Finn J.D. John
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Offbeat Oregon History podcast
A daily (5-day-a-week) podcast feed of true Oregon stories -- of heroes and rascals, of shipwrecks and lost gold. Stories of shanghaied sailors and Skid Road bordellos and pirates and robbers and unsolved mysteries. An exploding whale, a couple shockingly scary cults, a 19th-century serial killer, several very naughty ladies, a handful of solid-brass con artists and some of the dumbest bad guys in the history of the universe. From the archives of the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper…
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Express clerk’s silence foiled Eugene train robber
All-metal steam-powered zeppelin: Could it work?
Alsea lad became ‘The Nikola Tesla of Oregon’
I-25 submarine gave Oregon its first wartime bombardment
Japanese sub blasted its way into Oregon history
Japanese shipwrecks on coast predate Columbus
‘Automo-bubble’ a part of Deschutes railroad war
Gun-toting ‘Wildcat’ was nation’s first ‘shock jock’
Portland’s Pioneer Square pitched as ‘crystal palace’
Mountain town of Bourne was home of a magnificent swindle
History happenings at OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY in Portland, next few months
Did primitive Hug Point Road save our beaches?
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