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State Instrument Image Date & Citation Arkansas: Fiddle: 1985 [1] Hawaii: Ukulele ('auana/contemporary musical instrument) 2015 [2] Pahu (kahiko/traditional musical instrument) Kentucky: Appalachian dulcimer: 2001 [3] "Mighty Wurlitzer" organ (theater pipe organ) 2005 [4] Louisiana: Cajun accordion: 1990 [5] Missouri: Fiddle: 1987 [6] New ...
"Louisiana My Home Sweet Home" LL 155.1, 1952 Tartan: Louisiana Tartan: LL 170.6, 2001 Tree: Bald cypress [1] (Taxodium distichum) LL 160, 1963 Vegetable: Sweet potato (Pomona Batista) LL 170.11, 2003 Vegetable plant: Creole tomato: LL 170.11, 2003 Wildflower: Louisiana iris (Iris giganticaerulea) LL 154.1, 1990
Tim McGraw has had 25 songs that have reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart, including "Live Like You Were Dying" from 2004. However, North Louisiana's lasting contribution to the world of popular music was the radio program The Louisiana Hayride, which started broadcasting in 1948 on KWKH in Shreveport.
Printable version; In other projects ... Flags of Louisiana (1 C, 2 P) S. ... List of Louisiana state symbols; A. American alligator;
In 1960 the state established the Louisiana State Sovereignty Commission, to investigate civil rights activists and maintain segregation. [103] Despite this, gradually black voter registration and turnout increased to 20% and more, and it was 32% by 1964, when the first national civil rights legislation of the era was passed. [104]
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An enlargeable map of the state of Louisiana. Names Common name: Louisiana. Pronunciation: / l u ˌ iː z i ˈ æ n ə / ⓘ, / ˌ l uː z i ˈ æ n ə / ⓘ Official name: State of Louisiana; Abbreviations and name codes Postal symbol: LA; ISO 3166-2 code: US-LA; Internet second-level domain: .la.us; Nicknames Bayou State (previously used on ...
In 1848, the American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and whose maternal grandmother was a native of Saint-Domingue, composed a piece entitled Bamboula, the first of four Creole inspired piano works known as his Louisiana Quartet.