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Henry Spira founds Animal Rights International after attending a course on animal liberation given by Peter Singer. [31] 1975: Peter Singer publishes Animal Liberation, whose depictions of the conditions of animals on farms and in laboratories and utilitarian arguments for animal liberation are to have a major influence on the animal movement ...
The history of Oklahoma refers to the history of the state of Oklahoma and the land that the state now occupies. Areas of Oklahoma east of its panhandle were acquired in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, while the Panhandle was not acquired until the U.S. land acquisitions following the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
OSP also houses Oklahoma's execution chamber. Female death row prisoners are housed at the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center located near McLoud, Oklahoma and are transferred to OSP for their execution. [citation needed] As of February 25, 2025, Oklahoma had 30 inmates on death row, of whom only one, Brenda Andrew, is female. [25]
A: I believe the most interesting 10 days in Oklahoma history were in 1963. Robert Kerr, the uncrowned king of the U.S. Senate and a major, major political player, died, and there was a fight to ...
Painting depicting the famous land rush in the former western Indian Territory and future Oklahoma Territory, April 22nd, 1889.. The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land run into the Unassigned Lands of the former western portion of the federal Indian Territory, which had decades earlier since the 1830s been assigned to the Creek and Seminole native peoples.
Culling animals in zoos is the process of segregating animals from a group according to desired or undesired characteristics; the process often ends with the segregated animals being killed. Several reasons are given for culling in zoos, including a lack of space, the genes of the culled animals are over-represented in the zoo population, the ...
The Rufus Buck Gang was an outlaw Native American gang whose members were Creek Indian and African American. [1] Their crime spree took place in the Indian Territory of the Arkansas–Oklahoma area from July 30, 1895, through August 4, 1895. Formed by Rufus Buck, the gang consisted also of Lewis Davis, Sam Sampson, Maoma July, and Lucky Davis.
As many as 300 Black Tulsans were killed and their homes and businesses were destroyed by white residents, in what is considered one of the most devastating acts of race-based violence in the U.S.