Today, Jackson Square and other places in New Orleans will be full of revelers. No, it’s not a Mardi Gras do-over, it’s the city’s 300th birthday celebration. Sometime in the spring of 1718, ‘La Nouvelle-Orléans’ was founded by French investors. Since then, residents of the Big Easy have chosen May 7 as the day to celebrate the birth of New Orleans. Really, this city doesn’t need an excuse to throw a party, but this one’s going to be big.
Happy 300th, NOLA!
Today in History
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Canadian Thanksgiving
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Working for that cliffside view
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Cloughoughter Castle, County Cavan, Ireland
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Gray days ahead in Monterey
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A storied trail marks a century
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Winter solstice
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Queen Elizabeth s Platinum Jubilee
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Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel in Arkansas
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A day of death and rebirth
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World Elephant Day
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The Big Blue of the Sierra
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75th anniversary of the Spruce Goose
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Montreux, Switzerland, and all that jazz
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Lake Magadi, Kenya
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National Park Week: Olympic National Park, Washington
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In the path of the pronghorn
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Borovets ski resort in Bulgaria
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New Year’s Day in the land of the rising sun
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On the hunt
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Celebrating whales—and a whale of a tale
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Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
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Castle Frankenstein in Darmstadt, Germany
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An oceanic valentine
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A different kind of dive
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Singing praises of the oceans
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The dry days of winter in Etosha
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Protecting wildlife today and tomorrow
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Milky Way over Zabriskie Point, California
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50 years of the Endangered Species Act
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Splashes of color for Watercolor Month