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unusual facts about Aurora, Oregon


Hy-Tek Hurricane 103

The Hy-Tek Hurricane 103 is a family of single-engined, high wing tricycle gear-equipped aircraft that were available in kit form from Hy-Tek Hurricane of Aurora, Oregon.


Aggregate Spend

In March 2008, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon) and Rep. Pete Stark (D-California) introduced a slightly different companion bill in the House of Representatives.

American Knees

A film adaptation, entitled Americanese (2006), was written and directed by Eric Byler, produced by Lisa Onodera, and stars Chris Tashima as Raymond Ding, Allison Sie as Aurora Crane and Joan Chen as Betty Nguyen.

Amite City, Louisiana

Joanne Verger, Oregon legislator and first woman mayor of Coos Bay, Oregon

Aurora Pavlovna Demidova

Princess and Countess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova (2/3 November 1873, Kiev – 28 June (OS: 16 June) 1904, Turin) was a Russian noblewoman of the Demidov family.

Aurora University

In 1911, residents of the nearby town of Aurora raised funds to construct a new college, led by funding from businessman Charles Eckhart, who founded the predecessor company to the Auburn Automobile Company.

Aurora, Taylor County, Wisconsin

This Township is covered with timber The greater portion of which is Hemlock Y Birch Elm and Sugar.

Barview, Tillamook County, Oregon

With the future of the building in flux, it is one of ten entries on the Historic Preservation League of Oregon's Most Endangered Places in Oregon 2011 list.

Bay Super V

Harold Bost purchased N3124V from the Oregon Aviation Museum, in Cottage Grove, Oregon, and donated it to Bonanza Baron Museum in October, 2004.

Beaver Coins

The Provisional Legislature at Champoeg then gave the approval for the Oregon Exchange Company to mint currency.

Bob De Carolis

He was credited with leading the largest fundraising campaign in the history of the Oregon State athletic department, raising funds for a project to expand Reser Stadium.

Bob Glenn

In 1919, after graduating from Michigan, Glenn was hired as an instructor in civil engineering at the Engineering School of the Oregon State Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) in Corvallis, Oregon.

Butler Ives

He was contracted with locating and surveying of the boundary line between the Nevada Territory and the State of California -- running south and southeasterly from Oregon.

Charles R. Spencer

Charles R. Spencer (generally called the Spencer) was a steamboat built in 1901 to run on the Willamette and Columbia rivers from Portland, to The Dalles, Oregon.

Columbia Falls

Celilo Falls on the Oregon-Washington border, also known as "Columbia Falls"

Dave Glinka

Glinka completed 5 of 11 passes against Oregon and threw two touchdown passes (to George Mans and Scott Maentz) to lead the Wolverines to a 21-0 victory.

Domestic partnership in the United States

Since 1999, the West Coast states of California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada have all passed domestic partnership statutes; in contrast, most legislatures in the New England region and New Jersey have preferred the term civil unions.

Francis Boggs

He left Los Angeles in April to go on location in Yosemite and Oakland in California and the Hood River Valley in Oregon.

Frank Kratovil

A "Super PAC" group called The Concerned Taxpayers of America paid $150,000 for ads attacking Kratovil, and $300,000 for ads attacking Peter DeFazio of Oregon.

Galen Rupp

He also led a young Oregon team to victory over the Stanford Cardinal, who had won the previous six Pac-10 titles.

Gill Coliseum

Inside, on the south wall of Gill Coliseum is a painted mural of many former Oregon State men's basketball players including Gary Payton, Brent Barry, AC Green, and Steve Johnson.

Greta Pratt

She is the author of two books of photographs, Using History (Steidl, 2005) and In Search of the Corn Queen (National Museum of American Art, 1994), and her works are represented in major public and private collections, including the National Museum of American Art: Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, and Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Independent Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Companies

Sherer's Independent Cavalry Company was organized at Aurora, Illinois as Company B, 36th Illinois Infantry, but detached from the regiment and served primarily as headquarters guard.

Irene Bennett Brown

Brown was born in Topeka, Kansas and when she was nine years old, moved with her family from Kansas to the Willamette Valley in Oregon.

Jaime Robles Céspedes

Jaime Robles Céspedes (born 2 February 1978 in Montero, Santa Cruz Department) is a Bolivian football midfielder who currently plays for Aurora in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano.

Janel Bishop

Bishop, the first titleholder from New Hampshire, was crowned by outgoing titleholder Bridgette Wilson of Oregon.

John F. Kilkenny United States Post Office and Courthouse

a former judge of the District of Oregon and of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

John H. Mitchell

During his law practice in Oregon, Mitchell did some legal work for a client named Marcus Neff.

Justice Page

William W. Page, an Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court for four months

Kay Swift

Her 1943 book about life on his Oregon ranch, "Who Could Ask For Anything More?" was made into the 1950 movie Never a Dull Moment, which featured Fred MacMurray as the cowboy and Irene Dunne as Kay.

KKSN

KGDD, a radio station (1520 AM) licensed to Oregon City, Oregon, United States, which used the call sign KKSN from 1998 until 2003

Lynn Snodgrass

She represented District 10, which included her home town of Boring as well as Clackamas, Happy Valley, Damascus, South Gresham, Estacada, and portions of Oregon City.

Malcolm F. Marsh

Marsh presided over the 1995 trial of several former followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh after their failed assassination plot against U.S. Attorney for Oregon Charles H. Turner.

Marble Mountain Wilderness

These include crested cinquefoil or crested potentilla (Potentilla cristae), Siskiyou fireweed (Epilobium siskiyouense), and McDonald's rock cress (Arabis blepharophylla var. macdonaldiana), a perennial found in conifer forests of California and Oregon.

Max Sterling

The canonical status of Aurora Sterling, who is a character in the decanonized Jack McKinney novels, is unknown, although it has been suggested that Maia is meant to replace Aurora in the rebooted Robotech timeline.

McMinnville

McMinnville, Oregon, the county seat and largest city of Yamhill County, Oregon, United States

Mindy Duncan

Two other Miss Oregon Teen USA titleholders, Bridgette Wilson (1990) and Tami Farrell (2003), have since also won the Miss Teen USA crown.

Nightmare Theatre

For most of its run, the late-night program opened with a shot of a mist-shrouded castle (in actuality, a touched-up Addams Family Haunted House Aurora model kit), accompanied by sound effects borrowed from Walt Disney's Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House and music pilfered from Neal Hefti's score for the 1966 Roddy McDowall film Lord Love a Duck.

NWEAMO

New West Electronic Arts & Music Organization (NWEAMO), founded by composer Joseph Waters in Portland, Oregon, U.S. in 1998, is a nonprofit organization based in San Diego, California that produces the annual international festival of electro-acoustic music.

Oregon Institute

Missionary Jason Lee came to Oregon Country in 1834 with Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth to begin missionary work amongst the natives.

Otis Junction, Oregon

Otis Junction is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States, at the junction of the former route of U.S. Route 101 and Oregon Route 18, a half mile south of Otis.

Pacific Air Transport

This was because the airmail aircraft would have to traverse the 7,000 ft Siskiyou Mountains on the Oregon-California border.

Port of Brookings Harbor

The Port of Brookings Harbor is the port authority for the city of Brookings, Oregon, United States, and serving the neighboring community of Harbor.

Richard Laurence Marquette

Oregon Governor Mark Hatfield appealed to the FBI for help and the agency took the unusual step of expanding their most wanted list to eleven names, the first time it had ever done so.

Richard Urquhart Goode

In 1889, he was appointed a geographer with the Survey and was placed in charge of surveys of the Pacific Coast States - California, Oregon, and Washington.

Rob Cornilles

Cornilles was the Republican nominee in the 2010 election for Oregon's 1st congressional district against Democratic incumbent David Wu.

Srilekha Parthasarathy

She also has a fan club "No One Noticed Srilekha" in Portland, Oregon, USA, the first for a Tamil singer in Oregon.

Thomas Gatch

Thomas Milton Gatch (1833–1913), president of Willamette University, Oregon State University, and the University of Washington

Viewer Access Satellite Television

From December 2013, CRN, NIRS, RPH, and the BBC World Service will merge with the new satellite platform from the existing Aurora platform that will end at that time.

William Mayfield

In 1861, cattle were being driven over the Sierras to feed the mining boon town of Aurora.

Zygolophodon

While collecting fossils in the Clarno Formation of Oregon during 1941, noted paleobotanists Alonzo W. Hancock and Chester A. Arnold recovered the most complete Zygolophodon skull known at the time.


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