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Dakota City may be famous as the home of heroes like Static and Rocket, but it is also one of the earliest and oldest French settlements in Louisiana predating New Orleans by 2 centuries. A city which set the standards for interracial harmony between whites, blacks and Native Americans long before the civil rights movements of the 60s and 70s. A place where French, Spanish, African and Native American cultures truly coalesce and come together in harmonious coexistence. But how did this city get her start? In 1539, Hernando de Soto led a band of conquistadores from Florida through the American Southeast, searching for gold and silver. The expedition was a disaster and led to de Soto's death in 1541. However one of his followers, José Martínez de Aguilera, still believed there was mineral wealth to be found. He and an expeditionary force returned to the region, a flat alluvial plain between the Gulf Coast and with access to a bend in the Mississippi River. Martínez would christen

Many warriors throughout history have been romanticized by people of later eras. However, with the League of Assassins, they are viewed more as ruthless murderers, but are some of the most highly trained men and women on earth, believing that they kill only for the greater good of all. The origins of this ideology lay within the historical Islamic realm established by Ra's al-Ghul: the Nizari Ismaili State. This is the history of the League of Assassins: their origins and rise to power. Almost simultaneously with Islam's meteoric rise to superpower status in the 7th century, internal division permanently divided the religion into two parties. At the heart of Islam lies the memory of a civil war between the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad. His cousin and son-in-law, the Caliph Ali was murdered, along with Ali's grandchildren. Islam was split permanently; the two sides, Sunni and Shia, remain to this day bitterly divided. Ali's supporters, the Shiites, don't believe in letting