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  2. History of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    The Story of French New Orleans: History of a Creole City. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1496804860. Haas, Edward F. (1988). Political Leadership in a Southern City: New Orleans in the Progressive Era, 1896–1902. New Orleans: McGinty Publications. ISBN 978-0940231047. Haskins, James (1973). Pinckney Benton Stewart ...

  3. Timeline of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    The Territory of Orleans (future state of Louisiana) is established, with the seat of government in New Orleans. 1805 – New Orleans incorporated as a city; 1806 – New Orleans Mechanics Society instituted. [5] 1810 – Population: 17,242. [6] 1811 – Largest slave revolt in American history occurs nearby, with Orleans Parish involved in its ...

  4. Property tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Exemptions can be quite substantial. In New York City alone, an Independent Budget Office study found that religious institutions would have been taxed $627M yearly without such exemptions; all exempt groups avoided paying a combined $13 billion in the fiscal year of 2012 (1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012). [54]

  5. Pontalba Buildings - Wikipedia

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    The foundation turned the upper building over to the City of New Orleans, which has owned it since the 1930s. According to Christina Vella , historian of modern Europe, the Pontalba Buildings were not the first apartment buildings in the present-day U.S., as is commonly believed.

  6. Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville - Wikipedia

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    Coat of Arms of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist lə mwan də bjɛ̃vil]; / l ə ˈ m ɔɪ n d ə b i ˈ ɛ n v ɪ l /; February 23, 1680 – March 7, 1767), also known as Sieur de Bienville, was a French-Canadian colonial administrator in New France.

  7. What does it mean to claim the US is a Christian nation, and ...

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    Still others contend that some or all the American founders were Christian, or that the founding documents were based on Christianity. That's a lot to unpack. Let's start at the top.

  8. Land value tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Pittsburgh used the two-rate system from 1913 to 2001 [21] when a countywide property reassessment led to a drastic increase in assessed land values during 2001 after years of underassessment, and the system was abandoned in favor of the traditional single-rate property tax. The tax on land in Pittsburgh was about 5.77 times the tax on ...

  9. America founded as a Christian nation? Nothing could be ... - AOL

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    America’s founding motto was “E Pluribus Unum” (out of one many) but in the 1950s religious zealots changed that to “in God we trust” and inserted “under God” into the secular Pledge ...

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