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Portland was mediocre in the first half of the campaign, but came to form as the playoffs approached and managed to finish third in the Pacific Division with a 49 – 33 win – loss record.
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The Portland school board was asked Monday to take a positive stand towards developing and coordinating with Portland's civil defense more plans for the city's schools in event of attack.
Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.
The wife of convicted bank robber Lawrence G. Huntley was arrested in Phoenix, Ariz., last week and will be returned to Portland to face charges of assault and robbery, Portland detectives said Friday.
She was arrested by Phoenix Police after they received the indictment papers from Portland detectives.
Mr. Brooks was born in New York, and came to Portland in 1920.
A method for producing Portland cement was patented by Joseph Aspdin on 1824.
English masonry worker Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement in 1824 ; it was named because of its similarity in color to Portland limestone, quarried from the English Isle of Portland and used extensively in London architecture.
In 1978, Love was arrested in Portland for shoplifting a t-shirt and was sent to Hillcrest Youth Correctional Facility in Salem, Oregon, spending the following two years in and out of juvenile hall and numerous foster homes.
When Love was 17, she began an on-and-off relationship with Rozz Rezabek of the band Theatre of Sheep after the two met at The Metropolis in Portland, Oregon, where Love occasionally worked as a DJ.
In 1824, Joseph Aspdin patented a similar material, which he called Portland cement, because the render made from it was in color similar to the prestigious Portland stone.
This was what we call today " modern " Portland cement.
But in the early 1930s it was soon discovered that, while Portland cement had a faster setting time it was not as durable, especially for highways, to the point that some states stopped building highways and roads with cement.
For example, in 2005, the Archdiocese of Portland was sued as part of the Catholic priest sex-abuse scandal.
Engelbart was born in Portland, Oregon on January 30, 1925 to Carl Louis Engelbart and Gladys Charlotte Amelia Munson Engelbart.
They lived in Portland in his early years, and moved to the countryside to Johnson Creek when he was 9 or 10, after the death of his father.
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.
Once the Siege was over, the fortifications were rebuilt and, in the following century, the walls were lined with Portland limestone.
More important than Hurst's numbers was his sense of timing: not only did he score the first ( in the home opener against Portland ) and the last ( in the playoffs against Vancouver ) goals of the season, 5 of his 8 goals were game-winners.
Portland cement was used by the famous English engineer Marc Isambard Brunel several years later when constructing the Thames Tunnel.
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He relinquished his head coaching duties after a mediocre tenure to operate as the general manager, until accepting the job of head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers in 1997.
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`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.
The award is the first such honor in the 11-year history of JA activities in Portland, according to Ralph Scolatti, local executive director for Junior Achievement.
On July 1, 2003, Christopher Swain of Portland, Oregon, became the first person to swim the Columbia River's entire length, in an effort to raise public awareness about the river's environmental health.
* 1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
In the latter part of his life, Wedgwood's obsession was to duplicate the Portland Vase, a blue and white glass vase dating to the first century BC.
* 1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
* Portland, New South Wales, a town with the first Australian cement works
* the first wiki, or user-editable website, launched on 25 March 1995 by Ward Cunningham as part of the Portland Pattern Repository ( the website was also later known as " WardsWiki ");
* June 3 – The first long distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
A long transmission line to Portland was built, becoming the United States ' first long distance transmission of electrical energy.
This cement was made at the Portland Cementfabrik Stern at Stettin, which was the first to utilize a Hoffman kiln.
It is thought that the first modern Portland cement was made there.
The book was first made available to the public at OOPSLA meeting held in Portland, Oregon, in October 1994.
In 1912, married socialite Bryant encounters the radical journalist John " Jack " Reed for the first time at a lecture in Portland, Oregon, and she is intrigued with his idealism.
When quantities of Portland cement were first imported to the United States in the 1880s, its principal use was in the construction of sidewalks.
Couse's The Captive was shown in 1891 at his first solo exhibition, held at the Portland Art Association in Oregon, and then at the Paris Salon of 1892.
On 19 November 1834 Edward Henty landed in Portland Bay and began the first permanent European settlement on the north coast of Bass Strait.
Victoria's first successful British settlement was at Portland, on the west coast of what is now Victoria.
Blake, recovering from an injury, rethought, together with George Monck, the whole system of naval tactics, and after the winter of 1653 used the line of battle, first to drive the Dutch navy out of the English Channel in the Battle of Portland and then out of the North Sea in the Battle of the Gabbard.
Portland, Oregon instituted the first comprehensive noise code in 1975 with funding from the EPA ( Environmental Protection Agency ) and HUD ( Housing and Urban Development ).
After splitting the first two games at The Palace, the Pistons went to Portland, where they had not won a game since 1974, to play Games 3, 4 and 5.
The Pistons summarily won all three games in Portland, becoming the first NBA team to sweep the middle three games on the road.
Jermaine O ' Neal made his first of what would be several All-Star appearances that year, which erased doubt that trading the veteran, Dale Davis, to the Portland Trail Blazers for him was a good idea.
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