Wakita is a town in Grant County, Oklahoma, United States, founded in 1898.

Wakita is located at ( 36. 881781 ,-97. 923757 ).

This is why Wakita was used in the Hollywood blockbuster Twister, because of the paradox created between the spell and the movie setting.

Shortly after his proposal, Deputy U. S. Marshall Arthur Green motioned the town be named after a Cherokee Chief named Wakita ( pronounced Wok-ih-taw ).

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It was featured in the 1996 blockbuster film Twister starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton in which Wakita was destroyed by an F4 tornado that was part of a storm system later spawning an F5 tornado.

On May 10, 2010, numerous tornadoes touched down in Grant County, causing significant damage in and near the Wakita area.

Students in Wakita went to school at Wakita Elementary / High School up until 2010, in which the town's population became too small to support a school.

Students from Wakita now go to a consolidated school district with the students from the nearby towns of Pond Creek, Renfrow, and Hunter.

Wakita Warriors football was a football powerhouse all throughout the 1980s to the early 2000s.

However, since 2008, Wakita High hasn't supported enough students to hold a football team.

* David Dunn, an NFL wide receiver who played for such teams as the Oakland Raiders and Minnesota Vikings played his senior year only at Wakita High School.

In the original screenplay for the movie, it was going to be destroyed instead of Wakita.

* Sano Y., Wakita H., Ohsumi T., Kusakabe M. ( 1987 ), Helium isotope evidence for magmatic gases in Lake Nyos, Cameroon, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 14, p. 1039-1041

In a famous article in 1995, Watanabe, Sakamoto and Wakita described an experiment which showed that pigeons can be trained to discriminate between paintings by Picasso and Monet.

* Watanabe, S., Sakamoto, J., & Wakita, M .: " Pigeon's discrimination of paintings by Monet and Picasso ", Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 63 ( 1995 ), pp. 165 – 174 ( online abstract )( pdf )

The tornado moves on and hits Wakita, devastating the community and injuring Meg while destroying her house.

There are some orchestrated tracks that were in the movie but were not released on the orchestral score, most notably the orchestrated intro to Humans Being from when Jo's team left Wakita to chase the Hailstorm Hill tornado.

* Haruko Wakita.

The art of Defoe and Richardson is founded on an awareness of this great change.

What is required is the full implementation of Article 2 of the Treaty, which provides: `` The Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, and by promoting conditions of stability and well-being.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

The oldest city is Mobile, founded by French colonists.

He first articulated this in 1837, saying, " Institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

During this time most of what is known as ethnologie was restricted to museums, such as the Musée de l ' Homme founded by Paul Rivet, and anthropology had a close relationship with studies of folklore.

He was worshipped as Acraephius ( ; Ἀκραιφιος, Akraiphios, literally " Acraephian ") or Acraephiaeus ( ; Ἀκραιφιαίος, Akraiphiaios, literally " Acraephian ") in the Boeotian town of Acraephia ( Ἀκραιφία ), reputedly founded by his son Acraepheus ; and as Smintheus ( ; Σμινθεύς, Smintheus, " Sminthian "— that is, " of the town of Sminthos or Sminthe ") near the Troad town of Hamaxitus.

The concept that matter is composed of discrete units and cannot be divided into arbitrarily tiny quantities has been around for millennia, but these ideas were founded in abstract, philosophical reasoning rather than experimentation and empirical observation.

* 1866 – The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded.

* 1557 – Cuenca is founded in Ecuador.

* 1639 – Madras ( now Chennai ), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

* 1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

Kildamhnait on the south east coast of Achill is named after St. Damhnait, or Dymphna, who founded a church there in the 16th century.

It was founded in 1991 and is a training school for students of archaeology and anthropology.

* 1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.

* 1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.

* 1845 – The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

* 681 – Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.

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Of these the most noteworthy is Loccum Abbey in Hanover, founded as a Cistercian house in 1163 by Count Wilbrand of Hallermund, and reformed in 1593.

* 1891 – The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.

The philosophy is founded on the notion that human society originates with the development of agriculture, and societies are based upon " people's natural prospensity to farm.

* 1900 – The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.