Portal:Oregon/DYK/169


 * ... that Frank Dekum (pictured), a 19th-century banker in Portland, Oregon, and president of the German Songbird Society, imported thrushes, starlings, nightingales, and other German songbirds to Oregon?
 * ... that the Alkali Lake Chemical Waste Dump in Oregon contains 25,000 drums of chemical waste, dumped in 1969 by a predecessor of Bayer CropScience?
 * ... that Blazed Alder Creek, which supplies part of the drinking water for Portland, Oregon, was named for a 24 in blazed (marked) alder tree used as a benchmark for early watershed surveys?
 * ... that National Football League player Geoff Schwartz didn't start playing football until age 13, because his parents wanted him to study for his Bar Mitzvah?

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 * 4) Recent additions/2013/March, Archive of Main Page appearance.