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The first French settlers had built a crude fort and dwellings for La Balize near the mouth of the Mississippi in 1699. The name meant "seamark", and the French built a 62-foot-high (19 m) wooden pyramidal structure in 1721 to help guide ships on the Mississippi River and at its shifting delta. This was where river pilots came to live. [3]
Red River. Black River. Little River. Castor Creek; Dugdemona River; Tensas River. Bayou Macon; Ouachita River. Boeuf River. Bayou Bonne Idee; Bayou Lafourche (Boeuf River tributary)
Aerial America is a television series airing on the Smithsonian Channel.Each episode is an aerial video tour of a U.S. state or destination in the United States. The narrated show consists entirely of aerial scenes using the Cineflex V14HD gyro-stabilized camera system mounted under the "chin" of a helicopter.
Security forces developed various euphemisms to refer to these flights including mandi laut ("taking a bath in the sea") referring to the practice of weighting the bodies of suspects with rocks and dumping them from a helicopter into the sea, piknik ke Builico ("going for a picnic to Builico") a.k.a. being dumped in the Sarei River ravine near ...
Fall River: United States: 1945 Gearing class: Destroyer: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. [29] USS Kidd: United States Louisiana: Baton Rouge: United States: 1943 Fletcher class: Destroyer: Kamikaze [30] USS Laffey: United States South Carolina: Mount Pleasant: United States: 1943 Allen M. Sumner class: Destroyer: National Historic Landmark, survived 7 ...
Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361 (HMH-361) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of CH-53E Super Stallion transport helicopters. The squadron, known as the "Flying Tigers", is based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California, and falls under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 16 (MAG-16) and the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3rd MAW).
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River Parishes. Ascension Parish in the north is not always considered a River Parish. Main building at "Laura" Creole plantation, in Vacherie, St. James, 2002 photograph. The River Parishes are the parishes in Louisiana between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that span both banks of the Mississippi River, and are part of the larger Acadiana region ...