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Mark James Robert Essex (August 12, 1949 [4] – January 7, 1973) was an American serial sniper and black nationalist known as the "New Orleans Sniper" who killed a total of nine people, including five police officers, and wounded twelve others, in two separate attacks in New Orleans on December 31, 1972, and January 7, 1973.
The feds ruled out that the ISIS flag-flying terrorist who killed at least 15 people and injured dozens of others on New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street had help from four people spotted on ...
The New Orleans massacre was a continuation of a longer shooting war over slavery (beginning with Bleeding Kansas in 1859), of which the 1861–1865 hostilities were merely the largest part. [10] More than half of the whites were Confederate veterans and nearly half of the Black Americans were veterans of the Union army.
This Gulf Coast species is an extremely large blue native plant, found commonly in the City of New Orleans. [10] In the state of Louisiana, the iris grows natively in freshwater marshes, swamps, and woody wetlands. Yet only a few remaining native, wild-growing irises can be found in Louisiana wetlands, located 20 to 30 miles north of New ...
Three men were killed in Houston, 3 at Port Arthur, 1 at Beaumont, 3 at Lake Charles, La., 2 at New Orleans, and 2 at Mobile. [129] At least two of the reported 14 people killed were strikers: ILA member Etienne Christ shot to death in Port Arthur, Texas, on 10/21, [130] and striker Samuel L. Brandt shot to death in Houston on 11/25. [131]
The best time to plant irises is the late summer and early fall (think late July through early September). This gives the plant enough time to settle into the ground and start rooting ahead of the ...
The 1891 New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans, immigrants in New Orleans, by a mob for their alleged role in the murder of police chief David Hennessy after some of them had been acquitted at trial. It was the largest single mass lynching in American history.
Many times, I have seen people say they have to have a loropetalum. I get it. They come in a nice 3-gallon container with pretty burgundy leaves and these amazing pink flowers.