Colonial History The area now known as Kentucky was first explored in 1750-1751 by Dr. Thomas Walker and a surveyor by the name of Christopher Gist. There was no further exploration for many years due to the Seven Years' War; however, frontiersman Daniel Boone visited in 1769 and saw the...
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The Florida Keys offer great opportunities for sun and fun—and a little bit of history at Fort Jefferson, the largest brick building in the Western hemisphere. The fort served as a prison during the Civil War, requiring over 16 million bricks to complete, with many shipped from Maine. Guide...
Invented in the USA in 1891, basketball immediately proved a popular pastime among those who played the game but it did not initially rank in the estimatio... P Grundy,M Nelson,M Dyreson - 《International Journal of the History of Sport》 被引量: 2发表: 2014年 Az Osztrák–Magyar Lloyd...
History The Kentucky Derby is one of dozens of “Derbies”—a term that dates to the 18th century and is used, typically, to describe a race for three-year-old horses—contested annually in theUnited Statesand around the world. It isKentucky—along with its associated mythology, imagery, an...
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on the frontier with much history of early Kentucky;George Morgan Chinn,Kentucky Settlement and Statehood, 1750–1800(1975); andHambleton TappandJames C. Klotter,Kentucky: Decades of Discord, 1865–1900(1977). Scholarly articles on Kentucky history may be found inThe Filson Club History Quarterly...