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K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen, the iconic New Orleans restaurant that helped to cement the city’s reputation as a culinary leader, and made founder Chef Paul Prudhomme and international star, has closed permanently. The world-famous restaurant was established in 1979 by Prudhomme and his wife Kay Hinrichs Prudhomme. What began as a modest 62-seat restaurant on Chartres
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Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi on Jan 8, 1935, which celebrates its most famous native year round, not just on his birthday, when there are concerts of Elvis music and screenings of his most popular Hollywood movies. Tupelo is more low-key, and far less glitzy or crowded than Graceland, in Memphis, which he
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It’s one of the most popular and iconic songs of the Christmas season. There’s an interesting story behind the creation of Silent Night, Holy Night, celebrated each Christmas Eve in the tiny chapel in the Austrian Alps where it was first performed 201 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1818. The village is Oberndorf, near Salzburg.
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We are traveling more than ever for the holidays, whether that travel is to go home to be with family, or to get away with or without family. So where are we going:? New York City, Cancun and Orlando are the top three destinations, according to a survey by travel insurance company Alliance Global Assistance,
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Some Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals have been extended into what’s now called Cyber Week. Some of the best are travel deals, especially the cyber deals you can book through the end of 2019 for travel through 2021. If you are dreaming about or itching to get away on a bucket list travel experience,
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The new Downton Abbey movie is everything fans of the beloved Downton Abbey TV series hoped for – and more. All the characters are back, along with a few new ones to advance the plot. Everything looks so much more grand and sumptuous on the big screen, from the crystal stemware to the crystal beading
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Sleep with the fishes at the new ultra-luxury underwater hotel The Conrad Maldives Rangali Island. The underwater villa is named The Muraka, which translates to “coral” in the Maldives’ native language, Dhivehi, for the way that it rests along the ocean floor, about 20 feet below the surface, peacefully observing the sea life that surrounds
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Your budget is busted from the holidays, but you still want to get away. So take advantage of these travel deals and contests now, and save money for the rest of 2019. Sign up for a bucket list trip for just $1. Normally, tour operators and cruises require hefty down payments to hold your spot,
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Where to go next: Celebrate National Parks Week, April 21-29, which celebrates the US National Park System, with wildlife viewing, including bison, elk, bear, moose, wolves, eagles and more. Get FREE admission to all 400 national parks on April 21, Earth Day. Here are the best national parks for wildlife viewing: Lake Clark National Park
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Sustainability is good for the environment and good for business, including for hotels and resorts, especially one located inside a protected UNESCO biosphere preserve in The Maldives, in the Indian Ocean. The island nation is known for its beautiful sunsets and scenery, including clear turquoise waters and coral reefs for snorkeling, scuba diving and other
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