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.
The town of Frankfort likely received its name from an event that took place in the 1780s. American Indians attacked a group of early American pioneers from Bryan Station, who were making salt at a ford in the Kentucky River.Pioneer Stephen Frank was killed, and the settlers thereafter called the crossing  Frank's Ford .. This name was later mistaken for Frankfort.ohn Brown, a Virginia lawyer and statesman, built a home now called Liberty Hall in Frankfort in 1796. Before Kentucky's statehood, he represented Virginia in the Continental Congress (1777â78) and the U.S. Congress (1789â91).