Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10, 000.

In 1941, the BPA hired Oklahoma folksinger Woody Guthrie to write songs for a documentary film promoting the benefits of hydropower.

Many of his songs are about his experiences in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression when Guthrie traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and learned their traditional folk and blues songs, earning him the nickname the " Dust Bowl Troubadour.

Guthrie was born in Okemah, a small town in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, the son of Nora Belle ( née Sherman ) and Charles Edward Guthrie.

Nora Guthrie was eventually committed to the Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane, where she died in 1930 from Huntington's disease.

Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed, with populations of at least 10, 000.

* April 14 – Dust Bowl: The great dust storm, made famous by Woody Guthrie in his " dust bowl ballads ", hits eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma the hardest.

When a third water tower was built next to the Okemah, Oklahoma set of Hot and Cold towers, the town briefly considered naming it " Running ", but eventually decided to use " Home of Woody Guthrie ".

By the time Oklahoma was admitted to the Union in 1907, Oklahoma City had surpassed Guthrie, the territorial capital, as the population center and commercial hub of the new state.

Soon after, the capital was moved from Guthrie to Oklahoma City.

In 1981, Art Garfunkel recorded " Scissors Cut ", " In Cars ", and " That's All I've Got to Say " for his album Scissors Cut, and Arlo Guthrie recorded " Oklahoma Nights " on his album Power of Love.

This was soon proposed, and in 1907 the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention met in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory to create the new State of Oklahoma.

During these deliberations it became clear that the work of the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention had been groundbreaking: the Guthrie meeting essentially adopted almost exactly the same boundaries for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma as were proposed earlier for Sequoyah, again identifying Antlers as county seat.

Guthrie served as the capital of Oklahoma Territory from 1890 until 1907 and of the state of Oklahoma from 1907 until 1910.

The town of Guthrie was designated as the county seat and the capital of Oklahoma Territory.

Stations built in the present Logan County were Beaver Creek ( now Mulhall, Oklahoma ) and Deer Creek ( now Guthrie ).

The Denver, Enid and Gulf Railroad ( later the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe ) ran from Guthrie to Enid, Oklahoma.

The Choctaw, Oklahoma and Western Railroad ( later the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway ) ran between Guthrie and Chandler, Oklahoma, while the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad ran east from Guthrie to Fallis, Oklahoma.

With her, Guthrie wrote numerous Jewish lyrics.

Guthrie ’ s Jewish lyrics can be traced to the unusual collaborative relationship he had with his mother-in-law, who lived across from Guthrie and his family in Brooklyn in the 1940s.

These lyrics were rediscovered by Nora Guthrie and were set to music by the Jewish Klezmer group The Klezmatics with the release of Happy Joyous Hanukkah on JMG Records in 2007.

Guthrie notes that John likely does not need much of an introduction to Matthew's largely Jewish readers, as he was a well-known figure at the time.

Guthrie has often said that he is far more interested in the way the guitar is recorded, than in the actual notes being played, though he later admitted the effects and layering were due to his own technical limitations.

Lester Holt, Ann Curry and Kate Snow often substitute for Williams when he is on vacation or on assignment ; other substitute anchors include David Gregory, Savannah Guthrie, Harry Smith, Carl Quintanilla, Hoda Kotb, and Natalie Morales.

Little House books are often performed on stage of which the most recognized is recently made musical version, premiered at the Guthrie Theater, Minnesota on July 26, 2008 in previews, opening August 15 and running through October 19.

His music is often compared to that of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Phil Ochs and Elvis Costello.

" Melodically, the song is based on one of Guthrie's own compositions, " 1913 Massacre ," but it is possible Guthrie fashioned " 1913 Massacre " from an even earlier melody ; like many folk artists, including Dylan, Guthrie would often adopt familiar folk melodies into new compositions.

In America the genre was pioneered by figures such as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger and often identified with progressive or labor politics.

" Paddy and Tom were often joined by other prominent folk singers of the day, including Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Jean Ritchie.

Cornell is noted for her major Broadway roles in serious dramas, often directed by her husband, Guthrie McClintic.

Upon his arrival at the training course, he encounters his ex-girlfriend Billie Lee Guthrie ( Sean Young ), who broke off their relationship to pursue a separate career flying OH – 58 Kiowa scout helicopters which often work alongside the Apache.

Thomas Guthrie is often quoted as the founder of the Ragged Schools of Scotland.

A member of Glasgow Art Club Guthrie exhibted often at the club's annual exhibitions.

* Guthrie, William Keith Chambers, The Greeks and their Gods, 1955.

" In The Last Waltz, Manuel claimed that they wanted to call themselves either " The Honkies " or " The Crackers " ( which they used when backing Dylan for a January 1968 concert tribute to Woody Guthrie ), but these names were vetoed by their record label ; Robertson suggests that during their time with Dylan everyone just referred to them as " the band " and it stuck.

* Guthrie, William Keith Chambers, The Greeks and their Gods ( 1950 )

* Guthrie, William Keith Chambers, The Greeks and their Gods, 1955.

From 1998 he organised the CWA Debut Dagger competition for two years, helping unpublished authors to win their first contracts ( including Allan Guthrie.

In 1983, as Raitt was finishing work on her follow-up album, entitled Tongue & Groove, Warner Brothers " cleaned house ", dropping a number of major artists such as Van Morrison and Arlo Guthrie from their roster.

This kind of dialogue also appeared in English, exemplified by Anstey Guthrie, but these dialogues seem to have found less of a popular following among the English than their counterparts written by French authors.

In the 1940s and 1950s Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger, along with Lee Hays and other members of The Weavers performed their mostly topical works ( Seeger performed solo and as part of the Weavers ) to an ever growing wider audience.

Singers like Seeger and Guthrie would attend rallies for labor unions, and so wrote many songs concerning the life of the working classes, and social protest ; as did other folksingers like Josh White, Cisco Houston, Malvina Reynolds, Earl Robinson, Ewan MacColl, John Jacob Niles, and Doc Watson, while blues singers like Johnson and Hopkins wrote songs about their personal life experiences.

In 1983, the band participated in 4AD's This Mortal Coil project ( this spawned a cover version of Tim Buckley's " Song to the Siren " performed by Guthrie and Fraser ), and during their work for that, they got to know Simon Raymonde ( formerly a member of Drowning Craze ), who joined the group later that year as bass player.

In 1997, while recording what was to have been their ninth LP, the trio disbanded over irreconcilable differences in part related to the break-up of Guthrie and Fraser.

In 2000, 4AD released Stars and Topsoil, a compilation of selected songs picked by the band members that had been released during their years with 4AD ; all recordings had been digitally remastered by Robin Guthrie.

Bristol, like its earlier London counterpart, includes several original buildings which have been praised for their architectural quirks, despite being unsuitable for the care of animals ; the ( former ) Giraffe House joins the main entrance lodge and the south gates on Guthrie Road as a Grade II listed building.

In 1867, William Thomson ( Lord Kelvin ) and Peter Guthrie Tait introduced the solid spherical harmonics in their Treatise on Natural Philosophy, and also first introduced the name of " spherical harmonics " for these functions.

Originally called MDMA ( Massive Dance Music Alert ), they first had chart success under the name Utah Saints with the singles " What Can You Do For Me " ( UK No. 10 ), " Something Good " ( their biggest UK success at No. 4 ) and " Believe In Me ", a UK No. 8 chart hit, which they described as their vocal sample trilogy as those singles sampled Gwen Guthrie, Kate Bush and The Human League respectively (" What Can You Do For Me " also featured a sample from Eurythmics ).

When representatives from Indian Territory joined the Oklahoma State Constitutional Convention in Guthrie the next year, they brought their constitutional experience with them.

Subsequent to their arrest, Guthrie, Langan, McCarthy and Thomas became witnesses for the prosecution.

Further, Peter Dreier points out that " the group deserves credit for helping to launch the folk boom that brought recognition to older folkies and radicals like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and for paving the way for newcomers like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs, who were well-known for their progressive political views and topical songs.

Partnerships with Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, Guthrie Theatre, Playwrights Center, the Public Theatre, Seattle Rep, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and the Yale Repertory Theatre ensure that the plays will reach beyond their original OSF audience.

Guthrie, after retiring as Chief of the Defence Staff He was one of the several retired Chiefs of Defence Staff who spoke out in the House of Lords about the risk to servicemen facing liability for their actions before the International Criminal Court, particularly in respect to the invasion of Iraq.