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if (quotes==0) {
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body="Kentucky was the 15th state to join the union in 1792. The state has had four constitutions.";
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if (quotes==1) {
title="";
body="Including inland water, Kentucky covers 40,395 square miles.";
}

if (quotes==2) {
title="";
body="The first leg of horse racing's Triple Crown is run annually on the first Saturday in May at Louisville's Churchill Downs.";
}

if (quotes==3) {
title="";
body="Kentucky's 34th Governor William Goebel is the only governor in the United States to ever be assassinated.";
}

if (quotes==4) {
title="";
body="Kentucky's 10th Governor Thomas Metcalfe was nicknamed Old Stone Hammer.";
}

if (quotes==5) {
title="";
body="Jesse James and his gang robbed the Southern Bank in Russellville, Kentucky for the sum of $9,000 in March, 1868.";
}

if (quotes==6) {
title="";
body="Kentucky natives Attorney General James Speed and Postmaster General Montgomery Blair were members of Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet.";
}

if (quotes==7) {
title="";
body="Boy Scouts of America founder Daniel Carter Beard is a Kentucky native.";
}

if (quotes==8) {
title="";
body="Tod Browning, director of the 1931 Dracula movie, is a Kentucky Native";
}

if (quotes==9) {
title="";
body="Octagon Hall, an eight-sided brick house built in the 1850's, is located near Simpson, Ky.";
}

if (quotes==10) {
title="";
body="Country Music Hall of Famer Louis Marshall Jones, better known as Grandpa Jones, is a Kentucky native";
}

if (quotes==11) {
title="";
body="Country music stars Dwight Yoakam and Ricky Scaggs are Kentucky natives.";
}

if (quotes==12) {
title="";
body="Country music legends and sisters Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle are Kentucky natives.";
}
if (quotes==13) {
title="";
body="Kentucky native Earle Combs is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was part of the New York Yankees batting lineup known as Murders' Row with greats Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth.";
}
 

if (quotes==14) {
title="";
body="With 120 counties, Kentucky ranks 3rd in the United States for total number of counties.";
}

if (quotes==15) {
title="";
body="On taking the oath of office, a Kentucky governor must swear that they have never fought a duel.";
}

if (quotes==16) {
title="";
body=""Happy Birthday to You" was created by two Louisville sisters in 1893.";
}

if (quotes==17) {
title="";
body="Mammoth Cave, located in Western Kentucky, is the world's longest cave.  First promoted in 1816, Mammoth Cave is also the second oldest tourist attraction in the U.S., preceded only by Niagara Falls.";
}

if (quotes==18) {
title="";
body="Rosemary and George Clooney are Kentucky natives.";
}

if (quotes==19) {
title="";
body="Former Vice President Alben Berkley is from Kentucky, he also served as a representative and senator from Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==20) {
title="";
body="Kentucky native Heather French Henry was crowned Miss America 2000.";
}

if (quotes==21) {
title="";
body="World War II veteran and Kentucky native Franklin R. Sousley helped raise the United States flag on Iwo Jima.";
}

if (quotes==22) {
title="";
body="Former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Fred Vinson is a Kentucky native. He was also Treasury Secretary under President Truman.";
}

if (quotes==23) {
title="";
body="Football Hall of Famer Paul Hornung is a Kentucky native.";
}

if (quotes==24) {
title="";
body="Kentucky Fried Chicken was started in Corbin, Kentucky in 1930-it was first named the Sanders Court and Café.";
}

if (quotes==25) {
title="";
body="Dippin' Dots are made in Paducah, Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==26) {
title="";
body="Kentucky natives Alben Barkley and John C. Breckenridge both served as vice president of the United States. When sworn into office, Mr. Barkley was the oldest ever vice president at 71 and Mr. Breckenridge the youngest at 36.";
}

if (quotes==27) {
title="";
body="Diane Sawyer, television journalist, is a native of Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==28) {
title="";
body="Duncan Hines, food critic, is a native of Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==29) {
title="";
body="12th President of the United States Zachary Taylor is a Kentucky native.";
}

 if (quotes==30) {
title="";
body="Boxing legend Muhammad Ali is a native of Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==31) {
title="";
body="Johnny Depp, actor, is a native of Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==32) {
title="";
body="Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, is a Kentucky native.";
}

if (quotes==33) {
title="";
body="Both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis were born in Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==34) {
title="";
body="John Travolta started his acting career at Pioneer Playhouse in Danville, Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==35) {
title="";
body="Jim Varney, the actor who played the popular "Earnest P. Worrell" character in commercials and a number of films, is a native of Lexington, Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==36) {
title="";
body="John Brown, one of the first two United States senators from Kentucky, resided and practiced law in Frankfort, Ky.  While serving in the House of Representatives, Mr. Brown presented the original petition to Congress to grant Kentucky statehood.  His former home is now Liberty Hall historic site in Frankfort, Ky.";
}

if (quotes==37) {
title="";
body="John Edwards was one of the first two United States senators from Kentucky serving from 1792-1795. His farm is located in what is today Bourbon County, Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==38) {
title="";
body="The Valley View Ferry, located near Richmond, has been operating since the 1780s, making it Kentucky's oldest continuing business.";
}

if (quotes==39) {
title="";
body="The Sixth Congressional District of Kentucky has 9 four-year universities.";
}

if (quotes==40) {
title="";
body="Daniel Boone and his wife Rebecca are buried in the Frankfort Cemetery in Franklin County.";
}

if (quotes==41) {
title="";
body="The first post office west of the Allegany Mountains was located in Danville, Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==42) {
title="";
body="The first Kentucky Constitution was signed in Grayson's Tavern in Danville.";
}

if (quotes==43) {
title="";
body="Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, known as "The Great Dissenter", was born in Boyle County, Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==44) {
title="";
body="The University of Kentucky Men's Basketball team has won seven national basketball titles.";
}

if (quotes==45) {
title="";
body="The University of Kentucky Cheerleading Squad has won 17 UCA National College Cheerleading Championships, more than any other Division 1A school.";
}

if (quotes==46) {
title="";
body="Keeneland Race Course first opened its doors in 1936 and is a leader in both world class thoroughbred horse racing and sales.";
}

if (quotes==47) {
title="";
body="Nobel Prize winner for genetics, Thomas Hunt Morgan, was born in Lexington, Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==48) {
title="";
body="Country music stars Eddie and John Michael Montgomery were born in Danville, Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==49) {
title="";
body="Long-time White House reporter Helen Thomas was born in Winchester, Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==50) {
title="";
body="Centre College founder, Ephraim McDowell, practiced medicine in Danville, Kentucky. He performed the first ovariotomy in the United States in 1809. One of his most famous patients was James K. Polk; Dr. McDowell removed a gall stone and repaired a hernia for the future president.";
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if (quotes==51) {
title="";
body="Transylvania University in Lexington was founded in 1780.  It was the first college west of the Allegany Mountains and the sixteenth college founded in the United States.";
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if (quotes==52) {
title="";
body="Garrard County, Kentucky is home to the "World's Fastest Tobacco Cutting Contest."";
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if (quotes==53) {
title="";
body="Famous temperance movement icon Carrie Nation was born in Garrard County, Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==54) {
title="";
body="Mary Todd Lincoln, President Lincoln's wife, was born in Lexington, Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==55) {
title="";
body="The world's largest ceiling clock at 40'-wide is located in the Central Lexington Public Library.";
}

if (quotes==56) {
title="";
body="John J. Crittenden, Kentucky senator, representative, governor, and U.S. attorney general under two presidents, was born near Versailles, Kentucky in 1786.";
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if (quotes==57) {
title="";
body="Lexington, Kentucky native John Cabell Breckinridge is the youngest vice president at the time of his inauguration-he was 36 when he was inaugurated in 1857 with President James Buchanan.";
}

if (quotes==58) {
title="";
body="Franklin County, Kentucky is home to Rebecca Ruth Candies, founded in 1919 by Ruth Hanly (Booe) and Rebecca Gooch. The original recipe remains a company secret.";
}

if (quotes==59) {
title="";
body="The great Man O' War lost only one of his 23 races; that loss was to a horse named Upset";
}

if (quotes==60) {
title="";
body="Paris, Kentucky is noted in Ripley's Believe It or Not for the world's tallest three-story building.";
}

if (quotes==61) {
title="";
body="The highest railroad bridge over navigable water in the United States is the High Bridge, located near Nicholasville, Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==62) {
title="";
body="The first American performance of a Beethoven symphony was in Lexington in 1817.";
}

if (quotes==63) {
title="";
body="Henry Clay was a four-term United States senator and presidential candidate from Lexington, Kentucky.  He also held a congressional seat in Central Kentucky, currently held by Congressman Ben Chandler.";
}

if (quotes==64) {
title="";
body="Henry Clay, known as the "Great Compromiser," helped to pass the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.";
}

if (quotes==65) {
title="";
body="Paris, Kentucky native, Garrett Morgan, patented the tri-color traffic signal and the gas mask.";
}

if (quotes==65) {
title="";
body="During the Civil War, Frankfort was the only Union capital occupied by Confederate troops.";
}

if (quotes==66) {
title="";
body="The first permanent settlement west of the Allegany Mountains was in Kentucky at Fort Harrod-now Harrodsburg-in 1774 in what is now Mercer County. Fort Boonesboro in Madison County was established in 1775.";
}

if (quotes==67) {
title="";
body="Bibb Lettuce was first developed in the 1850s by John B. Bibb in Frankfort, Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==68) {
title="";
body="The JIF plant in Lexington, Kentucky is the largest peanut butter producing facility in the world.";
}

if (quotes==69) {
title="";
body="Ale-8-One, bottled in Winchester, is Kentucky's soft drink.";
}

if (quotes==70) {
title="";
body="Berea College, in Berea, Kentucky was the first non-segregated, co-educational college in the South during the mid-1800s.";
}

if (quotes==71) {
title="";
body="The first commercial vineyard planted in the United States was located in Jessamine County, Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==72) {
title="";
body="The swimsuit Mark Spitz wore in the 1972 Olympic Games was manufactured in Paris, Kentucky.";
}

if (quotes==73) {
title="";
body="Attorney General Ben Chandler won the largest criminal penalty for patient neglect and abuse against a nursing home corporation in American history, recovering millions from drug companies that illegally raised prices.";
}

if (quotes==74) {
title="";
body="In 1995, Ben Chandler was elected as the youngest attorney general in the nation.";
}

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