Incipit - Modern uses of incipits. 1  The idea of choosing a few words or a phrase or two, which would be placed on the spine of a book and its cover, developed slowly with the birth of printing, and the idea of a title page with a short title and subtitle came centuries later, replacing earlier, more verbose titles.
The New Orleans metropolitan area was first defined in 1950. Then known as the New Orleans Standard Metropolitan Area (New Orleans SMA), it consisted of three parishes â Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard â and had a population of 685,405.
New Orleans is estimated to have 369,000 people in 2013, which is down dramatically from 484,674 in 2000. This is up from the 2010 Census population of 343,800, however, and New Orleans is growing and recovering from Hurricane Katrina that struck its coast in 2005.