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Lake of the Woods with Mount McLaughlin in the background
... that the historic
Lake of the Woods Ranger Station
was built in the 1930s by the
Civilian Conservation Corps
at the north end of
Lake of the Woods
(pictured)
near the crest of the
Cascade Range
in southern
Oregon
?
...that the
Supreme Court of the United States
ruled in
Yasui v. United States
and its companion case
Hirabayashi v. United States
that curfews for a minority group were constitutional during war time?
...that the
1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
was the first
bioterrorism
attack in the
United States
, and one of only two confirmed
terrorist
uses of
biological weapons
to harm humans?
... that
Brigadier General
James Jackson
was awarded the
Medal of Honor
twenty years after his actions in the pursuit of
Chief Joseph
following the
Battle of the Clearwater
in 1877?
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