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  • Some hospital workers also do what they can to spread holiday cheer throughout the season, such as Rapides transporter Robert Means 'Santa hat and reindeer antlers.

    thetowntalk.com - 2009

  • Boudreaux, a Cajun highlander from Rapides Parish in central Louisiana, was an older, single gentleman, who was born and raised a Baptist, now living in South Louisiana.

    Amateur Hour 2009

  • Boudreaux, a Cajun highlander from Rapides Parish in central Louisiana, was an older, single gentleman, who was born and raised a Baptist, now living in South Louisiana.

    Amateur Hour 2009

  • Looks like there was a surprising upset in the Rapides parish Sheriff's race.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • Looks like there was a surprising upset in the Rapides parish Sheriff's race.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2007

  • The toilets backed up, creating an unbearable stench. “They left us to die there, ” Dan Bright, an Orleans Parish Prison inmate told Human Rights Watch at Rapides Parish Prison, where he was sent after the evacuation.

    Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives 2005

  • He carried Rapides Parish (Alexandria) with 54% of the vote, up from 44% four years ago.

    Bayou Boy Wonder 2007

  • As it turned out, my parish Rapides rolled two hundred school buses the next week to get evacuees out of the city.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2005

  • I was shot down over Hanoi 27 October 1967 while leading a flight of F-105Ds on Canal Des Rapides Bridge.

    Stirm, Robert L. 1977

  • He says he found an Inlet and a River which he entered, and navigated untill he came to a Lake in which he left his Ship and followed the Course of a River, which descended, with Falls in it, or rather Rapides, in his Boats untill he came to Hudsons Bay where he found Seimor

    John Adams diary 41, 23 May - 19 June 1783 1961

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