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Louisiana (French: Louisiane [lwizjan] ^ⓘ; Spanish: Luisiana [lwiˈsjana]; Louisiana Creole: Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It borders Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, and Mississippi to the east. Of the 50 U.S. states, it ranks 20th in land area and the 25th in population, with roughly 4.6 million residents. Reflecting its French heritage, Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties, making it one of only two U.S. states not subdivided into counties (the other being Alaska and its boroughs). Baton Rouge is the state's capital, and New Orleans, a French Louisiana region, is its largest city with a population of about 383,000 people. Louisiana has a coastline with the Gulf of Mexico to the south; a large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River.

Much of Louisiana's lands were formed from sediment washed down the Mississippi River, leaving enormous deltas and vast areas of coastal marsh and swamp. These contain a rich southern biota, including birds such as ibises and egrets, many species of tree frogs—such as the state recognized American green tree frog—and fish such as sturgeon and paddlefish. More elevated areas, particularly in the north, contain a wide variety of ecosystems such as tallgrass prairie, longleaf pine forest and wet savannas; these support an exceptionally large number of plant species, including many species of terrestrial orchids and carnivorous plants. Over half the state is forested.

Louisiana is situated at the confluence of the Mississippi river system and the Gulf of Mexico. Its location and biodiversity attracted various indigenous groups thousands of years before Europeans arrived in the 17th century. Louisiana has eighteen Native American tribes—the most of any southern state—of which four are federally recognized and ten are state recognized. The French claimed the territory in 1682, and it became the political, commercial, and population center of the larger colony of New France. After a brief period of Spanish rule, Louisiana was returned to France in 1801 before being purchased by the U.S. in 1803; it was admitted to the Union in 1812 as the 18th state. ( Full article...)

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Benjamin Franklin High School is a charter high school and a magnet high school in New Orleans, Louisiana. Commonly nicknamed "Franklin" or "Ben Franklin", the school was founded in 1957 as a school for gifted children. Ben Franklin is consistently named the No.1 school in the state of Louisiana and has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as No. 15 charter school in the nation. In 1990, it moved to its current location on the campus of the University of New Orleans (UNO) in the Lake Terrace/Lake Oaks neighborhood of Orleans Parish, near Lake Pontchartrain. The school was damaged by several feet of flood water due to Hurricane Katrina in the fall of 2005, and efforts to reopen the school were covered by nationwide news agencies. The school is part of the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB), yet it operates as a charter school and is not administered directly by the agency.

Ben Franklin has a selective admissions process, and according to CBS News is a "magnet for the city's smart and motivated students." Andrew Vanacore, of The Times Picayune, wrote in 2013 that Franklin was "top-notch". It has been named a Blue Ribbon School five times by the U.S. Department of Education, and was ranked 16 on the 2009 "America's Best High Schools" list by U.S. News & World Report. The class of 2008 produced 17 National Achievement Semifinalists, the most of any school in the United States. In 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked the school as the best public high school in Louisiana and the 64th best in the United States. ( Full article...)

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A Popeyes restaurant in West Miami, Florida,
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Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc., also known as Popeyes and formerly named Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits and Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken & Biscuits, is an American multinational chain of fried chicken restaurants formed in 1972 in New Orleans, Louisiana and headquartered in Miami. It is currently a subsidiary of Toronto-based Restaurant Brands International. , Popeyes has 3,705 restaurants, which are located in more than 46 states and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and 30 countries worldwide. About 50 locations are company-owned; the vast remainder are franchised. ( Full article...)

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Image 1Cargo ship at the Port of New Orleans (from Louisiana)
Image 2National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana, 1938 (from Louisiana)
Image 3Modern map of the United States overlapped with territory bought in the Louisiana Purchase (in white) (from History of Louisiana)
Image 4 Honey Island Swamp (from Louisiana)
Image 5Entrance to the Bald Eagle Nest Trail at South Toledo Bend State Park (from Louisiana)
Image 6 Caesars Superdome and Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. (from Louisiana)
Image 7 Treemap of the popular vote by parish, 2016 presidential election (from Louisiana)
Image 8 Antioch Baptist Church in Shreveport (from Louisiana)
Image 9Mardi Gras celebrations in the Spanish Town section of Baton Rouge (from Louisiana)
Image 10View of flooded New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (from Louisiana)
Image 11 Louisiana pinesnake (from Louisiana)
Image 12 Watson Brake, the oldest mound complex in North America (from Louisiana)
Image 13Map of the Fourche Maline and Marksville cultures (from History of Louisiana)
Image 14 Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near New Orleans (from Louisiana)
Image 15Consolidated Bond of the State of Louisiana, issued 6. July 1892 (from Louisiana)
Image 16El Museo de los Isleños (Isleño Museum) in Saint Bernard (from Louisiana)
Image 17'Signing the Ordinance of Secession of Louisiana, January 26, 1861', oil on canvas painting, 1861 (from Louisiana)
Image 18Geographic map of Louisiana (from Louisiana)
Image 19A map showing the geographical extent of the Plaquemine cultural period and some of its major sites. (from History of Louisiana)
Image 20 Troyville Earthworks, once the second tallest earthworks in North America (from Louisiana)
Image 21Map showing the geographic extent of the Baytown, Coastal Troyville and Troyville cultures (from History of Louisiana)
Image 22 Bogue Chitto State Park (from Louisiana)
Image 23The Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, the tallest state capitol building in the United States (from Louisiana)
Image 24French pirate Jean Lafitte, who operated in New Orleans, was born in Port-au-Prince around 1782. (from Louisiana)
Image 25Map of Louisiana in 1800 (from Louisiana)
Image 26 Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, founder of the colony of Louisiana in New France. (from History of Louisiana)
Image 27Map of New France (blue color) in 1750, before the French and Indian War (from History of Louisiana)
Image 28Watson Brake, the oldest mound complex in North America (from History of Louisiana)
Image 29The Louisiana Governor's Mansion (from Louisiana)
Image 30Louisiana entrance sign off Interstate 20 in Madison Parish east of Tallulah (from Louisiana)
Image 31Map of New France (blue color) in 1750, before the French and Indian War (from Louisiana)
Image 32Aerial view of Louisiana State University's flagship campus (from Louisiana)
Image 33 Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis in New Orleans (from Louisiana)
Image 34 Poverty Point UNESCO site (from Louisiana)
Image 35Louisiana's population density (from Louisiana)
Image 36 Free woman of color with mixed-race daughter; late 18th-century collage painting, New Orleans (from Louisiana)
Image 37Population density and low elevation coastal zones in the Mississippi River Delta. The Mississippi River Delta is especially vulnerable to sea level rise. (from Louisiana)
Image 38Louisiana Purchase, 1803 (from Louisiana)
Image 39Aerial view of Louisiana's wetland habitats (from Louisiana)
Image 40Map of the Caddoan Mississippian culture and some important sites (from History of Louisiana)
Image 41 Capture of New Orleans, April 1862, colored lithograph of engraving (from Louisiana)
Image 42A field of yellow wildflowers in St. Bernard Parish (from Louisiana)
Image 43A streetcar on the St. Charles Avenue Line in New Orleans (from Louisiana)
Image 44French Acadians, who came to be known as Cajuns, settled in southern Louisiana, especially along the banks of its major bayous. (from Louisiana)
Image 45Louisiana's flag during the American Civil War, in 1861 (from History of Louisiana)
Image 46Tabasco varieties produced in Louisiana (from Louisiana)
Image 47A map showing the extent of the Coles Creek cultural period and some important sites (from History of Louisiana)
Image 48 Saint-Domingue Creoles (from Louisiana)
Image 49Spanish Louisiana in 1800 (from History of Louisiana)
Image 50A young African American man in Morganza, 1938 (from Louisiana)
Image 51Mardi Gras Festival New Orleans 1921. (from Culture of Louisiana)
Image 52Typical dishes of Louisiana Creole cuisine (from Louisiana)

Map of parishes in Louisiana by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census

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... that the 2023 election for sheriff in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, was rerun after an initial margin of one vote?
... that the 6th Louisiana Infantry Regiment began with 916 men and ended with 52?
... that when students spoke Vietnamese in a graduation speech in Louisiana, the school district proposed banning all non-English languages?
... that the East Louisiana Railroad, which removed Homer Plessy from a train, actually did so to help him start Plessy v. Ferguson, an attempt to overturn segregation in the United States?
... that the owner of a Louisiana radio station was killed while in the process of putting it back on the air?
... that Robin Roberts, later of ESPN and Good Morning America, worked as a reporter for the radio station at Southeastern Louisiana University while a student there?

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