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On This Day, April 30: Japanese Emperor Akihito abdicates throne
United Press International via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoIn 1803, the United States more than doubled its land area with the Louisiana Purchase. It obtained...
Louisiana Purchase Zoological Society, Bins on Bins creates donation opportunity
NBC 10 - FOX 14 Monroe· 5 days agoMONROE, La (KTVE/KARD) – Bins on Bins, a discount store in Monroe, La, partnered with the Louisiana ...
Source of Shreveport’s Red River is most popular state park in Texas
KAMR Amarillo· 6 hours agoThe Red River is beautiful, with beige sand beaches and reddish-orange waters that stretch from the...
And so it begins: Cicadas swarm South Carolina town
AccuWeather· 7 days agoWhether you love them or hate them, a double brood of cicadas has begun to emerge from the Earth. Residents of the eastern United States have been...
Everything you need to know about this year's emergence of two broods of cicadas
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier· 1 day agoAre you ready for the 'Cicadapocalypse'? The last time this emergence happened was in 1803, when...
People are just finding out what Mount Rushmore was supposed to look like before funding ran out
UNILAD· 14 hours agoSculptor Gutzon Borglum intended to carve the Entablature 'in an area shaped like the territory of...
The history behind poker
Stacker via AOL· 14 hours agoBut the birth of the modern game called poker occurred sometime in the first two decades of the 19th century, cropping up around New Orleans, a former...
On This Day in History - April 30th - Almanac - UPI.com
UPI· 22 hours agoOn April 30, 2019, Japanese Emperor Akihito, 85, formally abdicated his throne, becoming the...
The World’s Fair drew big crowds from the start
St. Louis Post-Dispatch· 23 hours agoST. LOUIS • People began stepping from trolleys and Wabash Railroad shuttles before dawn. As bandleader John Phillip Sousa led a large ensemble through...
Millions of cicadas are coming. Do they really attract copperhead snakes?
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe last time these broods hatched in the same year was 1803 when Thomas Jefferson was president and Lewis and Clark were in the beginnings of their exploration of the Louisiana< ...
