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U.S. and British Newspapers Respond to the Sale of Alaska in 1867
1895 Map of Alaska. Source: 1895 U.S. Atlas. "Russia has sold us a sucked orange. Whatever may be the value of that territory and its outlying islands to us, it has ceased to be of any to Russia.
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Exploration and Settlement on the Alaskan Coast
The connection between Russian exploration and Alaska Native exploitation that began in 1745 continued as Russia took firm hold ... was not an ethnographer or a map-maker. He was a business ...
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Border Patrol: Drawing the line between Alaska and Canada
(U.S. Forest Service map) After the U.S. 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia, the inherited treaty needed clarification. In the 1890s, Canada and the U.S. jointly decided to delineate the border ...
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Where Are They Now? 15 Countries That Were Once Part of the Soviet Union
It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The ...
Map Accurately Compares Size of Texas to Europe?
A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. The map shared online ...
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Meet Little Diomede Island in Alaska, the 'eyes and ears' of the United States just 2.4 miles from Russia
noting that Soolook told Insider that life on the island hasn't changed dramatically since Russia invaded Ukraine. "We keep the eyes and ears." The city of Diomede, Alaska, on Little Diomede ...
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China and Russia stage first joint bomber patrol near Alaska
Russia and China have staged a joint patrol over the north Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea near the coast of Alaska. The two countries have carried out several joint patrols in the past ...
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On this day in history, October 18, 1867, United States purchases Alaska from Russia for cool $7.2 million
The United States made the deal of the centuries — securing the vast Alaska territory from Russia for $7.2 million — on this day in history, Oct. 18, 1867. The transfer of 665,000 square miles ...
TheCollector on MSN11d
How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
An interesting geographical fact is that Finland and North Korea are separated by only one country. That country is Russia.
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Russia’s Warming Arctic Is a Climate Threat. War Has Shut Scientists Out of It.
Russia has imposed hurdles of its own on cooperation with the West. Syndonia Bret-Harte, the science director of Toolik Field Station and a University of Alaska Fairbanks professor. “It is like ...
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Alaska’s Qilak LNG targets Asia with $5 billion project to compete with Russia
Qilak LNG plans to invest $5 billion in a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Alaska’s North Slope to compete with Russia’s Yamal project for Asian customers towards the end of ...
Juneau Empire on MSN18d
Border Patrol: Drawing the line between Alaska and Canada
After the U.S. 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia, the inherited treaty needed ... The countries would create maps based on ...