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Savez vous que le kentuky est séparé en deux parties #kentuky

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00:00Most people don't know that Kentucky is separated in two parts.
00:03Its main body is this small slave called the Kentucky Bend.
00:08The origin of this slave comes to 1665,
00:12when Kentucky and Tennessee were part of the English colonies of Virginia and Caroline.
00:17Charles II declared that the border between the two colonies
00:21would follow the latitude 36 degrees north.
00:25When Kentucky and Tennessee joined the Union,
00:28they kept this line as their border to Mississippi.
00:33It became a confusion point,
00:35because the Kentucky Bend was on the top of this line
00:38and was not linked to the state of Kentucky.
00:40However, it was east of Mississippi,
00:43which meant that it was part of Tennessee.
00:45The Tennessee and Kentucky had contested between them
00:48to know who had the Kentucky Bend
00:50and asked the American court of justice to try.
00:53And the court finally decided that this land would belong to Kentucky.
00:59That's why...
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