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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[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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		<title><![CDATA[Confederate Louisiana]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a member of the Confederate States of America, Louisiana provided soldiers who fought outside the state.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=563]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-01-10 14:51:31</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Secession]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, although many individuals opposed the decision.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=559]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-01-10 14:49:29</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Thomas Overton Moore]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Overton Moore served as the fourteenth governor of Louisiana, leading the state through much of the Civil War. ]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=937]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-01-10 14:44:31</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[José Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[José Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza was a Spanish portraitist in colonial Louisiana.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=457]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-01-03 13:24:16</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Debbie Fleming Caffery]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contemporary Louisiana photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery documents the people others often overlook: sugarcane workers, Mexican prostitutes, and the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=584]]></link>
		<pubDate>2012-01-03 10:19:00</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Early Exploration]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before the first colonial settlement in 1682, Spanish and French explorers visited the territory that would become Louisiana.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=491]]></link>
		<pubDate>2011-12-19 13:54:16</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>2011-11-23 05:48:49</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Formed during the Cajun revival of the 1970s, BeauSoleil and its founder, fiddler Michael Doucet, are among Louisiana's most prominent ambassadors of Cajun music and culture.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=822]]></link>
		<pubDate>2011-11-21 09:39:50</pubDate>
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