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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 748 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NORMAN , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and township (coextensive) and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of See also:

Cleveland county, See also:

OKLAHOMA (a Choctaw Indian word meaning " red people ")

Oklahoma, U.S.A., about 2 M. N. of the See also:

CANADIAN

Canadian See also:

RIVER

river, and 18 m. S. by E. of Oklahoma City. Pop. (189o) 787; (1900) 2225; (1910) 3724. It is served by the See also:

ATCHISON

Atchison, See also:

TOPEKA

Topeka & See also:

SANTA

Santa Fe railway. It is the seat of the university of Oklahoma (chartered, 1892; opened 1894; coeducational), which includes a See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

college of arts and sciences, See also:

SCHOOLS

schools of applied See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science,See also:

MEDICINE

medicine, See also:

PHARMACY

pharmacy, mines and See also:

FINE

fine arts, and a preparatory school, and in 1908 had 56 instructors and 790 students. The Oklahoma Insane See also:

Asylum is in the city. See also:

Cotton-See also:

SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed oil, See also:

FLOUR

flour and See also:

ICE (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Eis)

ice are manufactured, and the neighbouring region produces much cotton, See also:

INDIAN

Indian See also:

corn, oats, See also:

ALFALFA

alfalfa and See also:

wheat. Hogs, See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle and See also:

sheep are raised. The first See also:

settlement here was made in 1889, and Norman was chartered as a city in 1902.

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