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Part of the great thrill of exploration is the unknown. Risk and reward must be considered on every exploratory trip. Ships might sink, disease might run

In the heart of Louisianas landscapes, trees stand as silent storytellers, weaving tales of long ago and today.

Established in 1898, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette has made it possible for young dreams to become realities for more than 120 years.

The American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic Edgar Allen Poe is widely known as one of the oddest and most enigmatic figures in literary history, as well as one of the great authors and pioneers of American literature, being one of the first to use the short story format, a major force in the

From the murder of Fanny Adams to an attempted assassination of the Prime Minister, these desperate, sometimes inexplicable crimes still shape the way we see deliberate killing.

by Kate Morgan (Mudlark £16.99, 352pp) A judge and jury at Exeter crown court were presented in 1884 with a chilling and somewhat unusual problem: is it acceptable to kill and then eat a ship’s cabin boy? In the dock, accused of murder, were sailors Thomas Dudley and Edwin Stephens. They had been taking the yacht Mignonette, along with Edmund Brooks and 17-year-old cabin boy Richard Parker, to Australia when it sank off the coast of west Africa. The crew drifted helplessly in a dinghy for mo...

Spirit of Acadiana: UL minimizing its carbon footprint through sustainability Spirit of Acadiana: UL Sustainability 03/05/2021 and last updated 2021-03-05 23:08:03-05 Walking along the bike path here on the UL campus where, earlier this week came a really amazing designation for bicycles, the university and the department of sustainability. “So, we are one of 35 universities designated as a bike-friendly university,” explains a proud Gretchen Vanicor, Director of the UL Department of ...

Posted By Kelly Merka Nelson on Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 12:02 PM click image Kellen Stanley via Instagram / bluestarart Blue Star Contemporary teased the CAM Kickoff with an enigmatic photo by Kellen Stanley, who collaborated with Xavier Gilmore on "AnOriginal Drive." After being inter...

there for three generations are really french. they dont look french. theyre not real french. but we dont have that problem. however much we think we have a problem with mexican immigration. were not an ethnicity. what holds us together? a belief in the ideals. the constitutional. its taking on a kind of sacred quality in our eyes. even though people dont read it, they still feel it has a sacred quality and i think its -- we go back to them. the way lincoln said we ought to. that they ...

this was a rebellion of slaves who slaughtered the white masters. it was impossible for a southern dominated one to recognize that. >> but john adams did send a console. >> yeah, but we didnt diplomatically recognize it. the federalists were very keen on having relations with the haitian government. again, the federalists have come up in the eyes of scholars over the last 20 years, through much of our history, through the 20th century. its the jeffersonian who dominated scholarly attit...