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Kentucky

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The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America.

It has a population of 12,000 people

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• Kentucky has a climate that can be best described as a humid subtropical climate

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Main cities • Frankfort is the capital

• The most populated city of Kentucky is Louisville

• The Second is Lexington

• Owensboro is the third greater city of Kentucky

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Frankfort

-Frankfort is a city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky that serves as the state capital and the county seat of Franklin County.

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Louisville

-It is Kentucky's largest city and county seat of Jefferson County.

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Lexington

-It is the second-largest city in Kentucky

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Owensboro

-It is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Richmond

-It is a city in Madison County, Kentucky,. It is named the home of Eastern Kentucky University.

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Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort

The Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort, Kentucky's Green Hill Cemetery, monument to black soldiers that participated in the America Civil War.

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Union Monument Louisville

• The Union Monument in Louisville is located in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville. It was built in 1914 from granite, honoring unknown soldiers who fought in the Union during the American Civil War. It is in front of the large number of Union soldiers buried at Cave Hill.

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John Hunt Morgan MemorialThe John Hunt Morgan Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky, is a tribute to Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, who was from Lexington and is buried nearby Lexington Cemetery.

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Ladies' Confederate Memorial

• The Ladies' Confederate Memorial is an American Civil War monument erected in 1874 in Lexington Cemetery in Lexington. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS.

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Green River

• The Green River is a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in Lincoln County in south-central Kentucky. Tributaries of the Green River include the Barren River Lake, the Nolin River, the Pond River and the Rough River.

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• Lake Cumberland

Lake CumberlandThe primary reasons for its construction were a mean to flood control and the production of hydroelectric power

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Mississippi riverThe Mississippi River is the second-longest river in the United States, with a length of 2,320 miles from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Licking river

• The Licking River is a tributary of the Ohio River. The river and its tributaries drain much of the region of northeastern Kentucky between the watersheds of the Kentucky River to the west and the Big Sandy River to the east.

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• The Big Sandy River is a tributary of the Ohio River.

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Madison County, Kentucky courthouse.

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Elizabethtown Church of Christ

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• Evangelical Lutheran church

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The population of the state in 4.173.405 inhabitants

89.5% Targets 7.4%Afro-American0.9% Asians0.2% Native Americans1.2% Two or more races 0.8% Other races Hispanic or Latin origin of any race: Only white 2.0%, without Hispanic or Latin origin: 88.3%

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Basketball

Football

Hockey

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• Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002), was a famous American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor.