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Originally Posted by adm
Actually, Louisiana uses Parishes because their legal system is based on the Napoleonic Code, instead of the English Common Law system the rest of the U.S.A law is based on.
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Which is weird, because the basic unit of rural local government here on Homeworld is the Civil Parish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_...gland#Parishes
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Originally Posted by Icelander
Are there any places in Galveston that would naturally have lower Threshold (Pyramid #3/58 'Safe as Houses') and Facade (Pyramid #3/97 'Mask of Humanity') than others, even to the point of being Places of Power (GURPS Thaumatology) with nasty-bad flavour and/or Bad Places (GURPS Horror)?
Sites of massacres, notable suicides, serial killer residences, etc.?
Haunted houses?
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Dunno about Galveston, but besides the more famous fountain of youth in Florida, there's the one from the song located in Mineral Wells TX.