Lost New Orleans

[Frostychud]

New Orleans is a very old city.

You can recover its lost history if you know its old name: Principality of Orange. Tulane University was founded in 1365 or something like that.

Also related: Arles, France. Remember, as the Romans used to say, typography is the other tenth of the law.

Hello Emperor Norton, you're one of my favorite contributors here. I've read through your entire post history with great interest. You often choose to leave tantalizing morsels rather than serve up the whole steaming turkey. At other times you spoil us with your munificence. I'm quite open to your hypothesis, but I must admit that a glance at the links you provide offers no obvious evidence that the Principality of Orange was Cinderella'd into New Orleans.

I've spent a lot of time in both New Orleans and the Avignon region in France, and I must say that the latter feels much more ancient. The landscape is littered with old stone houses, churches, castles, "Roman" ruins, etc. Dig anywhere and you'll find something. There's a small town every five kilometers and a palpable continuity of tradition from feudal times. Ten years ago I admired a man sharpening knives at the Sunday market in a nearby small town with an ancient stone wheel. I think it was pedal-powered. He looked like he had time-warped in from the 18th century. I've met enough similar characters from the French hinterlands to know that the place is very old. If New Orleans really was the Principality of Orange, it had to have been wiped off the face of the Earth and rebuilt from scratch, because there are no physical traces of anything ancient to my knowledge, including underground. New Orleans is below sea level and you hit water very quickly when you dig. Again, I'm open to your idea, but there are too many missing links for me to really put the pieces together.

Would it be too much to ask for a little more meat?

 

[Breizh]

I found a few things relating to the crescent symbol which is often associated with Ottoman Empire/Morocco. I'm sure i've seen other examples of American architecture with crescent symbolism, I'll share it here if I find anything.

Why is it sitting in the middle of the Canal Street Neutral Ground? Check out the upturned crescent antenna.

Confederate Seminole of Oklahoma flag

Flag the Muskogee (Creek) Confederate Americans 1861-1865

Grand Council Flag of the Mi'kmaq Nation

Battle flag of the Fifteenth (Northwest) Arkansas Regiment (CS); circa 1862

Confederate general Van Dorn battle flag

Civil War Silver Crescent and Star Badge.
Measuring 1 ½ x 1 ½-inches with a pin back. This interesting badge poses something of a mystery as to its origin.
The design is similar to a Union Seventh Army Corps badge but is almost identical in form to a Civil War-era hat badge.

Silver pin with a crescent moon and five pointed star. Engraved on the moon: "New Orleans"; on the star "La". The back is a simple hasp closure. The pin is attached to a red silk ribbon (.a) on which is printed its history.

The Moorish palace in Tampa Bay, Florida

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Muslem-Jerusalem from 1070 under the order of the Cresent. Moslem-Jerusalem, which looks very Moorish with the Crescent moons at the top of those Maurice domes. This image is a full-page miniature of Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock