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unusual facts about Bayou


Schultze Gets the Blues

But instead of appearing there he chooses to travel in a motor boat around the countryside despite speaking little English, immersing himself in the music and culture of the Bayou.


2007 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament

The Bayou Bengals struggled to a 12-17-1 SEC record under first-year coach Paul Mainieri and finished 29-26-1 overall, LSU's lowest win total since 1983, the year before Skip Bertman came to Baton Rouge.

A Gathering of Old Men

In 1987 Volker Schlöndorff, a famous German director, made a film, also titled A Gathering of Old Men (aka Murder on the Bayou), which adheres closely to the novel.

Antoine's

In the Bugs Bunny cartoon French Rarebit (1951), a reference to Antoine's plays a pivotal role, as Bugs convinces two Parisian chefs to let him show them how to cook "Louisiana Back-Bay Bayou Bunny Bordelaise", exclusively because it is "a la Antoine".

Atchafalaya Basin

The Atchafalaya Basin, the surrounding plain of the river, is filled with bayous, bald cypress swamps, and marshes that give way to more brackish estuarine conditions and end in the Spartina grass marshes, near and at where it meets the Gulf of Mexico.

Battle of Old River Lake

The Battle of Old River Lake (also called Ditch Bayou, Furlough, and Fish Bayou) was a small skirmish between U.S. Army troops and Confederate troops from June 5 to June 6, 1864, during the American Civil War.

Bayou Academy

After the United States Supreme Court decided Alexander v. Holmes in 1969, ordering the desegregation of public schools in the South, the all-white Bayou Academy doubled its enrollment for the 1970 school year.

Bayou Country

Bayou Country is the second studio album by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released by Fantasy Records in January 1969, and was the first of three albums CCR released in that year (see 1969 in music).

Bayou De View

Recently, Bayou De View and the town of Brinkley have gained international attention from possible sightings of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, which was thought to be extinct since the 1940s.

Bayou La Batre, Alabama

In April 2005, Disney Studios launched a secretly built pirate ship, the Black Pearl, out of Bayou La Batre for filming sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Bayou Place

Sundance Cinemas, the exhibition arm of Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, will open in Bayou Place in early November 2011.

Bayou Teche

The sugar plantation Lagonda was established on Bayou Teche by Lewis Strong Clarke, who was also involved in Republican politics in the late 19th century.

Born on the Bayou

Another French adaptation ("Dans Le Bayou") penned by Jean Fauque was sung by Johnny Hallyday on his 1996 album "Destination Vegas".

Buffalo Bayou

Stephen Korns, an Amherst, Massachusetts-based artist, working with the New York lighting firm L’Observatoire, conceived of the color phase shifting which will ultimately include the entire Buffalo Bayou greenway.

Bye Bye Bayou

"Bye Bye Bayou" is a single by LCD Soundsystem released on November 7, 2009, to coincide with the Record Store Day offshoot, Vinyl Saturday.

Cedar Bayou, Texas

Cedar Bayou is listed as being impaired for certain water quality issues, including bacteria, impaired macrobenthic communities, and PCBs and Dioxins in edible fish tissue.

Colton Greene

At Ditch Bayou Greene attempted unsuccessfully to delay Union forces that were approaching Lake Village, and then he withdrew to nearby Parker's Landing.

Danuta Mizgalska

She also sings a number of the international hits : Ze wspomnien zostal ledwie slad (The memories have been scarcely traced) - (Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison); Swiat bez milosci (World Without Love) - Italian hit Alice); Kolysz moje sny (Sway my dreams) - (Love me tender - Elvis Presley).

Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans

Esplanade Avenue was an important 19th century portage route of trade between the Bayou which linked to Lake Pontchartrain and the River.

Eve's Bayou

Eve's Bayou is the 1997 American drama film written and directed by Kasi Lemmons, who made her directorial debut with this feature.

History of Pasadena, California

After returning home, Burnett plotted a town along two bayous, with its similar lush vegetation, naming it Pasadena, after the California city.

Isobella Jade

Past industry professionals she’s interviewed include, fitness expert Gunnar Peterson and Fashion and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit photographer Steve Erle, Jewelry designer Kendra Scott, celebrated Fashion designer Bradley Bayou, along with beauty brands such as Lush (company), Origins, Wet n Wild, Styli-Style and others.

Ivan Klisanin

2010 Grammy Winner for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album for Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band's, Zydeco Junkie.

Joseph Lee Heywood

His initial duty chasing Generals Price and Van Doran did not result in any actual combat but he was soon drawn into the disastrous Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, led by General William Tecumseh Sherman, where he functioned as a skirmisher along the edge of the bayou and received intense fire from the Confederates on the bluff above the “Valley of Death" as well as some accidental friendly artillery fire.

Louisiana Highway 182

LA 182 also begins to parallel Bayou Teche out of New Iberia, through Jeanerette, and into St. Mary Parish.

Miss Texas USA 2003

The top twelve semi-finalists were: Andria Mullins (Austin), Amanda Moore (Bayou City), Crystle Stewart (Fort Bend County), Christie Lee Woods (Houston), Lauren Wilson (Woodway), Ruth Shoulders (North Harris County), Katie Zawora (San Antonio)

Oren Jacoby

Jacoby also wrote, produced and directed “The Return Ticket”, adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov; "The Last Girl on Earth", “Ghosts of the Bayou”; “Idols of the Game”, featuring Michael Jordan;

Pensacola and Fort Barrancas Railroad

The trestle across Bayou Grande, immediately north of Chevalier Field on NAS Pensacola, was featured in the 1957 MGM film "Wings of Eagles" starring John Wayne, with a steam-powered freight train crossing the span during a floatplane buzz job.

Plaquemine, Louisiana

LA 75 accesses east: over the Mississippi River via Toll Ferry to Saint Gabriel and continues southwest eventually reaching Bayou Pigeon.

Prairie River

Prairie River (Louisiana), a tributary of Bayou Pierre in northwest Louisiana (see List of rivers of Louisiana)

Royal Southern Brotherhood

In December 2011, the band recorded songs for their debut album over five days at Dockside Studio, a 12 acre estate on the banks of Vermilion Bayou, in Maurice, Louisiana.

Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

It has been the setting for several other movies in recent years, most notably the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild which was filmed in Montegut and inspired by the plight of bayou communities such as Isle de Jean Charles.

The Adventures of Bayou Billy

Archie Comics published a comic book adaptation of The Adventures of Bayou Billy written by Rich Margopoulos and illustrated by Amanda Conner.

Bayou Billy also received some amount of exposure on the Nintendo-themed animated TV series, Captain N: The Game Master, where Bayou Billy (modeled somewhat like Crocodile Dundee) appears in an episode titled "How's Bayou".

The Mind of Gil Scott-Heron

#"Jose Campos Torres" – 2:36 (about Jose Campos Torres, a U.S. Army veteran who was arrested and then murdered and tossed into a bayou by two police officers in Houston in 1978, spurring the Moody Park Riot)

The Red Stick Ramblers

Following this appearance the band scored a role in the third season of HBO's Treme, starring as Lucia Micarelli's character Annie's band the "Bayou St. John Playboys" and later "Annie T's Bayou Cadillac." Three Red Stick Rambler original songs, Made in the Shade, Katrina, and Morning Blues, are featured in season three of Treme.


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