On June 24, 2005, the Bobcats picked up the option for the fourth year on Okafor's contract, as he has quickly established himself as the face of the franchise, and a solid player for years to come.

In the offseason between his rookie and second years, Okafor's weight increased from 260 to 280 lbs.

Okafor's first name, Chukwuemeka, means " God has done well " in the Igbo language.

Her long thin arms moved in a slow rhythmical gesture over the family possessions which were placed in front of her.

Gorton and his family moved to Plymouth.

Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

The family moved north across the Ohio River to free ( i. e., non-slave ) territory and made a new start in what was then Perry County but is now Spencer County, Indiana.

In 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak along the Ohio River, the Lincoln family moved west, where they settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois, another free, non-slave state.

Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dwan moved with his family to the United States when he was 11 years old.

On April 28 he moved to Los Angeles where he had family and remained there until May when, suspected by local Union authorities, he evaded arrest and joined the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles as a private, leaving Warner's Ranch May 27.

Van Vogt's father, a lawyer, moved his family several times and his son found these moves difficult, remarking in later life:

Doubleday was a cadet at West Point in the year of the alleged invention and his family had moved away from Cooperstown the prior year.

One was intended to be a show house, but on being completed in 1904 was put up for sale, and as no buyers came forward, Gaudí, at Güell's suggestion, bought it with his savings and moved in with his family and his father in 1906.

" On April 10, 1833, the family moved to Philadelphia, where Alcott ran a day school.

Alcott persuaded them to come to the United States with him ; Lane and his son moved into the Alcott house and helped with family chores.

He quit the project and moved to a nearby Shaker family with his son.

In January 1844, Alcott moved his family to Still River, a village within Harvard but, on March 1, 1845, the family returned to Concord to live in a home they named " The Hillside " ( later renamed " The Wayside " by Nathaniel Hawthorne ).

The Alcott family put The Hillside up for rent and moved to Boston.

Alcott and his family moved back to Concord after 1857, where he and his family lived in the Orchard House until 1877.

In 1836, the family moved to a larger house in Edgar Street ( opposite Reid's Park ), following the demand for more heavy damask from which his father, William Carnegie, benefited.

When Aalto was 5 years old, the family moved to Alajärvi, and from there to Jyväskylä in Central Finland.

Later the family moved to the country's capital Kabul where his father served as a colonel in the Afghan Army.

He was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg ( 1587 – 1613 ), where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution.

The family moved to France in 1818 where the brothers received a careful scientific education.

Four months after the death of Mihdí the family moved from the prison to the House of ` Abbúd.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was able to arrange for houses to be rented for the family, the family later moved to the Mansion of Bahjí around 1879 when an epidemic caused the inhabitants to flee.

Malick attended St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin, Texas while his family lived in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

At their home in Yukon, Oklahoma, the family hosted weekly talent nights.

After Hubbard's father Harry rejoined the Navy, his posting aboard the USS Oklahoma in 1921 required the family to relocate to the ship's home ports, first San Diego, then Seattle.

Ibrahim Ahmad, a Jordanian-American traveling from his home in Oklahoma City to visit family in Jordan on April 19, 1995, was also arrested in what was described as an " initial dragnet.

Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial and agricultural industries.

Along the road, Grampa dies and is buried in the camp ; Granma dies close to the California state line, both Noah ( the eldest Joad son ) and Connie ( the husband of the pregnant Joad daughter, Rose of Sharon ) split from the family ; the remaining members, led by Ma, realize they have no choice but to go on, as there is nothing remaining for them in Oklahoma.

The family lived in Lawton, Oklahoma, where Cassin ran a movie theater.

He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl.

In June 2010, Jack Thorpe filed a federal lawsuit against the borough of Jim Thorpe, seeking to have his father's remains returned to his homeland and re-interred near other family members in Oklahoma.

On October 20, 2009 the WNBA announced that the Detroit Shock would relocate to Tulsa, Oklahoma ; the team is called the Tulsa Shock On November 20, 2009, the WNBA announced that the Sacramento Monarchs had folded due to lack of support from its current owners, the Maloof family, also the owners of the Sacramento Kings.

The number of " false positive " reports based on misidentifications is considerable ; in a nationwide study where people submitted spiders that they thought were brown recluses, of 581 from California only 1 was a brown recluse — submitted by a family that moved from Missouri and brought it with them ( compared to specimens submitted from Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, where between 75 % and 90 % were recluses ).

When Mantle was four years old, the family moved to the nearby town of Commerce, Oklahoma, where his father worked in lead and zinc mines.

In 1919, his family moved to Stillwater, Oklahoma, where he attended Oklahoma A & M ( now Oklahoma State University ) and was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity until 1921.

He moved his family to Oklahoma with the intention of joining an oil company.

The Garber family participated in the Land Run of 1893, claiming the land that is now Garber, Oklahoma.

According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, the town name honors the Le Flore family, who were prominent in this area.

The median income for a household in the city was $ 101, 239 and the median income for a family was $ 162, 205. The per capita income for the city was $ 96, 225 ranking it first on Oklahoma locations by per capita income list.

He and his family ( now with another son, James, born in 1921 ) moved from Oklahoma to Chesterfield, Missouri.

Known as Oklahoma's favorite son, Rogers was born to a prominent Cherokee Nation family in Indian Territory ( now part of Oklahoma ).

His father was able to combine the proceeds of a gambling with his auction of the Oklahoma homestead to purchase some land near to Covina in the San Gabriel Valley of southern California, where he brought his family in 1903.

Laura had always heard from her family that the home was " 40 miles from Independence ," which would have put the house approximately where the town of Nowata, Oklahoma, is today.

The Grapes of Wrath, considered his masterpiece, is a strong, socially-oriented novel that tells the story of the Joads, a poor family from Oklahoma and their journey to California in search of a better life.

The son of boxing trainer Pat O ' Grady and boxing promoter Jean O ' Grady, Sean moved around a lot when he was a younger kid, but his family settled in Oklahoma City, when he was 11 years old.