Over the course of the next billion years or so, the amount of energy the Earth receives from the Sun will increase by about 10%. Which doesnât sound like much, but it means a greenhouse effect of epic proportions.
From the 1600s throughout the 1800s, the Shawnee lived mostly in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia. By the mid 1700s, more than 3,000 Shawnee lived in dozens of villages along the Scioto, Ohio and Mad rivers in the Old Northwest.
Kentucky's slave population was concentrated in the central bluegrass region of the state, which was rich in farmland. In 1850, 23 percent of Kentucky's white males held enslaved African Americans. Early travelers to Kentucky in the 1750s and 1760s from Virginia brought their slaves with them.