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November 2010

 * ... 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 more than 500,000 Jewish Americans served in the United States armed services during World War II (one soldier's grave pictured), and roughly 52,000 received military awards?
 * ... that National Labor Relations Board Chief Economist David J. Saposs was accused of being a Communist, and Congress defunded his position and division in October 1940?
 * ... that Howard Lester bought Williams-Sonoma in 1976 when it had four stores and sales of US$4 million and grew the company to annual sales of US$3.4 billion at 600 stores, including the Pottery Barn chain?
 * ... that when Pennsylvania judge Cathy Bissoon was four years old, her father was stabbed to death near the family's home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn?
 * ... that members of the segregated US 24th Infantry Regiment claimed that the regiment's achievements at the Battle of Sangju were not recognized due to racism?
 * ... that Cornell University labor law professor James A. Gross has worked as a labor relations mediator for the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball?
 * ... that historian Dan Flores wrote a study of the Red River Expedition, which set out for the American Southwest in 1806 just as Lewis and Clark were returning from the Pacific Northwest?
 * ... that in 1929 the Hudson Motor Car Company ranked third in total U.S. production by targeting budget minded buyers, but introduced the Greater Eight, a premium line of cars, at the height of the Depression?
 * ... that United States lightship WAL 539 was the last lightvessel constructed for the United States Lighthouse Service before it became part of the Coast Guard?
 * ... that besides the existence of 24 tracks recorded in 1928–29, the life of American classic female blues singer Bessie Tucker remains a mystery?
 * ... that only six of the U.S. Supreme Court's nine justices participated in a 1950 anti-communist oath case?
 * ... that the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy was the first United States organization focused on preserving rare breeds of livestock?
 * ... that James Charles Fahey started self-publishing The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet when he thought editors were "butchering" his manuscripts?
 * ... that the New York Sunday Mercury was the most widely read weekly newspaper in the United States in the mid 19th century?
 * ... that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States tried to buy the last Almirante Latorre-class battleship (pictured) from Chile?