Historic Constitution Square in Danville, Kentucky
Constitution Square is a collection of historic log cabin buildings collected in one beautiful park in the very old city of Danville, Kentucky. It includes a historic school, post office, and the old Kentucky State Jail that briefly held the notorious killers who are known as America's first serial killers, Micajah and Wiley Harpe, the Harpe brothers. The Harpes escaped the jail in 1799, before they could be tried for their crimes.
Constitution Square Arts Festival Danville, KY
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Kentucky's 225th birthday celebration at Constitution Square, Danville
Among the places that celebrated Kentucky's 225th birthday on June 1, 2017, was Constitution Square in Danville. Residents and public officials commemorated the birth of the Commonwealth at this important historic site.
Downtown Danville | Kentucky Life | KET
Danville is known as the City of Firsts in Kentucky, and its vibrant downtown helps this Boyle County town keep its top spot in Bluegrass culture and history.
The location of the first Kentucky courthouse in 1785, Danville was the first capital of Kentucky. It still takes the spotlight in politics, having hosted both the 2000 and 2012 vice presidential debates. Home to the first college and the first law school in the West, Danville today is home to Centre College, one of the top private liberal arts colleges in the country.
Downtown Danville boasts a vibrant Main Street filled with shops and restaurants, the Community Arts Center, as well as Constitution Square State Park and historic churches. In June, music fills the air during the Great American Brass Band Festival.
Forkland Abraham Lincoln and Community Center Museum in Danville, KY
Get a glimpse of Abraham Lincoln's roots in a virtual tour of the Forkland Abraham Lincoln and Community Center Museum.
City of Danville, Kentucky - City of Firsts
The City of Danville, Kentucky is known as the “City of Firsts”, being the first city of Kentucky. With a City Manager form of government, making the city particularly efficient, City of Danville offers quality of life bar-none. Exercising a “can do” attitude in every aspect, it’s a great place for businesses as well as families to locate to.
Small Town Flavor - Danville, KY (Ep. 2)
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Frontier Church in Danville, KY 2011
An old frontier church in the town of Danville, KY
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Danville ky -constitution square -ipad painting
I am still working out the little details for this particular painting, but here is a step by step animation of how I make my art with the ipad. I started this painting -on location- and sketched the different buildings at dannville's constitution square. Then I composited the sketches into one scene with all of the historic buildings. The painting is not finished, but it has enough for you to see how the process works.
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Earliest Documented Serial Killers In America
It’s hard to imagine that two of the most prolific serial killers ever to be recorded started out in the late 1700’s. The Harpe Brothers were notorious, not only for their methods of killing, but for the sheer number of deaths accounted to them as well.
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Harpe brothers Documentary
Micajah Big Harpe, born Joshua Harper (before 1768 (probably, c. 1748) – August 1799) and Wiley Little Harpe, born William Harper (before 1770 (probably, c. 1750) – February 8, 1804), were serial killers, murderers, highwaymen, and river pirates, who operated in Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, and Mississippi, in the late eighteenth century. The Harpes' crimes appear to have been motivated more by blood lust than financial gain. They are most likely the United States' first known serial killers, reckoned from the colonial era forward. The Harpe Brothers are credited with having killed thirty-nine people, and may have killed as many as fifty.
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Kentucky Horse Farm, a Bluegrass Paradise
460 S 4th St, Danville, KY 40422
You've been out with the horses all week. You've been on the Bourbon Trail or at KY's finest wineries all weekend with guests, now its time to kick back and have a dinner party.
Come for a site visit and we will show you around - it could turn into a lifetime love affair with the Kentucky Bluegrass' most beautiful and affordable land - the Historic Triangle area of the Wilderness Trace - Danville, Harrodsburg and Perryville. We know - firsthand.
Call Brad or Cindy Simmons for an invitation 859-319-5000 or 4000.
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Kentucky | Wikipedia audio article
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Kentucky
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Kentucky ( (listen) kən-TUK-ee), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States. Although styled as the State of Kentucky in the law creating it, Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth (the others being Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts). Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is the 37th most extensive and the 26th most populous of the 50 United States.
Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State, a nickname based on the bluegrass found in many of its pastures due to the fertile soil. One of the major regions in Kentucky is the Bluegrass Region in central Kentucky, which houses two of its major cities, Louisville and Lexington. It is a land with diverse environments and abundant resources, including the world's longest cave system, Mammoth Cave National Park, the greatest length of navigable waterways and streams in the contiguous United States, and the two largest man-made lakes east of the Mississippi River.
Kentucky is also known for horse racing, bourbon distilleries, moonshine, coal, the My Old Kentucky Home historic national park, automobile manufacturing, tobacco, bluegrass music, college basketball, and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Modern display of the Confederate flag | Wikipedia audio article
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Modern display of the Confederate flag
00:01:30 1 Background
00:01:56 2 The vernacular Confederate flag
00:03:31 3 Revival and controversy
00:04:55 3.1 Unofficial military use
00:06:08 3.2 Political groups
00:09:27 3.3 Religious groups
00:09:49 3.4 Public opinion (2011-2017)
00:11:51 3.5 Historical and modern meaning
00:13:53 3.6 Popularity outside the southern U.S.
00:14:12 3.6.1 Pacific Northwest
00:15:39 3.6.2 At European far-right events
00:16:11 3.6.3 Southern pride in Italy's football stadiums
00:17:55 3.7 In film and television
00:18:18 3.8 Use by musicians
00:19:11 3.9 University of Mississippi statue
00:20:27 3.10 House bill banning flag at VA cemeteries
00:21:31 3.11 Six Flags Over Texas
00:22:09 3.12 Display at American University
00:22:36 3.13 Silent Sam controversy (North Carolina)
00:22:57 4 Official usage in southern U.S. states
00:24:10 4.1 State flags
00:24:18 4.1.1 Alabama
00:26:13 4.1.2 Arkansas
00:26:39 4.1.3 Florida
00:27:11 4.1.4 Georgia
00:28:22 4.1.5 Mississippi
00:29:40 4.1.6 North Carolina
00:30:05 4.2 State symbol
00:30:48 4.3 State seals
00:32:17 4.4 Vehicle license plates
00:34:01 4.5 Display at South Carolina State Capitol
00:38:11 5 Reactions to 2015 Charleston church shooting
00:40:23 5.1 Removal from South Carolina State Capitol
00:45:56 5.2 Retailer bans
00:48:33 5.3 NASCAR
00:49:45 5.4 Washington National Cathedral
00:50:44 6 Trump rallies
00:52:13 7 Display in South Carolina vandalized
00:53:02 8 See also
00:53:37 9 Further reading
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The display of flags used by and associated with the Confederate States of America (1861–1865) has continued, with a long interruption, into the present day, with the Southern cross used in the battle flag of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia gaining the most popular recognition as a modern symbol of the Confederacy, and by extension, the Southern United States in general. Such displays have been made for a variety of reasons, with Southern heritage, states' rights, and historical commemoration among the stated reasons for particular uses. Displaying the flag has long been controversial in the United States, due to the flag's longstanding associations with racism, slavery, segregation, white supremacy, and treason. Many Southerners associate the Confederate battle flag with pride in their heritage and traditions, but for most outsiders it is impossible to separate the flag from its association with the defense of slavery and racial bias.
Despite the common belief that the Confederate flag has remained in uninterrupted use since the end of the American Civil War, its use was mostly limited to historical films, like Gone with the Wind (1939). Its revival in the 1950s and 1960s came about because of the American Civil War Centennial, but was also used to show opposition to the
Civil Rights Movement, starting with Senator Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats in 1948. Racism played a major role in its renewed popularity.
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). Born in what is now the border between North and South Carolina, Jackson served in the militia during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he returned home to serve as a country lawyer, and in 1796 played a role in the founding of the state of Tennessee. Subsequently elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and then to the U. S. Senate, Jackson was in 1801 appointed colonel in the Tennessee Militia. During the War of 1812, Jackson won important victories at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, and then at the Battle of New Orleans. After the war was over, Jackson's army transferred to Florida where they deposed the Spanish garrison that guarded the peninsula. This led directly to the Adams–Onís Treaty, which formally transferred Florida from Spain to the United States.
Nominated for president in 1824, Jackson narrowly lost to John Quincy Adams. In anticipation of a rematch with Adams, Jackson's supporters then founded what became the Democratic Party. Nominated again 1828, Jackson won a decisive victory against Adams in an election so negative that his wife Rachel Jackson died of a stroke late in the campaign due to attacks against her. His struggles with congress were personified in his personal rivalry with Henry Clay, whom Jackson deeply disliked, and who led the opposition (the emerging Whig Party). As president, he faced a threat of secession from South Carolina over the Tariff of Abominations which congress had enacted under Adams. In contrast to several of his immediate successors, he denied the right of a state to secede from the union, or to nullify federal law. The crisis was defused when the tariff was amended and Jackson threatened the use of military force if South Carolina (or any other state) attempted to secede.
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Art In The Garden.mp4
Come visit historic Augusta, KY on the first Saturday in June. This is the 10th anniversary of this very popular event. About 60 local and regional artists will come together to celebrate art on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River. Live music and great food along with the welcoming hospitality of a small river town adds up to a relaxing day on the river.
Some of the wonderful artists that will be attending this year are:
Nationally recognized Kentucky artist Steve White, very popular and talented Ken Swinson, acclaimed and collected photographer, Tom Ross and many, many more very talented artists.
Ghost Hunters CS Bell-Watts House.mov
The team from AfterDark Paranormal Investigations encounters some interesting activity at the Watts-Bell House at Constitution Square State Historic Site in Danville, KY.
Kentucky | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Kentucky
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Kentucky ( (listen) kən-TUK-ee), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States. Although styled as the State of Kentucky in the law creating it, Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth (the others being Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts). Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is the 37th most extensive and the 26th most populous of the 50 United States.
Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State, a nickname based on the bluegrass found in many of its pastures due to the fertile soil. One of the major regions in Kentucky is the Bluegrass Region in central Kentucky, which houses two of its major cities, Louisville and Lexington. It is a land with diverse environments and abundant resources, including the world's longest cave system, Mammoth Cave National Park, the greatest length of navigable waterways and streams in the contiguous United States, and the two largest man-made lakes east of the Mississippi River.
Kentucky is also known for horse racing, bourbon distilleries, moonshine, coal, the My Old Kentucky Home historic national park, automobile manufacturing, tobacco, bluegrass music, college basketball, and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
The Inauguration of President Michael T. Benson
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