Spaceflight has been the newest and most exciting frontier in human exploration. Following the successes of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs in proving man could get to space and explore in reasonable safety, NASA needed to follow up with a new program. By 1972, many Americans who had once sat captivated to watch the…
Christmas in Slidell
It's the most wonderful time of the year~ Looking for some Holiday Cheer? Check out below for some fun local events quite near! This year Slidell kicked out Christmas with the Bayou Jam Christmas Spectacular on December 1st. In attendance was Vince Vance and the Valiants, best known for their hit "All I Want for…
100 Years of King Tut
November marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen. Possibly the most famous king of ancient Egypt, Tutankhamun (commonly known as King Tut to modern people). He was one of the last pharaohs of the 18th dynasty, possibly the son of Akhenaten. Tutankhamen was nine years old when he ascended to…
Halloween Spotlight: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is an American classic, and one of the earliest and most renown stories taking place in our country. Written in 1820, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a fictionalized historiography of the quaint town of Sleepy Hollow, a Dutch settlement in New York state. The early history of the…
National Chess Day
October 9th is National Chess Day! In 1976, President Gerald Ford declared October 9th to be National Chess Day, in observance of the internationally renowned board game. Though the earliest origin of Chess can be found in 7th century India, Chess as we know it evolved around the 15th century in Spain. By this point…
Hobbit Day 2022: The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien always conceived that The Lord of the Rings would be one story, but, by the time he had written much of the work and prepared it for publishing, the author knew that his story existed in a much wider world. More so than any of the books as yet released, The Return of the…
Star Trek Day
Happy Star Trek Day! September 8th is the day Star Trek premiered back in 1966. Star Trek was a ground-breaking television show in many ways! Gene Roddenberry conceived Star Trek in 1964, inspired by Gulliver's Travels, Wagon Train, and Horatio Hornblower. The series follows the adventures of the USS Enterprise of the United Federation of Planets, an…
Pluto: The Demoted Planet
Pluto holds a special place in the heart of both professional and amateur astronomers. Pluto was originally discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombough and first theorized to exist in the 1840s; it was the only planet discovered by an American. Named after the Greek god of the underworld, Pluto reigned as the 9th planet and…
National Lighthouse Day
August 7 is National Lighthouse Day! Let's celebrate by honoring some local lighthouses, past and present. The oldest known lighthouse in Louisiana was the Frank Island Lighthouse. Marking the entrance to the Mississippi River, the earliest planning started in 1803. Numerous delays, including Louisiana changing hands a few times and the War of 1812…
Comic Conventions
Do you know the history of the 'comics convention?' Nowadays, conventions are held around the year and cover a variety of fandoms, comics of course, but also other media franchises, such as from film and television. In several cases, conventions that started out as just comics only grew to include all kinds of media, often…
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