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The Fugates, commonly known as the "Blue Fugates" [1] or the "Blue People of Kentucky", are an ancestral family living in the hills of Kentucky starting in the 19th century, where they are known for having a genetic trait that led to the blood disorder methemoglobinemia, causing the skin to be blue.
Paul Halldor Karason [1] (November 14, 1950 – September 23, 2013) was an American man from Bellingham, Washington, whose skin was a purple-blue color. [2]Karason was fair skinned and freckled until the early 1990s.
The story is a fictionalized account of real subjects in the history of eastern Kentucky. Cussy Mary is a "Book Woman" — one of the Packhorse Librarians who delivered books to remote areas of the Appalachian Mountains during the Great Depression , from 1935 to 1943, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt 's Works Progress Administration ...
Kentucky has been the stage for many Hollywood films, from romance to horror. Kentucky's sceneries are not new to the big screen as movies including “Coal Miner's Daughter," "How the West Was ...
When Daisy Ridley joined the film Young Woman and the Sea, based on the true story of American swimmer Trudy Ederle’s quest to become the first woman to swim the English Channel, she’d already ...
23 Blast is a 2013 American sports drama film directed by Dylan Baker. [6] The film was written by Bram and Toni Hoover, [2] inspired by the story of Travis Freeman, a Kentucky teen who loses his sight, but eventually overcomes the challenges of his disability, and continues to live his dream of playing football. [7]
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Born in Graves County, lived much of his adult life in Paducah [39] Andy Beshear (born 1977) Governor of Kentucky and Attorney General of Kentucky: Born in Louisville: Steve Beshear (born 1944) 61st Governor of Kentucky; 49th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky and Attorney General of Kentucky Born in Dawson Springs: Louis Brandeis (1856–1941)