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Slidell, Louisiana

Slidell is a city in St. Tammany Parish in Louisiana, situated on the northeast shore of Lake Pontchartrain. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 25,695. It was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina. As of September 9, 2005, the total extent of the damage is yet to be determined.

Geography

Slidell is located at 30°16'45" North, 89°46'40" West (30.279040, -89.777744)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 31.4 km² (12.1 mi²). 30.5 km² (11.8 mi²) of it is land and 0.8 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 2.64% water.

History

In 1882, the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad began construction on a new railroad connecting New Orleans to Cincinnati, Ohio through Meridian, Mississippi. One of the building camps on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain continued to expand well after the completion of the railroad, and was eventually chartered as a city by the Louisiana State Legislature in 1888.

Though he supposedly never set foot in the town, Slidell takes its name from John Slidell, Confederate revolutionary, major figure in the Trent Affair, and father-in-law to Baron Erlanger, head of the banking syndicate which financed the railroad. Colonel Leon Fremeaux drew up the original plans for the city, naming the largest street for Erlanger and a smaller for himself. Ironically, Fremeaux Avenue is now a major artery, far overshadowing Erlanger Avenue.

Around 1910, Slidell began a period of economic and industrial growth. A large creosote plant was built, and Slidell became home to St Joe's, a major producer of bricks. A lumber mill and shipyard were also built. With the coming of Interstate highways 10 and 12, Slidell found itself at a major crossroads, becoming a popular overnight stop for travelers who did not want to stay in New Orleans.

With the advent of the U.S. space program the 1960s, the New Orleans area became a hotbed of activity. The opening of NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, the John C. Stennis Space Center in nearby Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and a NASA computer center on Gause Boulevard nearly tripled Slidell's population over a period of ten years, as Slidell found itself becoming a major suburb.

Slidell hosts several parade krewes each Carnival season, and is the westernmost outpost of the moon pie as a significant Mardi Gras throw.

Slidell is also the location of the National Weather Service forecast office for greater New Orleans. Rather than using the airport codes of ASD and KASD for the existing Slidell Airport, or NEW and KNEW for the original downtown airport, or even MSY and KMSY for the international airport, NWSFO Slidell uses IATA airport code LIX and ICAO airport code KLIX, despite not corresponding to any actual airport.

Slidell suffered catastrophic damage from the effects of Hurricane Katrina, a major tropical cyclone that hit the region on August 29, 2005. Reports say the town was hit by a huge storm surge and that there are around 100,000 dead fish in the city streets. The Old Town and lakefront areas of the city were hit especially hard with many buildings taking on 8 feet of water from the storm surge.

Transportation

Amtrak's daily Crescent train connects Slidell with the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans. The Amtrak train station is situated at 1827 Front Street. Slidell is located at the intersection of I-10 which is also known as "The Twin Spans" which connects New Orleans to Slidell, I-12 and I-59.

Demographics

As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 25,695 people, 9,480 households, and 7,157 families residing in the city. The population density is 841.5/km² (2,178.5/mi²). There are 10,133 housing units at an average density of 331.8/km² (859.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 83.13% White, 13.56% African American, 0.49% Native American, 0.72% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.62% from other races, and 1.43% from two or more races. 2.67% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 9,480 households out of which 36.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.4% are married couples living together, 14.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 24.5% are non-families. 20.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.67 and the average family size is 3.09.

In the city the population is spread out with 27.0% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 23.3% from 45 to 64, and 13.7% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 37 years. For every 100 females there are 92.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 86.0 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $42,856, and the median income for a family is $48,298. Males have a median income of $40,211 versus $26,050 for females. The per capita income for the city is $19,947. 11.8% of the population and 9.5% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 17.6% of those under the age of 18 and 7.9% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

Famous people from Slidell

  • Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown: world-famous multi-instrumentalist and Grammy Award winner (1924-2005)
  • Tony Canzoneri: world boxing champion
  • Chacko George: teen Jeopardy! champion
  • Chris Duhon: former Duke University point guard and current Chicago Bulls starting point guard; helped Duke to the 2001 NCAA men's basketball championship.
  • Lee Harvey Oswald: defector to the USSR in 1959. Suspected assassin of John F. Kennedy.

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Out of the total population, 17.6% of those under the age of 18 and 7.9% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line. A fairly common practice in debate (especially concerning the supernatural) is to state that the opponent's views are akin to believing in fairies etc. 11.8% of the population and 9.5% of families are below the poverty line. Interest in fairy themed art in Britain enjoyed a brief renaissance following the Cottingley fairies photographs, and a number of artists turned to painting fairy themes. The per capita income for the city is $19,947. Another notable Victorian painter of fairies was the artist and illustrator Arthur Rackham. Males have a median income of $40,211 versus $26,050 for females. Conversely, the Victorian painter Richard Dadd was responsible for some paintings of fairy-folk with an altogether more sinister and malign nature.

The median income for a household in the city is $42,856, and the median income for a family is $48,298. Artists such as Brian Froud, Alan Lee, Myrea Pettit, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Cicely Mary Barker, Amy Brown and Peg Maltby have all created beautiful illustrations of fairies. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 86.0 males. Lewis, discusses the history of the faerie kingdom, its rulers Oberon and Titania, and the disastrous results of their world colliding with that of our own. For every 100 females there are 92.0 males. The Revenge of the Shadow King, by Derek Benz and J.S. The median age is 37 years. There are many species, including elfs, dwarfs, sprites, trolls, pixies, goblins and gremlins.

In the city the population is spread out with 27.0% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 23.3% from 45 to 64, and 13.7% who are 65 years of age or older. In the Artemis Fowl series, by Eoin Colfer, Fairies are highly technologically advanced, peaceful beings who live underground in Haven City and Atlantis City, unbeknownst to humans. The average household size is 2.67 and the average family size is 3.09. In the earlier versions of Tokien's Middle Earth, the creatures later known as Elves were called Fairies. 20.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The Susanna Clarke novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is about a pair of rival magicians who make use of and are subsequently used by "the gentleman with the thistle-down hair" also known as the fairy king of "Lost-Hope". There are 9,480 households out of which 36.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.4% are married couples living together, 14.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 24.5% are non-families. Feist's book, Faerie Tale, is about a small family in modern age meeting up with some of the darker aspects of fairies, as well as the Fairie Realm itself.

2.67% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. Raymond E. The racial makeup of the city is 83.13% White, 13.56% African American, 0.49% Native American, 0.72% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.62% from other races, and 1.43% from two or more races. George MacDonald's book Phantastes. There are 10,133 housing units at an average density of 331.8/km² (859.1/mi²). Fairies are imagined to be sentient insectoids, and the lepidoptera forms the ones most often associated with the term, though the protagonist fairy is of the beetle line!. The population density is 841.5/km² (2,178.5/mi²). Isaac Asimov includes a short story about fairies in his collection of fantasy tales, Magic.

As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 25,695 people, 9,480 households, and 7,157 families residing in the city. Tad Williams's book War of the Flowers deals extensively with passing over into a modern realm of fairies. Slidell is located at the intersection of I-10 which is also known as "The Twin Spans" which connects New Orleans to Slidell, I-12 and I-59. Fairies figure prominently in most of Neil Gaiman's works, primarily The Books of Magic, Stardust, and Sandman. The Amtrak train station is situated at 1827 Front Street. Typically Yeats's trooping fairies are compared to the elves of English lore. Amtrak's daily Crescent train connects Slidell with the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans. This is in contrast to the solitary fairies, such as the banshee, leprechaun, or pooka.

The Old Town and lakefront areas of the city were hit especially hard with many buildings taking on 8 feet of water from the storm surge. Yeats coined the expression "trooping fairies" to refer to those fairies who liked to travel together in groups, related to the sidhe, Christianised remnants of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Reports say the town was hit by a huge storm surge and that there are around 100,000 dead fish in the city streets. B. Slidell suffered catastrophic damage from the effects of Hurricane Katrina, a major tropical cyclone that hit the region on August 29, 2005. In his Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland (1892), W. Rather than using the airport codes of ASD and KASD for the existing Slidell Airport, or NEW and KNEW for the original downtown airport, or even MSY and KMSY for the international airport, NWSFO Slidell uses IATA airport code LIX and ICAO airport code KLIX, despite not corresponding to any actual airport. The best is the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Iolanthe which deals with a conflict between fairies and the House of Lords and, among other issues, touches on some of the practical consequences of fairy/human marriages and cross-breeding in a humorous manner.

Slidell is also the location of the National Weather Service forecast office for greater New Orleans. Gilbert liked fairies and wrote several plays about them. Slidell hosts several parade krewes each Carnival season, and is the westernmost outpost of the moon pie as a significant Mardi Gras throw. William S. Louis, Mississippi, and a NASA computer center on Gause Boulevard nearly tripled Slidell's population over a period of ten years, as Slidell found itself becoming a major suburb. This work details the spell cast by the mischievous fairy Puck (at the behest of the fairy-king Oberon) on Oberon's wife Titania, who falls in love with the first mortal she casts eyes upon, the unfortunate Bottom, whom Puck has transmogrified into having a donkey's head. Stennis Space Center in nearby Bay St. William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream deals extensively with the subject of fairy-folk and their interaction with a group of amateur theatrical players.

The opening of NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, the John C. Dwarves, giants, dragons, unicorns, and the like have at some point been made out to be faeries, if not faye themselves. space program the 1960s, the New Orleans area became a hotbed of activity. However, the mercurial and inherently magical nature of fairies has led to their association and confusion with most other mythical creatures. With the advent of the U.S. Such beings are most often called "the shining ones.". With the coming of Interstate highways 10 and 12, Slidell found itself at a major crossroads, becoming a popular overnight stop for travelers who did not want to stay in New Orleans. There is a central archetypal figure behind most of the stories described as a tall, delicate, radiant being of humanoid aspect.

A lumber mill and shipyard were also built. Consequently, faerie runs amok with creatures that are completely unrelated save that they are mythologic in origin. A large creosote plant was built, and Slidell became home to St Joe's, a major producer of bricks. This is partially due to the fact that, by being supernatural and chaotic entities, they are difficult to pin down as being anything in particular and partially due to the fact that humans have yet to answer completely what constitutes the racial ethos of humanity. Around 1910, Slidell began a period of economic and industrial growth. The question of a faerie "nature" has been the topic of many a myth or scholarly paper for a very long time. Ironically, Fremeaux Avenue is now a major artery, far overshadowing Erlanger Avenue. There is, however, a slight distinction between the two words "fae" and "faerie." Properly, "fae" is a noun referring to a specific race of otherworldly beings exercising mystical abilities (either the elves [or equivalent thereof] in mythology or their insect-winged, floral descendents in English folklore), while "faerie" is an adjective meaning "of, like, or associated with fays, their otherworldly home, their activities, and their produced goods and effects." Thus, a leprechaun and a ring of mushrooms are both faerie things (a fairy leprechaun and a fairy ring.).

Colonel Leon Fremeaux drew up the original plans for the city, naming the largest street for Erlanger and a smaller for himself. If "fey" derives from "fata," which seems as like as "fairy" deriving from "fata," then the word history of the two words is itself fae.1. Though he supposedly never set foot in the town, Slidell takes its name from John Slidell, Confederate revolutionary, major figure in the Trent Affair, and father-in-law to Baron Erlanger, head of the banking syndicate which financed the railroad. However, it gained the meaning "touched by otherworldly or magical quality; clairvoyant, supernatural." In modern English, the word seems to be conjoining into "fae" as variant spelling. One of the building camps on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain continued to expand well after the completion of the railroad, and was eventually chartered as a city by the Louisiana State Legislature in 1888. Another word, "fey," has historically meant "doomed to die," mostly in Scotland. In 1882, the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad began construction on a new railroad connecting New Orleans to Cincinnati, Ohio through Meridian, Mississippi. Since the subjects of the words are somewhat alien and ethereal, the terms are often used interchangeably and are more prone to spelling alterations than other words.

The total area is 2.64% water. Modern English inherited the two terms "fae" and "fairy," along with all the associations attached to them. 30.5 km² (11.8 mi²) of it is land and 0.8 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is water. Fata influenced modern Italian's fata and Spanish's hada, both of which mean fairy, and the Old French fée, which gained the meaning "enchanter." By adding the ending -rie, we get féerie, meaning a "state of fée" or "enchantment." This also befits the fae, who are known for casting illusions and altering emotions, particularly so as to make themselves alluring, frightening, or unseen. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 31.4 km² (12.1 mi²). The Latin root fata, meaning fate in the sense of one of the Parcae, is an indication that fays have abilities associated with knowledge (foresight) and manipulation (luck, blessing, cursing) of fate, both of which are qualities of faeries in myth. Slidell is located at 30°16'45" North, 89°46'40" West (30.279040, -89.777744)GR1. An interesting correlation is the word "fey," which may be derived ultimately from the same Latin root and is now returning to mean the same as "fae.".

. The words fae and faerie came to English from French and, ultimately, Latin or more further from Persia(the word Pari). As of September 9, 2005, the total extent of the damage is yet to be determined. . It was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina. They are also regarded as aloof, ephemeral, mercurial, and whimsical, among other qualities that place them outside of a human scope and have a tendency to make them associated or confused with other mythological creatures. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 25,695. They are generally humanoid in form, though of a higher, spiritual nature and so possessed of preternatural abilities, along with such mystical qualities as otherworldly beauty and grace, an ethereal glow, wings, or the like.

Tammany Parish in Louisiana, situated on the northeast shore of Lake Pontchartrain. A fairy is a spirit (supernatural being) found in the legends, folklore, and mythology of many cultures. Slidell is a city in St. Fairy painting. Kennedy. Suspected assassin of John F.

Lee Harvey Oswald: defector to the USSR in 1959. Chris Duhon: former Duke University point guard and current Chicago Bulls starting point guard; helped Duke to the 2001 NCAA men's basketball championship. Chacko George: teen Jeopardy! champion. Tony Canzoneri: world boxing champion.

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown: world-famous multi-instrumentalist and Grammy Award winner (1924-2005).