A New Year's levée is a social event on New Year's Day hosted by the Governor General of Canada, the lieutenant governors, military establishments, municipalities...

Monday, August 29, 2005, there were over 50 failures of the levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans, Louisiana, and its suburbs following passage of...

to be held in a number of Commonwealth countries. The New Year's levee is still held on New Year's Day in Canada, by the Governor General of Canada, the...

institutions on New Year's Day Levee Township, Pike County, Illinois The Levee, former red-light district in Chicago, Illinois John Levee (1924–2017), American...

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...

canal levees and flood walls. As mandated in the Flood Control Act of 1965, responsibility for the design and construction of the city’s levees belongs...

celebratory events of the Canadian Armed Forces. It is also served at the levée, a New Year's Day celebration held all levels of the Canadian governmental administrations...

New Year's foods are dishes traditionally eaten for luck in the coming year. Many traditional New Year dishes revolve around the food's resemblance to...

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...

and the first orders were awarded on January 5, 2020, at the Mayor's New Year's Levee. The city created the order as a way to award "[t]he unsung heroes...

all Danish monarchs. It is used today by Margrethe II for the annual New Year's levee in January as well as for special occasions, such as jubilees and state...

Towhey, Mark; Schneller, Johanna (2015). Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable. New York, New York, United States: Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN 978-163450-042-5. Gilbert...

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...

areas. Construction of the levees along the River began soon after the city was founded, and more extensive river levees were built as the city grew...

official functions of the monarch such as banquets, state dinners, the New Year's levée, diplomatic accreditations, audiences and meetings of the council of...

1995. He participated in more than 2,000 events, including the annual New Year's Levée, which he moved to various locations around the country, seeing the...

storm caused levees to fail, releasing tens of billions of gallons of water. The levee failure contributed to extensive flooding in the New Orleans area...

Block of Parliament Hill, and the following year, Willingdon moved the annual governor general's New Year's levée to that building from the East Block, where...

tradition started by the Lord Lisgar in 1869, and each year the governor general holds a New Year's Levée, an event that traces its roots back to the French...

suburbs without levees or where levees were still under construction flooded. New Orleans#History Timeline of New Orleans List of mayors of New Orleans The...

metropolitan New Orleans include the Mississippi River, Lake Pontchartrain, canals throughout the city, and natural rainfall. Artificial levees have been...

West Quincy levee. By July 16, the river had stopped rising and had dropped 1.5 feet (46 cm) below the levee. That night, however, the levee unexpectedly...

hours of 10am to 4pm. As well, governors general held their annual New Year's Levee in the building from 1870 until the Marquess of Willingdon moved the...

significant and longest-standing flooding from the New Orleans Hurricane of 1915 due to a break in the protection levee at Florida Avenue. The Industrial Canal was...

customary for Margrethe, as the Danish monarch, to host the annual New Year levées. Every year on 1 January, a banquet was held for the government, the Speaker...

overwhelmed some levees in eastern New Orleans in 1965, while a storm surge funneled in by the Mississippi River–Gulf Outlet Canal and a levee failure flooded...

January 2024. Pawlitz, Rachel; Sobieszczyk, Steven (2 January 2024). "New Year's Day M7.5 Earthquake Shakes Japan's West Coast" (Press release). United...

lieutenant governor until 1963, and he opened the lieutenant governor's New Year's Levee to the general public for the first time. In 1964, he was a founder...

Bud Olsen, after he held the 1997 New Year's levee in Medicine Hat, becoming the first time the province's levee had been held outside the capital city...

On 1 January 1972, he received treatment for pneumonia, with his New Year levées scheduled for 5 and 6 January being cancelled. On 3 January, he suffered...