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unusual facts about Orleans, Nebraska


Alma, Nebraska

Alma's status as county seat was challenged by residents of Orleans, but an 1884 Nebraska Supreme Court decision affirmed Alma's status as seat of Harlan County.


1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game

Late in the half, Nebraska got on the board after a seven-play, 80-yard drive culminated in a Turner Gill touchdown pass followed by the extra point by Kevin Seibel.

Abdiel Crossman

Crossman died in New Orleans and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.

Benny Rousselle

Plaquemines Parish is adjacent to the Algiers district (also known as Fifteenth Ward) of New Orleans.

Bon Ton Roula

Louisiana Creole French for "good times roll" as in "Laissez les bons temps rouler" or "Let the good times roll", an unofficial slogan for New Orleans and the Mardi Gras celebration.

Charles de Freycinet

The friction between him and General d'Aurelle de Paladines resulted in the loss of the advantage temporarily gained at Orleans, and he was responsible for the campaign in the east, which ended in the destruction of the army of Charles Denis Bourbaki.

Chef Menteur Pass

The Venetian Isles neighborhood of New Orleans is to the west of the Pass.

Chronique de la Pucelle

Shorty before Agincourt, Charles d'Orléans, soon to be made captive, appointed Cousinot his chancellor; Cousinot administered the affairs of the duchy during Charles' interminable captivity in England.

Conference of Chief Justices

The first meeting, organized by the Council of State Governments and funded by private foundations, and held in St. Louis, Missouri, was held at the behest of New Jersey Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Nebraska Chief Justice Robert G. Simmons and Missouri Chief Justice Laurance M. Hyde, who was elected as the first chairman by the representatives of the 44 states in attendance.

Delphine LaLaurie

LaLaurie's house was subsequently sacked by an outraged mob of New Orleans citizens, and it is thought that she fled to Paris, where she is believed to have died.

Dillard's

In 1988, Dillard's purchased the three-unit Miller & Paine chain in Lincoln, Nebraska, as well as more significantly, a half-interest and operational control of The Higbee Co., based in Cleveland, Ohio with partner Edward J. DeBartolo Corp.

Dody Weston Thompson

Dody went on to develop her other artistic skills as a drama and poetry major at Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane University in New Orleans in 1940.

Elaine Stuhr

Elaine Stuhr (born 1936) is a Nebraska state senator from Bradshaw, Nebraska in the Nebraska Legislature and farmer.

Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine

Princess Elisabeth Therese was born at the Château de Lunéville and was the ninth of eleven children of Leopold Joseph of Lorraine and his wife Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans.

Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

The documentary is presented from the first hand perspective of Lolis Eric Elie, a New Orleans journalist who is now a staff writer on the HBO series, Treme.

Florimond III Robertet d'Alluye

Florimond III, Baron Alluye, (1540? - 1569) was governor of Orléans, and Secretary of State to Francis II of France, and Charles IX of France.

In April 1562, he and Robertet de Fresne were sent to Orléans with the Prince of Conde, who after the massacre of Vassy, grabbed Orléans, Blois, Tours, Angers and Le Mans.

Frankston High School

Frankston also has a sister school relationship with Lycée Jean Zay, in Orléans, France.

Gramercy Bridge

Gramercy Bridge was used in the final level of video game Left 4 Dead 2 albeit transplaced to New Orleans

Hap Glaudi

Lloyd Alfred "Hap" Glaudi (November 7, 1912–December 29, 1989) was lead sportscaster for New Orleans CBS affiliate WWL-TV.

Harry Connick

Harry Connick, Jr., his son, New Orleans musician, singer, and actor

Hexing a Hurricane

Those appearing on screen include Chris Rose (Times-Picayune columnist), Angela Hill (WWL-TV Channel 4 news anchor), Garland Robinette, (WWL (AM) radio talk show host), Harry Anderson (actor, former resident, former local club owner), Irvin Mayfield (musician), Sallie Ann Glassman (artist, Voodoo priestess), along with various people of New Orleans.

Isham Reavis

The new judge left Nebraska in August 1869, taking the newly completed Transcontinental Railroad to California before boarding a ship south to the mouth of the Colorado River.

Jacobson v. United States

Among its other targets had been another middle-aged Nebraska farmer, Bob Brase, of Shelby.

Jacques Féréol Mazas

A short time later, he was appointed directeur des concerts in Orléans, where he directed that city's Opéra Comique theater.

Jed Horne

He is also the author of two books: Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of an American City, which chronicles the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the slow Federal response to the disaster, and Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans, which was nominated for the 2006 Edgar Award for non-fiction crime writing.

Jocelyn Brando

Jocelyn and Marlon Brando and their sister Frances grew up mostly in the Midwest—in Omaha, Nebraska, Evanston and Libertyville, Illinois, though the family also spent time in California.

Johnny Vincent

He signed up Huey "Piano" Smith and his group who was able to develop a New Orleans shuffle style distinctive from the Fats Domino jumping boogie rhythm.

KBRX

KBRX-FM, a radio station (102.9 FM) licensed to O'Neill, Nebraska, United States

Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben

The organization supports financial need based scholarship programs, administers Nebraska's Pioneer Farm program, Good Neighbor Awards, and Ike Friedman Leadership Awards.

Le Carillon de Vendôme

After the signing of the Treaty of Troyes during the Hundred Years' War, the Dauphin was left in possession of the cities of Orléans, Beaugency, Cléry, Vendôme, and Bourges.

Louis, Duke of Orléans

King Louis XII of France (1462–1515), Duke of Orléans between 1465 and 1498

Louise of Orléans

Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily

During the Orléans’ time in France prior to Louis-Philippe's coronation, the family lived in the Palais-Royal which had been the home of Louis Philippe's father, the previous Duke of Orléans.

Mike Ekeler

After seven years in private business for himself, Ekeler returned to the game when he began volunteer coaching for V. J. and Angela Skutt Catholic High School in Omaha, Nebraska from 1999 to 2001, and as an assistant coach at Manhattan High School in Manhattan, Kansas in 2002, back in the town where he had played for Kansas State almost a decade before.

Mr. Bill

On May 27, 2004 CNN showed a segment with Mr. Bill being 'evacuated' from a New Orleans roof the year before Katrina.

Nebraska Outback

The outback is connected with the rest of Nebraska by way of four Nebraska byways: Bridges to Buttes Byway (Highway 20), the Outlaw Trail (Highway 12) and small sections of the Loup Rivers Scenic Byway (Highways 91/11), and the Sandhills Journey (Highway 2) in Blaine County.

Operation Gaff

On July 18, Lee and his team parachuted into Orléans; they found that Rommel had been severely injured the previous day after his staff car had been overturned in an attack by RAF Hawker Typhoons and replaced by Günther von Kluge.

Orleans, Vermont

It also exceeded state averages in every category on the standardized NECAP test and was the only school in the area to do so.

Pacific Chorale

The Chorale performs a wide range of classics and modern pieces, and has commissioned numerous works including most recently Chanson Eloignee by Morten Lauridsen and Bruce Springsteen Rocks New Orleans by Jake Heggie.

Pine Ridge, Nebraska

Whiteclay, Nebraska, known to the U.S. Census Bureau as "Pine Ridge, Nebraska"

Rice Mill Lofts

Iarocci, in association with New Orleans architect Wayne Troyer and Los Angeles interior designer L.M. Pagano, who has designed homes and yacht interiors for Nicolas Cage and Johnny Depp.

Sawyer Brown

Sawyer Brown wrote "The Nebraska Song" in honor of Brook Berringer, a Nebraska Cornhuskers quarterback who died in a plane crash on April 18, 1996.

Silver dollar

Sylvestro Carolla, New Orleans gangster known as "Sam 'Silver Dollar'"

The Nest of the Sparrowhawk

Sir Marmaduke who has plans to woo and win Lady Sue disguised as the exiled French Prince of Orléans, resents this faithful espionage and lays a plot to lure young Lambert to a gaming-house in London.

The Sea Ghost

In 1925 New Orleans, lawyer Henry Sykes (Clarence Wilson) hires now civilian Captain Winters for a salvage job on behalf of Evelyn Inchcape (Laura La Plante).

Trad jazz

In Britain, where boogie-woogie, "stride" piano and jump blues were popular in the 1940s, the Humphrey Lyttelton band pioneered a trad revival just after the Second World War, and Ken Colyer's Crane River band added a strong thread of New Orleans purism.

Uranium mining in Wyoming

The uranium will be absorbed onto ion-exchange resin beads at the mine; the beads will be shipped to existing facilities of Power Resources Inc. (Cameco) in Wyoming and Nebraska for recovery of the uranium.

William B. Cassel

Cassel was appointed to the court on April 26, 2012 by Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, filling a position made vacant by the appointment of John M. Gerrard to the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.

Willie Humphrey

After establishing himself with such New Orleans bands as the Excelsior and George McCullum's band, Humphrey traveled up north, playing with such other New Orleans musicians as Lawrence Duhé, and King Oliver in Chicago (Photos show Humphrey with Duhé's band playing in the stands for the infamous 1919 World Series).

WUPL

Before then, WUPL was one of two network-owned stations in New Orleans at the time (then-WB affiliate WNOL-TV, owned by The WB's part-owner, the Tribune Company, was the other).


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