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“The seal, the pyramid, it’s unfinished, with the eye of God looking over it, and the words annuit coeptis — he, God, favors our undertaking. The seal is meant to be unfinished, because this country’s meant to be unfinished. We’re meant to keep doing better. We’re meant to keep discussing and debating. And, we’re meant to read books by great historical scholars and then talk about them…”

– Jeff Breckenridge, “The West Wing.’

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When Jesse Owens Brought Baseball to Portland

Today is the birthday of one of the most important athletes of all time, Jesse Owens.  His story is an incredible one, with an interesting  baseball twist that not many people know. Jesse Owens was the grandson of a slave who grew up in rural Alabama picking ten pounds of cotton a day.  When he […]

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