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<title>KnowLA - Encyclopedia of Louisian - Recently Updated Entries</title>
<description>Recent Updates 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[Gladys LeBlanc Clark ]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gladys LeBlanc Clark practices the Cajun folk tradition of spinning and weaving brown cotton.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=881]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-05-09 15:56:44</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cosimo Matassa]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Italian-American businessman, studio owner, and recording engineer Cosimo Matassa is one of the seminal figures of popular recorded music. ]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1096]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-04-11 16:20:34</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dave Bartholomew]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A pillar of New Orleans rhythm and blues (R&B) community, Dave Bartholomew is a trumpeter, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, producer, bandleader, and astute businessman.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=703]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-04-10 13:46:34</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Clarence "Frogman" Henry]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Louisiana singer and pianist Clarence “Frogman” Henry Jr., will forever be identified with the 1956 novelty rhythm & blues (R&B) classic “Ain’t Got No Home.” ]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=701]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-04-10 13:45:37</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rhythm and Blues Music]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rhythm-and-blues heritage in Louisiana includes a wide variety of styles of national significance, beginning in the 1940s and continuing until today.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=551]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-04-10 13:44:15</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>2012-03-21 10:59:15</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lin Emery]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Louisiana artist, Lin Emery is best known for her lively kinetic sculptures that can be found in public spaces and collections around the world.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1199]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-03-21 09:02:20</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>2012-03-19 16:57:44</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>2012-01-30 11:58:35</pubDate>
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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 10:01:56</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rosa Keller]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rosa Freeman Keller spent her life fighting for equal rights for all New Orleans citizens, including the desegregation of the New Olreans public transportation system, school system, and libraries.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=846]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-01-13 10:45:00</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Between 1922 and 1951, the Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans worked to enrich and expand the city’s artistic heritage and served as one of its cultural centers. ]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=474]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-01-12 16:58:12</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Charity Hospital/Medical Center of Louisiana]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charity Hospital is a twenty-story Art Deco skyscraper in New Orleans that was built by the Public Works Administration (PWA) between 1936 and 1940.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=496]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-01-12 16:56:31</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 14:59:23</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Civil War Louisiana]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Civil War in Louisiana left the state politically divided and financially ruined.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=536]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-01-10 14:52:06</pubDate>
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