:* New York City has numerous Bastille Day celebrations each July, including Bastille Day on 60th Street hosted by the French Institute Alliance Française between Fifth and Lexington Avenues on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Bastille Day on Smith Street in Brooklyn, and Bastille Day in Tribeca.

Lexington boasts of being " The Barbecue Capital of the World " and it has more than one BBQ restaurant per 1, 000 residents.

Perhaps the most pervasive influence on the use of the term throughout the years has been the song " Yankee Doodle ", which was popular during the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ) as, following the battles of Lexington and Concord, it was broadly adopted by American rebels.

With its abundance of government and technology jobs, Lexington has one of the nation's most stable economies.

Lexington has been described as having " a fortified economy, strong in manufacturing, technology and entrepreneurial support, benefiting from a diverse, balanced business base ".

Lexington has over 100 parks ranging in size from the Smith Street Park to the Masterson Station Park.

Since its inception in 2001, Lexington has produced numerous major leaguers including: 2009 National League All-Star Hunter Pence ( Outfielder ) of the San Francisco Giants, John Buck ( Catcher ) of the Florida Marlins, Mike Gallo ( Pitcher ), who is currently a free agent, and Josh Anderson, ( Right fielder ) who is currently a Free Agent.

Lexington has been known as a major center for Thoroughbred breeding since the late 18th century due to the high calcium content in the soils of the Inner Bluegrass Region, which leads to stronger bones and greater durability in horses.

The Bleecker Street ( IRT Lexington Avenue Line ) has station entrances on the north side of Houston Street, due to its connection with the Broadway-Lafayette Street station as part of a larger station complex.

Lexington has been the site for several movies.

The Lexington Police Department has been embroiled in controversy over the past few years.

The College has a second campus in Davie County in the city of Mocksville, as well as the Uptown Lexington Education Center, located within a few blocks of the Arts Center of Davidson County and the historic Court House.

For around fifty years the neighborhood has been home to National Review, the conservative journal of opinion founded by William F. Buckley, Jr., most of that time at 150 East 35th Street, currently at 215 Lexington Avenue at 33rd Street.

Federally, Lexington Hills is located in California's 15th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D + 14 and is represented by Democrat Mike Honda.

Dunbrooke began as a dress shirt company in 1939 in Lexington, Missouri has grown to become one of the nation ’ s premiere logoed apparel manufacturers.

Since 1984, the city has hosted the Lexington Barbecue Festival, one of the largest street festivals in North Carolina.

Being located in central North Carolina, between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mid-Atlantic coast, Lexington has a humid subtropical climate, with moderate temperatures during spring and autumn and warm to hot summers.

Speculation has led to a romantic Indian myth ; to the mistaken belief that it was 96 miles to the nearest Cherokee settlement of Keowee ; to a counting of creeks crossing the main road leading from Lexington, S. C, to Ninety-Six, S. C .; to an interpretation of a Welsh expression, " nanty -

The Town of Lexington has continued to be the political center of Lexington County, one of the fastest growing areas of the nation.

Lexington has one library, the Lexington-Henderson County Everett Horn Public Library.

Not considering Hawaii, which has no independent cities, the Midwest and Upper South have the highest concentration of large consolidated city – county governments in the United States, including Indianapolis, Indiana ; Nashville, Tennessee ; Jacksonville, Florida ; Louisville, Kentucky ; Kansas City, Kansas ; and Lexington, Kentucky.

In another high profile case, Kelco, Inc., a viatical settlement company once based in Lexington, Kentucky, has been at the center of a 10-year long legal battle involving insurers, such as AIG.

The January 1961 Kentucky Guardsman reported a story noting Harold Rogers recognition in his selection as soldier of the year, stating, " Specialist Fourth Class Harold ( Hal ) Rogers has been named “ Soldier of the Year ” by vote of the 125 member Battery A of the Fifth Observation Battalion at Lexington.

From south to north, Broadway at one point or another runs over or under the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, the BMT Broadway Line, the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, and the IND Eighth Avenue Line:

On May 10, 1775, less than one month after the American Revolutionary War was ignited with the battles of Lexington and Concord, the British garrison of 48 soldiers was surprised by a small force of Green Mountain Boys, along with militia volunteers from Massachusetts and Connecticut, led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold.

The state's public television network, Kentucky Educational Television ( KET ), is headquartered in Lexington and is one of the nation's largest public networks.

Lexington was at one time home to the Lexington Horsemen, an arena football team in the arenafootball2 league.

Lexington was at one time home to the Kentucky Thoroughblades, a minor league ( AHL ) hockey team that played between 1996 and 2001.

For one season ( 2002 – 2003 ) the ECHL Men O ' War played minor league hockey in Lexington.

USS Franklin D. Roosevelt and USS Lexington each conducted one test launch.

Ashland County was named in honor of the Lexington estate of Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, as one of the founders of the city of Ashland was an admirer of Clay.

Lexington Park in seaside St. Mary's County is one of the nation's fastest-growing " micropolitan " areas, expanding by 14. 6 percent since 2000, largely on the strength of military growth.

At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, on April 19, 1775, a company of minutemen from Acton responded to the call to arms initiated by Paul Revere ( who rode with other riders, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott, with Prescott the only one of the three who was able reach Acton itself ) and fought at the North Bridge in Concord as part of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

Lexington is the birth place of Charles Lathrop Pack ( May 7, 1857 – June 14, 1937 ), a third-generation timberman, one of the five wealthiest men in America prior to World War I.

With the emphasis on trade and agriculture, Lexington and Lafayette County also had one of the largest slave populations in the state.

In 1852, one of the worst steamboat accidents in Missouri history occurred at Lexington.

The Battle of Tarrar Springs was fought just one mile east of Lexington on November 16, 1781.

Slightly north of Lexington rests one of South Carolina's major lakes, Lake Murray.

The Pope Villa in Lexington, Kentucky is one of only three extant Latrobe residences in the United States.

… The Tampa to Lexington flight is vital because it required permission from the highest levels of our government.

In 1887, Slemp entered the Corp of Cadets at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia and graduated in 1891, he graduated with the highest grade point average in the school's history — a record that stands today.