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Abbeville (pop. 11,887) honors omelette-loving Napoleon Bonaparte and its French heritage each November by cooking a giant omelette in a 12-foot skillet. The recipe: 5,000 eggs, 52 pounds of butter, 50 pounds of onions, 75 chopped bell peppers, four gallons of green onion tops, crawfish tails, spices, and Tabasco.

first appeared: 9/7/2003

Harmonizing since 1927, the Shreveport-Bossier Choral Ensemble is the state’s oldest community choir.

first appeared: 8/31/2003

The 1916 Sarto Old Iron Bridge near Marksville (pop. 5,537) is a rare steel-truss swinging bridge.

first appeared: 8/24/2003

In 1934, Edwin Lewis Stephens, president of the University of Southwestern Louisiana at Lafayette, established the Live Oak Society—whose members must be at least 100 years old and have a 17-foot girth—to promote an appreciation of the stately old trees.

first appeared: 8/17/2003

The state’s most historical building is the 1795 Cabildo, site of the Louisiana Purchase transfer in 1803.

first appeared: 8/3/2003

Levi Spear Parmly, a New Orleans dentist, is considered the father of dental floss for advising patients as early as 1815 to clean between their teeth with silk thread.

first appeared: 7/27/2003

Mansfield (pop. 5,582) State Historic Site chronicles the last Confederate victory on April 7, 1864.

first appeared: 7/20/2003

Danyelle Bennett of Zachary (pop. 11,275) won a silver medal in the 2002 Junior Water Ski World Championship in San Bernardo, Chile.

first appeared: 7/13/2003

The nation’s tallest state capitol is in Baton Rouge and stands 450 feet tall with 34 stories.

first appeared: 7/6/2003

Winnsboro (pop. 5,344) salutes itself as the state’s “Stars and Stripes Capital” and displays 350 flags along Highway 15 on holidays.

first appeared: 6/29/2003

Opened in 1840 by Antoine Alciatore, Antoine’s is the oldest restaurant in New Orleans and legendary for its fine dining frequented by presidents and celebrities. Oysters Rockefeller, a delicacy of oysters on the half shell with a topping so rich it was named for John D. Rockefeller, was created here and the recipe remains secret. Scenes from the movies JFK and The Client were filmed there.

first appeared: 6/22/2003

Hundreds of participants and their vintage, custom, and homebuilt bicycles—some festooned with beads or 11 feet long—attend the Louisiana Bicycle Festival held on Father’s Day in Abita Springs (pop. 1,957).

first appeared: 6/15/2003

For two months in 1861 after seceding from the Union and before joining the Confederacy, the state flew the flag of an independent nation.

first appeared: 6/8/2003

In 1799, pioneer Firmin Breaux built a footbridge across Bayou Teche to ease travel for his family and neighbors. When giving directions, folks said “go to Breaux bridge,” which led to the town’s name, Breaux Bridge (pop. 7,281).

first appeared: 6/1/2003

The world’s largest commercial heliport—with 46 helipads in Morgan City (pop. 12,703)—offers transportation to oil rigs off the coast.

first appeared: 5/25/2003

The endangered red-cockaded woodpecker lives in old pines in the 602,000-acre Kisatchie National Forest, which covers seven parishes.

first appeared: 5/18/2003

Every 15 minutes, chimes ring in the Louisiana State University Memorial Tower in Baton Rouge, built in 1923 to honor World War I veterans.

first appeared: 5/11/2003

Howard K. Smith, a pioneering television journalist, was born in 1914 in Ferriday (pop. 3,723). Smith moderated the first Kennedy-Nixon television debate in 1960.

first appeared: 5/4/2003

In 1808, Pointe Coupee Parish (pop. 22,763) established the state’s first public schools.

first appeared: 4/27/2003

Delta Airlines first took off as Huff Daland Dusters, the world’s first aerial crop dusters, in 1924 in Monroe (pop. 53,107).

first appeared: 4/20/2003

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