This week marks the bicentennial of Jefferson Parish, which was established by the Louisiana Legislature 200 years ago this week. On Feb. 11, 1825, Gov. Henry S. Johnson signed into law ...

Everything starts somewhere—even nude selfies. Did you know the very first nude selfie was sent long before social media and cellphones existed? Even before cameras were readily available?

Across the street is Louisiana Square, there's an open park of live oaks and Spanish moss hanging from crepe myrtles at the site of the state capitol building nearly 200 years ago. Although it was ...

the fundamental unity of her population in sentimental aspirations give her all the advantages which the Muslim World lost some 200 years ago.” [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Lake ...

"The brewery has almost 200 years of brewing history and one element that really attracted us to the project was the fact that it has its very own well. This is what makes it so beautiful and unique – ...

In fact, the state's oldest elementary school actually opened over 200 years ago. Founded in 1787 in the town of Atkinson, Atkinson Academy is not only the state's oldest elementary school ...

It's a tale that's been told again and again during guided tours of the Nova Scotia Legislature. But is it true? In the late 1830s, an MLA by the name Lawrence O'Connor Doyle was angered by a ...

Tim Crumplin, archivist at the Shoemakers Museum says: “200 years ago, the world would not have contained the telegraph, telephone, motor vehicles and aeroplanes. The first-ever public steam railway ...