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Lexington (March 17, 1850 – July 1, 1875) was a United States Thoroughbred race horse who won six of his seven race starts. Perhaps his greatest fame, however, came as the most successful sire of the second half of the nineteenth century; he was the leading sire in North America 16 times, and broodmare sire of many notable racehorses.
October 15, 1966. Designated NHL. December 19, 1960. Ashland is the name of the plantation of the 19th-century Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, [ 2] located in Lexington, Kentucky, in the central Bluegrass region of the state. The buildings were built by slaves who also grew and harvested hemp, farmed livestock, and cooked and cleaned for the Clays.
Roger Mortimer, 3rd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore, 1st Earl of March (25 April 1287 – 29 November 1330), was an English nobleman and powerful Marcher Lord who gained many estates in the Welsh Marches and Ireland following his advantageous marriage to the wealthy heiress Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville. Her mother was of the Royal House ...
Today, Helm Place is surrounded by trees and meadows, boasting 150 acres of horse farmland. The property features 37 stalls in two horse barns, three large fields and 12 paddocks.
Fischer was the first priest of African or Filipino heritage in the Diocese of Lexington, and he worked closely with marginalized communities in the city. He often offered mass in Spanish and ...
March 2, 2023 at 10:59 AM. After a year off the air, a high-profile face has returned to Lexington broadcasting: Andrea Walker is back on the air. On Feb. 27, Walker, a Jessamine County native ...
The Bataan Death March[ a] was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 75,000 [ 1] American and Filipino prisoners of war (POW) from the municipalities of Bagac and Mariveles on the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O'Donnell via San Fernando . The transfer began on 9 April 1942 after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines ...
The Sandakan Death Marches were a series of forced marches in Borneo from Sandakan to Ranau which resulted in the deaths of 2,434 Allied prisoners of war held captive by the Empire of Japan during the Pacific campaign of World War II at the Sandakan POW Camp, North Borneo. [ 1] By the end of the war, of all the prisoners who had been ...