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science from Latin scientia 'knowledge'. [9] World + ken means "knowledge of the world". stuff firststuff: matter element from Latin materia 'substance from which something is made', [10] from Latin elementum 'rudiment, first principle, matter in its most basic form' [11] workstead: laboratory from Latin laboratorium 'place for work', [12 ...
French Literature of Louisiana. New York: Columbia University. OCLC 4174484. Rien Fertel (2014). "Alfred Mercier, the Athenee Louisianais, and the Fight to Preserve the French Language". Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans. Louisiana State University Press. pp. 49–70. ISBN 978-0-8071-5824-1.
The largest area of the map by far was "La Louisiane", or Louisiana. This was a France-centric version of the continent, intended to convey that the colony was firmly established colony by 1718. The colony consisted of between four hundred to seven hundred men, women, and children clustered around the mouth of the Mississippi.
The Dictionary of Scientific Biography is a scholarly reference work that was published from 1970 through 1980 by publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, with main editor the science historian Charles Gillispie, from Princeton University. It consisted of sixteen volumes. It is supplemented by the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (2007).
Cajun French Dictionary and Phrasebook by Clint Bruce and Jennifer Gipson ISBN 0-7818-0915-0. Hippocrene Books Inc. Tonnerre mes chiens! A glossary of Louisiana French figures of speech by Amanda LaFleur ISBN 0-9670838-9-3. Renouveau Publishing. A Dictionary of the Cajun Language by Rev. Msgr. Jules O. Daigle, M.A., S.T.L. ISBN 0-9614245-3-2 ...
Carte de la Louisiane, or Map of Louisiana, Histoire de la Louisiane (1757) Le Page lived at Natchez from 1720 to 1728 under the colonization scheme organized by John Law and the Company of the Indies. His familiarity with the local Natchez, and knowledge of their language and customs, is the basis for some of the unique aspects of his writings.
The percentage of students scoring a grade of "5" was only 7.0% in the 2021 testing administration. It remains one of the lowest "5" scoring AP Exams to this date right under AP Art History, AP English Literature & Composition, AP English Language & Composition, and AP World History. The AP Environmental Science exam was first administered in 1998.
Louisiana was named after Louis XIV, King of France from 1643 to 1715. When René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claimed the territory drained by the Mississippi River for France, he named it La Louisiane. [28] The suffix –ana (or –ane) is a Latin suffix that can refer to "information relating to a particular individual, subject, or place."