 | A levee (/ˈlɛvi/), dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure used to keep the course of... 28 KB (3,619 words) - 01:21, 25 February 2024 |
Look up levee or levée in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Levee or levée comes from the French verb lever, meaning "getting up" or "rising". It has two... 1 KB (196 words) - 09:41, 12 December 2020 |
 | Levée en masse (French pronunciation: [ləve ɑ̃ mɑs] or, in English, mass levy) is a French term used for a policy of mass national conscription, often... 23 KB (3,297 words) - 10:01, 4 February 2024 |
Look up lever in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The levee (from the French word lever, meaning "getting up" or "rising") was traditionally a daily moment... 16 KB (2,150 words) - 19:44, 13 April 2024 |
 | When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts is a 2006 documentary film directed by Spike Lee about the devastation of New Orleans, Louisiana following... 13 KB (1,361 words) - 20:26, 5 March 2024 |
 | A levee breach or levee failure (the word dike or dyke can also be used instead of levee) is a situation where a levee fails or is intentionally breached... 16 KB (2,189 words) - 15:15, 13 February 2024 |
 | Newport on the Levee is a dining and attraction destination located on Third Street in Newport, Kentucky. It is located adjacent to the Purple People... 4 KB (262 words) - 11:01, 25 April 2024 |
"When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences... 17 KB (1,751 words) - 05:18, 21 April 2024 |
On Monday, August 29, 2005, there were over 50 failures of the levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans, Louisiana, and its suburbs following passage... 48 KB (5,758 words) - 03:46, 4 April 2024 |
 | Lava channel (redirect from Lava levee) into the channel and creates natural levees. This initial levee allows for the building of a more complex levee and channel. As the lava flows through... 2 KB (200 words) - 13:17, 27 July 2023 |
 | John Levee (April 10, 1924 – January 18, 2017) was an American abstract expressionist painter who had worked in Paris since 1949. His father was M. C... 4 KB (304 words) - 08:14, 20 April 2024 |
 | surge caused 53 levee breaches in the federally built levee system protecting metro New Orleans and the failure of the 40 Arpent Canal levee. Failures occurred... 174 KB (17,928 words) - 18:31, 26 April 2024 |
A New Year's levée is a social event on New Year's Day hosted by the Governor General of Canada, the lieutenant governors, military establishments, municipalities... 14 KB (1,697 words) - 23:03, 16 January 2024 |
 | The Levee District was the red-light district of Chicago from the 1880s until 1912, when police raids shut it down. The district, like many frontier town... 37 KB (4,484 words) - 20:11, 20 February 2024 |
John Luca Levee (born 21 February 1997) is a Jamaican footballer who plays as a midfielder for Dulwich Hamlet. Levee started his career at Real Mona, before... 7 KB (346 words) - 17:44, 27 January 2024 |
2006, the Orleans Levee Board (OLB) was the body of commissioners that oversaw the Orleans Levee District (OLD) which supervised the levee and floodwall system... 16 KB (2,096 words) - 17:40, 23 July 2023 |
The Levee District Police (French: Police du District de Levee) is the law enforcement agency responsible for the safety and protection of the Louisiana... 5 KB (566 words) - 22:49, 28 February 2024 |
 | The Zhongzhu Levee (Chinese: 中柱堤; pinyin: Zhōngzhù Dī) is a levee in Dongyin Township, Lienchiang County, Taiwan. It connects Xiyin Island and Dongyin... 4 KB (105 words) - 07:16, 26 January 2022 |
 | C. Levee (January 18, 1891, Chicago – May 24, 1972, Palm Springs, California) was born Michael C. Levee. Beginning his career as a prop man, Levee worked... 8 KB (1,053 words) - 11:13, 19 December 2022 |
Lorin Levee (8 July 1950 – 22 February 2012) was an American clarinetist. Levee studied clarinet at De Paul University. He played clarinet in the Grant... 2 KB (163 words) - 13:02, 5 June 2023 |
 | The McNary Levee System, also known as the Tri-Cities Levees, is an appurtenant or dam-related structure to McNary Lock and Dam, and consists of three... 2 KB (178 words) - 18:23, 3 April 2018 |
The New Orleans Levee was a New Orleans-based, American satire publication founded by editor and publisher Rudy Matthew Vorkapic. It printed 25000 copies... 1 KB (116 words) - 11:49, 19 April 2023 |
 | Railroad" is an American folk song. The first published version appeared as "Levee Song" in Carmina Princetonia, a book of Princeton University songs published... 8 KB (1,017 words) - 01:51, 25 April 2024 |
 | Battle of Kremmer Levee took place during Uckermark War, on 24 October 1412, on the Kremmer Levee, near the village of Kremmen. It was fought by forces... 6 KB (521 words) - 00:45, 11 March 2024 |
 | over 160 levee failures in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. These numbers include multiple failures of a single levee structure. Levee failures... 65 KB (7,404 words) - 11:16, 27 November 2023 |
City of Parks (redirect from LeveeTrail) Forest, and adding riverfront land and wharfs along the Riverwalk Trail and Levee Trail. There are also plans to connect the 100-mile (160 km) Louisville... 8 KB (862 words) - 13:24, 26 April 2024 |
West Quincy levee. By July 16, the river had stopped rising and had dropped 1.5 feet (46 cm) below the levee. That night, however, the levee unexpectedly... 17 KB (1,812 words) - 04:28, 7 January 2024 |
 | Levee camps constructed from the early 1800s to the 1930s were originally initiated to create a system of man made levees along the Mississippi river... 6 KB (816 words) - 22:08, 8 April 2024 |
Abyssal channel (redirect from Channel levee systems) these regions. Submarine channels and their flanking levees are commonly referred to as channel levee systems. They are significant geomorphological features... 20 KB (2,550 words) - 21:18, 24 October 2023 |
Levee Town is an American blues rock group, formed in 2002 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Over the past two decades, Levee Town have self-released... 7 KB (637 words) - 00:15, 10 November 2023 |