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Football | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Football | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture Semi-pro football in Tulsa: "In Tulsa the Oilers formed in 1966 and played in the Texas Professional Football League, played the 1967 season as the Thunderbirds, moved to Bartlesville as the...
Bartlesville Area History Museum : Online Collections
Bartlesville Area History Museum : Online Collections Archive of 2,274 scanned items, including photos, documents, newspaper clippings relating to Bartlesville, Dewey, and Washington County....
One man zoned huge swaths of our region for sprawl, cars, and exclusion - Greater Greater Washington
One man zoned huge swaths of our region for sprawl, cars, and exclusion - Greater Greater Washington Historical sketch of a planner who shaped zoning and urban design in St. Louis, the Metro Washington area, and many other cities. "On...
Michigan Daily Digital Archives - October 27, 1977 (vol. 88, iss. 43) - Image 5
Michigan Daily Digital Archives - October 27, 1977 (vol. 88, iss. 43) - Dirty Old Man A wire service story about Walter Bell, 87-year-old owner of the Capri Theater in Dewey, Oklahoma, which had gained a reputation as the "Dewey...
History of The Glenn Pool Oil Field Educational Center
History of The Glenn Pool Oil Field Educational Center "Bob [Galbreath] and Frank [Chesley] had already drilled through the deepest, known oil-producing reservoir in the area, the Red Fork Sand, at about 1,450 ft. with a slight show a gas....
Panoramic Maps | Library of Congress
Panoramic Maps | Library of Congress Bird's-eye-view maps, panoramic maps, and other semi-geographic, semi-artistic representations of American cities in the early decades of the 20th century. Includes the 1918 Fowler and Kelly maps of Tulsa and Bartlesville....
Bartlesville Playtower | Atlas Obscura
Bartlesville Playtower | Atlas Obscura Atlas Obscura's entry on the restored mid-century modern structure, designed by Bruce Goff, that has been restored and reopened in Bartlesville's Sooner Park. I remember climbing to the top of this when I was a...
Here's How Crazy-Long German Words are Made | Mental Floss
Here's How Crazy-Long German Words are Made | Mental Floss The animation at the link "takes you, step by step, through what's involved in creating Rhababerbarbarabarbarbarenbartbarbierbierbarbärbel, a completely valid (and probably never before uttered) word," which means "Barbie of the...
A map of San Francisco's subway system that almost was
A map of San Francisco's subway system that almost was As originally conceived in 1956, the system would have served all the counties bordering the bay, reaching from Los Gatos to Santa Rosa and all the way to Fairfield, Brentwood,...
Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say -- NYMag
Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say -- Jonathan Chait -- NYMag "The p.c. style of politics has one serious, possibly fatal drawback: It is exhausting. Claims of victimhood that are useful within the left-wing subculture may alienate much of...
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