Alaska
About Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state located in the northwestern regions of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is considered to be the northernmost, westernmost, and, longitudinally, the easternmost state in the United States. It is a semi-exclave of the U.S., bordering the Canadian territory of Yukon and the province of British Columbia to the east. It shares a western maritime border in the Bering Strait with Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and is closer to another continent (Asia) than any other U.S. state. The Chukchi and Beaufort Seas of the Arctic Ocean lie to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south.
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It had a theater and a bowling alley and a library and a barbershop and a church and a rifle range. It was lovely. Then it was very quickly abandoned because it was damaged by this earthquake in 1964, the big Alaska earthquake. Sometimes people break in and ski through the corridors of that building.
from 575: No Such Thing As A Guinea Pig Saloon, 2025-03-20 at 00:05:13 · read transcript
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It was beginning. It was, you know, people were starting to die. A few people had already died. The nearest anti-toxin was a thousand miles away. In 1925, there were only three planes in the whole of Alaska. They were elderly, unreliable biplanes. They couldn't be guaranteed to get there. They went with dogs. There were hero dogs and hero mushers who got the anti-toxin a thousand miles to the town of Nome.
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It was, you know, people were starting to die. A few people had already died. The nearest antitoxin was a thousand miles away. In 1925, there were only three planes in the whole of Alaska. There were elderly unreliable biplanes. so they couldn't be guaranteed to get there. They went with dogs. There were hero dogs and hero musherers who got the antitoxin a thousand miles to the town of Nome.
No Such Thing As A Chihuahua Dog Sled Team, 2018-05-04 · listen
So it's because it was like a portion of water that you could swim across. so from one bit of land to another and that also used to be the name for a fish's swim bladder. I don't think I could find that. I'd call it sound. That's such solid research. It's since I went too deep. That's really good. Do you know why Juno, the capital of Alaska in fact? Do you know why that's called Juno? Juneau. Exactly. I've been to Juno. Have you?
No Such Thing As A Guinea Pig Saloon, 2025-03-20 · listen
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