When French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville traveled up the Mississippi River in 1699 and encountered a large red pole erected by Native Americans, he dubbed the location “le bâton rouge,” or ...

The name stuck, and today, Baton Rouge serves double duty ... a 25-acre property housing a broad collection of 32 historic buildings, horse-drawn carriages, and farming equipment and tools.

Nestled between major Southern cities like Jackson, Mississippi, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is the charming small town of Natchez ... “Lucky Number 13 House,” a local home decorated with colorful ...

Fry, in an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, revealed that the building requires construction work to repair its foundation and elevators but that the school has set aside a reserve fund ...

The Netherlands has two kinds of architecture — the classic canal houses that you’ll see in every Dutch city and then the impressive, too-mind-blowing-to-be-real pinnacles of modern buildings that you ...

In '16 Carriages', Beyoncé opens up about her life story and the affect working as a child had on her. Beyoncé has stopped the world again. What are her '16 Carriages' lyrics about though ...

China is building a new military command centre near Beijing that is 10 times the size of the Pentagon, US intelligence officials have said. Satellite images of the base, about 20 miles south-west ...

In addition to building the new command centre, China has been expanding its nuclear capabilities. Recent satellite analysis revealed the country had cleared land on the island of Changbiao in the ...

NASA has presented rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu which exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life.