On September 10, 2001, Mohamed Atta picked up Omari from the Milner Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, and the two drove their rented Nissan to a Comfort Inn in South Portland, Maine, where they spent the night in room 232.

Their son Chester Monroe Divine was 12 years of age at that time and going to school and growing up in Portland, later clerking in the Hotel.

After the construction of the Hotel Estacada, the town became a weekend destination on the railroad line for residents of Portland.

Just across the tracks ( which doubled in this area ) from Tinker's Hotel in Long Beach was the Portland Hotel.

While touring in the US, Mitch Mitchell was found dead on November 12, 2008 in his room at the Benson Hotel in Portland, Oregon.

Five days after the tour ended Mitchell died in his sleep on 12 November, in his room at the Benson Hotel in Portland.

* Benson Hotel, in Portland, Oregon

In 1959, Lynn Easton invited Jack Ely to play with him at a Portland Hotel gig, with Ely singing and playing guitar and Easton on the drum kit.

It displayed its first collection of natural history objects at the Portland Hotel.

On 5 January 1869 the club was founded during a general meeting at Robertson's Temperance Hotel on Portland Street.

, McMenamins is in the process of renovating The Hotel Alma in downtown Portland, a former hotel, bathhouse and nightclub, into what the company hopes will become another property on the National Register of Historic Places

A full-size " prop " locomotive used for scenes in the locomotive cab was said to have been furnished by: " Barbary Coast Hoyt Hotel ", Portland, Oregon ( data given at start of one of the shows, episode 147 ).

The Olympic Club in Seattle, The Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington, Solari ’ s Restaurant and the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, and the Bohemian in Portland all claim to be the home of the dressing, with the invention in either the 1900s or 1910s.

Later in the 1950s, Fox sold the wooden / metal / fiberglass engine to Harvey Dick, who wanted it to promote his Barbary Coast bar in his 1890s gas light style hotel in Portland, Oregon called the Hoyt Hotel.

Other business interests outside of the brewery included stakes in the Portland Hotel, the West Side Railway, and the New Grand Central Hotel.

On July 29, 1983, Stephen Paul Paster, an al-Fuqra member, set off a bomb at the Hotel Rajneesh, a hotel in Portland, Oregon.

Local architects that have had a large influence on Portland's architecture include Francis Marion Stokes and his father William R. Stokes ( combined works include over 270 buildings from 1882 to the 1960s ), the Victorian-era architect Warren H. Williams ( architect of several surviving cast-iron buildings including the Blagen Block as well as the stick-gothic Old Church ) and Whidden & Lewis ( architects of Portland City Hall, the long demolished Portland Hotel, the Weinhard Brewery Complex, the Failing Office Building, several office buildings on SW 3rd Ave. and numerous residences ).

There is also a median on Reed College Place which is owned by Portland Department of Transportation and maintained by Portland Parks & Recreation.

Many fast food operations have more local and regional roots, such as White Castle in the Midwest United States, along with Hardee's ( owned by CKE Restaurants, which also owns Carl's Jr., whose locations are primarily on the United States West Coast ); Krystal, Bojangles ' Famous Chicken ' n Biscuits, Cook Out, and Zaxby's restaurants in the American Southeast ; Raising Cane's in Louisiana ; Hot ' n Now in Michigan and Wisconsin ; In-N-Out Burger ( in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Texas ) and Original Tommy's chains in Southern California ; Dick's Drive-In in Seattle, Washington and Arctic Circle in Utah and other western states ; Halo Burger around Flint, Michigan and Burgerville in the Portland, Oregon area.

Monarchs and members of their family have also owned in a private capacity homes and land in Canada: King Edward VIII owned Bedingfield Ranch, near Pekisko, Alberta ; The Marquess of Lorne and Princess Louise owned a cottage on the Cascapédia River in Quebec ; and Princess Margaret owned Portland Island between its gifting to her by the Crown in Right of British Columbia in 1958 and her death in 2002, though she offered it back to the Crown on permanent loan in 1966 and the island and surrounding waters eventually became Princess Margaret Marine Park.

Peter M. Rinearson and his family owned the land between Jennings Lodge and the Clackamas River, and between the Willamette River and Portland Avenue.

Fendal Cason, who came to Oregon in 1843, owned an area equal in size east of Portland Avenue.

The coal-fired electricity generation plant, the Boardman Turbine Coal Plant ( 601 megawatts ), is located southwest of the town of Boardman, and is owned by Portland General Electric ( PGE ; 66 %- owned and operated ), Idaho Power ( 10 %), Pacific Northwest Generating ( 10 %), and General Electric Credit Corp. ( 16 %).

There are also two natural gas-fired plants located at the Port of Morrow ; Coyote Springs I ( 255-276 MW ), owned and operated by Portland General Electric ; and Coyote Springs II ( 241-280 MW ; PGE operator ) owned by Avista Corp.

The cement plant was built in 1959 to supply Portland cement for the construction of Glen Canyon Dam and is owned by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.

Bean Call Center located in the Peck Building, a TD Bank branch, St. Joseph's Church, a vacant church owned by the Diocese of Portland, Central Maine Medical Center, in addition to many other businesses.

Virtually all the businesses are owned by people who live in Portland or nearby communities, therefore these businesspeople not only have a sense of pride in their own stores, but in the community as well.

Heavy and medium industrial activities include a Portland cement plant ( constructed and owned for 84 years by the State of South Dakota and sold in 2003 to GCC, a Mexican-based conglomerate ), Black Hills Ammunition an ammunition and reloading supplies manufacturing company, several custom sawmills, a lime plant, a computer peripheral component manufacturing plant, and several farm and ranch equipment manufacturers.

The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway was chartered in 1905 by James J. Hill for the purposes of connecting the two transcontinental railroads owned by him, the Northern Pacific and Great Northern, to Portland, Oregon from Spokane, Washington, in order to gain a portion of the lumber trade in Oregon, a business that at the time was dominated by E. H. Harriman's Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads.

But unlike MAX, the streetcar system is owned by the city of Portland and managed by Portland Streetcar Incorporated, a non-profit public benefit corporation whose board of directors report to the city's Bureau of Transportation.

* The Portland, Oregon shipyard, operated by Cascade General Ship Repair ( which is owned by Vigor Industrial ) is the largest such facility on the United States West Coast.

The Portland Vase of Roman glass was given its name due to it having been owned by Portland at his family residence at Bulstrode Park.

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.

Mrs. Peck, later joined by the commission's vice-chairman, Mrs. Lee Patterson, took Harvey to task for comments he had made to the North Portland Rotary Club Tuesday.

She was arrested by Phoenix Police after they received the indictment papers from Portland detectives.

Participants in the 27 Portland companies worked one night a week through the school year, guided and counseled by adult advisors drawn from local business and industry.

A method for producing Portland cement was patented by Joseph Aspdin on 1824.

Portland cement and similar materials are made by heating limestone ( a source of calcium ) with clay and grinding this product ( called clinker ) with a source of sulfate ( most commonly gypsum ).

She intermittently took classes at Portland State University studying English, as well as San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Art Institute, where she took a film class taught by George Kuchar and starred in one of his short films.

Because of the switch to Portland cement, by the end of the 1920s of the 15 Rosendale cement companies, only one had survived.

The hydration products that produce strength are essentially the same as those produced by Portland cement.

They produce strength by formation of ettringite, with strength growth similar to a slow Portland cement.

Green cement is a cementitious material that meets or exceeds the functional performance capabilities of ordinary Portland cement by incorporating and optimizing recycled materials, thereby reducing consumption of natural raw materials, water, and energy, resulting in a more sustainable construction material.

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.

They were also featured in the documentary Chihuly in the Hotshop, syndicated to public television stations by American Public Television starting on November 1, 2008. Chihuly Over Venice from Chihuly's Portland Press website

* The Portland Collection, by Susan Songer, ( 1997 ), ISBN 0-9657476-0-3 ( Vol.

Portland cement was used by the famous English engineer Marc Isambard Brunel several years later when constructing the Thames Tunnel.

In canoes, they descended the mountains by the Clearwater River, the Snake River, and the Columbia River, past Celilo Falls and past what is now Portland, Oregon at the meeting of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.

* 1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.

* 1988 – Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride.

* Portland Orange, a color of light emitted by the don't walk phase of pedestrian crossing signals in North America

Recent research has shown that the Portland vase, like the majority of cameo-glass vessels, was made by the dip-overlay method, whereby an elongated bubble of glass was partially dipped into a crucible ( fire-resistant container ) of white glass, before the two were blown together.

It was purchased by the Museum from William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland in 1945 with the aid of a bequest from James Rose Vallentin.