In Italy a cycle of Western comedies were initiated 1959 with La Sceriffa and Terrore dell ’ Oklahoma, followed by other films starring comedy specialists like Walter Chiari, Ugo Tognazzi, Raimondo Vianello or Fernandel.

Guthrie ( the Oklahoma troubadour ) and Greenblatt ( the Jewish wordsmith ) often discussed their artistic projects and critiqued each other ’ s works, finding common ground in their shared love of culture and social justice, despite very different backgrounds.

The tribe ’ s headquarters are in Anadarko, Oklahoma.

With the 1870 Drum Creek Treaty, the Kansas land was sold for $ 1. 25 per acre and the Osage purchased in Indian Territory ’ s Cherokee Outlet, the current Osage County, Oklahoma.

At the official dedication in 2007, Coyne said of Oklahoma City, "... We ’ re on the way to becoming, I think, the fucking coolest city in America.

Pushmataha County ’ s modern origins lie in the Choctaw Nation, during its time as a sovereign nation in the Indian Territory, prior to Oklahoma statehood.

Jack ’ s Fork County, as example – in which Antlers was located – was a vast territory whose tiny county seat was Many Springs ( modern-day Daisy, Oklahoma ).

On September 10, 2010, the University of Oklahoma Foundation ( a Nonprofit organization organized for the purpose of receiving and administering gifts for the benefit of the University of Oklahoma, located in Norman, Oklahoma ) purchased the Monastery of St. Clare of the Order of Poor Clares ( Monastero Di S. Chiara Dell ’ Ordine Della Clarisse ) in Arezzo, Italy.

* Since Elk City lies in a rich oil and natural-gas area on the shelf of Oklahoma ’ s Anadarko Basin, the petroleum industry is the heart of the city ’ s economy.

* Great Plains Regional Medical Center is Elk City ’ s largest employer, and serves Western Oklahoma and the Eastern Texas Panhandle.

The railroad then named the station for Edmond Burdick, the Santa Fe ’ s traveling freight agent ; when the town was formed after the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889, early settlers decided to adopt the name.

Old North, the Territorial Normal School ’ s iconic first building, was opened for classes on January 2, 1893, and ahead of Oklahoma State University ’ s Central Hall or Oklahoma University's Science Hall.

During the war, town leaders ’ aim was to convert Oklahoma A & M into a war training center.

The State of Oklahoma and Kyoto Prefecture signed a sister state agreement in 1985 through the auspices of the governor ’ s office.

Instead, Sequoyah was not admitted to the Union by Congress, and in the State of Oklahoma which followed it Albion became the northeastern-most town of a county whose geographic and population centers are far to Albion ’ s southwest.

Judge Clayton was prominent in the role to gain Oklahoma ’ s statehood.

It is the region ’ s largest trading center due to its relative distance from the county seat of Antlers, Oklahoma — 36 miles.

South of Clayton is Clayton Lake State Park — which is surrounded by a pine tree forest — and northwest of town is Sardis Lake ( Oklahoma ), a U. S. Army Corps of Engineers dam which impounds the water of Jack ’ s Fork Creek.

The Cedar County Court House was torn down by white settlers sometime after Oklahoma ’ s statehood in 1907, after which it ceased serving any legal use.

A map showing approximate areas of various Mississippian culture s including Caddoan Mississippian culture in SE Oklahoma.

The homecoming show in Oklahoma City was performed at the Zoo Amphitheater and included the unveiling of a new UFO stage prop, and would provide footage for the U. F. O. s at the Zoo concert DVD.

The figure of 486 km / h ( 302 mph ; 135 m / s ) during the F5 tornado in Bridge Creek, Oklahoma on May 3, 1999 is often quoted as the highest surface wind speed.

In 1991, a chase team from the University of Oklahoma chased a tornado in Red Rock, Oklahoma and used a portable Doppler weather radar to measure a wind speed of 460 km / h ( 286 mph ; 128 m / s ).

* One of the U. S .' s longest running passion plays is held at the Holy City of the Wichitas located within the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.

In the U. S., unemployment had reached 24. 9 %, a drought persisted in the central United States particularly Oklahoma and Texas, businesses and families defaulted on record numbers of loans, and more than 5, 000 banks had failed.

In 2010, however, the discovery of Aciculopoda from Famennian – stage rocks in Oklahoma extended the group's fossil record back to.

On May 3, 1999 parts of southern Oklahoma City and nearby communities suffered one of the most powerful tornadoes on record.

With a 41 – 25 regular season record the Lakers entered the playoffs as the third seed, the team defeated the Denver Nuggets in the first round in seven games but were eliminated by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the second round in five games.

Later, on May 3, 1999, it lost its record as most destructive tornado in history to the Moore, Oklahoma Tornado.

The 186 points in three games remains an Oklahoma tournament record.

The " Red Rock Tornado " held the record for the highest recorded wind speed of 257-268 mph until the Moore, Oklahoma tornado of May 3, 1999 in the 1999 Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak which had a wind gust of 318 mph.

The Frontier Mustangs have made it to the state tournament 14 times in a row ( the longest running record in Oklahoma ) and have won 6 state championships in the 20 years of the schools existence.

The Daily Ardmoreite reported that the four lynched men were " one of the bloodiest band of murderers in the state of Oklahoma and an organization of professional assassins, that for a record of blood crimes, probably has no equal in the annals of criminal history in the entire southwest.

In the first round of the 1986 finals Fisher scored 52 points against Macomb, setting an Oklahoma state girls basketball tournament's single-game scoring record.

Fisher went on to play for the Oklahoma State Cowgirls where she tied a school record for career games played with 124 ( with Lisa McGill and Liz Brown ), she also set the OSU record for field-goal percentage in a season with 61. 3 % in the 1990-91 season.

On May 31, 2012, in the third game of the Western Conference Finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Duncan set the record for most career blocks in playoffs history, surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

The University of Oklahoma has had a long and bitter rivalry with the University of Texas known as the Red River Shootout, Red River Rivalry, or OU-Texas, with Texas having the better overall record at 59 – 42 – 5.

On 6 June 1979, the world depth record held by the Bertha Rogers hole in Washita County, Oklahoma, at was broken.

* The old record was a 257-268 mph wind measurement from a Doppler weather radar near Red Rock, Oklahoma, as reported in a formal publication by Bluestein et al.

In 1998, maverick record executive Rick Smith, of Fort Worth, launched the " Live at Billy Bob's Texas " series of recordings, which have featured legends such as Willie Nelson, Asleep at the Wheel, Merle Haggard, David Allan Coe and popular Texas Country artists like Pat Green, Jack Ingram, Cory Morrow, Cross Canadian Ragweed ( Oklahoma ), Jason Boland & the Stragglers, Cooder Graw, the Randy Rogers Band and Kevin Fowler.

In Division I FBS ( formerly Division I-A ), the career record for passing efficiency is held by Sam Bradford of Oklahoma, who had a career mark of 175. 6 between 2007 and 2009.

Manning also led the Rebels to a 10-3 record and a 31-28 SBC Cotton Bowl Classic victory over the Oklahoma State Cowboys in 2003.

Recordings featuring the film casts of three Rodgers and Hammerstein films ( Oklahoma !, Carousel, and The King and I ) were also released on Capitol during the 1950s, all earning RIAA gold record awards.

Throughout the era of the 12-team Big 12 ( 1997 – 2011 ), the Jayhawks compiled an amazing 43-2 (. 955 ) record in Allen Fieldhouse vs. the teams from the south division ( Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A & M, and Texas Tech ).