Pike County, Kentucky, the world's largest producer of coal is famous for the Hatfield-McCoy feud, an Appalachian vendetta that lasted from the Civil War to the 1890s.
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The radio was invented by a Kentuckian named Nathan B. Stubblefield of Murray in 1892. It was three years before Marconi made his claim to the invention.
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In 1888, "Honest Dick" Tate the state treasurer embezzled $247,000 and fled the state of Kentucky.