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... that with hundreds of birds found in the state (Western Meadowlark pictured), Oregon ranks fifth in the United States in terms of avian species diversity?
... that American wine writer Matt Kramer coined the definition of terroir as a wine's "somewhereness"?
... that the Hawthorn Farm rail station in Hillsboro, Oregon, has a piece of art that indicates the wind's direction by using lights and sounds?
... that newspaper editor Col. William Thompson won his 1871 shootout with a rival newspaper editor despite sustaining severe gunshot wounds, including a bullet lodged behind his eye, and a beating from a cane?

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