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63 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.

Alan Heston

Alan W. Heston (born 1934, Portland, Oregon) is an American economist best known for his collaborative work with fellow economist Robert Summers and the development of the Penn World Table (PWT).

Alfredo Escalera

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

Allison C. Bonnell

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Benson Mates

Benson Mates (May 19, 1919, Portland, Oregon – May 14, 2009, Berkeley, California) was an American philosopher, noted for his work in logic, the history of philosophy, and skepticism.

Bill Sizemore

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

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.

Charlene Fernetz

Fernetz was born on a large farm in the center of Saskatchewan, Canada, and studied Journalism at the British Columbia Institute of Technology; but in 1990 it was while doing regional theater in Portland, Oregon, that she caught the eye of a Manager from Los Angeles, and within months she was a guest on the Showtime series, Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House.

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.

Cris Moss

He has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including The Melbourne International Arts Festival, Australia, Nottdance, UK, Display Gallery in Prague, Maccarone Inc. in New York City, Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art in New York City, Elizabeth Leach Gallery Portland, Oregon, Whatcom Art Museum, Bellingham, Washington, and Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana.

Cully

Cully, Portland, Oregon is a neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, United States

Curotek

Curotek's technology was initially developed in 2000 for Elite Care at Oatfield Estates, an assisted living facility in Portland, Oregon.

Daniel A. Grout

Grout first served in Portland, Oregon as the principal of North Central School from 1892 to 1895.

Daniel Menche

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

Dat'r

Dat'r is an Electronic music band consisting of Matt Dabrowiak and Paul Alcott, from Portland, Oregon.

Douglas Leedy

Born in Portland, Oregon, Leedy studied with Karl Kohn at Pomona College and at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was in a composition seminar with membership including La Monte Young and Terry Riley.

Edward Kimbark

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

Edwin Palmer Hoyt

He was born in Portland, Oregon to the publisher Edwin Palmer Hoyt (1897–1979) and his wife, the former Cecile DeVore (1901–1970).

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".

Fiskars

The business areas of Fiskars Brands include Outdoor Recreation, Portland, Oregon, USA; Fiskars School, Office, and Craft, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Fiskars Garden and Outdoor Living, Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA; Fiskars Europe, Brussels, Belgium; and Fiskars Corporation and Fiskars Housewares, Helsinki, Finland.

Francis Moraes

He became interested in the heroin subculture in Portland, Oregon – the number two most vibrant heroin city in the United States, at that time (according to DEA statistics).

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.

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.

James B. Stephens

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.

Jim Riswold

Jim Riswold (born 1957 in Seattle, Washington) was the former creative director for Portland, Oregon based advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy and an instructor for the agency's experimental advertising school, WK12: subject for WKE (WKEntertainment)'s upcoming web episodic documentary, 12.

John Mahan

He fought Jimmy Carroll to 3 rounds at the Masonic Hall in Portland, Oregon on December 10.

John Moen

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

KeyBank

It would create a $58 billion banking behemoth with a footprint that literally stretched from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon.

Lakshmi Pratury

She has since lived in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Syracuse, New York, Portland, Oregon, and currently travels between her homes in the Bay Area and in Bangalore, India.

Lay Your Hands on Me

The video for this song was culled from performances at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, WA and the Memorial Coliseum in Portland, OR during The Jersey Syndicate Tour.

Lifesavas

Lifesavas is a hip hop group from Portland, Oregon composed of Vursatyl, an MC; Jumbo, a Producer/MC; and Rev Shines, a DJ.

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.

Marion Verbruggen

Verbruggen made her conducting debut recently with the Portland Baroque Orchestra in Portland, Oregon.

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).

Matthew Dickman

Matthew Dickman (born August 20, 1975, Portland, Oregon) is an American poet.

Men's Needs

The acoustic version of 'I've Tried Everything', the seven inch vinyl two b-side, came from a Board of Trade Building session in Portland, Oregon, with Joe Plummer providing additional percussion duties.

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.

Molly Schuyler

In early 2014, Molly was reported to have broken the 72-ounce steak eating world record, having eaten it in 2 minutes and 44 seconds at Sayler's Old Country Kitchen in Portland, Oregon.

Montessori Oberschule Potsdam

The first is an American-German exchange program with their partner school Franciscan Montessori Earth School/St. Francis Academy located in Portland, Oregon.

Morgan Grace

Morgan Grace is a songwriter from 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.

Ottawa Soccer Stadium

While the MLS commissioner gave positive comments about the Ottawa proposal, MLS eventually granted expansion franchises to other cities, including Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, British Columbia.

Pacific Coast Hockey Association

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

Peter Hardeman Burnett

In 1844, he completed construction of Germantown Road between the Tualatin Valley and what became Portland.

Peter Ricq

His work has been exhibited in Montreal, Vancouver, San Diego and Portland and has been featured in several international magazines (Hemp, Under Pressure, CRUX), in Wallfarmers, a website dedicated on exposing new and established contemporary artists.

Pierre Coupey

Since 1964 he has published several books of poetry, chapbooks and catalogues, and exhibited paintings and prints in solo and group shows in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Oregon, Dublin, Nagoya and Tokyo.

QPDX.com

qPDX.com is a news and events website dedicated to covering the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered communities of Portland, Oregon.

Race Imboden

Imboden won the 2011 Men's Foil National championship in Portland, Oregon and won the gold medal in individual and team foil at the 2011 and 2012 Pan American Fencing Championships.

Rey Ramsey

After graduating from law school, Ramsey went to work for the Portland law-firm Stoel Rives.

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.

Sakae Ōsugi

She was married to Tachibana Sōsaburō and moved to Portland, Oregon.

Shauna Burns

The Moon and the Fire Circle tour kicked-off on 6 March 2008 in Portland, Oregon, with over 25 shows and appearances throughout the year mostly with her band: Shauna Burns on piano and vocals, James Clark on drums, Steve Lemmon on guitar, Marc Kolodziej on bass and Ryan Tilby on guitar and mandolin.

Srilekha Parthasarathy

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

Steven Beckingham

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

The Von Steigers

The Von Steigers are best known for competing in Pacific Northwest Wrestling in Portland, Oregon between 1968 and 1973 but also competed in Tennessee, San Francisco, Stampede Wrestling, Australia, the American Wrestling Alliance and the Carolina territory.

Tiffany Lee Brown

Tiffany Lee Brown is an American writer, editor, and interdisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon.

Tritia Toyota

Born in Portland, Oregon, Toyota earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1970 and later earned a PhD in anthropology.

We Are the Tide

We Are the Tide is the second studio album from the Portland, Oregon indie group Blind Pilot.

World Socialist Party of the United States

As of September 2008 it has members scattered throughout the United States, including Local Branches in Boston and Portland, as well as a regional Branch in the area encompassing Detroit and Toledo, Ohio.

Yoram Bauman

He grew up in San Francisco, received an undergraduate degree in mathematics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, then attended graduate school at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, receiving a Ph.D. in Economics in 2003.


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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Columbia Falls

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

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.

Cumberland County, Maine

The video game Trauma Team takes place in Cumberland County in the year 2020, referencing Portland and Portland's Back Cove.

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.

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.

Elberton, Washington

It grew to have a population of 500 and at one time had a sawmill, a flour mill, a railroad (the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company) that passed through and the world's largest prune dryer.

François Norbert Blanchet

On December 1 1843, the Vatican under Pope Gregory XVI established the Vicariate Apostolic of the Oregon Territory, and named Blanchet its vicar apostolic.

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.

HM Prison Portland

In March 2000, an inspection report by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons severely criticised conditions at Portland YOI, including foul-smelling toilets and filthy showers.

John H. Mitchell

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

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.

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.

Kempster Blanchard Miller

Credited in 1928, along with F.R. Welles and Charles A. Brown, with donating 100 acres of land that would become Pilot Butte State Scenic View in Bend, Oregon.

Kevin Duckworth

Following his death, the Portland Trail Blazers and the Oregon Community Foundation established a memorial scholarship in Duckworth's name for college and professional training for students in Oregon and Southwest Washington.

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.

Leah LaBelle

In October 2004, LaBelle collaborated on a record album, Volume 7 of "Christmas in the Northwest" featuring singers and songwriters from the Pacific Northwest to benefit Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Centers in Seattle, Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland and Children's Miracle Network in Spokane.

Lewis and Clark Expedition

In canoes, they descended the mountains by the Clearwater River, the Snake River, and the Columbia River, past Celilo Falls and past what is now Portland, Oregon at the meeting of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.

Lottia scabra

scabra is found on the Pacific coast of North America from Cape Arago, Oregon to southern Baja California.

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.

Multnomah University

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

Oregon Institute

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

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 House, Aldermaston

Built on the site of Associated Electrical Industries's MERLIN reactor, Portland House was built in the mid-1980s as a new international headquarters for Blue Circle Industries.

Red-billed Streamertail

When the Black-billed Streamertail of eastern Jamaica (found mostly in the parish of Portland) is considered a separate species, the Red-billed Streamertail occurs west of a line from Morant Bay following the Morant River, and via Ginger House and the middle Rio Grande to Port Antonio.

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.

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.

South African Class NG6 4-4-0

Known users were, amongst others, Premier Portland Cement in Bulawayo, the Rhodesian Native Timber Concessions at Gwaai, the Cam and Motor Mine at Gatooma, the Selukwe Peak Light Railway of the Selukwe Chrome Mine, the Lupane Forest Estates, the Igusi Saw Mills and the Arcturus Mine east of Salisbury, all these in Rhodesia.

Thomas Gatch

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

Vedanta Society of Southern California

Swami Prabhavananda came to Los Angeles in 1929 from Portland, Oregon, and formally established the society as a non-profit corporation in 1934.

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.