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ADA
(AY-duh)
Oklahoma
city and seat of Pontotoc County
Common
clues: Oklahoma
city; Sooner state city; Nabokov novel; Nabokov heroine; Boise's
county
Crossword
puzzle frequency:
3 times a year
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Pig
Hunt – Ada, Ok
Ada
is a city and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma,
United States. The population was 16,008 at the 2000 census.
Pontotoc
County Court House
In
April 1889, Jeff Reed (a native Texan) was appointed to carry the
mail from Stonewall to Center, two small communities in the
Indian Territory. With his family and his stock he sought a place
for a home on a prairie midway between the two points. He found
that place in a pleasant setting where he constructed a log house
and started Reed's Store. Other settlers soon came along and
built homes nearby. In 1891, a post office was established and
named after Reed's oldest daughter - Ada. Ada was incorporated as
a city in 1901.
Ada,
located in the rolling hills of southeastern Oklahoma is home to
a four-year university, a world-class EPA water laboratory, the
State's law-enforcement training center, and the headquarters of
the Chickasaw Nation Indian tribe. Ada is an Oklahoma Main Street
City, a Certified City, a Tree City USA member, and a National
Weather Service StormReady Community.
Vladimir
Nabokov
Ada
or Ardor: A Family Chronicle is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov
published in 1969.
Ada
began to materialize in 1959, when Nabokov was flirting with two
projects: "The Texture of Time" and "Letters from
Terra." In 1965, he began to see a link between the two
ideas, finally composing a unified novel from February 1966 to
October 1968. The published cumulation would become his longest
work. Ada was initially given a mixed reception. But, writing in
the New York Times Book Review, noted scholar Alfred Appel called
it "a great work of art, a necessary book, radiant and
rapturous" and said that it "provides further evidence
that he is a peer of Kafka, Proust and Joyce."
Ada
tells the life story of Van Veen, and his lifelong love affair
with his sister Ada. They meet when she is eleven (soon to be
twelve) and he is fourteen, believing that they are cousins (more
precisely: that their fathers are cousins and that their mothers
are sisters), and begin a sexual affair. They later discover that
Van's father is also Ada's and her mother is also his. The story
follows the various interruptions and resumptions of their
affair. Both are wealthy, educated, and intelligent. Van goes on
to become a world-renowned psychologist, and the book itself
takes the form of his memoirs, written when he is in his
nineties, punctuated with his own and Ada's marginal notes, and
in parts with notes by an unnamed editor, suggesting the
manuscript is not complete.
The
novel is divided into five parts, each approximately half the
length of the preceding one. As they progress chronologically,
this structure evokes a sense of a person reflecting on his own
memories, with an adolescence stretching out epically, and many
later years simply flashing by. A crude idea of the years covered
by each section are provided in brackets, below, but the
narrator's thoughts often stray outside of the periods noted.
Ada
County is a county in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of
Idaho. As of the 2000 Census, the county had a population of
300,904 (2008 estimate: 380,920). The county seat and largest
city is Boise. Other cities in the county with over 10,000
residents include Meridian, Eagle, Kuna, and Garden City.. Ada
County is by far the state's largest in population, containing
almost one quarter of the state's residents, and contains its
only county highway district; the Ada County Highway District
(ACHD) has jurisdiction over all the local county and city
streets, except for private roads and state roads.
As
of the census[8] of 2000, there were 300,904 people, 113,408
households, and 77,344 families residing in the county. The
population density was 285/mi² (110/km²). There were
118,516 housing units at an average density of 112/mi²
(43/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 92.86% White,
0.65% Black or African American, 0.69% Native American, 1.74%
Asian, 0.15% Pacific Islander, 1.67% from other races, and 2.24%
from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.48%
of the population.
This
article is licensed under the GNU
Free Documentation License.
It uses material from the Wikipedia
article "Ada, Oklahoma",
“Ada
or Ardor: A Family Chronicle”
and “Ada
County”.
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