Winchester made the news briefly in March 1989 when the Institute for the Study of American Wars ( ISAW ), a Delaware-based nonprofit organization, chose Winchester over competing sites in Oklahoma, Arizona, Pennsylvania and New Mexico for a proposed $ 150 million war museum complex.

ISAW then selected the Phoenix area and on July 17, 1989 announced the exact site as a donated 300 acres of a 7, 500-acre cotton farm between Phoenix and Tucson once owned by movie star John Wayne, known as John Wayne's Red River Ranch, in Casa Grande, Arizona.

ISAW later admitted to having raised only $ 65, 000.

The first came in an accusation by former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, who claimed that the Bush administration's foreign policy was run by a " Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal " implying a sinister intent ;

Most recently, the boys ' cross country and track & field teams both claimed MHSAA State Championships during the 2009 – 10 school year.

In December, the State Department published a preliminary report on Grenada, in which was claimed as an " Island of Soviet Internationalism ".

When Adams appointed Clay as Secretary of State — the position that Adams and his three predecessors had held before becoming president — Jacksonian Democrats were outraged, and claimed that Adams and Clay had struck a " corrupt bargain.

This determination meant, among other things, that princes should not be involved in the selection of bishops, and it was focused especially on the " patrimonium " of the papacy, the section of central Italy claimed by the popes and later called the Papal State.

Yeshayahu Leibowitz, noted professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, claimed that " It is clear that the Zohar was written by de Leon as it is clear that Theodore Herzl wrote Medinat HaYehudim ( The Jewish State ).

The rest of Burma was to be under Japanese control, On 10 May 1942, the Thai Phayap Army entered Burma's eastern Shan State, which had been claimed by Siamese kingdoms.

He produced a piece of paper which he claimed contained a list of known Communists working for the State Department.

The End of the Jihad State demonstrates for the first time that the cause of this collapse came not just from internal conflict, as has been claimed, but from a number of external and concurrent factors that exceeded the caliphate's capacity to respond.

Trocchi claimed that this journal came to an end when the US State Department canceled its many subscriptions in protest over an article by Jean-Paul Sartre praising the homoeroticism of Jean Genet.

He obtained 15 billion of debt adjustment that needed to be borne by banks and investors, another 15 billion of capital increase claimed to the State since it was still the majority shareholder, and an additional 15 billion of cash to be found from internal savings.

Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and James Madison led the opposition, which claimed that the bank was unconstitutional, and that it benefited merchants and investors at the expense of the majority of the population.

Although some people believe he was actually born in the Bolívar residence located in San Mateo in Aragua State, which belonged to the Caracas province by 1783, it is officially claimed that Simón Bolívar was born in Caracas, Captaincy General of Venezuela ( now the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ), on July 24, 1783 and he was baptized as Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios.

In 1946, Soviet prosecutor L. N. Smirnov at the Nuremberg Trials claimed there were approximately 100, 000 corpses lying in Babi Yar, using materials of the Extraordinary State Commission set out by the Soviets to investigate Nazi crimes after the liberation of Kiev in 1943.

The Roman State adopted and developed a particular form of her cult, and claimed her conscription as a key religious component in their success against Carthage during the Punic Wars.

Karzai was, however, arrested by Mohammad Fahim ( Karzai's current Vice President ) on charges of spying for Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in what Karzai claimed was an effort to mediate between Hekmatyar's militia and the Islamic State.

On Whit Monday 1916 Bonar Law discussed the succession to the job of Secretary of State for War ( Kitchener had just drowned on a trip to Russia ); he was irritated not only at having to travel to Asquith's home – the Wharf, at Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire – but also, he claimed, finding Asquith playing bridge with three ladies.

On February 28, 1992, Coronado carried out an arson attack on research facilities at Michigan State University ( MSU ), and released mink from a nearby research farm on campus, an action claimed by the ALF, and for which Coronado was subsequently convicted.

At the time, the mass media claimed he was a mathematician and had a degree in biochemistry from Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology.

Jim Nielsen claimed that he lived primarily in a condominium near Sonoma State while he was a State Senator representing the area, though he primarily lived in his Woodland estate which was outside the district.

The Hughson Huskies football team claimed victory in the 1997 State Championships.

Farmington High School claimed the AAAA Baseball State Championship four years in a row from 2005 through 2008.

Piedra Vista High School also claimed the AAAA Baseball State Championship in 2010 and 2011.

The school gained national attention in 1989 when its football team claimed the New York State Division III championship.

The Oklahoma blast claimed 168 lives, including 19 children under the age of 6 and injured more than 680 people.

Formed as a separate nation after gaining independence from Mexico in 1836, the republic claimed borders that included all of the present US state of Texas as well as parts of present-day Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico based upon the Treaties of Velasco between the newly created Texas Republic and Mexico.

* 1850 – The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory ( now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming ) to federal control in return for the U. S. federal government assuming $ 10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.

Conflict between the Ponca and the Sioux / Lakota, who now claimed the land as their own by US law, forced the US to remove the Ponca from their own ancestral lands to Indian Territory in 1877, parts of the current Kay and Noble counties in Oklahoma.

The territorial boundaries claimed as sovereign and controlled by the Native American nations living in what was then known as the Indian Territories — the portion of the early United States east of the Mississippi River not yet claimed or allotted to become Oklahoma -- were fixed and determined by national treaties with the United States Federal government under terms recognizing these entities as dependent but internally sovereign, or autonomous nations under the sole jurisdiction of the Federal government.

He met Horace Raphol " Toby " Marshall in Oklahoma City, who claimed to be a doctor.

He presented himself as a Cherokee from Oklahoma and claimed he was a West Point graduate with the Croix de Guerre earned in World War I.

Texas claimed the eastern part of this new territory, comprising parts of present-day Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming, Utah, and Oklahoma.

Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma claimed the MVIAA name but thereafter became known informally to fans and the media as the Big Six Conference, while the smaller schools of Drake, Grinnell, and Washington University joined with Oklahoma A & M, becoming known as the Missouri Valley Conference ( MVC ).

He claimed to be semi-retired after wrestling in his last match in September 2006 against Jerry " The King " Lawler in an Extreme Rules match at The Great Plains Coliseum in Lawton, Oklahoma for the promotion Impact Zone Wrestling.

Conflict between the Ponca and the Sioux / Lakota, who now claimed the land as their own by U. S. law, forced the U. S. to remove the Ponca from their own ancestral lands in Nebraska to poor land in Oklahoma.

Adams claimed that the reason for the re-release was the muddy sound of the original version and his distaste for " Oklahoma ," which was added to the album despite his objections.

He and two other inmates at the federal prison in El Reno, Oklahoma had demanded millions of dollars from officials for the use of their names, which they claimed were " copyrighted.

On May 24, 2009, at Aniversario Yang Kingston, who had claimed to being able to outwrestle Castagnoli, pinned him cleanly with an Oklahoma roll.

She was buried in Guymon, Oklahoma which she claimed was her home town in a Hee Haw episode that aired Jan 1, 1973.