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...that a group in Forest Grove, Oregon, posed nude for a calendar to raise funds to buy the Alvin T. Smith House (pictured)?
...that Artie Wilson (member of the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame), who hit .402 in 1948 with the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues, is often considered the last professional major league baseball player to bat over .400 for a season?
...that the practices of the Followers of Christ church in Oregon, United States, which include faith healing and forbid medical treatment, prompted a 1999 state law making parents liable if their children are harmed by a lack of treatment?
... that one-third of the structures in Heppner were swept away by Willow Creek in a flash flood on June 14, 1903, killing 247 people in the "most deadly natural disaster in Oregon's recorded history"?

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