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...that the Ladies' Confederate Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky was described by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper as "the most perfect thing of its kind in the South"?
...that in 1824, the Kentucky General Assembly responded to a disfavorable ruling by the Kentucky Court of Appeals by abolishing the court and replacing it with a new one?
...that only 10% of the monuments to the American Civil War in Kentucky were dedicated to Union forces, even through the state produced 90,000 Union troops compared to 35,000 for the Confederacy?
...that the Rowan County War resulted in 20 deaths, talk of dissolving Rowan County, Kentucky, and the founding of what would become Morehead State University?
...that one of the largest slave escape attempts in American history occurred in Kentucky in August 1848?
...that the Commonwealth of Kentucky had a Confederate shadow government during the U.S. Civil War, although it never officially seceded from the Union?
...that the oldest black church in Kentucky is the Second Christian Church in Midway, Kentucky's historic district?

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...that eighteen fallen Confederate soldiers were moved when the Confederate Monument in Georgetown was dedicated?
...that over 10,000 people attended the 1876 dedication of the Confederate Monument in Bowling Green, Kentucky?
...that the Hurricane Creek mine disaster, which killed 38 men in 1970, occurred exactly a year after passage of the first federal legislation regulating mine safety?
...that the Commonwealth of Kentucky had a Confederate shadow government during the U.S. Civil War, although it never officially seceded from the Union?
...that John Hunt Morgan's beloved mare, Black Bess, was portrayed as a stallion in the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, as its sculptor, Pompeo Coppini, believed "No hero should bestride a mare!"?
...that Fancy Farm, Kentucky is recognized as the home of the world's largest picnic?
...that Confederate brigadier general James Morrison Hawes studied advanced military tactics at the Cavalry School of Saumur, France?

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...that Short's goldenrod (pictured), one of the world's rarest plants, grows only in parts of Kentucky and Indiana?
...that the Pewee Valley Confederate Memorial is the only American Civil War obelisk monument in Kentucky to be made of zinc?
...that James Turner Morehead (pictured) was the first Governor of Kentucky to be born in that state?
...that Fancy Farm, Kentucky is recognized as the home of the world's largest picnic?
...that Kentucky governor Ruby Laffoon bestowed the honorary title of "Kentucky colonel" the most times in the state's history, including KFC founder "Colonel" Harland Sanders?
...that William E. McAnulty, Jr., the first African American to sit on the Kentucky Supreme Court, injured himself playing basketball on Election Day in 1983 with future NBA star Allan Houston?
...that Kentucky philanthropist Eli Metcalfe Bruce contributed more than $400,000 of his personal fortune to aiding Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War?

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...that the Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument (pictured) in Hart County, Kentucky is unique for being built with geodes, and for honoring a Louisiana soldier who died accidentally by his own rifle?
...that Bullitt's Lick was the first industry and supplier of salt in what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky?
...that pioneer James Harrod established the first permanent settlement in the U.S. state of Kentucky on June 16, 1774?
...that despite two centuries of exploration nobody has found evidence of the legendary silver mine of Jonathan Swift?
...that during his administration, Kentucky governor William J. Fields forbade drinking alcohol and dancing in the Governor's Mansion?
...that members of the Appalachian Volunteers were charged with sedition in 1967 for plotting the violent overthrow of Pike County, after the group's successful efforts led to closure of a Kentucky coal mine?
...that in his 1915 Kentucky gubernatorial campaign, Augustus O. Stanley advocated a one dollar tax for every dog a person owned?
...that Basil W. Duke became the chief consul and lobbyist for the L&N Railroad after the American Civil War, even though he led many efforts in destroying their property during the war?

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...that most of the American Civil War events in Midway, Kentucky, including that which the Martyrs Monument in Midway commemorates, involved the stealing of horses?
...that Bill Keightley is one of only two people who have never played for nor coached the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team to have their jerseys retired by the University of Kentucky?
...that the story of Stephen Foster visiting what is now My Old Kentucky Home State Park may have started in order to raise the sale value of the property?
...that the Kentucky General Assembly responded to unpopular rulings by Justice William Owsley by dissolving the Court of Appeals on which he served?
...that the Cumberland Gap Tunnel between Kentucky and Tennessee replaced a stretch of road that had been called "Massacre Mountain" because of the number of motorists killed there?
...that John Y. Brown was censured by his peers for unparliamentary language during a speech denouncing General Benjamin F. Butler?
...that the murder of Solomon P. Sharp was the inspiration for a number of literary works, including Edgar Allan Poe's only play, Politian?

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...that the Confederate Monument (pictured) in Cynthiana, Kentucky was the first monument to the Confederate States of America in Kentucky, and long believed to be the first one anywhere?
...that one of Kentucky's first two judges, James John Floyd, was once a privateer?
...that three-foot tall stone slabs were placed every five miles to mark the boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee?
...that Confederate brigadier general James Morrison Hawes studied advanced military tactics at the Cavalry School of Saumur, France?
... that the G.A.R. Monument in Covington, Kentucky is the only American Civil War monument in the Bluegrass state shaped like a sarcophagus?
... that the Valley View Ferry, Kentucky's oldest business, is seven years older than the state itself?
...that Kentucky governor Flem D. Sampson declined the Du Pont family's offer to purchase Cumberland Falls and donate it to the state for a state park?
...that poet Forceythe Willson believed he was clairvoyant and that he could serve as a medium for communication with the dead?

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...that the Bourbon County Confederate Monument (pictured) is unique for being shaped like a thirty-foot (nine-meter) chimney?
... that the first public library in Covington, Kentucky was built by its Trinity Episcopal Church?
... that the tiny Dinkey Train of only a passenger coach and dummy engine went to Mammoth Cave?
... that the 1911 Confederate Dedication Day ceremony key speakers at the Battle of Tebb's Bend Monument were former Union officers?
...that the first refuge from malaria that residents of Memphis, Tennessee had in 1878 was Bowling Green's Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station?
...that American pioneer John Bowman, granduncle of Kentucky University founder John Bryan Bowman, presided over the first county court held in Kentucky?
...that the Confederate Monument of Glasgow, Kentucky honors Confederate soldiers of Glasgow and Barren County, Kentucky, who won more Southern Cross of Honors than those from any other Kentucky county?

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... that the portrait bust of the Beriah Magoffin Monument (pictured) in Harrodsburg, Kentucky was built in Neoclassical style, a style more commonly used a century before the monument was constructed?
... that Daniel Carter Beard's boyhood home was a nurses' dormitory when it became a National Historic Landmark?
... that Theodore O'Hara's Bivouac of the Dead, popularized in American Civil War memorials, was actually written for fallen Kentucky soldiers in Latin America a decade before the War?
... that Ulysses S. Grant sent his family to live in the Licking Riverside neighborhood of Covington, Kentucky in 1862?
... that the Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort, Kentucky is the only one dedicated to Black Union soldiers in Kentucky, and only one of four in the United States?

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... that Union general Stephen G. Burbridge spent many years trying to remove the letters CSA from the Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument (pictured)?
... that the Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument in Morgantown, Kentucky was built due to the feelings of reconciliation following the Spanish-American War?
... that Jimmy Doolittle commanded a 22 plane demonstration celebrating the opening of Henderson, Kentucky's Audubon Memorial Bridge in 1932?
... that Kentucky's Union County largely supported the Confederacy in the Civil War and built a monument to its Confederate dead afterwards?
... that the oldest courthouse west of the Allegheny Mountains is in the historic district of Greensburg, Kentucky?
... that Kentucky's Livermore Bridge starts and ends in McLean County, but passes over two rivers and Ohio County to reach its destination?

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... that Ernie Fletcher became the first Republican Governor of Kentucky in thirty-two years after winning the 2003 Kentucky gubernatorial election?
... that after preaching Baptist ideas in the 1760s, Toliver Craig, Sr. and his sons were imprisoned by colonial authorities?
... that among the ways the citizens of Danville, Kentucky memorialized Confederate forces locally included givng up their own grave plots?
... that the Captain Andrew Offutt Monument barely mentioning Sherman's March to the Sea makes it only one of two Civil War related monuments in Kentucky to stress strong Union sentiment?

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