- Alaska Purchase - Wikipedia
The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire by the United States for a sum of $7 2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $129 million in 2023) [1] On May 15 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty that had been signed on March 30, and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18
- Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia
The refuge has only six native species of mammals: Kodiak bear, red fox, river otter, ermine, little brown bat and tundra vole The non-native mammals Sitka black-tailed deer , mountain goat , Roosevelt elk , caribou , marten , red squirrel , snowshoe hare , and beaver were introduced to the archipelago between the 1920s and 1950s and are now
- Carl McCunn - Wikipedia
McCunn was the son of Donovan McCunn and Erika Hess He was born in Munich, Germany, where his father was stationed by the United States Army He was raised in San Antonio, Texas, graduated from high school in 1964, and enlisted in the United States Navy shortly after dropping out of community college
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Alaska
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Alaska on the National Register of Historic Places These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site [3]
- Alaska: Spirit of the Wild - Wikipedia
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild is a documentary film featuring the landscape and wildlife of Alaska It is directed by George Casey, narrated by Charlton Heston and was distributed to IMAX theaters in 1997 Alaskan wildlife featured in the film include moose, bears, seals, wolves, caribou, and whales, while narrator Heston provides background
- Innocent of Alaska - Wikipedia
Innocent of Alaska (Russian: Иннокентий; August 26, 1797 – 12 April [O S March 31] 1879), also known as Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow, was a Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna
- Utqiagvik, Alaska - Wikipedia
Utqiagvik is the headquarters of the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, one of the Alaska Native corporations set up following the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971 to manage revenues and invest in development for their people in the region
- Chris McCandless - Wikipedia
Jon Krakauer's non-fiction book Into the Wild (1996) expands upon his 1993 Outside article and retraces McCandless's travels leading up to the hiker's eventual death McCandless's story was adapted by screenwriter Chip Johannessen into a 1998 episode of Chris Carter's television series Millennium, titled "Luminary " [49]
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