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.
Estimates of New Orleansâ population just before the storm vary. The Census Bureauâs official estimate now puts the population at about 494,300 in 2005, though that comes after the bureau made corrections to its figures after the 2010 census. Earlier estimates had put the population closer to 455,000.