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The 2011 Kentucky Secretary of State election was held on November 8, 2011, to elect the Secretary of State of Kentucky. Primaries for this election were held on Tuesday, May 17, 2011. In the general election, Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes defeated Republican Bill Johnson.
The 2nd National Spelling Bee was held at the National Museum in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, June 17, 1926, sponsored by the Louisville Courier-Journal. Scripps-Howard would not sponsor the Bee until 1941.
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- ↑ "Nancy Cox - Biography". IMDb. January 30, 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
- ↑ "Former Titleholders". Miss Kentucky Organization. January 30, 2010. Archived from the original on December 10, 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
- ↑ "Tiger Tracks", The Campbellsvillian: The Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Campbellsville University, Vol. 9, No. 2 (November 2010), p. 50
