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ARTICLES RELATED TO Kentucky - Regions | | | |  Kentucky - Regions: Encyclopedia II - Kentucky - HistoryKentucky was occasionally used as hunting grounds by roving bands of Shawnee Indians, but there were no permanent Indian settlements by 1750. Kentucky was owned by the colony and state of Virginia. For a while a few settlers tried to set up a colony of Transylvania with its capital at Boonesborough. After 1770, settlers from Virginia and North Carolina came through the Cumberland Gap. Kentucky grew rapidly and was the first major frontier developed west of the Appalachian Mountains. Guns enabled this movement westward, and even the term shot ...
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| | | | Kentucky - Regions: Encyclopedia II - Kentucky - Education
Kentucky - Colleges and universities.
Alice Lloyd College
Asbury College
Asbury Theological Seminary
Bellarmine University
Berea College
Brescia College
Campbellsville University
Centre College
Clear Creek Baptist Bible College
Georgetown College
Kentucky Christian University
Kentucky Mountain Bible College
Kentucky Wesleyan College
Lexington Theological Seminary
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| | | | Kentucky - Regions: Encyclopedia II - Kentucky - Professional sports teams Kentucky is home to no major league sports team, but several minor league teams.
Kentucky - Minor league baseball.
Louisville Bats (Triple-A International League affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds)
Lexington Legends (Single-A South Atlantic League affiliate of the Houston Astros)
Florence Freedom (Single-A Frontier League independent)
Kentucky - Football.
Lexington Horsemen (United Indoor Football)
Louisville Fire (arenafootball2)
Kentucky - Basketball.
Kent ...
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| | | | Kentucky - Regions: Encyclopedia II - Kentucky - Trivia Several U.S. Navy ships have been named USS Kentucky in honor of the state. The USS Paducah and USS Louisville also served as naval vessels.
Famous performers, writers and other artists born in Kentucky include:
Ned Beatty (actor)
George Clooney (actor, director, producer)
Rosemary Clooney (actress and musician; aunt of George)
Don Everly, musician and the older of The Everly Brothers (his younger brother Phil was born in Chicago)
Loretta Lynn (musician)
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| | | | Kentucky - Regions: Encyclopedia II - Kentucky - Important cities and towns
Kentucky - Population > 1000000 urbanized areas.
Louisville
Kentucky - Population > 100000 urbanized areas.
Lexington
Kentucky - Population > 10000 urbanized areas.
Ashland
Bardstown
Bowling Green
Campbellsville
Corbin
Covington
Danville
Elizabethtown
Frankfort
Georgetown
Glasgow
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| | | | Kentucky - Regions: Encyclopedia II - Kentucky - Demographics As of 2004, there were an estimated 4,145,922 people living in Kentucky. This is a increase of over 104,104 people from 2000. This includes about 95,000 foreign-born (2.3%).
Racially, the population is:
89.3% White, non-Hispanic
7.3% Black
1.5% Hispanic
0.7% Asian
0.2% Native American
1.1% Mixed race
The five largest ancestries in the state are: American (20.9%), German (12.7%), Irish (10.5%), ...
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Kentucky - Surveys and Reference.
Bodley, Temple and Samuel M. Wilson. History of Kentucky 4 vols. (1928)
Channing, Steven. Kentucky: A Bicentennial History (1977)
Clark, Thomas Dionysius. A History of Kentucky (many editions, 1937-1992)
Collins, Lewis. History of Kentucky (1880)
Harrison, Lowell H. and James C. Klotter. A New History of Kentucky (1997), the best place to start
Kleber, John E. et al The Kentucky Encyclopedia< ...
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| | | | Kentucky - Regions: Encyclopedia II - Kentucky - Law and government The capital of Kentucky is Frankfort and its current governor is Ernie Fletcher (Republican). Kentucky's two U.S. Senators are Jim Bunning (Republican) and Mitch McConnell (Republican). The Kentucky Constitution provides for three branches of government: the legislative, the judicial, and the executive. Kentucky's General Assembly has two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives. The executive branch is headed by the Governor. See List of Kentucky Governors. The judicial branch of Kentucky is made up of trial courts, called Dist ...
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| | | | Kentucky - Regions: Encyclopedia II - Kentucky - Geography See also: List of Kentucky counties
Kentucky, also known as The Bluegrass State, borders the Midwest and the Deep South. It touches West Virginia, Virginia, and Tennessee, but is separated by water from Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.
Its northern border is the low-water mark on the north side of the Ohio River. Its western border is the Mississippi River. Other major rivers in Kentucky include the Kentucky River, Tennessee River, the Cumberland River, t ...
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