After years of stagnant wage growth, rising living costs people in England and Wales have an average of just Â£7,780 in savings, according to figures from Halifax. Rising costs: The average cost of a funeral as risen by 80 per cent since 2004.
The first Mardi Gras festivities in Louisiana were held on March 3, 1699. On that day, a group of French explorers set up camp on the west bank of the Mississippi River, about 60 miles downriver from what is now New Orleans.
Mobile, Alabama Is the Home of the First Official U.S. Mardi Gras. Mobile's Mardi Gras King-King Felix 2011. Most people assume that New Orleans is the ancestral home of Mardi Gras, but history indicates that the first âofficialâ Mardi Gras celebration in the New World was held in 1703 in Mobile Alabama.