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Australian-born English first-class cricketer mostly known for his long tenure for the Worcestershire County Cricket Club, for which he played more than 200 times between 1903 and 1914. On May 9, 1931, he was reported missing, but more than a week later, his body was found floating in Burton upon Trent .
Kentucky Down Under is an Australia-themed animal park located in Horse Cave, Kentucky, United States. In 1990, the park was opened by Bill and Judy Austin to the public. Bill Austin was manager of Mammoth Onyx Cave (which was later renamed Kentucky Caverns), which his grandfather had purchased in the 1920s.
This file has an extracted image: Four African American men lynched on the "old proctor lynching tree" where "a total of nine men lynched on this tree" "taken at dawn August 1, '08" at "Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky"- (NBY 4084) (cropped).jpg.
As the debate over lethal injections resumes, 25 people currently sit on the commonwealth's death row, most of whom are housed at the Kentucky State Penitentiary — save for the only woman ...
The etymology of "Kentucky" or "Kentucke" is uncertain. One suggestion is that it is derived from an Iroquois name meaning "land of tomorrow". [1] According to Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia, "Various authors have offered a number of opinions concerning the word's meaning: the Iroquois word kentake meaning 'meadow land', the Wyandotte (or perhaps Cherokee or Iroquois ...
Spent academic career partly at University of Kentucky, retired to Lexington [15] Adelaide Day Rollston (1854–1941) Poet, periodical literature contributor, wrote novelettes Born and died in Paducah [16] Jesse Stuart (1907–1984) Novelist, poet, short-story writer Born in Greenup County, poet laureate of Kentucky 1954 Allen Tate (1899–1979)
Bryan Station (also Bryan's Station, and often misspelled Bryant's Station) was an early fortified settlement in Lexington, Kentucky.It was located on present-day Bryan Station Road, about three miles (5 km) northeast of New Circle Road, on the southern bank of Elkhorn Creek near Briar Hill Road.
The lynching of the Walker family took place near Hickman, Fulton County, Kentucky, on October 3, 1908, at the hands of about fifty masked Night Riders. [1] David Walker was a landowner, with a 21.5-acre (8.7 ha) farm.