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Versailles, Kentucky

Index Versailles, Kentucky

Versailles is a home rule-class city in Woodford County, Kentucky, United States and is located near Lexington. [1]

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American Saddlebred

The American Saddlebred is a horse breed from the United States.

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Area code 859

Area code 859 serves the city of Lexington and the central portion of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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Ben Chandler

Albert Benjamin Chandler III (born September 12, 1959) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the United States Representative for from 2004 to 2013.

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Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international activist movement, originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism toward black people.

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Bluegrass region

The Bluegrass region (Shawnee: Eskippakithiki) is a geographic region in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Brereton Jones

Brereton Chandler Jones (born June 27, 1939) is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Charles Scott (governor)

Charles Scott (April 1739 – October 22, 1813) was an 18th-century American soldier who was elected the fourth governor of Kentucky in 1808.

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Commissioner of Baseball

The Commissioner of Baseball is the chief executive of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the associated Minor League Baseball (MiLB) – a constellation of leagues and clubs known as organized baseball.

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.

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Coolmore Stud

Coolmore Stud, in Fethard, County Tipperary in Ireland, is headquarters of the world's largest breeding operation of thoroughbred racehorses.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Dreamer (2005 film)

Dreamer is a 2005 American sports drama film written and directed by John Gatins in his directorial debut.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

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Edward Platt

Edward Cuthbert Platt (February 14, 1916 – March 19, 1974) was an American actor best known for his portrayal of "The Chief" in the 1965-70 NBC/CBS television series Get Smart.

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Elizabethtown (film)

Elizabethtown is a 2005 American romantic tragicomedy film written and directed by Cameron Crowe, and starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst.

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Ernest E. West

Ernest Edison West (born September 2, 1931) is a former United States Army soldier and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Korean War.

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Excel Communications

Excel Communications is a now defunct multi-level marketing (MLM) telecommunications company that was at one point America's fifth-largest long-distance carrier.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non-military government agencies and government contractors.

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Field Harris

Field Harris (September 18, 1895 – December 21, 1967) was a highly decorated lieutenant general in the United States Marine Corps, who commanded the Marine Aviation Units during World War II and 1st Marine Aircraft Wing during the Korean War.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.

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George Cruikshank (editor)

George Marcus Cruikshank (March 15, 1857 – September 15, 1936) was an American educator, newspaper editor, and historian active mostly in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Get Smart

Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre that was popular at the time.

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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), in the United States often known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War.

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Happy Chandler

Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler Sr. (July 14, 1898 – June 15, 1991) was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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Henry Ward (Kentucky politician)

Henry Ward (June 20, 1909 – October 8, 2002) was a Democrat from Kentucky who held positions in state administrations and was his party's nominee for governor in 1967.

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Horse breeding

Horse breeding is reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of selective breeding of animals, particularly purebred horses of a given breed.

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John Conlee

John Conlee (born August 11, 1946) is an American country music singer.

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John J. Crittenden

John Jordan Crittenden (September 10, 1787July 26, 1863) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn

Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (October 1, 1838September 12, 1918) was a Democratic Representative and Senator from Kentucky.

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Kenny Troutt

Kenny A. Troutt (born 1948) was the founder of Excel Communications, a Texas-based telecommunications company that used multi-level marketing to offer long distance phone service.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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Kentucky Bourbon Trail

The Kentucky Bourbon Trail (sometimes informally shortened to "the Bourbon Trail") is a program of the Kentucky Distillers' Association (KDA) to promote the bourbon industry in Kentucky.

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Korean War

The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).

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Lane's End Farm

Lane's End Farm is a Thoroughbred horse breeding farm in Versailles, Kentucky established in 1979.

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Lexington, Kentucky

Lexington, consolidated with Fayette County and often denoted as Lexington-Fayette, is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 60th-largest city in the United States.

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Lexington–Fayette metropolitan area

The Lexington–Fayette metropolitan area is the 106th-largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States.

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List of cities in Kentucky

Kentucky is a state located in the Southern United States.

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List of counties in Kentucky

This is a list of the one hundred and twenty counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Martha Layne Collins

Martha Layne Collins (née Hall; born December 7, 1936) is an American former businesswoman and politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky; she was elected as the state's 56th governor from 1983 to 1987, the first woman to hold the office and the only one to date.

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Mayor–council government

The mayor–council government system is a system of organization of local government.

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Medal of Honor

The Medal of Honor is the United States of America's highest and most prestigious personal military decoration that may be awarded to recognize U.S. military service members who distinguished themselves by acts of valor.

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Per capita income

Per capita income or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity).

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Randall L. Gibson

Randall Lee Gibson (September 10, 1832 – December 15, 1892) was an attorney and politician, elected as a member of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senator from Louisiana.

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Secretariat (film)

Secretariat is a 2010 American biographical sports drama film produced and released by Walt Disney Pictures, written by Mike Rich and Sheldon Turner with music by Nick Glennie-Smith and directed by Randall Wallace.

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Shaun King

Jeffery Shaun King (born September 17, 1979) is an American writer and civil rights activist.

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Standardbred

The Standardbred is an American horse breed best known for its ability in harness racing, where members of the breed compete at either a trot or pace.

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Stephen S. Sawyer

Stephen Shelby Sawyer (born August 30, 1952 in Paris, KY, U.S.) is an American commercial artist known for his interpretations of Jesus Christ, as well as for his business, Art 4 God.

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Sturgill Simpson

John Sturgill Simpson (born June 8, 1978) is an American country music and roots rock singer-songwriter.

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The Flim-Flam Man

The Flim-Flam Man (titled One Born Every Minute in some countries) is a 1967 American comedy film directed by Irvin Kershner, featuring George C. Scott, Michael Sarrazin, and Sue Lyon, based on the 1965 novel The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man by Guy Owen.

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Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing.

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Three Chimneys Farm

Three Chimneys Farm is an American Thoroughbred race horse breeding farm in Midway, Kentucky established in 1972 by Mr.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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Union (American Civil War)

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states (some with split governments and troops sent both north and south) that supported it.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious operations with the United States Navy.

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Versailles, Yvelines

Versailles is a city in the Yvelines département in Île-de-France region, renowned worldwide for the Château de Versailles and the gardens of Versailles, designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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Virginia Cary Hudson

Virginia Cary Hudson (May 28, 1894 – April 8, 1954) was a New York Times bestselling author from Kentucky.

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William S. Farish IV

William Stamps Farish IV (born c.1963) is an American businessman and son of Sarah Sharp and her husband William Stamps Farish III.

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William Shatner

William Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, author, producer, and director.

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WinStar Farm

WinStar Farm is an American Thoroughbred horse breeding and racing farm near Versailles, Kentucky, owned by Kenny Troutt.

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Woodburn Stud

Woodburn Stud was an American horse breeding farm located in Woodford County, Kentucky about ten miles (16 km) from the city of Lexington.

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Woodford County, Kentucky

Woodford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Woodford Reserve

Woodford Reserve is a brand of premium small batch Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey produced in Woodford County, Kentucky by the Brown-Forman Corporation.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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ZIP Code

ZIP Codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1963.

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2010 United States Census

The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles,_Kentucky

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