Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish, Native American ( Indian ) and African cultures that they are considered to be somewhat exceptional in the U. S. Before the American influx and statehood at the beginning of the 19th century, the territory of current Louisiana State had been a Spanish and French colony.

( Some critics thought the PBS series did not sufficiently explain the limitations of DNA testing for assessment of heritage.

Some adherents to these beliefs considered any proliferation of mixed-descent children ( labelled ' half-castes ', ' crossbreeds ', ' quadroons ' and ' octoroons ') to be a threat to the nature and stability of the prevailing civilisation, or to a perceived racial or civilisational " heritage ".

Some view their Jewish heritage as primary, and others see the concept of God as unhelpful in their personal spiritual journeys.

Some of its cultural heritage found its way to Russia, where it was adopted and developed.

Some of the most spectacular are now protected by UNESCO as part of the world heritage site the Belfries of Belgium and France.

Some of the gentes of the Roman republic were proud of their Sabine heritage, such as the Claudia gens, assuming Sabinus as a cognomen or agnomen.

Some of the old industrial and wharfside heritage remains at the now defunct Surrey Commercial Docks now Surrey Quays, including Greenland Dock and Baltic Quay, where major residential schemes were developed in the 1980s and 1990s.

Some stopped in Dent County and many old families are proud of their Cherokee heritage.

Some heritage rail operations continue along Network Rail tracks to Whitby.

Some Jews from the former Soviet Union are of mixed heritage.

Some of the more successful British heritage railways, such as the Severn Valley Railway and the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, may have up to five or six steam engines working, operating a four-train service daily.

Some sources claim Merle's parents as Charlotte Selby, a Eurasian from Ceylon with partial Māori heritage, and Arthur Terrence O ' Brien Thompson, a British mechanical engineer from Darlington, who worked in Indian Railways.

Some people working in heritage organisations criticised the decision to demolish the eighteenth century barrack rooms in one section of the quadrangle to create open spaces for the IMMA.

Some Americans of French heritage who have lost the language are currently attempting to revive it.

Some are privately owned, others were declared a state heritage and transformed into Environmental Protection Areas or ecological stations.

Some nontrinitarians also find a link between the doctrine of the Trinity and the Egyptian Christian theologians of Alexandria, suggesting that Alexandrian theology, with its strong emphasis on the deity of Jesus, served to infuse Egypt's pagan religious heritage into Christianity.

Some hailed the coup as the first time since Liberia's establishment as a country that it was governed by people of native African descent instead of by the Americo-Liberian elite, although persons with no Americo-Liberian heritage had held the Vice Presidency ( Henry Too Wesley ), as well as Ministerial and Legislative positions in years prior.

Some states, such as New York ( owing to its Dutch heritage ), have strong civil-law influences, and have enacted laws relating to obligations ; e. g., the General Obligations Law and the General Business Law.

Some heritage learners may lose some fluency in the first language after beginning formal education in the dominant language.

Some heritage speakers explicitly study the language to gain additional proficiency.

Some Rock performers, too, have been inspired to adopt shanties as part of what they perceive to be a connection to their regional or national heritage.

Some of the notable gardens include St Kilda Botanic Gardens on Blessington Street, which has heritage features and gates, a conservatory, rose garden, lake and sustainable Eco Centre building.

Some claim that Systema's Russian martial arts heritage dates back to the 10th century and was practiced by the Bogatyr ( Russian heroes / knights ).

Some locomotives are designed specifically to work mountain railways, and feature extensive additional braking mechanisms and sometimes rack and pinion.

Some railways were built only for tourist purposes as the Gornergrat or the Jungfraujoch, Europe's highest station in the Bernese Oberland, at an altitude of 3, 454 metres ( 11, 330 ft .).

Some narrow gauge railways are being reinstated for touristic purposes

Some current ghost towns were originally founded along railways where steam trains formerly stopped at periodic intervals to take on water.

Some railways, primarily in the northeast, used standard gauge ; others used gauges ranging from to.

Some named places, like Albany Park and Barnehurst, are names given to developments engendered by the building of the railways.

Some tilting trains run on narrow gauge railways.

Some businesses commonly thought to be capital-intensive are railways, airlines, oil production and refining, telecommunications, mining, chemical plants, electric power plants, etc.

Some disarmed ISU-122s were transferred to civil organizations, to be used as emergency vehicles on Soviet railways or as tracked transport in Arctic areas of the Soviet Union.

Some of these main problems were the insufficiency in oil production ( 60 % of the oil had to be imported and 80 % of all the oil was used to generate electricity ), inadequate steel production, the lack of electricity and the insufficiency and obsolescence of transport ( especially railways ).

Some of the closer sections of Toronto's radial railways were assimilated into the city's streetcar network, and with the city's expansion, some communities once linked by radial railway now have relatively central stations on the Toronto subway.

Some resources were put into development of the communications infrastructure of the Highlands and Islands ( roads, railways, and harbours ) and, in the early years of the 20th century the Congested Districts Board was able to push through the establishment of new crofting townships on Skye and in the Strathnaver area of Sutherland.

Some of these had been, and continued to be, operated as joint railways.

Some commentators maintain that because the Government based the levels of compensation for former railway shareholders on the valuation of their shares in 1946 ( when the whole railway infrastructure was in a run-down and dilapidated state because of war damage and minimal maintenance ) the railways were acquired comparatively cheaply.

Some U. S. railroads are " railways " for no obvious reason, such as Vermont Railway and Kansas City Southern Railway.

Some narrow canals became unusable, filled with weeds, silt and rubbish, or converted to railways.

Some of these locomotives were repaired for use on these heritage railways, such as no.

Some railways, e. g. the Great Western Railway, fitted a decorative copper cap to the top of the chimney.

Some other urban railways had been constructed for electric traction: in 1890 the City and South London underground tube had opened with electric traction, followed in 1893 by the more local Liverpool Overhead Railway.

Some railways fitted a special deep-noted brake whistle to locomotives to indicate to the porters the necessity to apply the brakes.

Some 129 million acres ( 52. 2 million hectares ) of public land was ultimately transferred from public ownership to the privately-owned railways as part of this process.

Some were maintained as short line railways, but many others were abandoned.

Some of the railways were built primarily to transport goods but some ( e. g. the Loughton branch ) were deliberately planned to cater for commuter traffic ; they unintentially created the holiday resorts of Southend, Clacton and Frinton-on-Sea.