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Fred Bassetti (January 31, 1917 in Seattle – December 5, 2013 in Oregon) [1] [2] was a Pacific Northwest architect and teacher. [3] His architectural legacy includes some of the Seattle area's more recognizable buildings and spaces.
James Graham Fair (December 3, 1831 – December 28, 1894) was an Irish immigrant to the United States who became a highly successful mining engineer and businessman. His investments in silver mines in Nevada made him a millionaire, and he was one of the famous "silver kings" who became wealthy on the Comstock Lode.
The company now operates as a division of Pacific Coast Building Products Inc under the name Gladding, McBean, LLC. Hard hit by the recession, the company had 110 employees in 2010, "down from an average of 240 workers between 2001 and 2007". [17] The company sponsors an annual "Feats of Clay" ceramic arts festival in Lincoln. [5]
New Pacific Airlines: 7H RVF RAVN FLIGHT Ontario: 2021 Founded as Northern Pacific Airways, former low-cost. Omni Air International: X9 OAE OMNI-EXPRESS Tulsa: 1993 Omni Air Transport: DRL DRILLER Tulsa Pacific Coast Jet: PXT PACK COAST 2006 Pentastar Aviation: DCX TANGO Waterford: 1964 Founded as Chrysler Air Transportation. Phoenix Air: PH ...
Robert Gray (May 10, 1755 – c. July 1806) was an American merchant sea captain who is known for his achievements in connection with two trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America, between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the American maritime fur trade in that region. In the course of those voyages, Gray explored portions of ...
The second was a joint venture of the King George's Sound Company and John Meares and his partners. [7] Both companies were exploring the possibilities of collecting sea otter pelts along the Pacific Northwest coast, via trade with the indigenous peoples, and selling the goods in China.
The Pacific Fur Company (PFC) was an American fur trade venture wholly owned and funded by John Jacob Astor that functioned from 1810 to 1813. It was based in the Pacific Northwest, an area contested over the decades among the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Spanish Empire, the United States of America and the Russian Empire.
The Pacific Birds Habitat Joint Venture (PBHJV), previously Pacific Coast Joint Venture is a partnership established in 1991 [1] between governments, organizations, and conservation groups along the Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada, established to protect and enhance wetlands important to migratory birds, within the framework of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP).