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...In Sydney, the beauty on the Bay It’s hard to get a bad harbour view in Sydney, that world-beating harbour town; a handful of hotels in its Central Business District and The Rocks – in particular the Park...
...And an unmissable holiday moment is the Christmas Eve bonfires on the levee. This is a Cajun tradition where elaborate structures are set ablaze, lighting up the sky and the Mississippi River....
...A Ginza Line train yard squats in a neighbourhood of Tokyo’s Ueno district that is otherwise filled with buildings....
...(She runs up against her trumpeter, Levee, played by the late Chadwick Boseman in his final film role.)...
...The restaurant was in the Bywater district, just inside the levee and next to the river....
...The skyscrapers of New Orleans’ business district cluster on the horizon roughly 25 miles away....
...Her young trumpet player Levee wants to push on into jazz, a more marketable — and so more white and mainstream — musical register....
...Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry,” she sings. “And good ol’ boys were drinkin’ whisky and rye, singin’–” At that point, Kelly interrupts his wife....
...Bobby Jindal, Louisiana governor, said authorities may have to intentionally breach a levee in Plaquemines to relieve pressure on the barrier....
...Neighbourhoods along the riverfront, the most elevated above sea level, such as the French Quarter, Faubourg Marigny, the Warehouse District and the Garden District, all show little sign of the flood....
...In the writers’ room in the Garden district are piles of newspapers, books, a researcher – and two New Orleans residents: Elie and Tom Piazza, author of Katrina novel City of Refuge....
...Most immigrant areas were populated by young men and red light districts blossomed. Dance halls, brothels and opium dens attracted thrill-seekers....
...Lovers strolled on the levee and downstream a powerful light blazed …flickering in the distance, beckoning.”...
...Standing in the courtyard in the Piazza District, it was originally a residence but later served as headquarters for the Indian firm G.M....
...While the business and tourist districts have recovered quickly, many residential areas remain deserted, with more than half the city’s pre-storm population of 450,000 people still absent....
...“Most of our employees lived in the districts with the worst flooding.”...
...In front of him lay the Inner Harbour Navigation Canal that connects the Mississippi, running along the south of the city with Lake Pontchartrain to the north....
...Residents from Algiers, the central business district, the French quarter and uptown were allowed to return on Friday....
...Even as pumps were pushing water back into Lake Pontchartrain, rescue workers said that about half of New Orleans was still submerged under floodwater that could contain as many as 20,000 corpses....
...Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson parishpresident , reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been and is was still blocking his relief supplies to this Louisiana district: “We had...
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