PORTAL:OREGON DYK 170

... that a 1996 National Geographic magazine map of the United States labeled the High Desert region of southeast Oregon (pictured) as the Great Sandy Desert?
... that Oregon House Representative Nancy Nathanson taught tap dancing for several years?
... that Ada Louise Huxtable called Portland, Oregon's Keller Fountain Park "one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance"?
... that the historic Siskiyou Pass is within a mile of Siskiyou Summit, the highest elevation on Interstate 5?

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