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Brendan I. Koerner has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in…
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In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York…
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The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
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A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept…
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Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the…
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Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963,…
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Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop down a…
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The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and…
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Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can…
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Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American…
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Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending…
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Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are…
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather,…
— Lance Armstrong
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Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.
— Dave Barry
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I was really unfit last year, so I worked out for a long time, then spent time by myself in Oregon. For about two…
— Robert Pattinson
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When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even…
— Horace Bushnell
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We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.
— Ryan Stiles
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A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.
— Ted Kulongoski
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Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and…
— Howard Dean
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There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small…
— Peter DeFazio
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I am maintaining my schedule of commuting to Washington, D.C. each week from Oregon so that I can spend my weekends and…
— Greg Walden
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I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged…
— Greg Walden
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In addition to hydropower, Oregon and the Northwest have pioneering companies leading the way in environmentally friendly energy technology.
— Greg Walden
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Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about…
— Linus Pauling
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