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unusual facts about Ripley, Oklahoma


Otto Gray and his Oklahoma Cowboys

Formed in Ripley, Oklahoma in the early 1920s, the band was first known as McGinty's Oklahoma Cowboy Band, for the leader, Billy McGinty, a well-known cowboy, former Rough Rider, and world champion rider with Buffalo Bill's show.


1999 IGA SuperThrift Classic

The 1999 IGA SuperThrift Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at The Greens Country Club in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the United States that was part of Tier III of the 1999 WTA Tour.

66ers

Tulsa 66ers, a NBA Development League franchise based in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Aero Commander

Three men funded the company's early efforts: Philadelphia attorney George Pew and Oklahoma City brothers William and Rufus Travis Amis.

Alfred G. Hansen

He initially enlisted in the Air Force and later was commissioned as a second lieutenant through the aviation cadet program, receiving his pilot wings in February 1955 at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

Anadarko Independent School District

The Anadarko Independent School District is a school district based in Anadarko, Oklahoma United States.

Bare Bones International Film Festival

The Bare Bones International Film Festival was founded in 1999 by the Darkwood Film Arts Institute (DFAI) in the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma to showcase independent motion picture projects with budgets of less than 1 million dollars (hence Bare Bones).

Bizzell

William Bizzell (1876–1944), fifth president of the University of Oklahoma and president of Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas

Blue-eyed Darner

The Blue-eyed Darner is a common dragonfly of the western United States commonly sighted in the sagebrush steppe of the Snake River Plain, occurring east to the Midwest from central Canada and the Dakotas south to west Texas and Oklahoma.

Chuck Cissel

He was the CEO of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame from 2000–2009 and is now the Artistic Director of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, which is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Conrad Ludlow

He also danced at San Francisco Ballet and founded and directed Ballet Oklahoma (now Oklahoma City Ballet).

Craig Groeschel

He is married with six children and lives in Edmond, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City, where LifeChurch.tv is based.

Edward Buehler Delk

Among his most famous works were Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture buildings in the 1920s for Kansas City developer J.C. Nichols and Oklahoma oilman Waite Phillips.

Edward Payson Ripley

Disneyland Railroad locomotive number 2, a 4-4-0 built in 1954 by the Disney shops, was named E. P. Ripley in his honor.

Encyclo-Media

Encyclo-Media seeks to provide high quality professional development by encouraging Oklahoma educators to share their best classroom practices to peers, and by inviting nationally known speakers such as Jim Trelease, Richard Peck, Alan November, Patricia Polacco, Doug Johnson, Stephen Krashen, Sharon Draper, Linda Sue Park, and more.

Éric Cyr

Cyr graduated from Edouard Montpetit High School in Montreal and attended Seminole State College in Oklahoma.

Five Moons

She and her husband Miguel Terekhov founded the Oklahoma City Civic Ballet, now known as Oklahoma City Ballet.

Forgan

Forgan, Oklahoma, a town in Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States

Fort Stockton, Texas

Other forts in the frontier fort system were Forts Griffin, Concho, Belknap, Chadbourne, Richardson, Fort Davis, Fort Bliss, McKavett, Clark, Fort McIntosh, Fort Inge and Phantom Hill in Texas, and Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

Fred's Frozen Foods

As of 2002, both brands are operated by Windsor Quality Food Company, LTD, which is ultimately owned by the Hojel and Meinig families through their holding company HM International based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

George W. Littlefield

Works on Littlefield include David B. Gracy, II, George Washington Littlefield: A Biography in Business (Ph.D. dissertation; Texas Tech University, 1971) and J. Evetts Haley's George W. Littlefield, Texan (1943; through the University of Oklahoma Press in Norman, Oklahoma).

Glen Johnson

Glen D. Johnson, Jr. (born 1954), Chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education

Green Currin

Currin participated in the Land Run of 1889 and served as the grand master of an African American Masonic Order in Oklahoma.

Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion

Sigourney Weaver in Alien (1979) is heard at the end of the record saying, "This is Lieutenant Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off."

Heinrich Karl Beyrich

In September 1834, while on an expedition through North America, he became ill and died at Fort Gibson, located in the present-day state of Oklahoma.

Heritage College

Heritage College & Heritage Institute in Denver, Colorado, Kansas City, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Fort Myers, Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, Falls Church, Virginia, Manassas, Virginia, and Wichita, Kansas

Illinois Route 103

Route 103 begins at a junction with U.S. Route 24 in Woodstock Township in southern Schuyler County, northeast of Ripley.

Iselin Alme

Among the productions she has taken part in are Godspell, A Chorus Line, Cats and Oklahoma, as well as Ionesco's La Leçon at Riksteatret.

Jim Hightower

After managing the presidential campaign of former Senator Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma in 1976, he returned to Texas to become the editor of the magazine The Texas Observer.

John Parker House

John P. Parker House in Ripley, Ohio, a U.S. National Historic Landmark

Johnson T. Crawford

Johnson Tal Crawford was a district judge in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States.

Jones, Oklahoma

Aldrich named the town after his friend and business associate, Charles G. "Gristmill" Jones who was a three-time mayor of Oklahoma City.

KRMG

KRMG-FM, a radio station (102.3 FM) licensed to Sand Springs, Oklahoma, United States

KVOO

KFAQ, a radio station (1170 AM) licensed to Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, which used the call sign KVOO until May 2002

KWHW

KWHW-FM, a radio station (93.5 FM) licensed to serve Altus, Oklahoma, United States

Margie Wright

In March 2000, she broke Judi Garman's mark as the all-time winningest softball coach with caeer victory No. 914, a 1-0 win over Oklahoma.

Mary Odilia Berger

The congregation, through SSM Health Care, today operates in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.

May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence

In the Oklahoma City area, the General Motors Oklahoma City Assembly sustained major damage as well as a manufacturing plant near Interstate 240 where F4 damage was observed.

Mick Cornett

Also in 2010, he was named runner-up of the World Mayor prize, and also the recipient of the World Mayor Project's 2010 World Mayor Commendation, in recognition of the economic and civic progress of Oklahoma City.

Neil Ripley Ker

Neil Ripley Ker, FBA, (1908-1982) was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature.

Oklahoma Girl

Oklahoma Girl is the twenty-first album, a double-disc 40-track retrospective of Reba McEntire's early years on Mercury Records.

Osgood Perkins

Perkins was born James Ripley Osgood Perkins in West Newton, Massachusetts, son of Henry Phelps Perkins, Jr., and his wife, Helen Virginia (née Anthony).

Purcell, Oklahoma

The bridge, among the longest in Oklahoma, is named for James C. Nance, a newspaper publisher and legislative leader in Oklahoma and U.S. Uniform Law Commissioner.

Ramon Foster

Foster started for all four year both on offense and defense at Ripley High School in Ripley, Tennessee and also handled some place-kicking and kickoff duties.

Robin J. Cauthron

Ralph Gordon Thompson, of the United States District Court, Western District of Oklahoma from 1977 to 1981.

Steven Taylor

Steven W. Taylor (born 1949), American politician, Oklahoma Supreme Court justice

The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves

The club's website claims that Robert Ripley of Ripley's Believe It or Not! fame had applied for membership before this restriction was eliminated, and the clerk-treasurer returned his application with a note rejecting his application.

The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest

The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest is a soundtrack by The Flaming Lips to the Bradley Beesley fishing documentary Okie Noodling, featuring three country-tinged songs not found elsewhere, two of which are instrumentals.

Thom Cox

During the summers, he and his wife, the stage manager Chris Freeburg, work at the Weston Playhouse Theatre in Vermont, where he has appeared in productions ranging from Chicago, Oklahoma!, and Urinetown, to Tartuffe, Blithe Spirit, and most recently Peter Pan.

Toby Morris

An unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1960 to the 87th Congress, Morris served as judge for the Oklahoma State Industrial Court from July 1, 1961, to July 17, 1963.

United States presidential election in Oklahoma, 2008

Another fallback for Obama was that U.S. Representative Dan Boren, the only Democrat from Oklahoma's five-member delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives, refused to endorse Obama.


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