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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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