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• Oklahoma - geography.

  portion and the Panhandle are classified as a steppe, where precipitation, typically 250 to 500 mm (10 to 20 in), is the controlling characteristic. January is usually the coldest month with an average of about 3°C (38°F) and extremes from -33°C (-27°F), the lowest ever recorded, to 33°C (92°F). Summer arelong and hot with temperatures in the upper 30°s C (lower 100°s F) common from May until September across the state. The growing season varies from less than 180days in the western Panhandle to...

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• Oklahoma - USA History.

  portion and the Panhandle are classified as a steppe, where precipitation, typically 250 to 500 mm (10 to 20 in), is the controlling characteristic. January is usually the coldest month with an average of about 3°C (38°F) and extremes from -33°C (-27°F), the lowest ever recorded, to 33°C (92°F). Summer arelong and hot with temperatures in the upper 30°s C (lower 100°s F) common from May until September across the state. The growing season varies from less than 180days in the western Panhandle to...

• Oklahoma.

• Oklahoma City.

• Oklahoma City - geography.

• Oklahoma City - geography.

• Oklahoma - Facts and Figures.

  Asians 1.4 percent (2000) Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders 0.1 percent (2000) Mixed heritage or not reporting 6.9 percent (2000) Hispanics (of any race) 5.2 percent (2000) HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy 75.1 years (1989-1991) Infant mortality rate 8 deaths per 1,000 live births (2004) Residents per physician 587 people (2005) Residents per hospital bed 328 people (2005) Share of population not covered by health insurance 18.9 percent (2006) Number of students per t...

• Red. Red, cours d'eau formé dans le sud-ouest de l'Oklahoma par

• L'attentat d'Oklahoma City

• Prison.

  Furthermore, experts disagree about whether imprisoning criminals actually prevents further crime. Some critics charge that American prisons simply warehouseviolence—meaning that U.S. prison inmates are confined and incapacitated in large numbers, with little or no effort made to rehabilitate them. Critics have labeled theresult of this process turnstile justice, referring to the fact that most inmates are chronic and persistent offenders and return to prison following conviction for new crime...

• Country Music I INTRODUCTION Willie Nelson Country singer and musician Willie Nelson gained national popularity during the 1970s for a string of country hits, including the 1978 hits "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and "Georgia On My Mind.

  Singer and mandolin player Bill Monroe is known as the father of bluegrass music. A virtuoso mandolin player, Monroe combined traditional folk ballads and gospel songswith string-band music played at very fast tempos. Monroe, with his band The Blue Grass Boys, performed from the mid-1920s until Monroe’s death in 1996. Otherwell-known bluegrass performers include banjo player Earl Scruggs, who played with Monroe during the 1940s; the Osborne Brothers, a duo from Kentucky known forits work during...

• Cherry Don, 1936-1995, né à Oklahoma City, musicien américain.

• Pettiford Oscar, 1922-1960, né à Okmulgee (Oklahoma), contrebassiste et violoncelliste américain.

• Thorpe (James , dit Jim), 1888-1953, né à Shawnee (Oklahoma), athlète américain.

• College Football Bowl Games.

  1995 Alabama 24Ohio State 17 1996 Tennessee 20Ohio State 14 1997 Tennessee 48Northwestern 28 1998 Florida 21Penn State 6 1999 Michigan 45Arkansas 31 2000 Michigan 37Florida 34 2001 1 Michigan 31Auburn 28 2002 Tennessee 45Michigan 17 2003 Auburn 13Penn State 9 2004 Georgia 34Purdue 27 2005 Iowa 30Louisiana State 25 2006 Wisconsin 24Auburn 10 2007 Wisconsin 17Arkansas 14 2008 Michigan 41Florida 35 1. In 2001 its name was changed from Citrus Bowl to Capital One Bowl. . Champs Sports Bowl.Year Winn...

• NCAA Basketball Men's Division I Champions.

  2. Now Oklahoma State.3. Now Texas-El Paso.4. Standing vacated because team included ineligible players. Source: National Collegiate Athletic Association.

• NCAA Basketball Men's Division I Champions Year Champion Coach Runner-up Score 1939 Oregon Howard Hobson Ohio State 46-33 1940 Indiana Branch McCracken Kansas 60-42 1941 Wisconsin Harold Foster Washington

  2. Now Oklahoma State.3. Now Texas-El Paso.4. Standing vacated because team included ineligible players. Source: National Collegiate Athletic Association.Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

• Native American Literature I INTRODUCTION Leslie Marmon Silko Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko is perhaps best known for her first novel, Ceremony (1977), a coming-of-age story about a young man of mixed Native American and white ancestry.

  SequoyahNative Americans did not use a complex written language before the immigration of Europeans to the Americas. In theearly 1820s the Cherokee leader Sequoyah developed an alphabet and written language for his native tongue. ManyCherokee learned the new written language readily, and in 1828 they published the first Native American newspaper,written in both Cherokee and English.THE BETTMANN ARCHIVE Before Native Americans came into contact with Europeans, many tribes supplemented the spoken...

• Cherokee.

  The old ways, including traditional crafts, are most strongly preserved by the Eastern Band, some of whom continue to live on the Qualla Reservation in North Carolina.The quality of North Carolina Cherokee basketry is considered to be equal to or better than that of earlier times. Farming, forestry, factory work, and tourism (about 5million tourists annually) are sources of income for eastern Cherokee. In 1984 the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians met in a join...

• Les Indiens d'Amérique du Nord

  LES PRINCIPALES TRIBUS lu AlGoNQUINS les Algonquins sont les premiers Amérindiens à avoir constitué des alliances avec les Français. Chassés de la région du Mississippi par les Iroquois au XVII' siècle, ils se réfugient au Québec et dans l'Ontario. Ancêtres des Pueblos, les Anasazis construisent des habitations contre les parois des canyons et sur les plateaux de l'Arizona, du Nouveau-Mexique, de l'Utah et du Colorado , entre le Xl' et le XIV' siède....

• Précocement indépendants, nés des courants migratoires les plus variés fondus grâce au melting-pot, épris de libertés démocratiques, persuadés de la supériorité du capitalisme libéral, dotés de ressources abondantes, les États-Unis conservent leur rôle de superpuissance.

  suprême s'appelle la « Court of Appeals », les cours d'appel prennent le nom de « Appelate Courts » et les tribunaux de première instance, celui de « Supreme Courts ». Il n'existe pas de vraie hiérarchie entre les tribunaux fédéraux et les tribunaux des États de l'Union. Toutefois, en cas de divergence profonde sur un point de droit important entre les différents États, la Cour suprême des États-Unis peut accepter de juger une affaire sur pourvoi contre une décision de Cour suprême d'un...

• NCAA Basketball Division I Championships: Most Outstanding Player.

  Women1982 Janice Lawrence Louisiana Tech 1983 Cheryl Miller USC 1984 Cheryl Miller USC 1985 Tracy Claxton Old Dominion 1986 Clarissa Davis Texas 1987 Tonya Edwards Tennessee 1988 Erica Westbrooks Louisiana Tech 1989 Bridgette Gordon Tennessee 1990 Jennifer Azzi Stanford 1991 Dawn Staley Virginia 1992 Molly Goodenbour Stanford 1993 Sheryl Swoopes Texas Tech 1994 Charlotte Smith North Carolina 1995 Rebecca Lobo Connecticut 1996 Michelle Marciniak Tennessee 1997 Chamique Holdsclaw Tennessee 1998 Ch...

• NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships.

• NCAA Baseball: World Series Winners.

• NCAA Baseball: World Series Winners The College World Series has been held annually since 1947.

• Great Depression in the United States - U.

  prices would continue to rise and they could soon sell their stocks at a profit. The widespread belief that anyone could get rich led many less affluent Americans into the market as well. Investors bought millions of shares of stock “on margin,” arisky practice similar to buying products on credit. They paid only a small part of the price and borrowed the rest, gambling that they could sell the stock at a highenough price to repay the loan and make a profit. For a time this was true: In 1928 the...

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• New Mexico - geography.

  New Mexico’s major river is the Río Grande, originating in southern Colorado, and flowing southward for 760 km (470 mi) through the state. Between the San LuisValley and Española Valley the river flows in a deep canyon known as the Río Grande Gorge; then, below White Rock Canyon, it flows through several valleys containingagricultural land. Most of the water of the Río Grande is used to irrigate these valleys. The Río Grande’s waterflow in New Mexico is extremely low. One of the major tributarie...

• New Mexico - USA History.

  New Mexico’s major river is the Río Grande, originating in southern Colorado, and flowing southward for 760 km (470 mi) through the state. Between the San LuisValley and Española Valley the river flows in a deep canyon known as the Río Grande Gorge; then, below White Rock Canyon, it flows through several valleys containingagricultural land. Most of the water of the Río Grande is used to irrigate these valleys. The Río Grande’s waterflow in New Mexico is extremely low. One of the major tributarie...