A toponym of the U. S. state of Oregon:

The four largest that empty directly into the Columbia ( measured either by discharge or by size of watershed ) are the Snake River ( mostly in Idaho ), the Willamette River ( in northwest Oregon ), the Kootenay River ( mostly in British Columbia ), and the Pend Oreille River ( mostly in northern Washington and Idaho, also known as the lower part of the Clark Fork ).

Love began a budding acting career in the late 1980s, landing roles in two Alex Cox films ( Sid and Nancy and Straight to Hell ), but was ultimately dissatisfied with it and returned to stripping, where she was recognized and photographed by customers at a bar in McMinnville, Oregon.

This book's method was adopted by the University of Oregon, as described in The Oregon Experiment ( 1975 ), and remains the official planning instrument.

Midway through his college studies at Oregon State University ( then called Oregon State College ), near the end of World War II, he was drafted into the US Navy, serving two years as a radar technician in the Philippines.

He was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between 1834 and 1835 and again Foreign Secretary between 1841 and 1846 under Sir Robert Peel. It was during his second stint as Foreign Secretary that he settled two disagreements with the US – the Northeast Boundary dispute by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty ( 1842 ), and the Oregon dispute by the Oregon Treaty of 1846.

For two and a half years, Hoover attended Friends Pacific Academy ( now George Fox University ), and then worked as an office assistant in his uncle's real estate office, the Oregon Land Company, in Salem, Oregon.

Important production centers are the Hallertau in Germany ( which, in 2006, had more hop-growing area than any other country on Earth ), the Yakima ( Washington ) and Willamette ( Oregon ) valleys, and western Canyon County, Idaho ( including the communities of Parma, Wilder, Greenleaf, and Notus ).

By linking acquisition of new lands in Oregon ( with no slavery ) and Texas ( with slavery ), he hoped to satisfy both North and South.

* Joseph Showalter Smith ( 1824 – 1884 ), U. S. Representative from Oregon

The expedition faced its second bitter winter, and voted on whether to camp on the south side of the Columbia river ( modern Astoria, Oregon ), building Fort Clatsop.

* Contributions of Philadelphia to Lewis and Clark History, Paul Russell Cutright, ( July 1982 ), Portland, Oregon: Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, Inc., ISBN 0-9678887-0-0.

* September 6, 2005: Acquires First Silicon Solutions ( FS2 ), a Lake Oswego, Oregon company as a wholly owned subsidiary.

* the Oregonian ( train ), a train operated by the Oregon and California Railroad

* City of Portland ( train ), a passenger train running between Chicago, Illinois, and Portland, Oregon

* Portland ( steam tug 1947 ), a preserved sternwheel tugboat based in Portland, Oregon

* Union Station ( Portland, Oregon ), the Amtrak station serving Portland, Oregon

However, with the 0. 25 µm Tillamook Mobile Pentium MMX ( named after a city in Oregon ), the module also held the 430TX chipset along with the system's 512 KB SRAM cache memory.

An almost bloodless conflict between Ohio and the Michigan Territory, called the Toledo War ( 1835 – 1836 ), was " fought " over a narrow strip of land from the Indiana border to Lake Erie, now containing the city and the suburbs of Sylvania and Oregon.

D. B. Cooper is the name popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971.

One of the first was an Oregon man with a minor police record named D. B. Cooper, contacted by Portland police on the off-chance that the hijacker had used his real name, or the same alias in a previous crime.

Physician-assisted suicide is thus not classified as euthanasia by the US State of Oregon, where it is legal under the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, and despite its name, it is not legally classified as suicide either.

Jones would leave the team at the end of the season to coach at the University of Hawaii and the Chargers would name former Oregon State University head coach Mike Riley as their new head coach.

Le Guin hit upon the name of the town on seeing a road sign for Salem, Oregon, in a car mirror.

* McLoughlin Boulevard, the street name of Oregon Route 99E between Oregon City and Portland

On September 3, 1849, the Oregon Territorial Legislature modified the borders again and changed its name to Clarke County in honor of explorer William Clark.

* In Billy Wilder's 1944 film noir Double Indemnity, the character of Mr. Jackson, played by Porter Hall, is from Medford, Oregon, but mentions Corvallis in this line to Walter Neff ( Fred MacMurray ): " It's the name!

There were many names suggested and even after the change to Salem, some people, such as Asahel Bush ( editor of the Oregon Statesman ), believed the name should be changed back to Chemeketa.

Its population being steadily expanded from Oregon Trail immigrants, in 1853 the town settled on the name Olympia, at the suggestion of local resident Colonel Isaac N. Ebey, due to its view of the Olympic Mountains to the northwest.

* Waking Ashland, a piano rock band whose name was inspired by Ashland, Oregon

He subsequently married Rosalie, whom he referred to in a latter in the Southern Oregon Historical Society Archives as Rosalie McShane, although she wrote under the name Rosalie Bodrero.

Competing theories as to the origin of his name exist ; some sources say he was named after the character Dr. Terwilliker from the film The 5, 000 Fingers of Dr. T, but others say he was named after Terwilliger Boulevard in Portland, Oregon.

She began an independent work in Portland, Oregon, with the same name as Seymour's mission and most of the churches under her supervision followed her.

* A pen name for David L. Robbins ( Oregon writer )

John C. Frémont camped at Goshen Hole on July 14, 1843, and recorded that name in his journal, on his exploring expedition on the Oregon Trail.

Elementary schools in Glendale, California ; Modesto, California ; Long Beach, California ; and Carson City, Nevada bear his name, as do junior high or middle schools in Mesa, Arizona ; Pomona, California ; Las Vegas, Nevada ; Roseburg, Oregon ; and Oxnard, California.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, the origin of the name is uncertain, but is probably from an explorer's name for a local Native American tribe, the Yamhill, who are part of the North Kalapuyan family.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, the origins of the county's name are uncertain, with the most likely explanation being that it is derived from the Nez Perce term for a structure of stakes ( a weir ) used in fishing.

" Minidoka was first used in 1883 as a name for the Union Pacific's Oregon Short Line, a railroad spur in the middle of the Snake River Plain.

That company, originating in Rosboro, eventually moved to Springfield, Oregon, where today it is one of the largest forest product producers in the U. S., and it operates under the name of the " Rosboro Timber Company ".

The origin of the name Wasco is subject of two different theories: ( 1 ) That it was coined from Western American Sugar Company ; and ( 2 ) that a resident from Wasco County, Oregon named it for that.