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... that with a death toll of 247 people, the Heppner Flood of 1903 (pictured) remains the deadliest natural disaster in Oregon, and the third deadliest flash flood in the entire United States?
... that two school board members of the Sheridan School District faced a recall in 1985 after religious leaders objected to them living together as an unmarried couple?
... that the extinct genus Paleopanax is one of the oldest reliable records for the ginseng family?
... that the Chief Kno–Tah statue in Hillsboro, Oregon, was designed to incorporate features of Chief Joseph?

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