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He also founded multiple companies under parent company, Laitram, LLC, including Laitram Machinery, Intralox, Lapeyre Stair, and Laitram Machine Shop — all based on his inventions. [ 8 ] Intralox registered the first patent for modular plastic belting in 1970 and has been the first company to introduce many of the conveying concepts in the ...
Everette "Rhett" Maddox (1944–1989) [1] was an American poet who in 1979 co-founded (with Robert Stock and sculptor Franz Heldner) the longest-running poetry-reading series in the South at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Coleman–Liau index is a readability test designed by Meri Coleman and T. L. Liau to gauge the understandability of a text. Like the Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level, Gunning fog index, SMOG index, and Automated Readability Index, its output approximates the U.S. grade level thought necessary to comprehend the text.
Pages in category "Children's books set in New Orleans" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F.
New Orleans has served as the backdrop for a number of films with iconic turns in films such as Gone With the Wind (1939), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Little New Orleans Girl (1956), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Live and Let Die (1973), Little New Orleans Girl (1978), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Little New Orleans Girl (2004), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), and The ...
WRBH was founded by a local mathematician, Dr. Robert McClean, who was blind. He envisioned an FM reading radio station, with programming content for the blind and visually impaired. In 1975, McClean began leasing airtime from WWNO and renting studio space from New Orleans’ Lighthouse for the Blind.
Pelican Publishing Company is a book publisher based in Elmwood, Louisiana, with a New Orleans postal address. [1] It was acquired in 2019 by Arcadia Publishing, a leading publisher of local and regional content in the United States. [2] Pelican publishes approximately 60 titles per year and maintains a backlist of over 2,500 books. [3]
Kyrian Hunter – A Dark-Hunter who takes Nick in after finding him injured on the streets at night. When he was mortal, he was the Prince of Thrace but outcast himself when he fell in love with a girl of non-royal descent. He later became a general of the Thracian army. His feature book is Night Pleasures, the first book of the Dark-Hunter series.