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.
Population Density. With a surface area of 51,843 square miles, (135,382 square kilometers), Louisiana is the 31st largest state in terms of pure land mass. As regards to population density, the figures are fairly modest and for every square mile of land, there is an average of 105 people (40.5 per square kilometer).ew Orleans is the largest city in the state and its metropolitan area had a population of 1.167 million in 2010 with a population density of 1,965 people per square mile in the city proper.