Dynamite was used to blow up a rotting beached whale, which had some unintended consequences.

Exploding whales have been documented on two notable occasions, as well as several lesser-known ones. The most famous explosion occurred in the United States at Florence, Oregon, in 1970, when a dead sperm whale (originally reported as a gray whale) was blown up by the Oregon Highway Division in an attempt to dispose of its rotting carcass. This incident became famous in the U.S. when American humorist Dave Barry wrote about it in his newspaper column after viewing a videotape of television footage of the explosion. It later became well-known internationally when the same footage circulated on the Internet. Screen grab of a frame of footage of the exploding whale, taken by KATU Channel 2 Doug Brazil on November 12, 1970 License This work is copyrighted. ... Dynamite is an explosive based on the explosive potential of nitroglycerin, initially using diatomaceous earth (kieselguhr) as an adsorbent. ... A mass stranding of Pilot Whales A beached whale is a whale which has become stranded on land, usually on a beach. ... Florence is a city located in Lane County, Oregon. ... Official language(s) (none)[1] Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 9th  - Total 98,466 sq mi (255,026 km²)  - Width 260 miles (420 km)  - Length 360 miles (580 km)  - % water 2. ... Binomial name Linnaeus, 1758 Sperm Whale range (in blue) The Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of all toothed whales and is the largest toothed animal alive, measuring up to 18 metres (60 ft) long. ... Binomial name Eschrichtius robustus Lilljeborg, 1861 Gray Whale range The Gray Whale or Grey Whale (Eschrichtius robustus), more recently called the Eastern Pacific Gray Whale, is a whale that travels between feeding and breeding grounds yearly. ... The Oregon Department of Transportation (otherwise known as the ODOT) is a department of the Oregon state government responsible for systems of transportation. ... For other uses, see Body (disambiguation). ... A humorist is an author who specializes in short, humorous articles or essays. ... For the English musician, see Dave Berry (musician). ... The term viral video refers to video clip content which gains widespread popularity through the process of Internet sharing, typically through email or IM messages, blogs and other media sharing websites. ...

There have also been spontaneous explosions. The other best-reported case of an exploding whale was in Taiwan in 2004, when a buildup of gas inside a decomposing sperm whale caused it to explode while it was being transported for a post-mortem examination. As exploding whales are an interesting and absurd topic, they have been written about by several authors. Gas can also refer to gasoline and natural gas and also hydrogen. ... “Spoilage” redirects here. ... The term post mortem means after death. It is also short for postmortem examination, or autopsy. ...

Incidents

Documented cases of exploding animals are fairly rare. Whales explosions in the United States and Taiwan were widely covered by the world press. However, there have been less famous incidents in other parts of the world. An exploding animal is an animal that explodes either through natural causes or with the intervention of humans. ...

Florence, Oregon, USA

The Oregon Highway Division failed to dispose of this whale carcass properly when they blew it up with half a ton of dynamite.

On November 12, 1970, a 14 m (45 ft 11 in), eight-ton sperm whale died as a result of beaching itself near Florence, Oregon.^[1] Since all Oregon beaches are under the jurisdiction of the state Parks and Recreation Department,^[2] responsibility for disposing of the carcass fell upon the Oregon Highway Division (now known as the Oregon Department of Transportation, or ODOT), a sister agency.^[3] After consulting with officials at the United States Navy, they decided that it would be best to remove the whale in the same way they would remove a boulder and, on November 12, used half a ton of dynamite on it. They thought burying the whale would be ineffective, as it would soon be uncovered, and they believed the use of dynamite would cause an explosion that would disintegrate the whale into pieces small enough for scavengers to clear up. The engineer in charge of the operation, George Thornton, was recorded as stating that one set of charges might not be enough and more might be needed. Thornton later explained that he was chosen to remove the whale because the district engineer, Dale Allen, had gone hunting.^[4][5] Screen grab from Paul Linnman Exploding Whale footage - dead whale. ... The Oregon Department of Transportation (otherwise known as the ODOT) is a department of the Oregon state government responsible for systems of transportation. ... is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1970 ([[Rf 1970 == January 1 - The Unix epoch begins at 00:00:00 UTC January 2 - The last studio performance of The Beatles oman numerals|MCMLXX]]) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Binomial name Linnaeus, 1758 Sperm Whale range (in blue) The Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of all toothed whales and is the largest toothed animal alive, measuring up to 18 metres (60 ft) long. ... A mass stranding of Pilot Whales A beached whale is a whale which has become stranded on land, usually on a beach. ... The Oregon Department of Transportation (otherwise known as the ODOT) is a department of the Oregon state government responsible for systems of transportation. ... USN redirects here. ... Boulder In geology, a boulder is a rock with grain size of usually no less than 256 mm (10 inches) diameter. ... is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Dynamite is an explosive based on the explosive potential of nitroglycerin, initially using diatomaceous earth (kieselguhr) as an adsorbent. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... For a person who scavenges, see Waste picker. ... This article is about the hunting of prey by human society. ...

The resulting explosion was caught on film by television photographer Doug Brazil for a story reported by news reporter Paul Linnman of KATU-TV in Portland, Oregon. In his voiceover, Linnman joked that "land-lubber newsmen" became "land-blubber newsmen", for "the blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds."^[4] The explosion caused large pieces of blubber to land some distance away from the beach, resulting in a smashed car. The explosion disintegrated only some of the whale, most of which remained on the beach for the Oregon Highway Division workers to clear away. For other uses, see Journalist (disambiguation). ... Paul Linnman (1947 -) is a television news reporter for KATU Channel 2. ... KATU is a television station in Portland, Oregon, USA. An ABC affiliate, it broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 2 and its digital signal on UHF channel 43. ... Nickname: Location of Portland in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: , Country State Counties Multnomah County Incorporated February 8, 1851 Government  - Mayor Tom Potter[1]  - Commissioners Sam Adams Randy Leonard Dan Saltzman Erik Sten  - Auditor Gary Blackmer Area  - City 376. ... VoiceOver is a feature built into Apple Computers Mac OS X v10. ... Remains of seventeenth century blubber cauldrons at the abandoned Dutch settlement of Smeerenburg in Svalbard, Norway This article is about the body tissue. ...

At the end of his news story, Paul Linnman noted that "It might be concluded that should a whale ever be washed ashore in Lane County again, those in charge will not only remember what to do, they'll certainly remember what not to do." It was reported in the ODOT's employee newspaper, TranScript, that when 41 sperm whales beached nearby in 1979, state parks officials burned and buried them.^[6] Today, beach managers tow dead beached whales to the open sea. This is done mainly for safety reasons, as the rotting corpses have been known to attract sharks and so become a danger to beach users. Lane County is a county in the state of Oregon. ... For other uses, see Shark (disambiguation). ...

For several years, the story of the exploding whale was commonly disbelieved and thought to be an urban legend. However, it was brought to widespread public attention by popular writer Dave Barry in his Miami Herald column of May 20, 1990, when he reported that he had footage of the event. Some time later the Oregon State Highway division started to receive calls from the media after a shortened version of the article was distributed on bulletin boards under the title "The Farside Comes To Life In Oregon". However, the piece did not explain that the event had happened approximately twenty five years previously and whoever had copied Barry's article neglected to include the authorship of the piece. Dave Barry says that on a fairly regular basis someone forwards him the "authorless" column and suggests he write something about the described incident. Due to these oversights, an article in the ODOT's TranScript notes that An urban legend or urban myth is similar to a modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them. ... For the English musician, see Dave Berry (musician). ... The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by Knight Ridder. ... is the 140th day of the year (141st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... BBS redirects here. ... This article is about the comic strip. ...

The footage that was referred to in the article, from KATU for the news story reported by Paul Linnman, resurfaced later as a video file on several websites and became a reasonably well-known and popular Internet meme.^[7] These websites attracted criticism from upset people who complained that they were making fun of acts of animal cruelty, even though the whale was already dead. Their critical emails were subsequently published by the bemused site webmasters.^{[citation needed]} Digital video is a type of video recording system that works by using a digital, rather than analog, of the video signal. ... This article is about computer files and file systems in general terms. ... The Hampster Dance [sic] is one of the first widely distributed Internet memes and illustrates the characteristic silliness of much of the genre. ... A man in Shanghai who is asking for money and carrying a monkey that is missing a limb. ...

The story of Oregon's exploding whale was widely known on Usenet for quite some time and was in particular discussed on alt.folklore.urban, a newsgroup devoted to urban legends. The incident, including a complete copy of Barry's article, was recorded in the newsgroup's 1991 FAQ, then maintained by Peter van der Linden, where it was marked as "Tb" (believed true, but not conclusively proven).^[8] In 1992, after newsgroup poster "snopes" tried to verify whether this was true or not, the newsgroup received confirmation that it was a true story and marked it as true.^[9] Usenet (USEr NETwork) is a global, decentralized, distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name. ... A newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users at different locations. ... FAQ is an abbreviation for Frequently Asked Question(s). The term refers to listed questions and answers, all supposed to be frequently asked in some context, and pertaining to a particular topic. ... Snopes, also known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a website dedicated to determining the truth about many urban legends, Internet rumors, email forwards, and other such stories of uncertain or questionable origin. ...

Since then, the Oregon explosion has inspired a website devoted to the incident^[10] and has also been parodied in the second season of the Comedy Central show Drawn Together, in which a group of tribesmen attempt to move the carcass of Toot Braunstein, the fattest of the show's characters, by blowing up her body.^{[citation needed]} In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist, Part II is the eighth episode of the animated series Drawn Together. ... Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel in the United States. ... Drawn Together is an American animated television series that uses a sitcom format with a TV reality show setting. ... Toot Braunstein is a fictional character in the animated series Drawn Together. ...

Tainan, Taiwan

A second whale explosion occurred on January 26, 2004, in Tainan City, Taiwan. In this incident, a buildup of gas inside a decomposing sperm whale, measuring 17m (55ft 9½in) long and weighing 50 tons, caused it to burst. The older bull whale had died after becoming beached on the southwestern coast of Taiwan, and it had taken more than 13 hours, three large cranes, and 50 workers to shift the beached sperm whale onto the back of a truck. Whale entrails cover the ground and surrounding shops when a whale exploded in Tainan, Taiwan on January 29, 2004. ... Gas can also refer to gasoline and natural gas and also hydrogen. ... Tainan is the name of a city and a county in southwestern Taiwan. ... is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tainan redirects here; for the county of the same name see Tainan County. ... Binomial name Linnaeus, 1758 Sperm Whale range (in blue) The Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of all toothed whales and is the largest toothed animal alive, measuring up to 18 metres (60 ft) long. ... A modern crawler type derrick crane with outriggers. ...

While the whale was being moved Taiwan News reported that "a large crowd of more than 600 local Yunlin residents and curiosity seekers, along with vendors selling snack food and hot drinks, braved the cold temperature and chilly wind to watch workmen try to haul away the dead marine leviathan".^[11] Professor Wang Chien-ping had ordered the whale be moved to the Sutsao Wild Life Reservation Area after he had been refused permission to perform a post-mortem at the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan. The whale was being transported on the back of a truck through the center of Tainan from the university laboratory to the preserve when the explosion occurred. Although the explosion was spectacular, it did not stop researchers from performing a necropsy on the animal. Taiwan News (formerly China News) is one of the three English-language newspapers in Taiwan, the other two being the Taipei Times and the China Post. ... Yunlin County (雲林縣, pinyin: Yúnlín Xiàn) is a county in Western Taiwan. ... This article is about the biblical creature. ... The term post mortem means after death. It is also short for postmortem examination, or autopsy. ... National Cheng Kung University (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Hanyu Pinyin: Guólì Chénggōng Dàxué; Wade-Giles: Kuo2-li4 Cheng2-kung1 Ta4-hsüeh2; Tongyong Pinyin: GuóLì ChéngGong DàSyué), abbreviated as NCKU (栏大, Lang Dà), is located in Tainan City, Taiwan. ... For the former Death Metal band called Autopsy, see Autopsy (band). ...

The explosion was reported to have splattered blood and whale entrails over surrounding shop-fronts, bystanders, and cars. BBC News Online interviewed an unnamed Taiwanese local who said, "What a stinking mess. This blood and other stuff that blew out on the road is disgusting, and the smell is really awful."^[12] BBC News website in June 2007. ...

Over the course of about one year, Professor Wang completed a bone display from the remains of the whale's rotting dead body. The assembled specimen and some preserved organs and tissues have been on display in the Taijiang Cetacean Museum (zh:台江鯨豚館) since April 8, 2005. April 8 is the 98th day of the year (99th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Other incidents

Whale corpses are regularly disposed of through the use of explosion; however, the whales are usually first towed out to sea. Government-sanctioned explosions have occured in both South Africa and Iceland.

A number of controlled explosions have been made in South Africa. Explosives were used to kill a beached humpback whale 40 km (24 miles) west of Port Elizabeth on August 6, 2001,^[13] while a Southern Right Whale that beached near Cape Town on 15 September 2005 was killed by authorities through detonation. In this instance authorities said that the whale could not have been saved, and that the use of explosives in such cases was recommended by the International Whaling Commission.^[14] A few weeks after the August 6th explosion near Port Elizabeth, the carcass of a second humpback was dragged out to sea and explosives were used to break it into pieces so it would not pose a hazard to shipping.^[15] Yet another explosion was performed in Bonza Bay on September 20, 2004, when an adult humpback whale beached and died. In order to sink the whale, authorities towed it out to sea, and affixed explosives to it, later set off from a distance.^[16] Binomial name Borowski, 1781 Humpback Whale range The Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a baleen whale. ... Port Elizabeth is a city in South Africa, situated in the Eastern Cape Province, at 33°58′ S 25°36′ E. The city is located on Algoa Bay, and is one of the major seaports in South Africa. ... is the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Species  Balaena mysticetus  Eubalaena australis  Eubalaena glacialis  Eubalaena japonica Northern Right Whale range Southern Right Whale range The right whales are marine mammals belonging to the family Balaenidae. ... Nickname: Motto: Spes Bona (Latin for Good Hope) Location of the City of Cape Town in Western Cape Province Coordinates: , Country Province Municipality City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality Founded 1652 Government [1]  - Type City council  - Mayor Helen Zille  - City manager Achmat Ebrahim Area  - City 2,499 km²  (964. ... is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... International Whaling Commission Logo The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was set up by the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW)[1] on December 2, 1946 to promote and maintain whale fishery stocks. ... is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Binomial name Borowski, 1781 Humpback Whale range The Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a baleen whale. ...

A whale carcass adrift in the Icelandic harbour of Hafnarfjörður was split in two by a controlled explosion on June 5, 2005. The remains were dragged out to sea; however, they soon drifted back, and eventually had to be tied down.^[17] Location of Hafnarfjörður, Iceland (left/center) Coordinates: Constituency Southwest Area  - City 147 km²  (56. ... is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In fiction

Several authors have written about exploding whales: their unusual, absurd, and improbable nature makes them a potentially interesting literary topic. For instance, Australian children's book author Paul Jennings wrote a book called Uncanny!: Even More Surprising Stories that features a story about a father and son being given the task of blowing up a dead whale with gelignite. In Patrick O'Brian's short story Two's Company, written in 1937, a large whale is washed up against an isolated lighthouse occupied by two lighthouse keepers, creating a "seabird and shark feeding frenzy, not to mention an atrocious stench". The men beg for some explosives from the destroyer sent to re-supply them so they can dispose of the carcass. In Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile series, a trickster genius character named Aiken Drum blows up a beached whale-like creature on the planet Dalriada, causing messy and disgusting results. Paul Jennings AM (born April 30, 1943) is a best-selling Australian childrens book writer. ... Gelignite, also known as Blasting gelatin, is an explosive material consisting of collodion-cotton (a type of nitrocellulose or gun cotton) dissolved in nitroglycerine and mixed with wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate. ... Patrick OBrian (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000; born as Richard Patrick Russ) was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centered on the friendship of Captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish... Eddystone Lighthouse, one of the first wavewashed lighthouses For other uses, see Lighthouse (disambiguation). ... Julian May (born July 10, 1931) is an American science fiction writer, best known for her Saga of Pliocene Exile (Saga of the Exiles in the UK) and Galactic Milieu books. ... The Saga of Pliocene Exile is a series of science / speculative fiction books by Julian May, first published in the early 1980s. ... Aiken Drum is a popular Scottish folk song. ...

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the Infinite Improbability Drive, while in orbit about a remote planet, changes two nuclear missiles into a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias, which fall and create "a crater about a hundred and fifty yards wide" on the planet's surface. Adams was inspired to write this episode by watching the American detective drama Cannon. In this, as he described it, an overweight detective killed someone at the end of each episode for no adequately explored reason. So he simply reversed the situation and had a whale killed for no adequately explored reason. The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ... The Infinite Improbability Drive is a fictional faster-than-light drive in Douglas Adams The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series of books. ... Binomial name Linnaeus, 1758 Sperm Whale range (in blue) The Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of all toothed whales and is the largest toothed animal alive, measuring up to 18 metres (60 ft) long. ... Petunia is a widely-cultivated genus of flowering plants of South American origin, in the family Solanaceae. ... Cannon was a detective series which ran on CBS from 1971 to 1976. ...

In the mockumentary Reno 911!: Miami, the officers face a rotting beached whale which they promptly blow-up with dynamite. Subsequently, raining whale blubber pelts the characters and they are later reprimanded after the whale parts are reported to have damaged boats in the area. This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ... A mass stranding of Pilot Whales A beached whale is a whale which has become stranded on land, usually on a beach. ...

A recording of Paul Linnman's coverage of the Oregon whale explosion was used in the song "Disconnect (No Respectable Seagull)" by Chicago band Atombombpocketknife. The song takes its title from "the seagulls, who were supposed to clean things up, were nowhere in sight, either scared away by the explosion or kept away by the smell … the remaining chunks were of such a size that no respectable seagull would attempt to tackle anyway". Paul Linnman (1947 -) is a television news reporter for KATU Channel 2. ...

See also

• Beached whale
• Exploding animal
• Tay Whale

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Notes

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References

• Adams, Douglas (1995). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (reissue edition). Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-39180-2.
• Barry, Dave (1991). Dave Barry Talks Back, pp. 21–24. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-517-58868-0.
• Jennings, Paul (1995). Uncanny!: Even More Surprising Stories. USA: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-037576-7.
• Linnman, Paul; Doug Brazil (2003). The Exploding Whale: And Other Remarkable Stories from the Evening News. Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company. ISBN 1-55868-743-2.
• O'Brian, Patrick (1937). Two's Company. In The Oxford Annual for Boys (Ed. Herbert Strang), pp. 5–18. London: Oxford University Press.
• "Rotting whale's carcase may have to be blown up". The Scotsman, March 6, 2006. Accessed January 8, 2007.
• "SA police blow up stranded whale". Dawn: the Internet edition, August 7, 2001. Accessed January 8, 2007.
• "Thar She Blows! Dead whale explodes". MSNBC, January 29, 2004. Accessed January 8, 2007.
• Tour, Jim (1995). "Obliterating Animal Carcasses With Explosives," Tech Tips, Jan. 1995, US Dept. of Agriculture Forest Service Technology & Development Program.

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Topics	Oregon tax revolt · List of Governors of Oregon · Oregon Bottle Bill · Oregon Centennial Tokens · Roll on Columbia · Meier & Frank · Willamette Industries · Direct Legislation League Exploding whale. ... Image File history File links Sound-icon. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Sound-icon. ... Windows Media Video (WMV) is a generic name for the set of proprietary streaming video technologies developed by Microsoft. ... QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. ... An exploding animal is an animal that explodes either through natural causes or with the intervention of humans. ... In the United States, there was a World War II proposal to drop bats carrying tiny incendiary bombs over Japan, hence creating bat bombs. ... There are theories about exploding birds. ... There are many references in popular culture to exploding chicken phenomena, most of them humorous and unsubstantiated. ... An anti-tank dog approaching a T-34/85 tank. ... There have been several documented incidents of donkeys and mules being used to deliver bombs. ... For the medical condition, see Exploding head syndrome. ... Exploding rats were a weapon developed by the British army in World War II for use against Germany. ... An exploding sheep in the video game Revenge of the Mutant Camels. ... There has been one documented case of an exploding snake, whereby a Burmese python burst. ... Autothysis is the process where a organism destroys itself via an internal explosion caused by the explosive release of intestinal gas and feces. ... Exploding toad, post-incident, shown on television channel WKMG in Orlando. ... Exploding trees can occur when theyre struck by lightning [1], [2]. The strong electric current is carried mostly by the water-conducting sapwood below the bark, heating it up and boiling the water. ... State seal of Oregon. ... The Oregon tax revolt is a political movement in Oregon which advocates for lower taxes. ... Ted Kulongoski, current and 36th governor of the State of Oregon. ... The Oregon Bottle Bill of 1971 was the first container deposit legislation passed in the United States. ... Standard obverse of an Oregon Centennial Token Oregon Centennial Tokens were a type of trade token (also known as a So-Called Dollar) issued during the 1959 Oregon Centennial. ... Roll on Columbia is an American folk song written in 1941 by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, who popularized the song through his own recording of it. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... Willamette Industries, Inc. ... The Direct Legislation League was an organization of political activists founded in 1898 by William S. URen. ...
Events	Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition · Oregon Land Fraud Scandal · Columbus Day Storm of 1962 · The Lookout Air Raid · 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens · USS Oregon · Exploding whale · New Carissa The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, commonly also known as the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and officially known as the Lewis and Clark Centennial American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair, was a worldwide exposition held in Portland, Oregon, United States in 1905 to celebrate the centennial of the Lewis and... The Oregon Land Fraud Scandal of the early 20th century involved public lands in Oregon being illegally obtained with the assistance of public officials. ... The Columbus Day Storm of 1962 was an extratropical wave cyclone that ranked among the most intense to strike the United States Pacific Northwest since at least 1948, and probably since the January 9, 1880, Great Gale and snowstorm. ... The Lookout Air Raid of 1942 was a minor, but historic World War II event that occurred in mountains and forests of Oregon on September 9, 1942. ... The 1980 eruption of Mount St. ... USS Oregon (BB-3) was a pre-Dreadnought Indiana-class battleship of the United States Navy. ... The New Carissa, officially known as the M/V New Carissa, was a freighter that ran aground on a beach near Coos Bay, Oregon, United States during a storm in February 1999, and subsequently broke apart. ...
Places	Vanport · Bonneville Dam · Shanghai tunnels · Kaiser Shipyards · Fort Stevens · Celilo Falls · Copperfield · Harbor Drive Vanport was a public housing project located in Multnomah County, Oregon between the contemporary Portland city boundary and the Columbia River, constructed in 1943 to house the workers at the wartime shipyards in Portland and Vancouver, Washington. ... Bonneville Lock and Dam is several dam structures that together complete a span of the Columbia River between the US states of Oregon and Washington at River Mile 146. ... The Portland Underground, or The Shanghai Tunnels as they are more commonly known, are a group of passages running underneath Old Town/Chinatown down to the central downtown section of Portland, Oregon. ... The Kaiser Shipyards were seven major shipbuilding yards located on the West Coast of the United States during World War II headed by Henry J. Kaiser. ... Fort Stevens guarded the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon. ... Dipnet Fishing at Celilo Falls Located between the states of Oregon and Washington, Celilo Falls was a unique natural feature formed by the relentless push of the Columbia River through basalt-laden narrows east of the Cascade Mountains, onward towards the Pacific Ocean—the final leg of the river... Copperfield is a former town in Baker County, Oregon, United States, located on the west bank of the Snake River, near a place called The Oxbow. ... This article refers to the street named Harbor Drive in Portland, Oregon Harbor Drive is the name of a street in Portland, Oregon which was formerly a freeway, albeit crude, carrying U.S. Highway 99W along the western shore of the Willamette River in the downtown area. ...
People	Terry Baker · Neil Goldschmidt · Mark Hatfield · Nan Wood Honeyman · Phil Knight · Hall S. Lusk · Tom McCall · Charles McNary · Maurine Brown Neuberger · Norma Paulus · Steve Prefontaine · Barbara Roberts Terry Wayne Baker (born May 5, 1941 in Pine River, MN) is a former quarterback for the Oregon State University football team. ... Neil Edward Goldschmidt (born June 16, 1940) is a former politician and businessman living in the State of Oregon and a member of the United States Democratic Party. ... Mark Odom Hatfield (born July 12, 1922) is an American politician from Oregon. ... Nan Wood Honeyman (July 15, 1881–December 10, 1970) was the first woman elected to the United States Congress from the U.S. state of Oregon. ... Philip H. Knight (born February 24, 1938) is the co-founder and former CEO of Nike, Inc. ... Hall Stoner Lusk (September 21, 1883 - May 15, 1983) was a United States Senator from Oregon. ... Thomas Lawson McCall (March 22, 1913 – January 8, 1983) was an American politician, a Republican, and the thirtieth governor of Oregon from 1967 to 1975. ... Charles L. McNary Charles Linza McNary (June 12, 1874 - February 25, 1944) was a U.S. Republican politician from Oregon, best known for serving as Minority Leader of the United States Senate from 1933 to 1944. ... Maurine Brown Neuberger in 1962 Maurine Brown Neuberger (January 9, 1907–February 22, 2000) was an American Senator for the State of Oregon from 1960 to 1967, she was the third woman to be elected to the Senate. ... Norma Paulus (born Norma Jean Petersen in 1933 in Belgrade, Nebraska)[1] is a Republican politician from the state of Oregon, United States. ... Steve Roland Prefontaine (January 25, 1951 – May 30, 1975) (nicknamed Pre) was an American Olympic runner who inspired a running boom in the 1970s along with contemporaries Frank Shorter and Bill Rodgers. ... Dr. Barbara Roberts (born on December 21, 1936 in Corvallis, Oregon) is a Democrat. ...
Oregon History	Native Peoples History · History to 1806 · Pioneer History · Modern History Official language(s) None Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 9th  - Total 98,466 sq mi (255,026 km²)  - Width 260 miles (420 km)  - Length 360 miles (580 km)  - % water 2. ... Oregon Pioneer History (1806 to 1890) is the time in the European History of Oregon when pioneers and mountain men traveled west to explore and settle the lands west of the Rocky Mountains and north of California. ...