1. Huey Long
2. Billy Cannon -- counterfeiting
3. LSU football Defense set up by Paul Dietzel based on speed rather than size
4. Sheik
5. "It is believed that those colors were worn for the first time by an LSU team in the spring of 1893 when the LSU baseball squad beat Tulane in the first intercollegiate contest played in any sport by Louisiana State University. Team captain E.B. Young reportedly hand-picked those colors for the LSU squad.
Later that year, the first football game was played. On November 25, 1893, football coach/chemistry professor Dr. Charles Coates and some of his players went into town to purchase ribbon to adorn their gray jerseys as they prepared to play the first LSU gridiron game.
Stores were stocking ribbons in the colors of Mardi Gras -- purple, gold and green. -- for the coming Carnival season. However, none of the green had yet arrived at Reymond's Store at the corner of Third and Main streets. Coates and quarterback Ruffin Pleasant bought up all of the purple and gold stock and made it into rosettes and badges."
6.Tulane University
7.Myrtles Plantation
8. Home of National Hansen's Disease Museum, which use to treat leprosy
9. Lake Pontchartrain causeway
10. "thanks to the slowness in communications, a peace treaty was signed at Ghent, Belgium, on Christmas Eve, 1814, but the opposing forces at New Orleans unknowingly fought one of the major battles of the war a few weeks later."
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