Behind the Levee is the sixth studio album by The Subdudes, released in 2006. As usual for the band their music combines rock, folk, R&B, soul, funk, gospel...
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A levee (/ˈlɛvi/ or /ˈlɛveɪ/), dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure used to keep the...
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breached, causing the previously contained water to flood the land behind the levee. Man-made levees can fail in a number of ways. The most frequent (and...
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The levee (from the French word lever, meaning "getting up" or "rising") was traditionally a daily moment of intimacy and accessibility to a monarch or...
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Miracle Mule (EMI/Back Porch) 2006: Behind the Levee (EMI/Back Porch) 2007: Street Symphony (EMI/Back Porch) 2008: Live at the Ram's Head (Biographica) 2009:...
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"When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences...
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noteworthy album Behind the Levee, penning one cut, "Social Aid and Pleasure Club", and providing backing tracks for several other songs on the album. In 2006...
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Gretna, Louisiana (category Cities in the New Orleans metropolitan area)
elevation of 0 feet (0 m) behind the levee along the Mississippi River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3...
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USS Sachem (1861) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
battery behind a levee. One shot struck the gunboat's side and wounded a petty officer before the Union ships silenced the Southern guns. The Confederate...
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Grand Tower Island (category Islands of the Mississippi River)
all of the portion of the island behind the levee is used for agriculture, with the sole exception of the thin line of trees responsible for the deadwood...
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surge caused 53 levee breaches in the federally built levee system protecting metro New Orleans and the failure of the 40 Arpent Canal levee. Failures occurred...
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exacerbates downstream flooding. The building of levees only protects the area behind the levees and not those further downstream. Levees and flood banks can also...
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Battle of Helena (category Battles of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War)
Clayton. The two Union cavalry regiments were holding a position behind a levee. Bledsoe's two guns were driven off, but neither side could defeat the other...
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the Queensland Government has undertaken a major remediation project to prevent the acid discharge and rehabilitate the land behind the levee. The inlet...
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Lava channel (redirect from Lava levee)
levees. This initial levee allows for the building of a more complex levee and channel. As the lava flows through the channel, the elevation of the surface...
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Washington. The levee group names are based on location and are identified as the Kennewick Levees, Pasco Levees, and Richland Levees. Lake Wallula behind McNary...
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When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts is a 2006 documentary film directed by Spike Lee about the devastation of New Orleans, Louisiana following...
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (category The Pittsburgh Cycle)
is apparent between the young hot-headed trumpeter Levee, who dreams of having his own band, and veterans Cutler and Toledo. By the time Ma Rainey arrives...
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gusts. The storm surge caused approximately 23 breaches in the drainage canal and navigational canal levees and flood walls. As mandated in the Flood Control...
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Risk compensation (redirect from The Titanic effect)
development in the floodplain which is supposed to be protected by the levee. Consequently, when a flood does occur or the levee breaches, the effects of...
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List of Mayday episodes (redirect from Behind Closed Doors (Mayday))
outside of the United States and Canada and also known as Mayday: Air Disaster (The Weather Channel) or Air Disasters (Smithsonian Channel) in the United...
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North Sea (redirect from The North Sea)
In areas especially vulnerable to storm surges, people settled behind elevated levees and on natural areas of high ground such as spits and geestland...
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Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 (category 20th-century floods in the United States)
floods, the federal government built the world's longest system of levees and floodways. Then-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover's handling of the crisis...
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USS Monongahela (1862) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
and other ships of the squadron. On July 7, the ship, in company with USS New London, engaged southern field batteries behind the levee, 12 mi (19 km) below...
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Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta (category National Heritage Areas of the United States)
widespread subsidence on the Central Delta islands; much of the Delta region today sits below sea level, behind levees earning it the nickname "California's...
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (film) (category Films that won the Academy Award for Best Makeup)
Levee subsequently suffers a mental breakdown and, after Toledo accidentally steps on his new shoes, Levee fatally stabs him in the back with the knife...
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Marengo Plantation House (Catahoula Parish, Louisiana) (category Houses completed in the 19th century)
behind the Little River levee. The house was built in the 1850s and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The house is a large galleried...
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Yazoo Pass expedition (category Battles of the Western Theater of the American Civil War)
artificial levees to confine the river to its main course. Deprived of its principal source, the water level behind the levee dropped as much as eight feet...
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Woodstock (2007) with Levon Helm Little Feat's Join The Band (2008) "When The Levee Breaks" and "The Wrong Side" on Lay Your Burden Down (2009) by Buckwheat...
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Breston Plantation House (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana)
Louisiana, was built in the 1830s. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is located behind the levee on the east bank of Riverton...
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