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Fri. 05/28 - Rural Oregon Tries to Become Greater Idaho

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Seven counties in the US state of Oregon have now voted to leave their state behind and merge with neighboring Idaho. Could this actually work? A new English dictionary of Ancient Greek fully and explicitly makes up for the modesty of its previous Victorian translators. And the best way to cook a hot dog. Links: Oregon's Rural Counties Search for Representation With Idaho (Business Insider) Don Kahle: Greater Idaho: thinking it through Don Kahle (The Register-Guard)  Their Own Private Idaho: Five Oregon Counties Back a Plan to Secede (NY Times) Oregone? 7 Oregon Counties Vote To Back Seceding, So Citizens Can Vote GOP In Idaho (NPR) English dictionary of ancient Greek ‘spares no blushes’ with fresh look at crudity (The Guardian) New Ancient Greek Dictionary Includes Words for S---, F---, C---------- (Jezebel) The Absolute Best Way to Cook a Hot Dog, According to So Many Tests (Food52) Pints With A View: London Eye Is Launching A Pub In A Pod (The Handbook) Cicada Plushie (Tyler Thrasher, DFTBA) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Seven counties in the U.S. state of Oregon have now voted to leave their state behind and merge with neighboring Idaho.

1:06.3

Could this actually work?

1:08.9

A new English dictionary of ancient Greek fully and explicitly makes up for

1:14.6

the modesty of its previous Victorian translators. And the best way to cook a hot dog. Here

1:22.2

are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:35.0

Seven counties in rural eastern Oregon have voted to secede from their state and join neighboring Idaho to become Greater Idaho. The proposed move is precipitated by growing tensions between

1:42.1

the rural counties and the state's urban population centers.

1:46.0

The Greater Idaho Movement is calling for 18 full counties and three partial counties in total

1:52.0

to depart from Oregon and join Greater Idaho, accounting for 70% of Oregon's land, but only

1:59.4

21% of the population, or about 860,000 residents.

2:04.6

The move would make Idaho the third largest state in the U.S. after Alaska and Texas, although

2:10.1

that land accounts for so few people that Idaho would still remain in the latter third of states

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