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Oklahoma is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, Texas on the south, New Mexico on the west, and Colorado on the northwest. It is the 20th-most extensive and the 28th-most populous of the fifty United States. The state's name is derived from the Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning red people. It is also known informally by its nickname, The Sooner State, in reference to the non-Native settlers who staked their claims on land before the official opening date of lands in the western Oklahoma Territory or before the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889, w...
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  • 2. National Weather Center Norman
    The Storm Prediction Center is a government agency that is part of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction , operating under the control of the National Weather Service , which in turn is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States Department of Commerce .Headquartered at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma, the Storm Prediction Center is tasked with forecasting the risk of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in the contiguous United States. It issues convective outlooks, mesoscale discussions, and watches as a part of this process. Convective outlooks are issued for the following eight days , and detail the risk of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes during the given forecast period, although tornado, hail and wind details are only ...
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  • 3. Tulsa Garden Center Tulsa
    The University of Tulsa is a private research university located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. The University of Tulsa is renowned for its programs in law, literature, computer science, natural sciences, psychology, and engineering. Its faculty includes prominent scholars, scientists, and writers. TU has a historic affiliation with the Presbyterian Church and the campus architectural style is predominantly Collegiate Gothic. TU has been recognized as one of the five most international universities in the United States, by undergraduate enrollment.The university manages the Gilcrease Museum, which includes one of the largest collections of American Western art in the world, and in 2016, Tulsa acquired The Bob Dylan Archive. TU also hosts the Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, founded...
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  • 4. Oral Roberts University Tulsa
    Oral Roberts University , based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the United States, is an interdenominational, Christian, comprehensive liberal arts university with 4,000 students. Founded in 1963, the university is named after its founder, evangelist Oral Roberts, and accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. The school fronts on South Lewis Avenue between East 75th Street and East 81st Street in South Tulsa. Sitting on a 263-acre campus, ORU offers over 65 undergraduate degree programs along with a number of masters and doctoral degrees. ORU is classified as a Master's University by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. ORU was also ranked as one of 123 institutions in the 2012 Best in the West regional list produced by The Princeton Review.
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  • 5. Oklahoma State University Tulsa
    Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States. As of July 2015, the population was 403,505, an increase of 11,599 over that reported in the 2010 Census. It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 981,005 residents in the MSA and 1,151,172 in the CSA. The city serves as the county seat of Tulsa County, the most densely populated county in Oklahoma, with urban development extending into Osage, Rogers, and Wagoner counties.Tulsa was settled between 1828 and 1836 by the Lochapoka Band of Creek Native American tribe. For most of the 20th century, the city held the nickname Oil Capital of the World and played a major role as one of the most important hubs for the American oil industry.Historically, a...
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