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<title>KnowLA - Encyclopedia of Louisiana - Recently Added Entries</title>
<description>Recent Additions to the Encyclopedia of Louisiana</description>
<link>http://www.knowla.org</link>
<copyright>Copyright 2012 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities</copyright>

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		<title><![CDATA[Barthélémy Lafon]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barthélémy Lafon enjoyed a long and diverse career in Louisiana as an architect, builder, engineer, surveyor, cartographer, town planner, planter, land speculator, publisher, and pirate. ]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1198]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-01-20 09:48:23</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Taensas Tribe]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Taensas lived in villages in the area now known as Louisiana, Alabama, and possibly Texas. Despite attrition from disease, slave raiding, tribal consolidation, and warfare reduced their numbers, the Taensas remained a discrete cultural entity into the 1930s.  ]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1195]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-01-12 14:46:50</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lee Dorsey]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vocalist Lee Dorsey recorded some of the biggest rhythm and blues hits of the 1960s.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1193]]></link>
		<pubDate>2011-11-16 09:19:44</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[James “Slim Harpo” Moore]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Baton Rouge guitarist, singer, and harmonica player James “Slim Harpo” Moore, one of the last traditional blues musicians to achieve pop success, was an important influence on many 1960s rock bands.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1191]]></link>
		<pubDate>2011-11-16 08:53:03</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CODOFIL]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Council on the Development of French in Louisiana, commonly known as CODOFIL, is a special interest organization dedicated to preserving and promoting francophone rights and culture in Louisiana.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1177]]></link>
		<pubDate>2011-09-15 09:20:13</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Creole Literature]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Few other movements in the American literary scene evoke exotic images rivaling those conjured by Louisiana's Creole writers. ]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1176]]></link>
		<pubDate>2011-09-14 14:12:40</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Accordion Making]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The diatonic button accordion is a prominent and distinguishing feature of Cajun music, first imported to Louisiana from Europe in the late nineteenth century by German Jewish immigrants. ]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1165]]></link>
		<pubDate>2011-08-18 08:01:33</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sieur de Sauvole
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		<description><![CDATA[French explorer and commander Sieur de Sauvole served as the acting governor of Louisiana from May 2, 1699, until his death on August 22, 1701.  ]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1123]]></link>
		<pubDate>2011-07-27 11:53:28</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cajun Dance Halls]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cajun dance halls—salles de danse—are live music venues where dancing, courtship, and community building transpire.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1122]]></link>
		<pubDate>2011-07-26 09:19:24</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Slave Insurrections]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slavery existed in Louisiana from its earliest origins as a French colony through the Confederacy's defeat in the Civil War.  Slave insurrections, however, were unusual events.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1121]]></link>
		<pubDate>2011-07-14 09:19:44</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Clay Latimer]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attorney and feminist activist Clayton, or Clay, Latimer was instrumental in many of the reforms achieved by the modern women’s rights movement in Louisiana]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1120]]></link>
		<pubDate>2011-07-11 11:20:40</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[“When the Saints Go Marching In”]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[“When the Saints Go Marching In” has been adopted as the anthem of the city of New Orleans and is the fight song of its football team, The Saints, named in its honor.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1119]]></link>
		<pubDate>2011-06-24 06:53:02</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ernest J. Gaines]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Considered among the most important southern writers, Ernest J. Gaines is an award-winning fiction writer whose work often features the region where he grew up: rural and small-town south-central Louisiana.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1116]]></link>
		<pubDate>2011-06-15 09:41:32</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Richard "Dick" Allen]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jazz historian Dick Allen was instrumental in the founding of the William Hansom Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane and was a curator of the archive from 1958 to 1980.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1114]]></link>
		<pubDate>2011-06-02 14:45:29</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Edward "Kid" Ory]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trombonist and bandleader Kid Ory, a pioneer of the traditional New Orleans Jazz style, played a key role in the New Orleans Revival of the 1940s.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1100]]></link>
		<pubDate>2011-05-19 10:50:41</pubDate>
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