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57 unusual facts about Portland, Oregon


2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships

The 16th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics will be held in 2016 in Portland, Oregon, United States.

AeTopus

Between 1987 and 1997, he played bass guitar in local Blues, Reggae, Funk, and Punk bands in Moscow, Idaho (where he earned a B.F.A. in Fine Arts/Painting at University of Idaho in 1989), Portland, Oregon, and his current home of Bellingham, Washington.

Alexander Mezhirov

Although Mezhirov had publicly stated that his patriotism for Russia was so intense that, unlike other Russian Jews, he could not immigrate, he suddenly left Russia for the United States in 1992, settling first in New York, then in Portland, Oregon.

Alfredo Escalera

Escalera had his first professional bout on September 4, 1970, against Bob Payzant, in Portland.

Allison C. Bonnell

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Bhai Parmanand

He accompanied Hardayal on a speaking tour to Portland in 1914 and wrote a book for the Ghadar Party called Tarikh-I-Hind.

CatchingYourClouds

It has been noted at this time that Drake lived in a fairly dysfunctional household, which eventually led to him moving across the country at 16 to live with Rose and her mother in Portland, Oregon.

Catherine Feeny

Catherine Feeny (born 1976) is an American singer/songwriter based in Portland, Oregon.

Charles Samuel Jackson

In 1917, Jackson donated 88 acres (356,000 m²) on Marquam Hill in Portland to the University of Oregon Medical School; the site, then known as Sam Jackson Park, is now the campus of the Oregon Health & Science University.

Cheat on Me

'Curse This English Rain' and 'So Hot Now', the CD single and seven inch vinyl one b-sides, came from the same sessions as the rest of the album, with additional recording completed at Mastan Music, Portland, Oregon by Jeremy Wilson.

Come on, be a No-One

Nick Scott designed the sleeve, whereas the cover image contains detail from the piece 'Lessons of Our Forefathers' by Portland-based artist Sean Croghan.

Conservation of painted turtles

Portland, Oregon built an undercrossing, for $160,000, which the turtles have learned to use.

Daniel Menche

Daniel Menche (born December 4, 1969) is a musician from Portland, Oregon.

Defence Scheme No. 1

According to the plan, Canadian flying columns stationed in Pacific Command in western Canada would immediately be sent to seize Seattle, Spokane, and Portland.

Dutch Savage

He later became an administrator for his official website (Dutch Savage.com) and hosted a program called "Dutch's Corner", where he taught King James Scripture, on Public-access television out of Portland, Oregon.

Edward Kimbark

While at Seattle University he also became a consultant for Bonneville Power Administration in Portland, Oregon.

Environmental Quality Management

In addition to its Cincinnati headquarters, EQM has offices in Chicago, Illinois; Denver, Colorado; Durham, North Carolina; Las Vegas, Nevada; New Orleans, Louisiana; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; Roanoke, Virginia; Sacramento, California; San Antonio, Texas; and Seattle, Washington.

Eola, Texas

After the turn of the new century, James Mark Cannon (born circa 1967) relocated from Portland, Oregon, to purchase the abandoned school building and to turn it into a seven-day restaurant known as "Eola School Restaurant".

Farel Dalrymple

Dalrymple currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where he is working on the second volume of Pop Gun War, to be published by Dark Horse Comics, as well as illustrating the ten-issue series Omega the Unknown, written by author Jonathan Lethem and published by Marvel Comics.

Glen Coffield

The artist Kemper Nomland was at Camp Angel, and attempted to capture Coffield's creativity in a painting donated to the Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

Hawaii Theological Seminary

Established in 1971 by James R. Cook and J. William Cook, the school grew out of the International Baptist Church of Honolulu and Western Seminary, a theological institution in Portland, Oregon.

Helen Dinerman

in Portland, Oregon on 14 August 1974 while on holiday with her daughter.

Henry V Events

Henry V has offices in North Portland where it renovated a former dairy production plant in August 2005 as its 30,000-square-foot headquarters and warehouse.

HMM-364

In February 1996, the Purple Foxes provided executive transport for President Clinton and other dignitaries while they toured flood damaged Portland, Oregon.

HMMT-164

In February 1996, HMM-164 was called upon to support the President of the United States as he visited the flood-ravaged areas around Portland, Oregon.

Hutch Harris

Hutch Harris is an American songwriter and musician, and the lead guitarist/vocalist of Portland, Oregon rock band The Thermals.

International Association of Culinary Professionals

Since 1990, the association sponsored conferences in New Orleans, Philadelphia, Chicago, Portland, Providence, Baltimore, Dallas, and Seattle.

Istvan Kantor

Zack encouraged Kantor to join him in America; Kantor emigrated via Paris to Montreal and, in 1978, lived one year with Zack and Blaster Al Ackerman in Portland, Oregon, encountering and working with artists from Mail Art and the industrial music scene.

James B. Stephens

A native of Virginia, he was the founder of East Portland and Stephens Street in Portland, Oregon is named in his honor.

Stephens refused Overton's offer to sell him his Portland land claim for 300 new salmon barrels because he planned to bid for another claim, which he secured in 1845 and on which East Portland was founded.

John Moen

He has been an integral part of the music scene in and around Portland, Oregon since the 1980s.

Louis Glavis

In 1909, Glavis was an agent of the Department's General Land Office's Field Division in the northwestern United States and was based in Portland, Oregon.

Marc Broude

The duo disbanded after recording seventeen demos at a Portland, Oregon studio.

Marv Newland

This work includes directing episodes of the 3D stop motion series, The PJ's, for Will Vinton Studios in Portland, Oregon; The Preacher's Life (1999); Fear of a Black Rat (1999); and Let's Get Ready to Rumba (2001).

Mind Chaos

When Sony dropped the band before the album was recorded, Grubin and Reynolds moved to Portland, Oregon with percussionist Anthony Stassi and guitarist Brian White.

Morgan Grace

Morgan Grace is a songwriter from Portland, Oregon.

Morrie Lanning

Morris L. "Morrie" Lanning (born August 27, 1944 in Portland, Oregon) is a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing District 9A, which includes portions of Clay County in the northwestern part of the state.

National Florence Crittenton Mission

The National Crittenton Foundation's headquarters are located in Portland, Oregon.

Nigel Jaquiss

Jaquiss later broke the initial news of Portland mayor Sam Adams' affair with an intern who may have been underage at the onset of their affair, on President Barack Obama's Inauguration Day.

Nigel Jaquiss (born 1962) is an American journalist who won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, for his work exposing former Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt's sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl while he was mayor of Portland, Oregon.

Pacific Coast Hockey Association

The league expanded into the United States in 1914 (Portland, Oregon) and again in 1915 (Seattle, Washington).

Paramount Petroleum

Paramount also operates a refinery near Portland, Oregon, as well as several marketing terminals in the Western United States.

Paul Stamets

On June 30, 2012, he received an honorary Doctorate of Science (D.Sc.) degree from the accredited National College of Natural Medicine, Portland, Oregon.

Providence Portland Medical Center

Providence Portland Medical Center, located at 4805 NE Glisan St. in the North Tabor neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, is a full-service medical center specializing in cancer and cardiac care.

Rachael Palinkas

Rachael Palinkas (born March 26, 1987), is an aspiring photojournalist who is best known for her photography of an Anti-Iraq War rally and march in downtown Portland, Oregon in 2007.

Richard Speer

Since 2002 Speer has been visual arts critic at Willamette Week, a Portland, Oregon alternative weekly newspaper that won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2005.

Rozz Rezabek

Rozz Rezabek-Wright (born June 4, 1960), usually Rozz Rezabek, is an American musician based in Portland, Oregon, formerly of San Francisco, California.

Sean Healy

Sean P. Healy is a multimedia artist based in Portland, Oregon.

Standard Schaefer

He and his wife live in Portland, Oregon where he is working on a Master’s in Media Studies.

Steven Beckingham

He started his acting career performing in various musicals in Portland, Oregon in the late nineties.

Tawan W. Davis

Davis was born in 1979 Tacoma, Washington, but he grew up in Portland, Oregon, where he was raised by his single mother, Sylvia.

U.S. Route 23 in Michigan

Overall, this highway ran from Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine, by way of Michigan and the Canadian province of Ontario.

Under Wildwood

The 576 page novel, the sequel to Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book One, continues the tale of Prue McKeel and her adventures in the "Impassable Wilderness," a fantastical version of Portland, Oregon's Forest Park.

Vidoop

Vidoop LLC was a privately held company based in Portland, Oregon.

Waverley Country Club

The club was established in April 1896, with its original golf course laid out several miles northeast, in the Richmond neighborhood, near the present-day corner of Southeast César E. Chávez Boulevard and Powell Boulevard.

William Wallace McCredie

At the time, the Portland club was part of the Pacific Coast League which was considered a high level minor league that frequently sent players to major league teams.

Your Life Is a Lie

The band first premiered the song live at the Portland State Theater on April 30, and was later performed on following shows through North America as their spring 2013 tour.


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.

Bill Sizemore

One of the first measures Sizemore was involved in was a referendum which stopped Portland's $3.4 billion light rail expansion.

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.

Brad Hirschfield

With his CLAL co-president Irwin Kula he co-hosts a weekly radio show called Hirschfield and Kula on KXL in Portland, Oregon.

Brian Jean

Jean has a Bachelor of Science degree from Warner Pacific in Portland, Oregon, a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Bond University in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Buffington Island

During the American Civil War, the Battle of Buffington Island took place on July 19, 1863, just south of the Ohio community of Portland.

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.

Carel Borchaert Voet

He travelled to England in the service of Hans Willem Bentinck, count of Portland.

Casco Bay High School

Casco Bay High School is a public Expeditionary Learning school in Portland, Maine, USA.

Charles A. Johns

On June 4, 1918, Johns was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court to replace Wallace McCamant by Governor James Withycombe after McCamant resigned.

Charles S. Drew

A hardcover version of Drew’s report of Indian attacks on settlers in the Oregon Territory was published by Ye Galleon Press of Fairfield, Washington in 1973.

Crew resource management

United Airlines Flight 173 crew was making an approach to the Portland International Airport on the evening of Dec 28, 1978 when they experienced a landing gear abnormality.

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.

David Hague

After playing for the Portland, where Hague was nominated for rookie of the year, Hague went to Uruguay to play for Danubio F.C. It was decided that Soccer did not deserve David and he quit instead.

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.

Donald Macleay

His legacy includes Macleay Park, a part of Forest Park in Portland, and Macleay, an unincorporated Oregon community that was renamed in his honor in 1882.

Donation Land Claim Act

The passage of the law was largely due to the efforts of Samuel R. Thurston, the Oregon territorial delegate to Congress.

Exit Games

Exit Games is a German venture capital financed company, founded in 2003, with offices in Hamburg and Portland offering a multiplayer engine for cross-platform realtime multiplayer games and massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) on various technological platforms, including mobile, PC and consoles.

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.

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.

Goose River Bridge

Viking Bridge, also known as Goose River Bridge, near Portland, North Dakota, NRHP-listed

Grevillea aquifolium

In Victoria the species is found in the Grampians region and northwards to the Little Desert as well as near the south coast at Kentbruck Heath near Portland.

HMLA-775

To enhance the squadron's readiness and demonstrate its versatility, HMLA-775 also participated in anti-drug and Border Patrol operations in support of Federal Agencies in locations such as Key West, FL, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Nassau, South America, California, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, and Jamaica.

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 L. Rand

The controversy began with a complex legal battle over the estate of E. Henry Wemme, a wealthy immigrant to Oregon.

Justice Page

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

Kathy Fleming

In 1997 she finished third place behind Deena Kastor and Lynn Jennings at the USA 8k Cross Country Championships in Portland, Oregon.

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.

KBOO

In addition to its main 26,500-watt transmission tower in Portland, KBOO has two repeater stations – in Corvallis, Oregon (at 100.7 FM) and the Columbia River Gorge (at 91.9 FM) – which increase its broadcast area to include the Columbia River Gorge and most of the Willamette Valley.

Kim Peyton

Peyton-McDonald was honored in 1975 with the Bill Hayward Johnny Carpenter Prep athlete of the year award as the Outstanding Amateur Athlete in Oregon.

KKSN

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

KVAL

KVAL-TV, a television station (channel 13 analog/25 digital) licensed to Eugene, Oregon, United States

L. alba

Limnanthes alba, the white meadowfoam, a flowering plant species native to California and Oregon

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.

Marco A. Hernandez

Republican Gordon Smith was defeated for re-election in 2008, and newly elected President Barack Obama restarted the judicial selection process for the District of Oregon.

Michael Holton

Michael Holton is currently employed by Comcast SportsNet as a television analyst for the Portland Trail Blazers.

Multnomah University

The original campus was located adjacent to the site of the present Lloyd Center shopping mall in Northeast Portland.

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.

Portland Independent Top Whitbed

Portland Independent Top Whitbed is the variety of Portland stone used to build the Ashton Memorial in Lancaster.

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.

Rob Cornilles

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

Simocetus

Simocetus is known from a single fossil, a skull, found in marine siltstone deposits of the Alsea Formation on the banks of Oregon's Yaquina River in 1977 by fossil hunter of the region, Douglas Emlong.

The Stanley Hotel

Parts of the television mini-series version of The Shining were filmed there, whereas Stanley Kubrick's cinematic adaptation The Shining was filmed at another resort hotel, the Timberline Lodge in Oregon (besides Elstree Studios in England).

Willamette National Forest

In 1911, the Santiam National Forest was created from parts of the Oregon NF and the Cascade NF.

William Gray Purcell

A feature shared by one of those houses and Maryhill is a sleeping loft, but the Portland example also features a wooden carving of Nils on his goose flying out over the living room.

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.