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.
Using the larger figure, New Orleans is now at about 78 percent of its population before the storm, while the metropolitan area â which includes Jefferson, St. Tammany, St. Bernard, Plaquemines, St. John the Baptist, St. James and St. Charles parishes â has about 90 percent of its pre-Katrina population.