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She purchased a building in 1981 at 739 N. Main street in Tulsa, Oklahoma which would double as a church building and shelter for Tulsa's most needy citizens. She dubbed it the "Rescue Home". [ 5 ] After receiving a $40,000 donation in 1986, she was able to purchase a former country club on Tulsa 's west side that was to become a multipurpose ...
Urban legend holds that lovebugs are synthetic—the result of a University of Florida genetics experiment gone wrong. [3]Research by L.L. Buschman showed that migration explained the introduction of the lovebug into Florida and other southeastern states, contrary to the urban myth that the University of Florida created them by manipulating DNA to control mosquito populations.
Kathy Taylor (born 1955), Mayor of Tulsa (2006–2009) John Volz (1935–2011), attorney for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, died in Tulsa in 2011; R. James Woolsey Jr. (born 1941), former director, Central Intelligence Agency; Terry Young (born 1948), former mayor of the City of Tulsa
The Tulsa Zoo is an 84-acre (34 ha) zoo located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. The Tulsa Zoo is owned by the City of Tulsa but since 2010 has been privately managed by Tulsa Zoo Management, Inc. [6] [7] [8] The zoo is located in Mohawk Park, one of the largest municipal parks in the United States. The zoo is run as a non-profit.
Bibionidae (March flies) is a family of flies containing approximately 650–700 species worldwide.Adults are nectar feeders and emerge in numbers in spring. Because of the likelihood of adult flies being found in copula, they have earned colloquial names such as "love bugs" or "honeymoon flies".
This list of mammals of Oklahoma lists all wild mammal species recorded in the state of Oklahoma. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This includes mammals that are extirpated from the state and species introduced into the state.
The University of Oklahoma operates what is known as the OU-Tulsa Schusterman Center, offering bachelors, master's, and doctoral degree programs in conjunction with the main campus in Norman and the OU Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. The OU-Tulsa Schusterman Center also houses the OU School of Community Medicine, the first medical ...
Love County is a county on the southern border of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,146. [1] Its county seat is Marietta. [2] The county was created at statehood in 1907 and named for Overton Love, a prominent Chickasaw farmer, entrepreneur and politician.