SamCordes

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This user helped promote Pioneer Square totem pole to good article status.

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Some of the articles I have started

Charity Lamb

City of Seattle (steamship)

Elizabeth Whitney Williams

Howard J. Green

Pioneer Square totem pole

Robert B. Sinclair

Sophia Hope Gorham

Wray Physioc

DYKs

• ... that Howard J. Green's screenplay for I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang led to the elimination of the chain gang system in the U.S. state of Georgia in 1937? (4 January 2019)
• ... that members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce stole the Pioneer Square totem pole from a Tlingit village in 1899 and gifted it to the City of Seattle? (19 February 2019)
• ... that Charity Lamb was the first woman convicted of murder in the Oregon Territory? (24 August 2019)
• ... that the City of Seattle was built in Philadelphia? (31 May 2020)

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