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This Halloween 2024, use these printable pumpkin stencils and free, easy carving patterns for the scariest, silliest, most unique, and cutest jack-o’-lanterns.
The Will Rogers phenomenon, also rarely called the Okie paradox, [1] is when moving an observation from one group to another increases the average of both groups. It is named after a joke attributed to the comedian Will Rogers about Dust Bowl migration during the Great Depression : [ 2 ]
An 18-year-old Okie mother, pictured holding her child, stranded penniless in the Imperial Valley, 1937 Rear view of an Okie's car, passing through Amarillo, heading west, 1941 In the mid-1930s, during the Dust Bowl era, large numbers of farmers fleeing ecological disaster and the Great Depression migrated from the Great Plains and Southwest ...
Teri O'Rourke of Palm Desert, whose grandparents left Oklahoma in the 1930s, said my use of “Okie” brought back memories of “the people in the '50s and '60s who thought Okies were stupid and ...
Merle Haggard & the Strangers's "Okie from Muskogee" (1969), despite being strongly nationalistic, was listed in PopMatters's July 2007 list of the top 65 protest songs because it is, as the webzine puts it, in fact a protest against changing social mores, alternative lifestyles, and, well, protests ...
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Robert B. Powers, (October 3, 1900 – December 3, 1976) was a prominent police officer in the history of California, first as Chief of Police in Bakersfield, California (1933–1945) and as the chief enforcement officer at the state level (1944–1947) during which he co-established one of the earliest training programs for police in matters of race relations.
I'm fully aware of not all Asians are Japanese, "Okies" are Cherokee Indians and the two ethnic-national groups (Okies are US Americans) had evolved separately, but cultural anthropologists study how an ethnic group comes in contact with another to eventually merge in a generation (i.e. Jew-talians, Irish Franco-Canadiens, Nuyo-ricans as Puerto ...