I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.

New Orleans had a notorious red-light district extending over twenty-eight city blocks, and the business-minded mayor of the city journeyed to Washington to present the case for `` the God-given right of men to be men ''.

The two cities have the examples of Little Rock and New Orleans to hold up as warnings against resorting to violence to try to stop the processes of desegregation.

It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.

Another attempt will be made this year in New Orleans to resume the program.

This dish much resembles the oysters Rockefeller made famous by Antoine's in New Orleans, though the Palace chef announced it as a variant of Manning's roast oysters.

One of the most delightful spots in a southern tour is the city of New Orleans.

One of the most significant advancements in design of plastics signs is the so-called trans-illuminated billboard, now being produced by several large sign manufacturers such as Advance Neon Sign Co., Los Angeles, and Industrial Electric Inc., New Orleans, La..

Early in January, 1844 he had a conference with Henry and William in New Orleans, and upon learning of Gorham's intention, Henry remonstrated calmly but firmly with his brother.

News of the legislative veto appeared in the New Orleans papers, and Henry and William became incensed by the fact that they had not been told of the attempt in advance.

Henry stormed into Giffen's office waving a copy of the New Orleans Courier, shouting that the emancipation scheme had become a public affair, and that it would reach the `` Ears of the People on the Plantation, and make them restless & unhappy ''.

Palfrey told his wife of his intentions for the first time, and left for New Orleans apprehensively invoking a special blessing of Providence that he might be allowed to see his family again.

Despite his apprehensions about his personal safety, Palfrey's reception in New Orleans was more than cordial.

He later told abolitionist Edmund Quincy of the `` marked attention and civility '' with which the New Orleans gentlemen and the upriver planters greeted him.

When a sailing date of March, 1845 was finally established, Palfrey made sure that the Negroes would have comfortable quarters in New Orleans and aboard ship.

On March 21, 1845 the bark Bashaw weighed anchor at New Orleans, while on the levee Henry and William Palfrey waved farewell to their father's former chattels who must have looked back at the receding shore with mingled regret and jubilation.

West of the Mobile district was the lower Mississippi district, of which New Orleans was headquarters.

Each of the five principal posts was to have a director, responsible to a director-general at New Orleans.

Only two principal storehouses were actually established -- one at Mobile, the other at New Orleans.

New Orleans supplied the goods for the trade on the Mississippi, and west of that river, and on the Ohio and Wabash.

Mobile was also supplied by New Orleans with goods for the Mobile district.

No mention of New Orleans.

Chess historian Edward Winter has questioned this, stating that the earliest known sources that support this story are an article by Robert Lewis Taylor in the June 15, 1940, issue of The New Yorker and Marshall's autobiography My 50 Years of Chess ( 1942 ).

Krush currently plays for the New York Knights in the U. S. Chess League, and both she and her ex-husband Canadian Grandmaster Pascal Charbonneau have played in the United Kingdom league for Guildford-ADC.

* Dr Jonathan Sarfati, ( BSc ( Hons ), PhD ) author, New Zealand Chess Champion

While living in New York, Richter directed two feature films, Dreams That Money Can Buy ( 1947 ) and 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements ( 1957 ) in collaboration with Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, and others, which was partially filmed on the lawn of his summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.

Playing Chess in the French Quarter, New Orleans

In the meantime there has been an adjustment setting of the World New Chess Association ( WNCA ) that when performing a castling move it is irrelevant in which sequence involved pieces were touched.

* New Architectures in Computer Chess – Thesis on How to Build A Chess Engine

Timman is one of the chief editors of the magazine New In Chess.

He received an invitation to play at the First American Chess Congress in New York City and, at his uncle's urging, accepted.

He received an invitation to participate in the First American Chess Congress, to be held in New York from October 6 to November 10, 1857.

At the University of the City of New York, on May 29, 1859, John Van Buren, son of President Martin Van Buren, ended a testimonial presentation by proclaiming, " Paul Morphy, Chess Champion of the World ".

Alexander Thomas, Stella Chess, Herbert G. Birch, Margaret Hertzig and Sam Korn began the classic New York Longitudinal study in the early 1950s regarding infant temperament ( Thomas, Chess & Birch, 1968 ).

* The United States Chess Federation moved its corporate offices to Crossville from New Windsor, New York in 2005, reportedly to reduce labor costs.

* Rice, John ( 1996 ), Chess Wizardry: The New ABC of Chess Problems, Batsford / International Chess Enterprises.

* New In Chess, a chess magazine issued eight times a year.

Chivian arranged for Burke to be signed to Singular Records, a Philadelphia-based label that was owned by WPEN disc jockey Edwin L. " Larry " Brown ( born September 10, 1921 in New York City ; died March 24, 2005 ), and vocal coach Arthur " Artie " Singer ( born February 1, 1919 in Toronto, Ontario ; died May 2, 2008 in Pennsylvania ), who had a distribution deal with Chess Records.

Although Lester and Fuqua are credited as forming a spinoff group called the Moonlighters, recording in 1955 for the Chess subsidiary label Checker, they paired on only two numbers released as by the Moonlighters, " So All Alone " and " New Gal.

Warwick was born in East Orange, New Jersey, to Mancel Warwick ( 1911 – 1977 ), who began his career as a Pullman porter and subsequently became a chef, a gospel record promoter for Chess Records and later a Certified Public Accountant ; and Lee Drinkard Warwick ( 1920 – 2005 ), manager of The Drinkard Singers ( see below ).