decades following 1890, and the discovery of oil and gas reserves helped to increase industrial development. The conservative political leadership of the state refused to tax the ...
6 hours ago · Bernice Johnson Reagon (October 4, 1942 – July 17, 2024) was an American song leader, composer, scholar, and social activist, who in the early 1960s was a founding member of Freedom Singers, organized by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the Albany Movement in Georgia.
5 days ago · — United States — Bernice 32°49′58″ N 92°39′37″ W • 03:20:15 AM Bernice (United States)
1 day ago · The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America. It began when the United States declared war on Britain on 18 June 1812. Although peace terms were agreed upon in the December 1814 Treaty of Ghent, the war did not officially end until the peace treaty was ratified by the ...
5 days ago · The name Berenice is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "she who brings victory". A name with a surprising amount of history--it was the name of the wife of Ptolemy I of Egypt, occurs in the New Testament, and belonged to a fourth century saint. In the US, it has long been spelled and pronounced Bernice.
