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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 ...
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 ...
New Orleans' professional sports teams include the 2009 Super Bowl XLIV champion New Orleans Saints and the New Orleans Pelicans . [ 232 ] [ 233 ] [ 234 ] It is also home to the Big Easy Rollergirls , an all-female flat track roller derby team, and the New Orleans Blaze , a women's football team.
Place St. Charles (formerly the Bank One Center and First NBC Center), located at 201 St. Charles Avenue in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, is a 53-story, 645-foot (197 m) skyscraper designed in the post-modern style by Moriyama & Teshima Architects with The Mathes Group, now Mathes Brierre Architects, as local architect.
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.
New Orleans — A scraggly white Terrier named Scrim has captivated the hearts of many in New Orleans hoping to help him back to a safer, easier life in the Big Easy. Scrim, already twice rescued ...
New Orleans Review, founded in 1968, is a journal of contemporary literature and culture that publishes "poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, photography, film and book reviews" by established and emerging writers and artists. New Orleans Review is a publication of the Department of English at Loyola University New Orleans.
Ann Arbor author Janie Paul will visit the Stair District Library in downtown Morenci, 228 W. Main St., at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 2, as part of the 2024 Michigan Notable Books (MNB) Program and ...