Greek immigrants arrived in Portland in the early 1900s, part of the largest immigration from that country to the United States. Roughly 1.5 percent of …

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Hallie Brown Ford was a philanthropist who gave millions to support the arts at institutions in Oregon and Oklahoma and established scholarships through a foundation, …

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Henry Davidson Sheldon, professor of education and history and dean of the School of Education at the University of Oregon, was a leader in the …

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Henry Larcom Abbot was a career military engineer who is memorialized on Oregon’s landscape in three places: Abbot Pass, just west of Clear Lake off …

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Henry Yelkus (also spelled Yalkus, Yelkes, Yelkis, Yal-kus, and Yelcus), a member of the Molalla Tribe, lived at Dickey Prairie, southeast of present-day Molalla, …

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Howard Andrew “Hobby” Hobson was a basketball pioneer and innovator who led the University of Oregon's Tall Firs to the 1939 NCAA Championship. Creative and …

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Hugh Daniel Burns was an early immigrant to the Oregon Country who was involved in the politics of the region for many years, including as …

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Anthropogenic (human-caused) fire was a major component of the Native system of land and resource management in what is now Oregon. Of all the techniques …

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Interstate 5 is a 308-mile-long segment of highway that runs between the California state line and the Columbia River. The highway is a major …

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In 1977, while music director of L'Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, James DePreist made a memorable debut with the Oregon Symphony in Portland and Salem in …

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