It has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of the then-District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U. S. Congress in 1900.

In 1906, after the diminution of the whaling and fur trade, Sitka, the original capital of Alaska, declined in importance and the seat of government was moved to Juneau.

The first people who would permanently stay in the village were Russian colonists who moved there from Kodiak Island in 1847 before the Alaska Purchase.

Another newspaper, The Alaska Pioneer Press, which was under different ownership and was published monthly, ceased publication in January, 2011, after its owners moved out of the area.

It had no permanent settlers until people from other parts of Barter Island and northern Alaska moved to the area around the construction of a runway and Distant Early Warning Line station in the 1950s.

The village was re-established in the early 1970s when these persons moved to the region from Barrow, Alaska.

With that, many Alaska natives were moved from other villages, as far away as Unalakleet, Ohogamuit and Takchak.

Mr. Wakefield moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1879 and established a real estate business, dealing in timber and mineral lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, Texas, and Alaska.

It is the center of the nation because the admission of Alaska and Hawaii to the United States moved the location of the official center of the nation.

Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Homer, Alaska, where her grandfather Yule Kilcher, a delegate to the Alaska State Constitutional Convention and a state senator, had settled after immigrating from Switzerland.

Letourneau and her husband left the university and moved to Anchorage, Alaska.

Alaska moved from the most heavily taxed state to the most tax-free state.

During a period of starvation and influenza ( brought by American and European whaling crews ) most of these moved to the coast or other parts of Alaska between 1890 and 1910.

He moved to Alaska in the late 1950s, becoming a real estate developer and entering politics.

By 1993, the league moved to the Cuneta Astrodome in Pasay and later saw the Alaska Milkmen win the 1996 grand slam and nine titles in the decade.

Young moved to Alaska in 1959, not long after it became a state.

Reassigned in March 1950, Sprague was moved to Alaska where he served as Commandant, Seventeenth Naval District and Commander, Alaskan Sea Frontier on Kodiak Island.

To pursue her love of dogsled racing and breeding huskies, she moved to the Wrangell Mountains area of Alaska.

After graduation, he moved to Alaska and worked on oil drilling rigs on the North Slope and in Cook Inlet.

Marrou left Alaska following his 1986 defeat and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he worked as a real estate broker.

Coincident with the ownership change, the de facto International Date Line was moved westward, and Alaska changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.

Swenson moved to Alaska in 1973 to run sled dogs.

In 1947, Linebarger moved to the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he served as Professor of Asiatic Studies.

Alongside these major festivals, there is also the Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival ( moved to June from 2008 ), the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival, and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

He retired in 1965 and moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was Founding Chairman of the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

Despite being east of the 180 meridian, a 1995 realignment of the International Dateline by the Republic of Kiribati " moved " Christmas Island to west of the dateline.

The President is not deemed personally responsible for his actions in his official capacity, except where his actions are indicted before the International Criminal Court or where impeachment is moved against him.

Enterprise was stored at the Smithsonian's hangar at Washington Dulles International Airport before it was restored and moved to the newly built Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport, where it was the centerpiece of the space collection.

Turner purchased the Omni International from developer Tom Cousins and moved CNN there.

He also moved away from the International Gothic style and elaborate ornamentation of artists like Gentile da Fabriano to a more naturalistic mode that employed perspective and chiaroscuro for greater realism.

Her father, Joseph Smith, worked for United Press International in Paris and moved to Washington, D. C., United States in 1966, where he became The Washington Post < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s first official obituary editor.

It was initially known as the International Amateur Athletics Federation but changed later its name to reflect that the sport had moved away from amateurism towards professionalism in the late 1970s.

Developing countries ( democratic or not ) have been moved to harden their currencies, accept International Monetary Fund rules, join the World Trade Organization ( WTO ), and submit to a broad regime of reforms that amount to a hedge against being isolated.

What started as International Business Machines is now just " IBM " and the color blue has been a signature in their unifying campaign as they have moved to become an IT services company.

Robinson took a position in 2007 with a global trade union federation Public Services International based in Ferney-Voltaire, near Geneva in the French Alps, where he moved with his partner Max Riveron and their two dogs.

He produced a series of ironic political posters signed “ The Last International ”, first in Ann Arbor, Michigan, then in San Francisco where he moved in 1978.

In the late 1970s and during the 1980s, Lichtenstein received major commissions for works in public places: the sculptures Lamp ( 1978 ) in St. Mary ’ s, Georgia ; Mermaid ( 1979 ) in Miami Beach ; the 26 feet tall Brushstrokes in Flight ( 1984, moved in 1998 ) at Port Columbus International Airport ; the five-storey high Mural with Blue Brushstrokes ( 1984 – 85 ) at the Equitable Center, New York ; and El Cap de Barcelona ( 1992 ) in Barcelona.

In May 2007 international flights into the capital, Tehran, were moved to the Imam Khomeini International Airport ( IKIA ), just outside the city because of capacity constraints at the existing central Mehrabad Airport.

Jack & Ethel Brett then moved the family to the Midwest and three years later to El Segundo, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, just south of Los Angeles International Airport.

In 1987, Freeman moved on to Kooralbyn International School to be coached professionally by Romanian Mike Danila, who became her first real coach and later a key influence throughout her career ; he provided a strict training regime for the young athlete.

At the outbreak of World War II, in 1939, the International Secretariat was moved to New York City.

In their first two seasons, the Bulls played a majority of their home games at the International Amphitheatre, before they moved to the Chicago Stadium.

It moved to Toronto in 1958 after the NHL withdrew its support for the International Hockey Hall of Fame in Kingston, Ontario.

In 1969, the New York Mets moved their Triple-A International League affiliate, then known as the Jacksonville Suns, from Jacksonville, Florida to Portsmouth.

Nagurski was born in Rainy River, Ontario, Canada, of Polish-Ukrainian descent, and his family moved to International Falls, Minnesota, when he was still a boy.