• David Snell, who was the first person to allege that Japan had tested its own atomic bomb prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, later became a writer for Life Magazine?

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Ada Jack Carver Snell

• the Louisiana short story writer Ada Jack Carver Snell had a French grandmother who encouraged her literary and intellectual pursuits?

Minden, Louisiana

• David William Thomas, mayor of Minden, Louisiana who also published newspapers, practiced law, and taught at the university level, was called "Renaissance man"?
• the Germantown Colony and Museum near Minden, Louisiana, preserves the remnants of a Utopian religious commune active between 1835 and 1871?
• the Minden Press-Herald, a daily newspaper in Minden, Louisiana, was not established until 1966 though an earlier Minden Herald dates to 1849?

Atlanta

• comedian Nipsey Russell got his start as a car hop at the Atlanta drive-in restaurant The Varsity?
• Holy Spirit College in Atlanta, Georgia, will admit its first class of full-time undergraduate students later this year?
• Jeff Swanagan, the Georgia Aquarium's first employee, oversaw the importation of live whale sharks (pictured) from Taiwan to Atlanta for exhibition?
• chef Austin Leslie (pictured), known as the Godfather of Fried Chicken, died in Atlanta after being evacuated from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?

Louisiana

• conservative radio talk show host Moon Griffon, who broadcasts statewide from Monroe, is sometimes known as the Rush Limbaugh of Louisiana?
• Governor Bobby Jindal named former State Representative Sean Reilly as board chairman of Blueprint Louisiana, a group promoting technology and economic development statewide?
• Judge Guy E. Humphries, Jr., of Alexandria, Louisiana, joined with two friends to form the Renaissance Home for Youth, an alternative to reform school for youthful offenders?
• Louisiana journalist Robert Angers in 1977 established the International Relations Association of Acadiana to foster goodwill and commerce with French and Spanish-speaking nations?
• Louisiana Judge Kernan "Skip" Hand was overruled in 2008 by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the exclusion of two blacks as jurors in a high-profile murder case?
• Louisiana State Representative Jim Morris tried without success in 2009 to gain repeal of his state's compulsory motorcyclist helmet law?
• Louisiana politician Earl Williamson was a confidant of Governor Earl Kemp Long, who shared his interest in buttermilk, horse racing, and politicking?
• Louisiana Sheriff Henderson Jordan sought to keep the death car of Bonnie and Clyde to compensate the officers who in 1934 risked their lives to capture the fugitives?
• Louisiana District Judge Stephen J. Windhorst is a former reserve police officer who also served eight years in the Louisiana House of Representatives as an anti-crime advocate?
• Louisiana in 2008 became the fiftieth state to ban cockfighting, nearly two decades after former State Representative Garey Forster led the initial effort to halt the practice?

Shreveport, Louisiana

• Herman Farr, an African American clergyman from Shreveport, Louisiana, single-handedly desegregated the historic Strand Theatre during the heyday of the civil rights movement?
• Liz Swaine was a locally well-known television news anchor who quit to become a mayoral executive assistant and later ran for mayor of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana?
• Lloyd E. Lenard, a Shreveport businessman and author, was a leader in the fight to establish a two-party system in his native Louisiana?
• Rose Van Thyn, a survivor of Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck, became a leading figure in Holocaust education in her adopted city of Shreveport, Louisiana?
• Jerry Wray of Shreveport, Louisiana, moved away from painting landscapes to emphasis on the abstract with Christian themes?
• former Louisiana State Rep. Tommy G. Armstrong of Shreveport is particularly known for his opposition to video poker?
• in 1934 State Representative Rupert Peyton of Shreveport ridiculed Huey P. Long by proposing a bill to grant the title "Your Majesty" to every adult in Louisiana?
• the Shreveport deejay Barney Cannon was particularly knowledgeable about the history of country music, his radio station KWKH-AM, and the former Louisiana Hayride?
• the Cathedral of St. John Berchmans in Shreveport, Louisiana, is one of only a few churches in the world named after St. John Berchmans?

Natchitoches, Louisiana

• Robert DeBlieux, a former mayor of Natchitoches, Louisiana, was the local advisor when the film Steel Magnolias was shot in the city?