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Reference || Meaning/Explanation ||
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 * 15 || Street-car named Desire || There was once a 1923 streetcar by the name of “Desire” in New Orleans. It was also known as “Jackson”, “Canal”, and “Napoleon”. In New Orleans, the electric rail vehicles have been a form of inexpensive transportation for 150 years and are called “streetcars” -- never “trolleys”. ||
 * 17 || Belle Reve || It literally means “beautiful dream” in French. Interesting fact: Belle Reve New Orleans is an organization aiming to provide permanent and transitional housing along with full support services to adults and families living with AIDS or HIV-related infections, chartered in 1992. ||
 * 17 || Mississippi || One of the states in the “Deep South”, commonly referred to as the “Lower South” or “Cotton States”. Today, the Deep South is usually delineated as being those states and areas where things most often thought of as "Southern" exist in their most concentrated form. Most definitions include the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. For most of the 19th century and 20th century, the Deep South supported the Democratic Party, viewing the rival Republican Party as a Northern organization responsible for the American Civil War, which devastated the economy of the Old South. However, since the 1964 presidential election along with the Civil Rights Movement, the Deep South has tended to vote Republican in presidential elections. ||
 * 20 || The Ghoul-Haunted Woodland of Weir || A weir is defined as an artificial pool formed by a dam. The Woodland of Weir is the setting of the poem “Ulalume” written by Edgar Allen Poe, in which the narrator wanders near Auber Lake and Weir Forest on a gloomy October night with a “volcanic” heart. He has a "serious and sober" talk with his soul, though he does not realize it is October or where he is heading. Just as the narrator calms his soul, he realizes he unconsciously has walked to the vault of his "lost Ulalume" on the very night he had buried her one year before. There are recurring images of decay and deterioration. ||
 * 23 || Polack || A derogatory reference to a Pole or person of Polish descent. “Polak” in the Polish language, means “a Polish male person; “polka” is the feminine version. Today, in the English-speaking world, the word “Polack” is considered an ethnic slur: 1) Slang: disparaging and offensive, 2) Offensive slang used as a disparaging term for a person of Polish birth or descent. ||