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Horses and horse pursuits are strongly linked to Kentucky identity. A horse appears on Kentucky's state quarter and on the standard automobile license plate, selected by a citizen vote, [7] A Kentucky Horse Park specialty license plate with the park's logo resembling the 1963 photograph The Soul of a Horse was the subject of a lawsuit brought by the German photographer who owned rights to the ...
The Dixie Flyer was an automobile built in Louisville, Kentucky from 1916 until 1923. Dixie Flyers were marketed under the slogan of "The Logical Car." [1] They may be classified as Brass Era cars or vintage cars. The origins of the company can be traced back to 1878, when the Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Company was established.
Before 1750, Kentucky was populated nearly exclusively by Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee and several other tribes of Native Americans [1] See also Pre-Columbian; April 13, 1750 • While leading an expedition for the Loyal Land Company in what is now southeastern Kentucky, Dr. Thomas Walker was the first recorded American of European descent to discover and use coal in Kentucky; [2]
1885 – Karl Benz invents the first car powered by an internal combustion engine, he called it the Benz Patent Motorwagen. [29] 1887 - The first Battery electric multiple unit (battery rail car) was used on the Royal Bavarian State Railways. [30] 1888 - Flocken Elektrowagen built by German inventor Andreas Flocken, the first true electric car.
Twenty-five PCC cars numbered 501–525 were ordered from the St. Louis Car Company in 1946 but the order was cancelled before delivery was completed. The Louisville-bound cars were instead sold to the Cleveland Transit System where they became numbers 4250–4274. [1]
“Horse” intersperses the tale of Lexington’s racing and breeding career with the modern-day story of a Ph.D. student who finds the discarded painting of a horse, and then meets a Smithsonian ...
On the first Saturday in May, spectators will flock to the see an elite group of jockeys and horses in the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby. Decked out in their most Derby-appropriate attire ...
The etymology of "Kentucky" or "Kentucke" is uncertain. One suggestion is that it is derived from an Iroquois name meaning "land of tomorrow". [1] According to Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia, "Various authors have offered a number of opinions concerning the word's meaning: the Iroquois word kentake meaning 'meadow land', the Wyandotte (or perhaps Cherokee or Iroquois ...