Levee was a Kentucky thoroughbred foaled in 1953. She was an accomplished stakes winner and the dam of the champion race mare Shuvee. Levee raced in a...
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Levée en masse (French pronunciation: [ləve ɑ̃ mɑs] or, in English, mass levy) is a French term used for a policy of mass national conscription, often...
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American abstract artist M. C. Levee (1891–1972), American film executive Levee (horse), a Kentucky thoroughbred racehorse Levee Blues (1972), the second album...
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A levee breach or levee failure (also known as dyke breach or dyke failure) is a situation where a levee (or dyke) fails or is intentionally breached,...
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The Levee District was the red-light district of Chicago from the 1880s until 1912, when police raids shut it down. The district, like many frontier town...
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The 1st Horse (Skinner's Horse) is a regiment of the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army. It traces its origins as a cavalry regiment from the times of the...
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over 160 levee failures in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. These numbers include multiple failures of a single levee structure. Levee failures...
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Levee camps constructed from the early 1800s to the 1930s were originally initiated to create a system of man made levees along the Mississippi river...
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Tailcoat (section Levée dress coat)
buttons. There were three-pronged side pockets similar in style to the levée dress coat. A dress coat, sometimes called a swallow-tail or claw-hammer...
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natural or artificial slope or wall to regulate water levels, often called a levee in American English Ditch, a water-filled drainage trench A regional term...
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the Wild Horse Ranch and the Mustang Ranch. It opened in 2002 with the Wild Horse Ranch, the Mustang Ranch was added in 2005, and the Wild Horse Ranch closed...
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John Coughlin (alderman) (section Horses)
nation and globe. He and Kenna were known as the "Lords of the Levee" after the Levee vice district that provided them with funds and support in exchange...
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Mont-Saint-Michel Bay (section Levee and polders)
deposits have been used to create levees around Dol marsh. To the East of Sainte-Anne chapel is the "Duchesse-Anne" levee. It is 20 kilometres (12 mi) long...
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used to provide the controlled release of water downstream from a dam or levee, typically into the riverbed of the dammed river itself. In the United Kingdom...
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and Break Your Face on My Hand with Rising Phoenix Repertory, and On the Levee and Iphigenia 2.0 with Signature Theatre. Other roles include Gates of Gold...
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the "levee of Nezahualcoyotl" was constructed, reputedly designed by Nezahualcoyotl. Estimated to be 12 to 16 km (7.5 to 9.9 mi) in length, the levee was...
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Wilson even played second guitar on “Empire State Express” and the harp on ”Levee Camp Moan”. Son's manager Dick Waterman said,” Al Wilson helped Son House...
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documentary film about the life of American actor Christopher Reeve following his horse riding accident that left him paralyzed and him subsequently becoming an...
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theater, which include roles in War Horse, The Orphans' Home Cycle, Gone Missing, This Beautiful City, On the Levee, London Wall, and Dada Woof Papa Hot...
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Whitehorse, Yukon, was completed. Trump founded the White Horse Restaurant and Inn in White Horse.: 87–88 They moved the building by barge, relocated on...
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Arizona. He followed that with work supervising survey parties repairing levee breaks on the lower Colorado River. During 1911–12, he was head of the commissary...
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both rivers flooded and a fleet of little grey Fergies was used to build levee banks to save the town. A fleet of seven Ferguson TE-20s was used on the...
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ceremonies around the waking and the sleeping of the monarch, called a levée. Orders of chivalry as honorific orders became an important part of court...
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of Finland. It is linked to the former Russian capital by a combination levee-causeway-seagate, the St Petersburg Dam, part of the city's flood defences...
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– Hundred Dollar Valentine 2014 – Still on the Levee 2018 – Call Me Lucky 2020 – More From The Levee 2024 - All About The Bones Stuck in Amber, Bethlehem...
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A coupure is a means of closing an opening in a wall, floodwall or levee (dike). The word comes from the French verb couper which means "to cut". In historic...
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This marked the effective disbandment of the Imperial Army. The French "Levée en masse" method of conscription brought around 2,300,000 French men into...
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Great Flood of 1862 (section Levee damage)
cows and horses". The Chinese in their poorly built shantytowns were disproportionately affected. A chain gang was sent to break open the levee, which,...
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Danube Delta (section River bank and levee ecosystems)
terrestrial environment is also present on the higher grounds of the continental levees, where xerophile ecosystems have developed. Between the aquatic and terrestrial...
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Metairie Cemetery (category Defunct horse racing venues in Louisiana)
Police juror & president, Jefferson Parish sheriff, senator, Lafourche Basin Levee Board John Albert Morris, the "Lottery King" deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison...
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