John Levee (April 10, 1924 – January 18, 2017) was an American abstract expressionist painter who had worked in Paris since 1949. His father was M. C....

A levee (/ˈlɛvi/ or /ˈlɛveɪ/), dike (American English), dyke (British English; see spelling differences), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure...

Look up levee or levée in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Levee or levée comes from the French verb lever, meaning "getting up" or "rising". It has two...

"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...

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...

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...

C. Levee (January 18, 1891, Chicago – May 24, 1972, Palm Springs, California) was born Michael C. Levee. Beginning his career as a prop man, Levee worked...

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

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,...

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...

new levee to project grade extending across the 1,500-foot (460 m) gap at the lower end of the frontline levee. However, the inability of the St. John Levee...

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...

(1924–2014), painter LaVerne Krause (1924–1987), printmaker, painter John Levee (1924–2017), painter Kenneth Noland (1924–2010), painter Philip Pearlstein...

Lords of the Levee is a 1943 non-fiction book by longtime Chicago Tribune reporters Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan in one of three collaborations about...

Dick" (Led Zeppelin II), "Immigrant Song" (Led Zeppelin III), "When the Levee Breaks" (Led Zeppelin IV), "Kashmir" (Physical Graffiti), "The Ocean" (Houses...

Levee Town is the seventh studio album by Sonny Landreth. Released on Sugar Hill Records October 17, 2000 and re-released in an Expanded Edition on Landreth's...

included Henry Moore, Sam Francis, John Levee, Paul Wonner, James Jarvaise, Richard Diebenkorn, William Dole, John Rosenbaum, Jack Zajac, Giacomo Benevelli...

John Luca Levee (born 21 February 1997) is a Jamaican footballer who plays as a midfielder for Dulwich Hamlet. Levee started his career at Real Mona, before...

important members of the movement. In addition, the artists David Hare, John Chamberlain, James Rosati, Mark di Suvero, and sculptors Richard Lippold...

Bitran from Turkey; Zao Wou-Ki from China; Sugai from Japan; Sam Francis, John Franklin Koenig, Jack Youngerman and Paul Jenkins from the U.S.A and Yehezkel...

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...

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...

against several former associates, including Blewitt. Three accomplices (John Levee, Richard Oakey and Matthew Flood) were hanged on the strength of Blake's...

Louisiana Flood Protection Authority (SLFPA), which is the levee board overseeing several separate levee districts in the New Orleans area, and the state's Coastal...

as Levee (2004, direction: Gemma Bodinetz) and the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre in a production starring Antonio Fargas as Toledo, Ram John Holder...

July 30, 2020. Kennedy, John (February 2021). "John N. Kennedy: Louisiana starts 2021 with $1.3 billion less in debt for its levees". The Advocate. Archived...

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,...

future floods, the federal government built the world's longest system of levees and floodways. Then-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover's handling of the...

1968. Dillon, Charlotte. "John Paul Jones Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 November 2008. Andy Fyfe (2003), When the Levee Breaks: The Making of Led...

Levee Blues is the second album from American band Potliquor released in 1971. Work on Levee Blues began in February 1971 at Deep South Recording Studio...