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Hill Military Academy

... that the defunct Hill Military Academy (pictured) in Portland, Oregon, was a party to the U.S. Supreme Court case of Pierce v. Society of Sisters?
... that Oregon pioneer and politician Frederick Waymire was compared to Davy Crockett?
... that shortly before its construction began, in 2009, the planned Shepherds Flat Wind Farm in Oregon was expected to be the world's biggest wind farm on land when completed?
... that the extinct plant species Eucommia jeffersonensis and Eucommia rolandii were both described from fossils in 1997?

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