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Juneau

Juneau, Alaska
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About Juneau

Juneau, officially the City and Borough of Juneau, is the capital of the U.S. state of Alaska, located along the Gastineau Channel in Southeast Alaska. Juneau was named the capital of Alaska in 1906, when the government of what was then the District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900. On July 1, 1970, the City of Juneau merged with the City of Douglas and the surrounding Greater Juneau Borough to form the current consolidated city-borough, which ranks as the second-largest municipality in the United States by area and is larger than both Rhode Island and Delaware.

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Juneau, Alaska, which is the capital of Alaska, is not accessible by road from the United States. You can only fly there, or get a boat.

from 163: No Such Thing As Too Fast For A Fish, 2017-05-05 at 00:23:34 · read transcript

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  1. So what he did, instead of going out to find gold himself, he smartly went around all the shops, bought all the shovels, all the pickaxes, all the pans, everything that you would need. put them in his shop and then went into town going there's gold in them their hills everyone went crazy went oh no we need a shovel he's like well i know where you can get a shovel my shop and so he became a millionaire from selling provisions to idiots the shovel millionaire yeah very clever that isn't it not as exciting as going and mining for gold though no i would have been one of the gold idiots i went mining for gold the other day did you in alaska yeah how did you do it were you panning panning yeah nice did you find any i only found the ones that they deliberately put in for tourists to fight. These chocolate gold nuggets. They put like tiny flakes in. How much did the pan cost $5,000? Were you in chicken by any chance? Chicken, no, I was in Juneau. Oh, chicken is another place in Alaska where you get a lot of panning for gold. Is it? Population is 23 in winter, seven. It's a harsh winter, isn't it?

    No Such Thing As Too Fast For A Fish, 2017-05-05 · listen

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