Aujourd’hui, apprenez tout sur l’état de la Louisiane!

1. Louisiana has a rich and diverse history
2. JEA Louisiana is Growing!
3. JEA Advisers Institute was held in New Orleans
4. Loyola full tuition scholarship for Louisiana Journalist of the Year
5. Louisiana College Students won a 2023 Edward R. Murrow Award
6. The New Orleans newspaper, The Times-Picayune won the first Pulitzer prize for digital journalism following Hurricane Katrina
7. The Times-Picayune has won four Pulitzer Prizes
8. The New Orleans Advocate Newspaper won its first Pulitzer Prize for reporting on an obscure Louisiana law that allowed criminal defendants to be convicted by non-unanimous juries
9. Louisiana Scholastic Press Association for High School Students organized by LSU
10. LSU Manship School of Mass Communication is the largest in the State of Louisiana
11. The Manship School is named in honor of the Manship Family, former owners of the Baton Rouge Advocate and owners of WBRZ-TV
12. The Tom Bell Silver Scribe Awards for high school students is nearing its 50th anniversary
13. The Tom Bell Silver Scribe Awards are named in honor of a Loyola Journalism Professor who taught for 28 years and was adviser to the Maroon
14. The first newspapers in Louisiana were published in the 1820’s
15. The first newspapers were published in English, French and Spanish
16. The New Orleans Picayune was first printed in 1837
17. The first Mardi Gras Parade was held in 1838
18. Louisiana is only state with Parishes instead of Counties
19. WWL Radio was Louisiana’s first radio station started in a physics lab on the campus of Loyola University New Orleans in 1922
20. After Hurricane Katrina South Louisiana radio stations formed the United Radio Broadcasters of New Orleans and shared resources
21. The St. Charles Avenue streetcar line is the oldest continuously operated streetcar line in the world.
22. New Orleans has hosted 10 Super Bowls
23. The Superdome opened in 1975
24. New Orleans is home to the HBCU Bayou Classic Football Game between Grambling and Southern
25. New Orleans is the host to the annual Sugar Bowl
26. In 1981 the Rolling Stones played largest indoor concert in Superdome
27. Pope John Paul II visits New Orleans in 1987
28. The Essence Music Festival is held annually in Louisiana
29. August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina
30. First Radio Broadcast on Loyola Campus ??
31. Louisiana is known as “Cajun Country”
32. Louisiana is famous for its Creole and Cajun Cuisine
33. Louisiana is named after King Louis XIV of France
34. Louisiana has the tallest State Capitol at 450 feet tall
35. Natchitoches is the oldest town in Louisiana founded in 1714
36. Louisiana is the only State to operate under the Napoleonic Code
37. In 1796 the first Opera was performed in the US in New Orleans
38. The worlds largest heliport is in Morgan City
39. The oldest fishing tournament in the US is the Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo
40. Most of the buildings in the French Quarter have Spanish Architecture
41. Tabasco is made in Louisiana
42. The oldest salt mine in the US is on Avery Island, home of Tabasco
43. Louisiana produces 24% of the nations salt
44. The Louisiana Hayride show in Shreveport launched the careers of Hank Williams, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash
45. The longest bridge over water is the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway at 24 miles long
46. In Louisiana, you can get a $500 fine for ordering a pizza for someone without telling them first
47. P.B.S. Pinchback was the first African American governor in the US serving for two weeks during reconstruction
48. Louisiana is known as the Pelican State
49. Louisiana is the home of Popeye’s Fried Chicken and Raisin’ Canes
50. The first Tarzan movie was filmed near Morgan City
51. The date for Mardi Gras is different every year
52. In 1812 Louisiana became the 18th State
53. The City of New Orleans was founded in 1718
54. Ellen DeGeneres is from Metairie
55. Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino and Jelly Roll Morton are from New Orleans
56. The Battle of New Orleans was fought after the surrender of the British
57. The highest point in Louisiana is Mt. Driskill at 535 feet
58. The lowest point is New Orleans at 8 feet below sea level
59. Mamou is the Cajun Music Capital of the World
60. The Atchafalaya Basin is the largest wetland swamp in the US
61. Louisiana has 15 JEA members
62. The New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper changed its motto to “We publish come hell and high water” after Hurricane Katrina
63. Barksdale Air Force Base in North Louisiana was established in 1932
64. During WWII Houma, Louisiana was the site of a Naval Blimp Base used to spot U-Boats near the Mississippi River
65. The blimp hangar in Houma, LA was the largest wooden structure in the world during WWII
66. The Acadian or Cajun people settled in South Louisiana after being deported from Nova Scotia
67. Jazz music originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans
68. Cajun music originated in the bayous and plains of South Louisiana
69. The LSU School of Mass Communication was founded in 1912
70. The LSU School of Journalism became one of the first accredited Journalism schools in 1927
71. Louisiana is home to five ACEJMC Accredited Journalism Schools
72. Southern University’s Department of Mass Communication was organized in 1978
73. Nicholls State University graduate Keitha Nelson-Williams earned an Edward R. Murrow award and Peabody award for hurricane coverage
74. University of Louisiana at Lafayette offers a Masters of Communication with three different tracks
75. Louisiana is home to more that 400 yearly Festivals and Events
76. Mardi Gras parades are held in cities and towns all over South Louisiana
77. The first Zydeco Music recordings were made in 1929 by Amede Ardoin
78. New Orleans is home to multi-time Grammy winners and brothers Branford and Wynton Marsalis
79. Louisiana is home to ten Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
80. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival was founded in 1970
81. The French Quarter Festival is the world’s largest showcase of Louisiana music, food and culture is held in April and is free to attend
82. Festival International held in Lafayette is the largest International Music Festival in the U.S. and is free to attend
83. Cajun French is a form of French that is still widely spoken in South Louisiana
84. A Fais Do-Do is the name of a Cajun Dance Party
85. One of Louisiana’s mottos is “Laissez les bon temps rouler” which means “Let the good times roll.”
86. There are four Federally recognized Native American Tribes in Louisiana
87. There are eleven State recognized Native American Tribes in Louisiana
88. New Orleanians pronounce Burgundy “bur-GUN-dee” and Calliope “kal-ee-OPE”
89. The New Orleans French Quarter is known also known as the “Vieux Carre”
90. The New Orleans French Quarter is 90 city blocks which are home to about 2,700 European and Creole buildings
91. Voodoo in New Orleans came from Haiti where the African practices mingled with French Catholicism
92. New Orleanians are also know as “Yat’s” from the common greeting “Where y’at”
93. If you stand on the bank of the Mississippi River in the French Quarter and look across the River at the West Bank, you are looking East
94. Mardi Gras Parades are put on by independent organizations known as “Krewes”
95. Louisiana Governor Jimmie Davis is in the Country Music Hall of Fame and best known from his song “You Are My Sunshine”
96. Pulitzer Prize winning book “A Confederacy of Dunces” was published 10 years after the author John Kennedy Toole’s death when a smeared carbon copy was found by the authors mother
97. WBRH is a AM/FM radio station operated by Baton Rouge Magnet High School to train students in broadcasting
98. The National WWII Museum in New Orleans is ranked the #3 Museum in the US and #8 in the World by TripAdvisor
99. The WWII Museum was started as the National D-Day Museum because the boats used for the D-Day landing were built in New Orleans
100. Poverty Point in Louisiana is UNESCO World Heritage Site that is over 3,400 years old