Kentucky
- Official name: Commonwealth of Kentucky
- Vicinity: Middle eastern half of the continental United States
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1792/06/01 | Statehood | Kentucky Becomes 15th American State |
| Physiographic Data | |
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| Highest Point: | Black Mountain: 1,263 m |
| Lowest Point: | Missisippi River, Kentucky Bend: 78 m |
| Area: | 104,659 sq km |
| Physiographic Features | Type | AsNotedIn |
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| Cumberland Plateau | Physiographic Section |
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| Daniel Boone National Forest | Natural Environ | |
| Highland Rim Section | Physiographic Section |
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| Interior Low Plateaus | Physiographic Province |
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| Particulars for Kentucky: | |
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| Locale Type | US State |
| Data | |
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| Demonym: | Kentuckian |
| Motto: | United we stand, divided we fall |
| Population: | 4369356 |
| Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
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| Beloved | Book | Toni Morrisson | Setting | |
| In Kentucky | Poem |
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James Hillary Mulligan | The moonlight falls the softest In Kentucky. |
| Judge Priest (film) | Film | John Ford | "Judge Priest" is set post Civil War Kentucky. | |
| Old Judge Priest (short story collection) | Short Story Collection |
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Irvin S Cobb | If during the evening some one mentioned horses - and what assemblage of male Kentuckians ever bided together for any length of time without some one mentioning horses? |
| The Lord Provides (short story) | Short Story |
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Irvin S Cobb | |
| Tragic Songs Of Life | Album | The Louvin Brothers | "Kentucky" is the first track on the album "Tragic Songs Of Life" |
By
The moonlight falls the softestIn Kentucky;The summer days come oftestIn Kentucky;Friendship is the strongest,Love's light glows the longest;Yet, wrong is always wrongestIn Kentucky.
Life's burdens bear the lightestIn Kentucky;The home fires burn the brightestIn Kentucky;While players are the keenest,Cards come out the meanest,The pocket empties cleanestIn Kentucky.
The sun shines ever brightestIn Kentucky;The breezes whisper lightestIn Kentucky;Plain girls are the fewest,Maiden's eyes the bluest,Their little hearts are truestIn Kentucky.
Orators are the grandestIn Kentucky;Officials are the blandestIn Kentucky;Boys are all the fliest,Danger ever nighest,And taxes are the highestIn Kentucky.
The bluegrass waves the bluestIn Kentucky;Yet, bluebloods are the fewestIn Kentucky;Moonshine is the clearest,By no means the dearest,And yet it acts the queerestIn Kentucky.
The dove-notes are the saddestIn Kentucky;The streams dance on the gladdestIn Kentucky;Hip pockets are the thickest,Pistol hands the slickest,The cylinder turns quickestIn Kentucky.
The song birds are the sweetestIn Kentucky;The thoroughbreds are fleetestIn Kentucky;Mountains tower proudest,Thunders peal the loudest,The landscape is the grandest-And politics-the damnedestIn Kentucky.
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