SHREVEPORT
, a See also:city and the See also:capital of See also:Caddo See also:Parish, See also:Louisiana, U.S.A., on the Red See also:river, in the N.W. See also:part of the See also:state, near the See also:Texas border
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Pop
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(189o) 11,979; (1900) 16,013, of whom 8532 were negroes; (1910, See also:census) 28,015
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It is the second city of the state in See also:population
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It is served by the See also:Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific, the See also:Houston & Shreveport, the See also:Kansas City See also:Southern, the St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis & See also:South-Western, the Louisiana Railway & See also:Navigation See also:Company, the Texas & Pacific (See also:main See also:line and two branches), the Louisiana & See also:Arkansas, the Kansas City Southern, and the See also:Missouri, Kansas & Texas See also:railways and by boats on the Red river
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In the city are the State Charity See also:Hospital (1872), the T
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E
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Schumpert Memorial Hospital (1910), the See also:Genevieve Orphanage (1899) and the Shreveport Training School (1908)
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Owing to its situation and excellent transportation facilities the city has a large See also:trade
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The surrounding See also:country is a See also:rich agricultural region, mainly devoted to the See also:production of See also:cotton, for which Shreveport is the See also:principal See also:shipping point
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Live-stock and See also:cattle products are trade items of importance
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The situation of the city (about 170M. See also:east of See also:Dallas, and some-what farther from Little See also:Rock, Houston, and New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans) makes it a natural centre of wholesale trade of varied See also:character, and the development since 1906 of the important Caddo oil and See also:gas See also:fields See also:north of the city has added greatly to its See also:industrial prominence
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The city contains planing See also:mills, cotton gins, compresses and cotton-See also:seed oil mills, See also:machine and railway shops, and See also:ice and See also:molasses factories
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In 1905 its factory product was valued at $2,921,923 (87.8% more than in 1900)
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Shreve-See also:port was settled about 1835, incorporated as a See also:town in 1839, and chartered as a city in 1871
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It was named in See also:honour of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Miller Shreve (1785-1854), a native of New See also:Jersey, who in 1815 ascended the See also:Mississippi and the See also:Ohio See also:rivers to See also:Louisville in the " Enterprise," the first See also:steam See also:vessel to make this trip, introduced improvements in the steamboat, and in 1826-1841 had See also:charge of the improvement of western rivers, removing during this See also:period the See also:great Red river raft
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After the See also:capture of See also:Baton See also:Rouge, the state capital, and New Orleans by the Unionists in 1862, Shreveport was occupied by the Confederate officials of the state
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In the See also:spring of 1863 and again in that
of 1864 it was the See also:objective of combined See also:naval and See also:land expedi- I variant of that See also:species, which it closely resembles in See also:external tions made by the See also:Union forces up the Red river under command See also:form, but the third upper incisor is shorter, or not longer than of See also:Admiral See also:David D
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See also:Porter and See also:General N
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P
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See also:Banks, the , the next following tooth, whereas in S. araneus it is longer, and Confederate See also:commander in Louisiana being General See also:Richard the length of the forearm and See also:foot is less in the former species than in the latter
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Both these shrews live in the neighbourhood of See also:woods, making their nests under the roots of trees or in any slight depression, occasionally even in the midst of open fields, inhabiting the disused burrows of See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-mice
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Owing to their small See also:size, dark See also:colour, rapid movements and nocturnal habits, they easily See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape observation
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They seek their See also:food, which consists of See also:insects, grubs, See also:worms and slugs, under dead leaves, fallen trees and in grassy places
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They are pugnacious, and if two or more are confined together in a limited space they invariably fight fiercely, the fallen becoming the food of the victorious
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They are also exceedingly voracious, and soon See also:die if deprived of food; and it is probably to insufficiency of food in the See also:early dry autumnal See also:season that the mortality among them at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time is due
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The breeding-season extends from the end of See also:April to the beginning of See also:August, and five to seven, more rarely ten,
about the size of a See also:mouse, which it somewhat resembles in the shape of its See also:body, tail and feet
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But here the resemblance ends, for, unlike the mouse, it possesses a See also:long and slender muzzle, with prominent nostrils, which project far beyond the See also:lower See also:lip; the small eyes are almost concealed by the See also:fur; the ears are wide, See also:short and provided internally with a pair of deep folds, capable when laid forwards of closing the entrance; the tail, which is slightly shorter than the body, is quadrangular in See also:section and clothed more or less densely with moderately long hairs, terminating in a short tuft, but in old individuals almost naked; the feet are five-toed, the toes terminating in slender, pointed claws
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The dentition is very See also:peculiar and characteristic: there are in all See also:thirty-two See also:teeth, tipped with deep See also:crimson; of which twelve belong to the lower See also:jaw; of the remaining twenty ten occupy each See also:side of the upper jaw, and of these the first three are incisors
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The first incisor is large, with a long anterior canine-like See also:cusp and a small posterior one; then follow two small single-cusped teeth; which are succeeded by three similar progressively smaller teeth, the first being a canine and the other two premolars; the next, a premolar, is large and multi-cuspid, and this is f allowed by three molars, of which the third is small with a triangular See also:crown
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In the lower jaw there are anteriorly three teeth corresponding to the seven anterior teeth above, of which the first is almost See also:horizontal in direction, with its upper See also:surface marked by three notches, which receive the points of the three upper front teeth; then follow two small
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The See also:Common See also:Shrew (Sorex araneus)
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teeth and three molars
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The body is clothed with closely set fur, soft and dense, varying in colour from See also:light reddish to dark See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown above; the under surface of both body and tail being greyish; the basal four-fifths of all the hairs above and beneath are dark bluish See also:grey
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On each side of the body, about one-third of the distance between the See also:elbow and the See also:knee, is a gland covered by two rows of coarse inbent hairs, which secretes a fluid with an unpleasant cheesy odour, and which is protective, rendering the creature secure against the attacks of predaceous animals
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The lesser or pigmy shrew (S. minutus) is not so abundant in See also:England and See also:Scotland, but common in See also:Ireland, where the other species is unknown
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It appears at first sight to be a diminutive
See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor, with General E
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See also:Kirby See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith in charge of the entire trans-Mississippi . See also:department
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In 1863 Shreveport was not seriously threatened
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In 1864 when the Federals were within two See also:marches of the city they were worsted by Taylor at See also:Mansfield (on the 8th of April); on the next See also:day the Confederates in their turn met with a demoralizing repulse at Pleasant See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill
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