Important Disney Phone Numbers

Important Disney Phone Numbers

Just because they’re hard to find in one place anywhere else, here is a list of important phone numbers for various Disney related places.

Walt Disney World Resort Guest information 407-824-4321

Walt Disney Downtown Disney 407-939-2648

Disney Quest Downtown Disney 407-938-6253

Cirque du Soleil 407-939-7600

Walt Disney World Merchandise Guest Services 407-363-6200

Disneyland Recorded Information 714-781-4565

Disney DeliverEars / Merchandise Guest Services (US only) 800-760-3566

Disney Catalog (US Only) 800-237-5751

Magic Kingdom Club Gold Card 800-313-4763

Disney Auctions and Disney Deals 1-800-328-0899

Walt Disney Event Services
Email: WDW.Event.Reservations@DISNEYWORLD.com
Phone: 866-247-1203 or 407-827-7600
Fax: 407-566-1387

Please comment below if any of these no longer work, or you have another one to add to the list.

Wacom Intuos3 Five Button Mouse

Wacom Intuos3 Five Button Mouse

This is a picture of a Wacom Intuos3 Five Button Mouse. Most artists I know of prefer to use the Wacom Intuos3 Pen over the mouse as it has a bit more fine control.

Wacom Intuos3 Five Button Mouse

This was a quick little shoot to test out the Macro functionality of my new camera and see how it handled low light conditions. Over all, I think it turned out pretty good!

Evolution: All in the Family

Evolution: All in the Family

I’m fascinated by charts like this. This one shows how all species are related together, and where they diverged from a common ancestor, sort of Genetic Family Tree. Created by Leonard Eisenberg (who lives in my home state,) it aims to teach Evolutionary Genealogy to students in an easy and simple way.

Evolutionary Genealogy Chart

For those interested in this chart, they can be bought on this website: http://evogeneao.com/store.html

This site also includes basic information on how to read the chart, links for teachers, and an explanation of how the data was extrapolated.

The Seven Toughest Men in Oregon History – Part 4

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The Seven Toughest Men in Oregon History – Part 4

Nimrod O’Kelly is possibly my personal favorite character out of Oregon history. His story is not only one of murder, but a complete history of law in the Oregon Territory just after formation as a Territory and during Oregon’s transformation to full fledged Statehood.

Nimrod, a veteran of the American Revolution, walked to Oregon at age 65 as part of the second wagon train to Oregon. He was a bit of a loaner to the point that he didn’t really stay with the actual wagon train much, although he did have a few people he called friends. Once the wagon train arrived in Oregon City, instead of staying there for the winter, he immediately started walking south in an attempt to find virgin land to settle. He kept walking until he was at least two days walk from any other settlers. He finally stopped near present day Brownsville (who’s claim to fame is the where the movie “Stand By Me” was filmed,) and setup a land claim.

As Nimrod was a Revolutionary War veteran, he claimed himself an extra 160 acres of land as was due to him as part of his discharge from the war. He also claimed 640 acres instead of 320 as a single man. His reasoning was that his wife and kids would be joining him soon so he was legally entitled to claim the full 640 acres. But pretty soon Nimrod found himself surrounded by unwanted neighbors. A few of the neighbors took it upon themselves to only recognize a claim of 320 acres, noting that after two years no wife and children had shown up, so they must not exist. Two even went so far as to place their own land claims over large parts of his. As Nimrod was a bit of a loaner and not entirely liked by other locals things escalated to the point where he shot and killed one of the men who had taken over part of his claim.

Instead of running, Nimrod walked a full day to turn himself in for the first murder in the Oregon Territory. As there was no Sheriff, no Judge, no Courthouse or even Jail at that time, he was sent back to his home to wait for the rest of the settlers to figure out what to do. Eventually things were put together enough to where he could be tried and convicted by a Jury. He was jailed at a neighbors house, one who had been one of his few friends on the wagon train coming over. He spent over a year this way, being allowed to walk around freely and taking meals with the family before being locked into a nearby shed for the night.

Eventually a “real” Judge was appointed and another trial held as the Oregon Territory had adopted a new set of laws. He was found guilty again, and jailed again. After a while he was allowed to return to his own property to await a proper jail to be built, as Oregon simply didn’t have a jail yet. Once one in Portland had been built, he was moved there. But his Sheriff and Sheriff Deputy escort got drunk the night before they were to drop him off. Instead of delaying his arrival, Nimrod walked to the jail by himself and signed himself in.

After several attempts to get a pardon from the Governor of the Oregon Territory and the President of the United States, he was pardoned by the first Oregon State Governor. During this time Nimrod’s family had actually shown up and settled onto the claim he had made. Instead of spending time with his family, he immediately set out to Washington D.C. to formally file his claim under the new laws. This done, he walked back to Oregon. For the second time.

Unfortunately laws changed again and all settlers had to re-make their Donation Land claims yet again. So at 75 years old, Nimrod made a second round trip to Washington D.C., walking all the way to file his claim for the third time. Nimrod returned home to Oregon, but died only a couple of years later. His claim was eventually split up and sold by his family, part of it to the second husband of the wife of the man he had originally shot and killed.

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The Seven Toughest Men in Oregon History – Part 4

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The Seven Toughest Men in Oregon History – Part 8 – Sheriff Til Taylor

Of all the stories here, that of Sheriff Til Taylor is perhaps the saddest.

Sheriff Til Taylor was born in 1866, murdered in 1920 during a jail break. He was appointed Sheriff Deputy of Umatilla County in 1898 at the age of 32. Four years later he was elected to the post of Sheriff after the previous Sheriff, William Blakeley, retired.

He was a Democrat in a land of Republicans and was so popular that he would continually run unopposed for the post of Sheriff. Sheriff Taylor saw the end of the Wild West and highwaymen, and saw the start of Bank Robbers and Safe Crackers. It’s said that he had a memory for faces and would study pictures on wanted posters for hours on end, he frequently found men who had drastically changed from pictures twenty years old.

Once in custody he could get a confession from a criminal more often then any other Law Man around. His success rate, and general good nature, was such that he was envied by most other Police, and admired by crooks. Thieves wouldn’t even think of robbing anything in his territory.

Here is the part that puts Sheriff Taylor on this list. He personally arrested 2,645 men in 18 years as Sheriff. AND, he never killed anyone at all. He wounded several, but either relied on getting the drop on crooks, mentally staring them down, or simply wrestling them to the ground.

The murder of Sheriff Til Taylor set off one of the largest man hunts to that day. Over 1000 citizens spent a week tracking down the murderer and the five others who escaped at the same time in the Umatilla Mountains. When caught, a lynching of the six men was narrowly avoided when the Sheriff’s brother (who had been elected to fill Til’s vacant position the day after the murder,) spoke to the crowd and invoked the Sheriff’s memory to disperse the crowd and kept the prisoners from being lynched.

Despite Til Taylor’s important work as a Sheriff, his biggest contribution and what he is most remembered for, is as the repeated President of the Pendleton Round-Up and the work he put into making the event what it is today.

Oregon history is full of lots of other tough people. From the Governors prim and proper secretary who declared Martial Law in Oregon’s most Lawless Town, to the Cattle Baron who knew he was going to die. I love stories like these people’s lives, they’re inspirational. They didn’t just give up in the face of adversity, they just buckled down and kept going.

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