The Port of South Louisiana (Metropolitan New Orleans in Laplace) and the Port of Houston are two of the ten busiest ports in the world by cargo volume.

Now, this area floods three to four times a year, and there's a levee behind our site similar to the ones that broke in New Orleans.

Hildebrand contacted Penfield in April 1990 and the pair soon secured two drill samples from the Pemex wells, stored in New Orleans.

Although the Battle of New Orleans had no influence on the terms of the Treaty of Ghent, the defeat at New Orleans did compel Britain to abide by the treaty.

Any combination of either meat or seafood can be used, but not both, with the exception of the traditional New Orleans version that features both seafood and sausage.

Earthquakes are extremely rare to the area, but a surprising 6.0 earthquake in the Gulf of Mexico on September 10, 2006, could be felt from the cities of New Orleans to Tampa.

Other large cities with African American majorities include New Orleans, Louisiana (60 ), Baltimore, Maryland (63 ) Atlanta, Georgia (54 , see African Americans in Atlanta), Memphis, Tennessee (61 ), and Washington, D.C. (50.7 ).

For example, you know, in New Orleans we have Cajun Chinese food, where they serve Sichuan alligator and sweet and sour crawfish, right?