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The cassowary has often been labelled "the world's most dangerous bird", [7] [8] although in terms of recorded statistics, it pales in comparison to the common ostrich, which kills two to three humans per year in South Africa.
The 160,309-acre (649 km 2) lake is the largest artificial lake by surface area in the United States east of the Mississippi River, with 2,064 miles (3,322 km) of shoreline. Kentucky Lake has a flood storage capacity of 4,008,000 acre⋅ft (4.944 km 3), more than 2.5 times the next largest lake in the TVA system. It provides a source for hydro ...
Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States 171,280-acre national recreation area (69,310 ha) in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. It was designated as a national recreation area in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy and developed using funds appropriated during the Johnson administration .
Lake Cumberland is a reservoir encompassing Kentucky counties like Clinton, Russell, Wayne, and more, according to Kentucky State Parks. It spans more than 60,000 acres of water with over 1,200 ...
Herrington Lake was created on the Dix River in 1925 and runs through Boyle, Garrard and Mercer counties; it is Kentucky’s deepest man-made lake. According to “Kentucky Legends and Lore” by ...
About 200 Americans are killed per year by animals, according to one study, and the most common perpetrators may be surprising. A recent Washington Post analysis of government data between 2001 ...
The southern cassowary has stiff, bristly black plumage, a blue face and a long neck, red on the cape and two red wattles measuring around 17.8 cm (7.0 in) in length hanging down around its throat. A horn-like brown casque , measuring 13 to 16.9 cm (5.1 to 6.7 in) high, sits atop the head.
The two groups paid private landowners $6,078,037 for parcels totaling 712 acres in Kentucky and Tennessee, including the lake. Two conservation groups bought property containing Fern Lake, near ...