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Higgins Restaurant And Bar
Higgins Restaurant and Bar, or simply Higgins, is a restaurant in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. Description and history Nearly one third of its menu was vegetarian when Higgins opened in 1994. Reception The restaurant has been called a "Portland landmark". The business was included in ''Eater Portland'''s 2022 overview of "Where to Eat and Drink in Downtown Portland". See also * James Beard Foundation Award: 2000s Reception External links * * * * * * 1994 establishments in Oregon Restaurants established in 1994 Restaurants in Southwest Portland, Oregon {{US-restaurant-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland, Oregon
Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous county in Oregon. Portland had a population of 652,503, making it the 26th-most populated city in the United States, the sixth-most populous on the West Coast, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the 25th most populous in the United States. About half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area. Named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1840s, near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the timber industry was a major force in the city's early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multnomah County, Oregon
Multnomah County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 815,428. Multnomah County is part of the Portland–Vancouver– Hillsboro, OR–WA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Though smallest in area, Multnomah County is the state's most populous county. Its county seat, Portland, is the state's largest city. History The area of the lower Willamette River has been inhabited for thousands of years, including by the Multnomah band of Chinookan peoples long before European contact, as evidenced by the nearby Cathlapotle village, just downstream. Multnomah County (the thirteenth in Oregon Territory) was created on December 22, 1854, formed out of two other Oregon counties – the eastern part of Washington County and the northern part of Clackamas County. Its creation was a result of a petition earlier that year by businessmen in Portland complaining of the inconvenient location of the Washington County seat in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Higgins Portland Oregon
__NOTOC__ Higgins may refer to: People * Higgins (surname), including list of people with the surname (see also Ó hUiginn) Places * Higgins, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb in the Canberra district of Belconnen * Higgins, North Carolina, populated place in Yancey County, North Carolina, USA * Higgins, Texas, city in Lipscomb County, Texas, USA * Higgins Township, Michigan, USA * Higgins Beach, small beach in Maine, USA * Higgins Field, a World War II airbase on the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia * Higgins Lake, in Michigan, USA * Division of Higgins, Australian Electoral Division in Victoria Other * Higgins (dog), trained dog actor in ''Benji'' and ''Petticoat Junction'' * Higgins boat, or LCVP, a landing craft used in amphibious warfare * Higgins Industries, a US firm that manufactured the Higgins boat * Higgins project, an open source framework for user-centric identity management * Higgins Armory Museum, in Worcester, Massach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s
File:2000s decade montage3.png, From top left, clockwise: The World Trade Center on fire and the Statue of Liberty during the 9/11 attacks in 2001; the euro enters into European currency in 2002; a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled during the Iraq War in 2003, and in 2006, Hussein would be executed for crimes against humanity; U.S. troops heading toward an army helicopter in Afghanistan during the War on Terror; social media through the Internet spreads across the world; a Chinese soldier gazes at the 2008 Summer Olympics commencing in Beijing; the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression hits the world in 2008; a tsunami from the Indian Ocean earthquake kills over 230,000 in 2004, and becomes the strongest earthquake since the 1964 Alaska earthquake, 420px, thumb rect 1 1 234 178 September 11 attacks rect 236 1 371 178 Euro rect 374 1 495 90 91 181 Iraq War rect 244 181 366 326 369 181 495 War on Terror rect 327 330 494 486 Social media rect 165 330 324 487 2008 B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
