Federal authorities raid Los Angeles-area casino. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Federal agents from several agencies raided the Bicycle Hotel & Casino in a Los Angeles suburb on Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation, forcing its temporary closure, officials said.
Antebellum Period summary: The Antebellum Period in American history is generally considered to be the period before the civil war and after the War of 1812, although some historians expand it to all the years from the adoption of the Constitution in 1789 to the beginning of the Civil War.
antebellum from L. phrase ante bellum, lit. before the war; in U.S., usually in ref. to Amer. Civil War (1861-65); first attested in a June 14, 1862, entry in Mary Chesnut's diary. True to her antebellum ideas, Mammy Maria dressed her two girls every afternoon before dinner. The subjects upon which the antebellum Negro preached, however, were comparatively few. Certainly Simms seems to have been the best imaginative writer the antebellum South produced.