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New Orleans celebrates anniversary of steamboat Source: Associated Press Friday 27th January, 2012
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Two hundred years ago, the first steamboat meandered down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, taking more than four months to reach New Orleans.
The journey was marked by Indians chasing the paddle-wheeled boat, a baby's birth and an earthquake that made the Mississippi flow in the opposite direction for 45 miles. ...
