Poverty Point World Heritage Site may be the best-known historical spot in Louisiana, but it’s far from the only one. Northeast Louisiana and west Mississippi are full of Civil War sites, museums dedicated to the region’s cotton, African-American and aviation history and lesser-known cultural destinations that beckon intrepid adventurers and families of all stripes. Take a two-day journey throughout the region and discover some of the backstories of those who lived there. Start in Vicksburg, a west Mississippi city loaded with Civil War lore. Vicksburg National Military Park honors the memories of thousands of soldiers who died during the Siege of Vicksburg, a 47-day-long battle that marked a turning point in the war and eventually led to the North’s victory. See the remains of the USS Cairo gunboat before touring Confederate commander John Pemberton’s headquarters. Finish your journey with a drive down the 16-mile road that winds past important battlefield stops.Head west acr
How to defend the right to vote
By Editor posted on July 20, 2021
The struggle for the bourgeois democratic right to one person, one vote still continues in the U.S., the most powerful imperialist country. That struggle began once the last enslaved person was freed in Galveston, Texas, June 19, 1865, known as Juneteenth.
During the next 10 years that defined Black Reconstruction, thousands of Black men gained the right to vote, resulting in their political representation for the first time in Southern state legislatures, especially in Louisiana, South Carolina and Mississippi, under the guardianship of the armed federal troops.
This right and other important gains during this radical period were tragically short-lived when federal troops were withdrawn under the Rutherford B. Hayes presidency. This allowed the former Confederacy to regroup in the form of the Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens Councils, accompanied by the passage of oppressive semislavery laws used to terro
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18 يوليو 2021
هناك العديد من الأماكن والمناطق المحظورة في العالم، والتي لا يسمح أبدا بتواجد عامة الناس فيها أو الاطلاع على محتوياتها وبعضها قد يستطيع عدد قليل من الناس الدخول إليها لأسباب مختلفة.
وتحظر هذه الأماكن لعدة أسباب قد تكون مرتبطة بالأسرار العسكرية أو أسرار الحكومات أو لخطورة الوضع في تلك المناطق، أو لأسباب بيئية، وغيرها.
جزيرة الأفاعي
إليا داك ويمادا غراندي، أو جزيرة الأفاعي ، هي جزيرة تقع قبالة سواحل البرازيل، وهي موطن لأنواع نادرة ومميتة بشكل لا يصدق من الثعابين تسمى برأس الرمح الذهبي. وفقا لبعض التقديرات، هناك واحد إلى خمسة ثعابي
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