5 facts about the Louisiana state
Louisiana is the only state in the United States that bases its civil law on the Napoleonic Code, a legal framework inhe…
Tabasco hot sauce has been made on Avery Island, Louisiana by the McIlhenny family since 1868. Edmund McIlhenny, a banke…
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, connecting Metairie to Mandeville across Lake Pontchartrain north of New Orleans, held…
Louisiana loses approximately 25 to 35 square miles of land to coastal erosion every year, the fastest rate of land loss…
Jazz music was born in New Orleans, Louisiana at the turn of the 20th century, emerging from a collision of African rhyt…