Exploring Oklahoma History
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Oklahoma Historic Place of the Day
Jim Thorpe House
In 1917, Jim Thorpe bought a small home in Yale, Oklahoma and lived there until 1923 with his wife. The house was bought by the Oklahoma Historical Society in 1968 and is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The house is maintained as a small museum to Thorpe and contains related memorabilia.
Located in Payne County, Oklahoma.
Today in Oklahoma History
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Sun Dogs and Halos over Norman
A combination of a late afternoon sun and a thin layer of high-level clouds produced some rare and spectacular optical displays in the late afternoon skies over Oklahoma. The displays, consisting of bright spots, arcs, and halos with rainbow-like colors, sent quite a few meteorologists scrambling for their text books on atmospheric optics, simply because some of the phenomena that were seen are so rare that even scientists in the area had never seen them before. more...
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