Crescent City (The). - New Orleans, in Louisiana, U.S.
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Durch Metropolen wie Philadelphia, Baltimore und Washingtoin D.C. führt die Reise in ländliche Regionen. Nach Durchquerung von Virginia, North- und South-Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississipi und Louisiana erreicht der Zug schließlich New Orleans nach rund 30 Stunden Fahrt mit einer Übernachtung im Zug.
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The "Crescent" takes its name from the nickname for its endpoint city, New Orleans. The "Crescent" is a successor to the famous earlier trains - the Washington and Southwestern Vestibule Limited in 1891 and Southern Railway’s Crescent Limited and Southern Crescent in 1925 and 1970, respectively. The Crescent follows Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor as far south as Washington, then heads southwest into Virginia, paralleling the Blue Ridge Mountains, continuing south through the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama to New Orleans.
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One tradition says the community was named after "J.L. Napoleon", plantation owner; another says it was named by a French settler who had served under "Napoleon".
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There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin Of many a poor boy And God, I know I'm one My mother was a tailor She sewed my new blue jeans My father was a gambling man Down in New Orleans Now the only thing a gambler needs Is a suitcase and a trunk And the only time he'll be satisfied Is when he's on a drunk Oh, mother, tell your children Not to do what I have done Spend your lives in sin and misery In the House of the Rising Sun Well, I've got one Foot on the platform The other foot on the train I'm going back to New Orleans To wear that ball and chain Well, there is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin Of many a poor boy
Autor: Collingwood, Harry, 1851-1922
Zeichner: Lumley, Savile, -1950
Titel: Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun
A Story of the Russo-Japanese War
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French Quarter dig searches for House of the Rising Sun
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The song made the U.S. top 20 when Eric Burdon and the Animals toured in 1964, but its tune may go back to 1600s England.
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This sign has been used for dew in some meteorological systems. "???" can be seen as a pictorial sign for the rising sun.
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