Louisville
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The Kentucky Derby, a famous horse race, is held there every spring.
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The last time I bought one, I was flying from Louisville to Chicago.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
WSJ: As an ACC school, Louisville certainly doesn’t have equivalent resources, as the table stakes for being competitive escalates, to Big Ten or SEC schools, whose conferences are billion-dollar businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
A headline in the Louisville Courier-Journal crystalized the state of affairs on Capitol Hill: “As Tom Kean returns, Mitch McConnell‘s absence now DC’s biggest mystery.”
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
The five-save match came in a 4-3 win over Louisville City at Miami FC's Pitbull Stadium, a 20,000-capacity venue which had just 713 fans in attendance that evening.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
"Still--I was married in the middle of June," Daisy remembered, "Louisville in June! Somebody fainted. Who was it fainted, Tom?"
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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