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A street sign named Indiana on a city road in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Indiana is the 19th state in the union, formed in 1816. Located in the Midwestern region of the United States, it borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, Kentucky to the south and Illinois to the west. Indiana’s name means “Land of the Indians”, or simply “Indian Land”.
In 1985 the City of Cincinnati renamed the city’s Second Street to Pete Rose Way after the famous baseball player. The road lies just outside of the Cincinnati Red’s stadium, which lies along the Ohio River Waterfront. Pete Rose, despite the gambling scandal that forced his retirement as a baseball manager in 1989, remains a home town hero. He was a Major League Baseball player from 1963 to 1986, playing for the Cincinnati Reds twice, as well as the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Montreal Expos. He would eventually become a manager for the Cincinnati Reds from 1984 until 1989.
Muhammad Ali Boulevard Sign in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. The street was renamed in Muhammad Ali’s honor in 1978. A Louisville native, Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr in 1942. He would go onto become a professional and Olympic boxer, winning three world heavyweight championship, with a record of 61 fights, 56 wins (37 wins by KO), and 5 losses. His most famous fights included those with Sunny Liston, Joe Frazier, and George Foreman, including the historic boxing event the Rumble in the Jungle, that took place with Foreman, in Kinshasa, Zaire, in 1974.