Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge (/ˌbætən ˈruːʒ/; French for Red Stick, French: Bâton-Rouge [batɔ̃ ʁuʒ] ( )) is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana and its second-largest city. The seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, the city is located on the banks of the Mississippi River.
As the Capital City, Baton Rouge is the political hub for Louisiana, and is the second largest metropolitan city in the state with a growing population of 229,426 people as of 2013. The metropolitan area surrounding the city, known as Greater Baton Rouge, has a population of 820,159 people as of 2013. The urban area has around 594,309 inhabitants.
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana
00:02:08 1 History
00:02:17 1.1 Prehistory
00:03:53 1.2 Colonial period
00:05:59 1.3 Modern history
00:09:18 2 Geography and climate
00:10:17 2.1 Tallest buildings
00:10:29 2.2 Neighborhoods
00:10:43 2.3 Climate
00:12:37 2.4 National protected areas
00:13:08 3 Demographics
00:16:15 4 Economy
00:19:36 4.1 Top employers
00:19:52 5 Culture
00:20:38 5.1 Arts and theater
00:24:20 5.2 Events
00:24:54 5.3 Miss USA pageants
00:26:28 5.4 Tourism and recreation
00:28:34 6 Sports
00:29:47 7 Parks and recreation
00:30:05 8 Government
00:31:11 8.1 Metropolitan Council
00:32:17 9 Education
00:34:20 9.1 Primary and secondary schools
00:35:32 9.2 Libraries
00:37:13 10 Media
00:38:16 11 Infrastructure
00:38:25 11.1 Communication
00:39:17 11.2 Health and medicine
00:40:06 11.3 Utilities
00:40:34 11.4 Military
00:42:33 12 Transportation
00:42:42 12.1 Shipping
00:43:02 12.2 Highways and roads
00:43:11 12.2.1 Interstates
00:44:36 12.2.2 US highways and major roads
00:47:09 12.2.3 Traffic issues and highway upgrades
00:51:23 12.3 Commuting
00:52:41 12.4 Airport
00:53:13 12.5 Rail
00:53:44 12.6 Buses and other mass transit
00:54:21 13 Notable people
00:54:30 14 Sister cities
00:55:30 15 See also
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Baton Rouge ( BAT-ən ROOZH; from French bâton rouge [bɑtɔ̃ ʁuʒ] (listen), meaning 'red stick') is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana and its second-largest city. Located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it is the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish.
As its capital city, Baton Rouge is the political hub of Louisiana. It is the second-largest city in the state, with an estimated population of 227,715 in 2016. The metropolitan area surrounding the city, known as Greater Baton Rouge, is also the second-largest in Louisiana, with a population of 830,480 people as of 2015. The urban area has around 594,309 inhabitants.
Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, research, motion picture, and growing technology center of the American South. It is the location of Louisiana State University, the LSU System's flagship university and the largest institution of higher education in the state. It is also the location of Southern University, the flagship institution of the Southern University System, the only historically black college system in the nation. The Port of Greater Baton Rouge is the 10th-largest in the United States in terms of tonnage shipped, and is the farthest upstream Mississippi River port capable of handling Panamax ships.The Baton Rouge area owes its historical importance to its strategic site upon the Istrouma Bluff, the first natural bluff upriver from the Mississippi River Delta. This allowed development of a business quarter safe from seasonal flooding. In addition, the city built a levee system stretching from the bluff southward to protect the riverfront and low-lying agricultural areas. The city is a culturally rich center, with settlement by immigrants from numerous European nations and African peoples brought to North America as slaves or indentured servants. It was ruled by seven different governments: French, British, and Spanish in the colonial era, West Floridian, United States territory and state, Confederate, and United States again.
1803-1913 : An american journey through 200 westerns (sous-titres français)
History of america told only through excerpts of 200 westerns all edited in a chronological order from 1803 to 1913, with a year indicator on the top left of the screen all along.
There are all the major stages of the west: wagon train, the Indian wars, the wilderness, the American Civil War, the big bandits, the heroes and their often tragic destinies, General Custer, OK Corral, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, Billy the kid, Jesse James, Judge Roy Bean, the arrival of the train, the transformation of the continent, the gradual end of the cowboys from the 1880s, the gold rushes , industrialization, automobiles, the Mexican revolution.
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0:00:18 The Far Horizons - Rudolph Maté (1955)
0:00:52 The Fighting Kentuckian - George Waggner (1949)
0:04:46 The Kentuckian - Burt Lancaster (1955)
0:02:13 Man in the Wilderness - Richard C. Sarafian (1971)
0:02:41 The Revenant - Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015)
0:03:14 A Man Called Horse - Elliot Silverstein (1970)
0:03:39 How the West Was Won - John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall (1962)
0:04:43 The Big Trail - Raoul Walsh (1930)
0:05:11 Across the Wide Missouri - William A. Wellman (1951)
0:05:43 The Big Sky - Howard Hawks (1952)
0:06:11 The Alamo - John Wayne (1960)
0:08:13 Distant Drums - Raoul Walsh (1951)
0:09:09 The Way West - Andrew V. McLaglen (1967)
0:09:56 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Joel & Ethan Coen (2018)
0:10:26 The Comancheros - Michael Curtiz (1961)
0:10:55 Meek's Cutoff - Kelly Reichardt (2010)
0:11:17 Bend of the River - Anthony Mann (1952)
0:11:47 How the West Was Won - John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall (1962)
0:12:44 Paint Your Wagon - Joshua Logan (1969)
0:13:45 Jeremiah Johnson - Sydney Pollack (1972)
0:14:15 The Scalphunters - Sydney Pollack (1968)
0:14:45 The Frisco Kid - Robert Aldrich (1979)
0:15:43 The Sisters Brothers - Jacques Audiard (2018)
0:16:13 Red River - Howard Hawks (1948)
0:16:40 Westward the Women - William A. Wellman (1951)
0:17:41 Band of Angels - Raoul Walsh (1957)
0:18:29 The Homesman - Tommy Lee Jones (2014)
0:18:57 Santa Fe Trail - Michael Curtiz (1940)
0:19:27 They Died with Their Boots On - Raoul Walsh (1941)
0:19:57 Django Unchained - Quentin Tarantino (2012)
0:20:25 Little Big Man - Arthur Penn (1970)
0:20:54 Dark Command - Raoul Walsh (1940)
0:21:21 The Iron Horse - John Ford (1924)
0:22:05 How the West Was Won - John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall (1962)
0:22:57 Dark Command - Raoul Walsh (1940)
0:23:31 Django - Sergio Corbucci (1966)
0:24:00 Dark Command - Raoul Walsh (1940)
0:24:30 Western Union - Fritz Lang (1940)
0:25:25 The Iron Horse - John Ford (1924)
0:26:17 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Sergio Leone (1966)
0:26:47 The Red Badge of Courage - John Huston (1951)
0:27:53 Dances with Wolves - Kevin Costner (1990)
0:28:36 The Horse Soldiers - John Ford (1959)
0:29:06 Escape from Fort Bravo - John Sturges (1953)
0:29:36 Shenandoah - Andrew V. McLaglen (1965)
0:30:03 Springfield Rifle - Andre DeToth (1952)
0:30:27 Alvarez Kelly - Edward Dmytryk (1966)
0:31:25 Major Dundee - Sam Peckinpah (1965)
0:32:12 Soldier Blue - Ralph Nelson (1970)
0:33:00 Little Big Man - Arthur Penn (1970)
0:33:29 The Man from Dakota - Leslie Fenton (1940)
0:34:37 Woman They Almost Lynched - Allan Dwan (1953)
0:36:14 The Outlaw Josey Wales - Clint Eastwood (1976)
0:36:45 Woman They Almost Lynched - Allan Dwan (1953)
0:36:57 The Outlaw Josey Wales - Clint Eastwood (1976)
0:37:20 Woman They Almost Lynched - Allan Dwan (1953)
0:37:37 The Outlaw Josey Wales - Clint Eastwood (1976)
0:38:13 Woman They Almost Lynched - Allan Dwan (1953)
0:38:50 The Birth of a Nation - D.W. Griffith (1915)
0:39:00 Lincoln - Steven Spielberg (2012)
0:39:12 The Birth of a Nation - D.W. Griffith (1915)
0:39:33 Lincoln - Steven Spielberg (2012)
0:39:51 The Birth of a Nation - D.W. Griffith (1915)
0:40:12 Run of the Arrow - Samuel Fuller (1957)
0:42:45 Union Pacific - Cecil B. DeMille (1939)
0:44:03 Wyatt Earp - Lawrence Kasdan (1994)
0:44:30 The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid - Philip Kaufman (1972)
0:45:14 Woman They Almost Lynched - Allan Dwan (1953)
0:45:53 The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid - Philip Kaufman (1972)
0:46:38 Run for Cover - Nicholas Ray (1955)
0:47:18 Johnny Guitar - Nicholas Ray (1954)
0:47:40 Rio Lobo - Howard Hawks (1970)
0:48:18 Dodge City - Michael Curtiz (1939)
0:49:07 The Tall Men - Raoul Walsh (1955)
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Richard Taylor (general) | Wikipedia audio article
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Richard Taylor (general)
00:00:42 1 Early years
00:03:50 2 American Civil War
00:08:58 2.1 Operations to recapture New Orleans
00:11:13 2.2 Red River Campaign
00:12:12 2.3 Last days of the war
00:13:04 3 Military prowess
00:15:30 4 Postbellum life
00:16:52 5 Family
00:17:45 6 Remembrance
00:18:19 7 Works
00:18:45 8 See also
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Richard Dick Taylor (January 27, 1826 – April 12, 1879) was an American planter, politician, military historian, and Confederate general. Following the outbreak of the American Civil War, Taylor joined the Confederate States Army, serving first as a brigade commander in Virginia, and later as an army commander in the Trans-Mississippi Theater. Taylor commanded the District of West Louisiana and was responsible for successfully opposing United States troops invading upper northwest Louisiana during the Red River Campaign of 1864. He was the only son of Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States.
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George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was an American soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician. A graduate of West Point, McClellan served with distinction during the Mexican War (1846–1848), and later left the Army to work in railroads until the outbreak of the Civil War (1861–1865). Early in the war, McClellan was appointed to the rank of major general and played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army, which would become the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater; he served a brief period (November 1861 to March 1862) as general-in-chief of the Union Army. Although McClellan was meticulous in his planning and preparations, these very characteristics hampered his ability to challenge aggressive opponents in a fast-moving battlefield environment. He chronically overestimated the strength of enemy units and was reluctant to apply principles of mass, frequently leaving large portions of his army unengaged at decisive points.
McClellan organized and led the Union army in the Peninsula Campaign in southeastern Virginia from March through July 1862. It was the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater. Making an amphibious clockwise turning movement around the Confederate Army in northern Virginia, McClellan's forces turned west to move up the Virginia Peninsula, between the James and York Rivers landing from the Chesapeake Bay, with the Confederate capital, Richmond, as their objective. Initially, McClellan was somewhat successful against the equally cautious General Joseph E. Johnston, but the military emergence of General Robert E. Lee to command the Army of Northern Virginia turned the subsequent Seven Days Battles into a partial Union defeat.
General McClellan failed to maintain the trust of President Abraham Lincoln. He did not trust his commander-in-chief and was privately derisive of him. He was removed from command in November after failing to decisively pursue Lee's Army following the tactically inconclusive but strategic Union victory at the Battle of Antietam outside Sharpsburg, Maryland, and never received another field command. McClellan went on to become the unsuccessful Democratic Party nominee in the 1864 presidential election against Lincoln's reelection. The effectiveness of his campaign was damaged when he repudiated his party's platform, which promised an end to the war and negotiations with the southern Confederacy. He served as the 24th Governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881, and eventually became a writer, and vigorously defended his Civil War conduct.
Most modern authorities have assessed McClellan as a poor battlefield general. Some historians view him as a highly capable commander whose reputation suffered unfairly at the hands of pro-Lincoln partisans who made him a scapegoat for the Union's military setbacks. After the war, subsequent commanding general and 18th President Ulysses S. Grant was asked for his opinion of McClellan as a general; he replied, McClellan is to me one of the mysteries of the war.
Edmund Kirby Smith | Wikipedia audio article
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Edmund Kirby Smith
00:01:52 1 Early life
00:03:17 2 Military education and career
00:06:06 3 Confederate Army and American Civil War
00:07:35 3.1 Trans-Mississippi Department
00:10:33 4 Marriage and family life
00:12:39 5 Postwar career
00:13:56 6 Legacy and honors
00:16:28 7 Alexander Darnes
00:17:59 8 See also
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Edmund Kirby Smith (May 16, 1824 – March 28, 1893) was a career United States Army officer who fought in the Mexican–American War. He later joined the Confederate States Army in the Civil War, and was promoted to general in the first months of the war. He was notable for his command of the Trans-Mississippi Department after the fall of Vicksburg to the U.S.
Smith was wounded at First Bull Run and distinguished himself during the Heartland Offensive, the Confederacy's unsuccessful attempt to capture Kentucky in 1862. He was appointed as commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department in January 1863. The area included most actions east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the Mississippi River. In 1863, Smith dispatched troops in an unsuccessful attempt to relieve the Siege of Vicksburg. After Vicksburg was captured by the Union in July, the isolated Trans-Mississippi zone was cut off from the rest of the Confederacy, and became virtually an independent nation, nicknamed 'Kirby Smithdom'. In the Red River Campaign of Spring 1864, he commanded victorious Confederate troops under General Richard Taylor, who defeated a combined Union army/navy assault under Nathaniel P. Banks.
On June 2, 1865, Smith surrendered his army at Galveston, Texas, the last general with a major field force. He quickly escaped to Mexico and then to Cuba to avoid arrest for treason. His wife negotiated his return during the period when the federal government offered amnesty to those who would take an oath of loyalty. After the war, Smith worked in the telegraph and railway industries. He primarily served as a college professor of mathematics and botany at the University of the South in Tennessee. He is credited with the discovery of several species of plants in Tennessee and Florida.
Chester A. Arthur | Wikipedia audio article
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Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 21st President of the United States from 1881 to 1885; he was the 20th Vice President of the United States and became president upon the death of President James Garfield in September 1881.
Arthur was born in Fairfield, Vermont, grew up in upstate New York, and practiced law in New York City. He served as quartermaster general of the New York Militia during the American Civil War. Following the war, he devoted more time to Republican politics and quickly rose in New York Senator Roscoe Conkling's political machine. Appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant to the lucrative and politically powerful post of Collector of the Port of New York in 1871, Arthur was an important supporter of Conkling and the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party. In 1878, the new president, Rutherford B. Hayes, fired Arthur as part of a plan to reform the federal patronage system in New York. When Garfield won the Republican nomination for president in 1880, Arthur, an eastern Stalwart, was nominated for vice president to balance the ticket. Six months into his term Arthur assumed the presidency upon the assassination of his predecessor by a mentally ill Stalwart.
At the outset, Arthur struggled to overcome a negative reputation as a Stalwart and product of Conkling's machine. To the surprise of reformers, he took up the cause of civil service reform. Arthur advocated for and enforced the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. He presided over the rebirth of the United States Navy, but was criticized for failing to alleviate the federal budget surplus, which had been accumulating since the end of the Civil War. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which resulted in denying citizenship to Chinese Americans until 1898 and barring Chinese immigration until 1943. Building on the 1875 Page Act, which barred Chinese women from entering the country, it was the first total ban on an ethnic or national group from immigrating to the country.
Suffering from poor health, Arthur made only a limited effort to secure the Republican Party's nomination in 1884; he retired at the close of his term. Journalist Alexander McClure later wrote, No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted as Chester Alan Arthur, and no one ever retired ... more generally respected, alike by political friend and foe. Although his failing health and political temperament combined to make his administration less active than a modern presidency, he earned praise among contemporaries for his solid performance in office. The New York World summed up Arthur's presidency at his death in 1886: No duty was neglected in his administration, and no adventurous project alarmed the nation. Mark Twain wrote of him, [I]t would be hard indeed to better President Arthur's administration. Over the 20th and 21st centuries, however, Arthur's reputation mostly faded among the public. He is generally ranked as an average president by historians and scholars. Arthur's obscurity has caused some historians and journalists to describe him as the Most Forgotten U.S. President.
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James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the 11th President of the United States (1845–1849). He previously was Speaker of the House of Representatives (1835–1839) and Governor of Tennessee (1839–1841). A protégé of Andrew Jackson, he was a member of the Democratic Party and an advocate of Jacksonian democracy. During Polk's presidency, the United States expanded significantly with the annexation of the Republic of Texas, the Oregon Territory, and the Mexican Cession following the American victory in the Mexican–American War.
After building a successful law practice in Tennessee, Polk was elected to the state legislature (1823) and then to the United States House of Representatives in 1825, becoming a strong supporter of Jackson. After serving as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, he became Speaker in 1835, the only president to have been Speaker. Polk left Congress to run for governor; he won in 1839, but lost in 1841 and 1843. He was a dark horse candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 1844; he entered his party's convention as a potential nominee for vice president, but emerged as a compromise to head the ticket when no presidential candidate could secure the necessary two-thirds majority. In the general election, Polk defeated Henry Clay of the rival Whig Party.
Polk is considered by many the most effective president of the pre–Civil War era, having met during his four-year term every major domestic and foreign policy goal he had set. After a negotiation fraught with risk of war, he reached a settlement with the United Kingdom over the disputed Oregon Country, the territory for the most part being divided along the 49th parallel. Polk achieved a sweeping victory in the Mexican–American War, which resulted in the cession by Mexico of nearly all the American Southwest. He secured a substantial reduction of tariff rates with the Walker tariff of 1846. The same year, he achieved his other major goal, re-establishment of the Independent Treasury system. True to his campaign pledge to serve only one term, Polk left office in 1849 and returned to Tennessee; he died in Nashville, most likely of cholera, three months after leaving the White House.
Scholars have ranked Polk favorably for his ability to promote and achieve the major items on his presidential agenda, but he has been criticized for leading the country into war against Mexico and for exacerbating sectional divides. A slaveholder for most of his adult life, he owned a plantation in Mississippi and bought slaves while President. A major legacy of Polk's presidency is territorial expansion, as the United States reached the Pacific coast and became poised to be a world power.
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Martin Van Buren (born Maarten Van Buren, December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. A founder of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the ninth Governor of New York, the tenth U.S. Secretary of State, and the eighth Vice President of the United States. He won the 1836 presidential election with the endorsement of popular outgoing President Andrew Jackson and the organizational strength of the Democratic Party. He lost his 1840 reelection bid to Whig Party nominee William Henry Harrison due in part to the poor economic conditions of the Panic of 1837. Later in his life, Van Buren emerged as an elder statesman and important anti-slavery leader who led the Free Soil Party ticket in the 1848 presidential election.
Van Buren was born in Kinderhook, New York to a family of Dutch Americans; his father was a Patriot during the American Revolution. He was raised speaking Dutch and learned English at school, making him the only U.S. President who spoke English as a second language. He trained as a lawyer and quickly became involved in politics as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party. He won election to the New York State Senate and became the leader of the Bucktails, the faction of Democratic-Republicans opposed to Governor DeWitt Clinton. Van Buren established a political machine known as the Albany Regency and in the 1820s emerged as the most influential politician in his home state. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1821 and supported William H. Crawford in the 1824 presidential election. John Quincy Adams won the 1824 election and Van Buren opposed his proposals for federally funded internal improvements and other measures. Van Buren's major political goal was to re-establish a two-party system with partisan differences based on ideology rather than personalities or sectional differences, and he supported Jackson's candidacy against Adams in the 1828 presidential election with this goal in mind. To support Jackson's candidacy, Van Buren ran for Governor of New York and resigned a few months after assuming the position to accept appointment as U.S. Secretary of State after Jackson took office in 1829.
Van Buren was a key advisor during Jackson's eight years as President of the United States and he built the organizational structure for the coalescing Democratic Party, particularly in New York. He resigned from his position in order to help resolve the Petticoat affair, then briefly served as the American ambassador to Britain. At Jackson's behest, the 1832 Democratic National Convention nominated Van Buren for Vice President of the United States and he took office after the Democratic ticket won the 1832 presidential election. With Jackson's strong support, Van Buren faced little opposition for the presidential nomination at the 1835 Democratic National Convention, and he defeated several Whig opponents in the 1836 presidential election. Van Buren's response to the Panic of 1837 centered on his Independent Treasury system, a plan under which the Federal government of the United States would store its funds in vaults rather than in banks. He also continued Jackson's policy of Indian removal; he maintained peaceful relations with Britain but denied the application to admit Texas to the Union, seeking to avoid heightened sectional tensions. In the 1840 election, the Whigs rallied around Harrison's military record and ridiculed Van Buren as Martin Van Ruin and a surge of new voters helped turn him out of office.
At the opening of the Democratic convention in 1844, Van Buren was the leading candidate for the party's nomination for the presidency, but his continued opposition to the annexation of Texas aroused the opposition of Southern Democrats and the party nominated James K. Polk. Van Buren grew increasingly opposed to slavery after he left office, and he agreed to lead a third party ...
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Welcome to the new Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Baton Rouge North - Zachary . Traveling for business? Our full business center and high-speed Internet access throughout the property will keep you connected to the world. Settle down in one of our well appointed Jacuzzi suites or take a dip in our pool. If staying in shape is on your daily �to do� list, mark it off when you visit our cardiovascular workout facility. Don�t worry, its open 24 hours a day so you can fit it in to your busy schedule. The Holiday Inn Express , Baton Rouge�s newest hotel, is conveniently nestled between Baton Rouge and St. Francisville in Zachary . We are close to several attractions that will please any palate. If you are into military history you may like to visit the USS Kidd in downtown Baton Rouge or pay your respects at the Port Hudson National Cemetery and Civil War Memorial . For those of you who enjoy a little romance and mystery, tour beautiful Greenwood Plantation or get swept away by the mystique of The Myrtles . Tournaments, reunions, or just getting down to business, Zachary and its surrounding areas offer something for everyone. Whether you are in Zachary to take ski lessons at Bennett�s Water Ski and Wakeboard School or you are here to work at Georgia Pacific or Exxon Mobil , our caring and attentive staff awaits the opportunity to serve your lodging needs., The Holiday Inn Express and Suites Baton Rouge North is Now Open
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