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Acer nipponicum

... that the extinct Miocene age maple Acer smileyi has been classified as closely related to the living Acer nipponicum (pictured)?
...that Hiram Straight was the foreman of the jury in Oregon City, Oregon, that sentenced five Native Americans to hang for the Whitman Massacre?
...that a large coastal defense gun was temporarily installed at Oregon's scenic Cape Perpetua during World War II?
... that Michael Eisner credited research economist Harrison Price with being "as much responsible for the success of the Walt Disney Co. as anybody except Walt Disney himself"?

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