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2. Southern Comfort (1981 film) - Wikipedia

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   Southern Comfort is a 1981 American action - war drama - thriller film directed by Walter Hill and written by Michael Kane, Hill and his longtime collaborator David Giler. It stars Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, T. K. Carter, Franklyn Seales and Peter Coyote. The film, set in 1973, features a Louisiana Army National Guard squad of ...

3. Swampland in Florida - Wikipedia

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   Swampland in Florida. A freshwater swamp in Florida. Swampland in Florida is a figure of speech referring to real estate scams in which a seller misrepresents unusable swampland as developable property. These types of unseen property scams became widely known in the United States in the 20th century, and the phrase is often used metaphorically ...

4. Atchafalaya Basin - Wikipedia

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   A swamp in the Atchafalaya Basin. The Atchafalaya Basin, or Atchafalaya Swamp (/ ə ˌ tʃ æ f ə ˈ l aɪ ə /; Louisiana French: Atchafalaya, [atʃafalaˈja]), is the largest wetland and swamp in the United States. Located in south central Louisiana, it is a combination of wetlands and river delta area where the Atchafalaya River and the ...

5. Draining and development of the Everglades - Wikipedia

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   Despite the sale of 4,000,000 acres (16,000 km 2) to Disston and the skyrocketing price of land, by the turn of the 20th century the IIF was bankrupt due to mismanagement. [27] Legal battles ensued between the State of Florida and the railroad owners about who owned the rights to sell reclaimed land in the Everglades.

6. 1997 Saint-Casimir mass suicide - Wikipedia

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   The Order of the Solar Temple was a cult active in several French-speaking countries, led by Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret.Founded in 1984, it was a Neo-Templar secret society with eclectic beliefs sourced from many different movements like Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, and the New Age. [1]

7. Andrew Jackson and the slave trade in the United States

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   Negative campaigning in the 1828 United States presidential election: A Brief account of General Jackson's dealing in Negroes, in a series of letters and documents by his own neighbors, an appeal to the citizens of the State of New York to continue the wise administration of John Quincy Adams, containing letters by Wilkins Tannehill, Boyd McNairy, and Andrew Erwin (Tennessee State Library and ...

8. You can stay in Shrek’s famous swamp home - AOL

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   How to book a stay at Shrek's Swamp. Booking requests open Oct. 13 and will go live on Airbnb's website at 6 p.m. BST — or 1 p.m. ET. The listing notes the residence is in Highland Council ...

9. Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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   The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is a 402,000‑acre (1,627 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in Charlton, Ware, and Clinch Counties of Georgia, and Baker County in Florida, United States. The refuge is administered from offices in Folkston, Georgia. The refuge was established in 1937 to protect a majority of the 438,000 acre (1,772 ...