Grace Kelly

EARLY LIFE

Grace Kelly was born on November 12, 1929, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was bought up in the family home, which was built in 1929 in the East Falls district of Philadelphia.

Her father, Irish-American John B. Kelly, Sr. (1889–1960)  won 126 consecutive single scull rowing races between 1919 and 1920 and three Olympic gold medals for sculling. He owned a successful brickwork contracting company that was well-known on the East Coast.

John B. Kelly, Sr. was appointed by President Roosevelt, during the Second World War as National Director of Physical Fitness.

The Kelly family home,. By Shuvaev - Wikipedia Commons

ACTING CAREER

Grace Kelly's early acting roles were on stage and television. She made her film debut in a small role in the 1951 film Fourteen Hours. Kelly's performance was not noticed by critics and did not lead to her receiving other movie acting roles until she was chosen to co-star in High Noon.

In 1952, Kelly was offered a seven-year film contract with a salary of $850 a week. Two months after signing her contract, Kelly and the cast arrived in Nairobi to begin production of the MGM film Mogambo. Her role as Linda Nordley in Mogambo garnered Kelly a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

The Cast of Mogambo

Grace Kelly was suspended by MGM for turning down the part of a call-girl in Jeremy Rodock, in which she was to star with Spencer Tracy. In her New York apartment, Miss Kelly said: "I am terribly upset. I just don’t feel I am right for the part."

Kelly's deglamorized performance in The Country Girl earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Grace Kelly gave up her acting career aged 26 when she married Prince Rainier III and became Princess of Monaco. After they wed he banned showings of all her films in the Principality.

Grace Kelly's film career as a leading lady lasted four years (1952 - 1956), during which she made four all time classic movies, including three by Alfred Hitchock: Dial M for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief. She retired at age 26 and never made another movie despite Hitchcock begging her to.

Grace Kelly in To Catch A Thief

MARRIAGE TO PRINCE RAINIER

On January 5. 1956, Prince Rainier III of Monaco announced his engagement to Grace Kelly — the same day she topped the U.S. Best-Dressed list.

Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier married on April 18, 1956 in a brief civil ceremony at the royal palace. The next day, they married again in a large formal ceremony at Monaco's Cathedral of St. Nicholas. The three-hour public event was televised and was watched by thirty million people, a huge amount of viewers for the time.

Grace Kelly wore an elaborate ivory dress created by Hollywood designer Helen Rose. Four hundred fifty yards of silk and lace were used to make the bride's wedding gown.

When Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier - becoming Princess Grace of Monaco - the religious ceremony took only 15 minutes, but the following recitation of the 142 royal titles acquired by the former actress took another 25 minutes.

The diamond sparkler worn by Grace Kelly's bride-to-be in High Society was Kelly's actual Cartier engagement ring, given to her by Prince Rainier. The film was released in the US just three months after their wedding.

The Prince and Princess of Monaco arrive at the White House for a luncheon, 1961

Grace Kelly had three children:
Hereditary Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite, born January 23, 1957, and now heiress presumptive to the throne of Monaco.
Albert II, Prince of Monaco, born March 14, 1958
Princess Stéphanie Marie Elisabeth, born February 1, 1965.

In 1993 Grace Kelly became the first actress to appear on an U.S. postage stamp. It was released in conjunction with a Monaco postage stamp featuring her on the same day.

DEATH AND LEGACY

Grace Kelly was driving back to Monaco from her country home in Roc Agel when she had a stroke. As a result, she lost control of her 1971 Rover P6 3500 and drove off the steep, winding road and down the 120 ft mountainside. Her daughter, Stéphanie, who was in the passenger seat, tried to regain control of the car, but failed. Grace Kelly died the following night on September 14, 1982, at the age of 52 after Prince Rainier decided to take her off life support.

The classic head-cover of a silk scarf crossed under the chin and knotted at the side or nape of the neck is universally known as the "Grace Kelly." This chic look is still copied by many female Hollywood stars when they wish to retain a degree of anonymity in the public eye.

Kellogg's

John Harvey Kellogg, a Seventh-day Adventist surgeon, was the superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanatorium. Kellogg was interested in nutrition, and he earnestly strived to develop bran-rich foods that weren't too bland. A vegetarian, he wished to replace meat on the breakfast table.

In 1896, John Harvey Kellogg along with his younger brother and general office assistant at the Sanatorium, William Keith Kellogg, developed, after much experimentation, a breakfast food that was easy to chew. A cereal flake made of wheat, they called it Granose.

A new cereal, an improvement on the Granose idea, was developed by John Harvey Kellogg. This new product came about by chance, after some boiled corn was left alone, one of his cooks found it had broken into crispy flakes. The profit-minded younger William Keith Kellogg broke away from his brother to found the Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Company on February 19, 1906 to market the cereal.

First Kellogg's package

The Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Company prospered through innovative advertising techniques and improvements in the quality of the cereal. An ad campaign in 1907 let woman shoppers have a free sample if they winked at their grocer.

In 1922 they adopted the shortened name of  Kellogg's as by this stage, they were manufacturing cereals other than cornflakes.

In 1924 John L. Kellogg developed a new cereal, All Bran. It was a convenient way of using up bran left over from other products.

During the Great Depression, W.K. Kellogg structured his cereal plant to work four six-hour shifts instead of three eight-hour shifts, providing employment for more people.

John Harvey Kellogg was a skilled surgeon, who had many notable patients at his clinic. They included former president William Howard Taft, aviator Amelia Earhart, businessman Henry Ford, and inventor Thomas Edison.

In their later years the Kellogg brothers were estranged. In 1943 John Harvey Kellogg wrote a letter seeking to reopen the relationship. but his secretary decided her employer had demeaned himself in it and refused to send it. The younger Kellogg did not see it until after his brother's death.

Source Food For Thought by Ed Pearce

Helen Keller

Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama to Kate Adams and newspaper editor and Confederate Army Captain, Arthur H. Keller. 

Helen lost her sight and hearing at 19 months, probably from scarlet fever or meningitis. 

When she was seven years old, she met her first teacher and life-long companion, Anne Sullivan. The radical teacher taught her language skills, including reading and writing. 

As a child, she developed her own sign language to communicate with her parents, then learned to lip-read by putting her fingers on the lips of the person to whom she was talking.

She attended Radcliffe College at Harvard University, she became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. 

Helen Keller portrait, 1904.

At the turn of the 20th century blindness was a forbidden subject in women's magazines because so many cases were related to venereal disease. However after Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904, she became a crusader for the handicapped. 

Keller worked for the American Foundation for the Blind for many years, during which time she toured the United States and traveled to 35 countries around the world.

Helen Keller was a regular visitor to the White House and met with every US president from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B Johnson. 

Her friends included Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain. 

A leftist political activist and women's suffragist, Keller ended up being investigated by the FBI most of her adult life. 

A prolific author, she wrote 12 books and hundreds of speeches including her 1903 autobiography, The Story of My Life, detailing her early life and childhood education with Anne Sullivan.

The Miracle Worker was a 1962 American biographical movie about Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. Both actresses won Academy Awards. 

Helen Keller was an avid dog enthusiast and almost always owned one during her life including a pit bull named "Sir Thomas."

The first of the Akita dog breed to be introduced to the United States was one named Kamikaze-go, who was given to Helen Keller as a gift after she visited the prefecture of Akita in Japan in 1937.

Keller suffered a series of strokes in 1961 and spent the last years of her life at her home,  Arcan Ridge, located in Easton, Connecticut. She died in her sleep on June 1, 1968, a few weeks short of her eighty-eighth birthday.

Her June 27 birthday is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in Pennsylvania. 

John Keats

EARLY LIFE

John Keats was born at the Swan and Hoop inn at Moorgate, London on October 31, 1795.  His father, Thomas Keats, worked as a hostler at the stables attached to the Swan and Hoop Inn, an establishment he later managed, and where the growing family lived for some years. The Globe pub now occupies the site, a few yards from the modern-day Moorgate station.

John had two brothers, Tom and George and a sister, Fanny. John was the oldest of the four and remained close to all of them.

As a boy Keats was not promising material. He was lazy, hot tempered and seemingly only interested in pranks.

The first seven years of John's life were happy. The beginnings of his troubles occurred in 1803, when his father died from a fractured skull after falling from his horse.

His mother, Frances Jennings, remarried soon afterwards, but she quickly left the new husband and moved herself and her children to live with Keats' grandmother.

John attended the liberal John Clarke’s School, Enfield, Middlesex,  whilst living with his grandmother. The school first instilled in him a love of literature.

When he was 14 his mother died of tuberculosis, leaving John and his siblings in the custody of their grandmother.

The grandmother appointed two guardians to take care of her new charges, and these guardians removed Keats from his old school to become a surgeon's apprentice.

MEDICAL CAREER 

The teenage John Keats started an apprenticeship with Thomas Hammond, a doctor and family friend in Edmonton, Middlesex in 1810.

Keats cancelled his fifth year as apprentice doctor and became a student at Guys Hospital. He qualified as a doctor with credit  the following year.

Keats devotedly nursed his younger brother Tom who was suffering from tuberculosis until he died on December 1, 1818.

Keats gives up medicine and became a full time poet to his guardian's dismay. in 1818. As a trainee doctor it was his job to hold down terrified patients whilst they had their limbs cut off. The sensitive apprentice recoiled from this and also refused to dissect bodies supplied by grave robbers.

WRITING CAREER

Keats was introduced to the literature of Edmund Spenser by the headmaster's son at Clarkes. Spenser's works, particularly The Faerie Queene, was to prove a turning point in Keats' development as a poet; it was to inspire Keats to write his first poem, Imitation of Spenser in 1814, when he was 19.

Portrait of John Keats by William Hilton. National Portrait Gallery, London

By 1818, Keats felt called to poetry rather than medicine; a legacy from his grandmother influenced his decision.

Famed for his atmosphere of longing, Keats' poetry was a combination of Greek Spirit and English romanticism. He stated in letters to his friends that he wished to be a "chameleon poet" and to resist the "egotistical sublime" of Wordsworth's writing.

Keats habitually scribbled verses on bits of paper then hid them. After his death, a friend searched his house from top to bottom to retrieve them.

When down in the dumps and not really in the mood for writing, Keats found getting changed into something smart often changed his mood.

Keats grew the nail of his little finger into the shape of a pen nib.

The radical Leigh Hunt’s liberal journal The Examiner was a kind of Bible for Keats. On May 5, 1816, Hunt agreed to publish Keats' sonnet "O Solitude" in his magazine. It was the first appearance in print of Keats's poetry.

First published in 1818, Endymion is a poem by John Keats based on the Greek myth of Endymion, the shepherd beloved by the moon goddess Selene. Endymion was harshly reviewed by some critics due to Keats' friendship with the radical Leigh Hunt.

Hyperionis is an abandoned epic poem by Keats, which is considered by some to be his greatest work. It is based on the Titanomachia, and tells of the despair of the Titans after their fall to the Olympians. Keats wrote the poem from late 1818 until the spring of 1819,  when he gave it up as having "too many Miltonic inversions."

Ode to A Nightingale was written by Keats in May 1819. It was inspired by the song of a nightingale that had built its nest near his home. A melancholy theme pervades the poem as Keats compares the shortness of life - "youth grows pale, and spectre-thin and dies" - to the beauty of the nightingales' song. The poem was found by Keats' friend, Charles Armitage Brown, hidden away in his house scribbled on a bit of paper.

Joseph Severn's depiction of Keats listening to the nightingale (c. 1845)

The final volume Keats lived to see, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, was published in July 1820. The collection contains To Autumn, which was composed by Keats after a walk near Winchester one autumnal evening. In a 1995 BBC poll, listeners voted To Autumn as the sixth most popular poem of all time

Lamia marked the end of Keats poetic career, as he needed to earn money and could no longer devote himself to the lifestyle of a poet.. It received greater acclaim than had his previous collections and would come to be recognized as one of the most important poetic works ever published.

Bright Star was Keats' last poem. He scribbled the love sonnet on the blank pages of his copy of Shakespeare.

His poems were not generally well received by critics during Keats' lifetime and he was attacked by many as a "cockney poet." Byron rudely said of him, "There is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the mankin."

Keats' reputation grew after his death, and by the end of the nineteenth century, he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets.

RELATIONSHIPS 

Keats was only 5 ft tall, which he was self conscious about. He had an unusually small head but was handsome with reddish hair.

Keats was a kind, easygoing, generous, humorous person. He was nicknamed “Junkets” because of his clipped cockney accent with which he pronounced his name.

In 1819 Keats fell hopelessly in love with his widowed neighbor's oldest daughter, Fanny Browne,(1800-65).  The feelings were not totally  reciprocated but she mourned Keats for several years after his death and wore an engagement ring from 1819 to many years afterwards. She married in 1833.
The later (posthumous) publication of their correspondence was to scandalise Victorian society.

HOMES 

Keats home when he was living with his grandmother was on  Lived Lamb Street, Edmonton.

John Keats moved in 1818 to the newly built Wentworth Place, owned by his friend Charles Armitage Brown.  A quiet white regency building when he moved in, Keats took the front parlour of Brown’s half of Wentworth Place, where he lived for the next seventeen months. The other half was taken by Mrs Browne and her children, including her oldest child Fanny.

Wentworth Place, now the Keats House museum (left), Ten Keats Grove (right)

Keats wrote Ode to a Nightingale in the garden at Wentworth Place besides a plum tree on a May evening.

His final home where he died was 26 Piazza de Spagna, Rome, a pale yellow building ran as a boarding house by a rather fearsome landlady, Anna Angeletti.

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

 In his early teenage years Keats acquired a passion for reading. He seldom traveled without his "Great Works of Shakespeare."

Keats loved music, In 1816 he wrote to a friend "but many days have past since last my heart was warm'd luxuriously by divine Mozart. By Arne delighted. Or by the song of Erin pierced and Sadden'd."

Keats loved cats and was very empathetic with animals. He once boasted about his capacity to enter the thought processes of a sparrow hopping on a window sill. "If a sparrow comes before my window, I take part in its existence & pick about the gravel."

In 1818, while on a walking tour of Scotland, Keats managed 600 miles in a month, always rising before dawn in order to complete 26 miles before noon.

This walking tour included climbing Ben Nevis, the ascent of which he compared to "mounting ten St Paul's without the convenience of a staircase." Keats originally planned on walking all the way to John O' Groats but caught a throat infection on the Isle of Mull which forced him to turn back.

HEALTH 

Keats' medical training meant he recognized straight away his tuberculosis condition. He knew it couldn't be cured so it would have to be endured. He said "I know the color of that blood! It is arterial blood. I cannot be deceived by that color. That drop of blood is my death warrant. I must die."

Keats' walking tour of Scotland in 1818 increased his tubercular tendency as did his tormented love for Fanny Browne  and the hurtfully bad reviews Endymion had obtained.

He also suffered from syphilis for which he took mercury.

John Keats, arrived in Rome in November 1820 with his devoted friend, the portrait artist Joseph Severn, hoping the warmer climate would help his ailing health. Death was on his mind; he wrote in one letter, "Is there another life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering?"

Keats suffered a violent relapse a month later and the poet tried to commit suicide. Severn devoted all his time to him reading aloud and playing soothing music.

DEATH 

On the poet's deathbed, Joseph Severn played Haydn's sonatas on a hired pianoforte to the ailing poet. As the frail poet lay dying you could hear the phlegm boil in his throat.

John Keats died on February 23, 1821 clasping Joseph Severn’s hand saying "I shall die easy. Don't be frightened. Thank God it has come."

Shortly after his death, surgeons carried out an autopsy on Keats and found his lungs were completely destroyed. They were amazed he had lived for so long.

Keats was buried at the Protestant Cemetery outside Rome, at Porta San Paulo, with Fanny's love letters clasped inside his coffin. His last request was to be placed under a tombstone bearing no name or date, only the words, "Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water."

Keats's grave in Rome. By Piero Montesacro  CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia Commons

Kazakhstan

KAZAKHSTAN HISTORY

Kazakh means “wanderer,” “free spirit” or “independent man.” (The official translation says "free independent nomad".) The word "Kazakh"and Stan is an ancient Persian word meaning “land” or “place of” Therefore, the name Kazakhstan translates as “Land of the independent wanderer.”

The Russians began advancing into the Kazakh steppe in the 18th century, and by the mid-19th century all of Kazakhstan was part of the Russian Empire.

Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, the territory of Kazakhstan was reorganized several times before becoming the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic in 1936, an integral part of the Soviet Union.

On December 16, 1991 Kazakhstan became the last of the Soviet republics to declare independence following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

The current flag of Kazakhstan was adopted on June 4, 1992. It replaced the flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, which was used during the period when Kazakhstan was a Soviet republic. consists of a light blue background with a golden sun in the center, which is a symbol of abundance, wealth, and life. Below the sun, there is an eagle flying against the wind, representing freedom, independence, and the future of Kazakhstan. 

Kazakhstan inherited from the Soviet Union the world's fourth largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. Within four years of independence, Kazakhstan possessed zero nuclear weapons.

Kazakhstan was the first former Soviet republic to repay all of its debt to the IMF. It paid it in 2000, seven years before it was due.

Nursultan Nazarbayev, who had been the first and only President of Kazakhstan since the country gained independence in 1991, resigned from his position on March 19, 2019, after a 29-year tenure. Nazarbayev had played a significant role in the development and modernization of Kazakhstan, overseeing its transition from a Soviet republic to an independent nation with a market-based economy. His resignation sparked a period of political uncertainty in the country, as a new president was elected in June 2019.

Nursultan Nazarbayev By Kremlin

FUN KAZAKHSTAN FACTS

Nursultan Nazarbayev has been the president of Kazakhstan since 1991. In April 2015, Nazarbayev was re-elected with almost 98% of the vote.

Astana is the capital city of Kazakhstan. Almaty was the capital before 1998.

The first ever apple trees in the world were cultivated around Almaty. (The name Almaty means “a place of apples.”) Many wild apple trees still grow in parts of Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan produces 41 per cent of the uranium used for nuclear power around the world.

Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country by land area and the ninth largest country in the world; its territory of 1,052,100 square miles  (2,724,900 sq kms)  is larger than Western Europe.

Despite being landlocked, Kazakhstan still has a navy, which is based on the similarly landlocked Caspian Sea.

Kazakhstan is located in both Europe and Asia. The Ural River, which forms the traditional boundary between these continents, cuts through Kazakhstan in the west.

The longest continuous land border on this planet  is the 4,254 miles between Russia and Kazakhstan.

The first manned space flight took place in 1961 from the Baykonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, by Yuryi Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut. (Russia leases the land for the Baykonur Cosmodrome from Kazakhstan.)

In the film Borat, British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen plays fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev. After its tourism sector boomed, Kazakhstan's foreign minister thanked Sacha Baron Cohen for the release of Borat after the country saw a 10 fold increase in issued visas.

Almaty was the close runner up for hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics. It was beaten out by Beijing by only 4 votes (44 to 40).

Source Randomhistory.com/kazakhstan-facts.html

Karate

Karate was birthed early in the seventeenth century in Okinawa, the main island of the Ryukyu group, which lies approximately half way between China and Japan. It was developed as a result of the invasion of Okinawa by the Shimazu clan in 1609, when the possession of arms was made a capital offense. Determined to liberate their country and cast out the invader, the islanders took up karate as an unarmed combat technique using their hands, elbows, knees, and feet as a weapon.

Karate literally means "empty hand" in Japanese.

By the early 20th century many Okinawans were actively teaching karate, and were responsible for the development of the martial art on the main Japanese islands.

Keio University established the first university karate club in mainland Japan in 1924 and within eight years all the major Japanese universities had karate clubs.

Elvis Presley was a black belt in Karate. He was taught by Ed Parker, a kenpo master, on and off between 1960 until the king of rock 'n' roll's death in 1977.

Iconic karate artist Bruce Lee was so fast parts of one his movies had to be slowed down in order to see his moves.

Before playing Drago in Rocky IV, Dolph Lundgren held the rank of 4th dan black belt in Kyokushin karate and was European champion in 1980–81.

In 1979, Japan offered new British Prime Minister  Margaret Thatcher 20 "karate ladies" for protection at an economic summit. She declined.

The actor, Taylor Lautner, was a junior world karate champion for several years running. At the age of eight, he represented the US in the World Karate Association where he won three gold medals and was named the Junior World Forms and Weapons champion

Source Europress Encyclopedia

Kansas

KANSAS HISTORY

The name of the state comes from the Kansa Native Americans, whose name comes from a Siouan-language phrase meaning "people of the south wind."

In 1682, Marquette, Joliet, Hennepin and other French leaders took formal control of the Mississippi Valley, including the land that would become Kansas. This land, known as the Louisiana territory, was used to organize trade with Native Americans.

In 1762, France ceded the Louisiana territory to Spain. However, in 1801, Spain receded the territory back to France in the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso. On April 30, 1803, Napoleon sold the Louisiana territory including Kansas to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase.

In the early 1800s, Kansas was used to hold Native Americans that were removed from their native lands.

Samuel Seymour's 1819 illustration of a Kansa lodge and dance (see below) is the oldest drawing known to be done in Kansas.

The Kansas–Nebraska Act became law in 1854, establishing the U.S. territories of Nebraska and Kansas, allowing settlers in those territories to determine if they would permit slavery within their boundaries. With the passage of the act, thousands of pro- and anti-slavery supporters flooded Kansas. Violent clashes soon occurred. In one raid Southerners destroyed the Kansas town of Lawrence, killing nearly 200 people. Kansas was called during this period, "Bleeding Kansas".

The abolitionists eventually prevailed and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state.

In 1881 Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.

Susanna Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas in 1887, making her the first woman mayor in the United States.

During the infamous Dust Bowl era of the 1930s Kansas had little rainfall and high temperatures. Thousands of farmers became impoverished and had to move to other parts of the United States. The number of people living in Kansas was reduced by 4.3 percent, the only time the state's population has decreased.

In 1998, during the height of the Pokemon craze, the town of Topeka, Kansas renamed itself to 'ToPikachu' for a day.

FUN KANSAS FACTS

The geographic center of the contiguous United States is near Lebanon, Kansas.

Kansas has a total population of 2.9 million, with an area of 82,000 sq mi (212,379 km2), making Kansas the 34th largest state by population and the 15th largest state by area.

We pronounce Kansas differently than Arkansas because the two states are derived from similarly named Native American tribes. One (Arkansas) uses the French pronunciation and the other (Kansas) the English pronunciation of the same root word. The "s" at the end of French words is usually silent. This is why the two almost identical words are pronounced differently.

Mount Sunflower, the highest natural point in the state of Kansas, is a site on the plains. At 4,039 feet (1,231 m), it is 3,300 feet (1,010 m) above the state's topographic low point in southeastern Kansas. It is less than half a mile (0.8 km) from the Colorado state border and close to the lowest point in Colorado. The state of Kansas gradually increases in elevation from the east to the west. As such, "Mount" Sunflower is virtually indistinguishable from the surrounding terrain.

In Kansas, it is illegal to hunt whales, even though the state is located in the middle of the USA with no coastline in sight.

Kansas farmers produce about 400 million bushels of wheat per year. The state also ranks first in the United States in grain sorghum produced and second in cropland.

Kansas harvests so much wheat in a year that its annual harvest could bake 36 billion loaves of bread - enough to feed the world's population for about two weeks.

Kansas Summer Wheat and Storm Panorama. By James Watkins - Flickr: 

While it is not entirely clear how bourbon got its name, most historians agree that it was probably not named for Bourbon County, Kansas.