No one today would argue that the Lewis and Clark Expedition was a waste of money.

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The Clean River Plan is just one facet of the city's drive to implement a new strategy for the Willamette as the 2005 bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition nears.

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But Deep Space Industries Chairman Rick Tumlinson, a longtime booster of private space efforts, said the company sees itself as the 21st-century version of the "settlers and shopkeepers" who followed the Lewis and Clark expedition into the American West.

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It seems Sacagawea, who guided Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's expedition to the Pacific (180406), is to grace this creation.

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