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Owsley County, Kentucky, the Glossary

Owsley County is a county located in the Eastern Coalfield region of the U.S. state of Kentucky.^[1]

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1843 establishments in Kentucky

Accident Analysis & Prevention

Accident Analysis & Prevention is a bimonthly peer-reviewed public health journal covering accident prevention published by Elsevier on behalf of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Appalachian Plateau

The Appalachian Plateau is a series of rugged dissected plateaus located on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).

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Babe Ruth

George Herman "Babe" Ruth (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Booneville, Kentucky

Booneville is a home rule-class city in Owsley County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Breathitt County, Kentucky

Breathitt County is a county located in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. Owsley County, Kentucky and Breathitt County, Kentucky are counties of Appalachia and Kentucky counties.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Census

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

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Child poverty

Child poverty refers to the state of children living in poverty and applies to children from poor families and orphans being raised with limited or no state resources.

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Clay County, Kentucky

Clay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Owsley County, Kentucky and Clay County, Kentucky are counties of Appalachia and Kentucky counties.

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County (United States)

In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.

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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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Cow Creek, Kentucky

Cow Creek is an unincorporated community in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States, southeast of the county seat of Booneville.

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Cumberland Plateau

The Cumberland Plateau is the southern part of the Appalachian Plateau in the Appalachian Mountains of the United States.

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Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone (1734September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

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Daniel Boone National Forest

The Daniel Boone National Forest (originally the Cumberland National Forest) is a national forest in Kentucky.

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Earle Combs

Earle Bryan Combs (May 14, 1899 – July 21, 1976) was an American professional baseball player who played his entire career for the New York Yankees (1924–1935).

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Eastern Kentucky Coalfield

The Eastern Kentucky Coalfield is part of the Central Appalachian bituminous coalfield, including all or parts of 30 Kentucky counties and adjoining areas in Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, and Tennessee.

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Feud

A feud, also known in more extreme cases as a blood feud, vendetta, faida, clan war, gang war, private war, or mob war, is a long-running argument or fight, often between social groups of people, especially families or clans.

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FiveThirtyEight

538, originally rendered as FiveThirtyEight, is an American website that focused on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging in the United States.

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Governor of Kentucky

The governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky is the head of government in Kentucky.

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Green River (Kentucky)

The Green River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Hazard, Kentucky

Hazard is a home rule-class city in, and the county seat of, Perry County, Kentucky, United States.

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Hiking

Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.

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Jackson County, Kentucky

Jackson County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Owsley County, Kentucky and Jackson County, Kentucky are counties of Appalachia and Kentucky counties.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Kentucky River

The Kentucky River is a tributary of the Ohio River, long,U.S. Geological Survey.

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Kentucky Route 11

Kentucky Route 11 (KY 11) is an American highway maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet that runs from Maysville to Barbourville.

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Kentucky Route 28

Kentucky Route 28 (KY 28) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Kentucky that travels from KY 11 and KY 30 in Booneville to KY 15 in northern rural Perry County via Cow Creek, Arnett, Buckhorn, and Chavies.

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Kentucky Route 30

Kentucky Route 30 (KY 30) is an east–west state highway in Kentucky managed by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.

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Lee County, Kentucky

Lee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Owsley County, Kentucky and Lee County, Kentucky are counties of Appalachia and Kentucky counties.

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Lerose, Kentucky

Lerose is a small settlement in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States, in the "Kentucky Highlands" region.

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Long rifle

The long rifle, also known as the Kentucky rifle, Pennsylvania rifle, or American long rifle, is a muzzle-loading firearm used for hunting and warfare.

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Longhunter

A longhunter (or long hunter) was an 18th-century explorer and hunter who made expeditions into the American frontier for as much as six months at a time.

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Lou Gehrig

Henry Louis Gehrig Jr. (born Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig Jr.; June 19, 1903June 2, 1941) was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (1923–1939).

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Natchez, Mississippi

Natchez, officially the City of Natchez, is the only city in and the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States.

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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Owsley County, Kentucky

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Owsley County, Kentucky.

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National Review

National Review is an American conservative editorial magazine, focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Pacific Islander Americans

Pacific Islander Americans (also colloquially referred to as Islander Americans) are Americans who are of Pacific Islander ancestry (or are descendants of the indigenous peoples of Oceania or of Austronesian descent).

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Pebworth, Kentucky

Pebworth is an unincorporated community located in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) 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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Perry County, Kentucky

Perry County is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Owsley County, Kentucky and Perry County, Kentucky are counties of Appalachia and Kentucky counties.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.

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Poverty threshold

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

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Red River Gorge

The Red River Gorge is a canyon system on the Red River in east-central Kentucky, United States.

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Richmond, Kentucky

Richmond is a home class city in Kentucky and the county seat of Madison County, Kentucky, United States.

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Rock climbing

Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up, across, or down natural rock formations or indoor climbing walls.

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Rock shelter

A rock shelter (also rockhouse, crepuscular cave, bluff shelter, or abri) is a shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff.

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The American Prospect

The American Prospect is a daily online and bimonthly print American political and public policy magazine dedicated to American modern liberalism and progressivism.

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Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide prohibition on alcohol.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Union (American Civil War)

The Union, colloquially known as the North, refers to the states that remained loyal to the United States after eleven Southern slave states seceded to form the Confederate States of America (CSA), also known as the Confederacy or South, during the American Civil War.

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References

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

Also known as History of Owsley County, Kentucky, Owsley County, Owsley County, KY.

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