- ... that the basalt underlying the Columbia Plateau ecoregion (map pictured) in Washington and Oregon can be up to 2 miles (3 km) thick?
- ... that Helen J. Frye was the first woman to serve on Oregon's sole federal district court?
- ... that Albert Tozier rang the bell at a church in Hillsboro, Oregon, on New Year's Eve for 64 straight years?
- ... that the Oregon Portage Railroad was the first railroad in Oregon, and had the first locomotive in the Pacific Northwest, the Oregon Pony?
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edit- Wikipedia:Recent additions 220, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
- Wikipedia:Recent additions 219, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
- Wikipedia:Recent additions 219, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
- Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/January, Archive of Main Page appearance.