* University of Alaska Anchorage and University of Alaska Fairbanks — ( Ice Hockey ) for the Governor's Cup.

Within about an hour with the help of reports from seismic stations in Alaska, Arizona and California, the quake's epicenter was placed at 51 degrees North latitude and 158 degrees East longitude.

Alaska was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867, for $ 7. 2 million ($ adjusted for inflation ) at approximately two cents per acre ($ 4. 74 / km² ).

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

" Gaining Senate approval of the Alaska treaty was Johnson's singular legislative accomplishment in the midst of a political war with Congress.

Johnson's purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867 was his most important foreign policy action.

The most positive accomplishment during his Administration was the purchase of Alaska from Russia, though this was probably due more to the efforts of William H. Seward than President Johnson.

It was not an overseas possession but national soil, much like Alaska or Hawaii are US National soil despite being ' discontinuous '.

The system is a dual purpose test and interception facility in Alaska, and in 2006 was operational with a few interceptor missiles.

One Aleut leader recognized by the State of Alaska for her work in teaching and reviving Aleut basketry was Anfesia Shapsnikoff whose life and accomplishments are portrayed in " Moments Rightly Placed.

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ) was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 23, 1971, the largest land claims settlement in United States history.

ANCSA was intended to resolve the long-standing issues surrounding aboriginal land claims in Alaska, as well as to stimulate economic development throughout Alaska.

A thirteenth regional corporation was later created for Alaska Natives who no longer resided in Alaska.

* The Alaska Native Allotment Act was revoked and as yet unborn Native children were excluded.

In the late 20th century the Bald Eagle was on the brink of extirpation in the continental United States, while flourishing in much of Alaska and Canada.

In 2011, it was announced that Barrymore had been cast alongside John Krasinski in Ken Kwapis's Big Miracle ( 2012 ), a romantic drama based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales from being trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.

The state was 68. 9 % White ( 65. 3 % Non-Hispanic White Alone ), 21. 4 % Black or African American, 0. 5 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 3. 2 % Asian, 0. 0 % Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 3. 4 % from Some Other Race, and 2. 7 % from Two or More Races.

At about the same time, the technology of the Thule people developed in northwestern Alaska and very quickly spread over the entire area occupied by Eskimo people, though it was not necessarily adopted by all of them.

The CWRIC was appointed to conduct an official governmental study of Executive Order 9066, related wartime orders, and their impact on Japanese Americans in the West and Alaska Natives in the Pribilof Islands.

The energy released was approximately twice that of the next most powerful earthquake, the Good Friday Earthquake, which was centered in Prince William Sound, Alaska.

Captain George Vancouver ( 22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798 ) was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.

He also photographed the Tlingit people in Alaska, and was commissioned by the United States Army to photograph the Modoc War in 1873.

He was commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy, serving the final months of World War II aboard the large armored battle cruiser USS Alaska.

When Alaska Natives enrolled in their regional corporations under the terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 ( ANCSA ), the Aleut Corporation attracted only about 2, 000 enrolees who could prove a blood quantum of 1 / 4 or more Alaska Native ( including Aleut ).

Land selection by the state of Alaska under the Statehood Act and for the regional and village corporations has continued through the present.

Jody Roberts, a reporter for the Tacoma News Tribune, went missing in 1985, only to be found 12 years later in Sitka, Alaska, living under the name of " Jane Dee Williams.

The ban is not absolute, however, and some whaling continues under the auspices of scientific research ( sometimes not proved ) or aboriginal rights ; current whaling nations are Norway, Iceland and Japan and the aboriginal communities of Siberia, Alaska and northern Canada.

* January 8 – President William McKinley of the United States places Alaska under military governance.

The Trans Alaska Pipeline crossing under the Tanana River and over ridge of the Alaska Range

The last claim under this Act was made by Ken Deardorff for of land on the Stony River in southwestern Alaska.

However, the allotment process in Alaska under the separate Alaska Native Allotment Act continued until its revocation in 1993 by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

The Kula Plate is an ancient tectonic plate that used to subduct under Alaska during the Triassic period.

* In March 1898, the " 101 " of Skagway, Alaska posted handbills and held meetings trying to free the town of a bunco gang known as the " Soap Gang " under the control of the infamous Soapy Smith.

For example, when BP needed to observe oil spills, they operated the Aeryon Scout UAV under a COA granted to the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

* 1928 – Texaco becomes the first U. S. oil company to sell its gasoline nationwide under one single brand name in all 48 states ( 50 states after Alaska and Hawaii joined the Union in 1959 ).

Settlements in Loreto, Baja California Sur were established in 1697, but it was not until the threat of incursion by Russian fur traders and potentially settlers, coming down from Alaska in 1765, that Spain, under King Charles III, felt development of more northern installations were necessary.

In 1779 a third Spanish expedition, under the command of Ignacio de Artega in the ship Princesa, and with Quadra as captain of the ship Favorite, sailed from Mexico to the coast of Alaska, reaching 61 ° N. Two further Spanish expeditions, in 1788 and 1789, both under Esteban Jose Martínez and Gonzalo López de Haro, sailed to the Pacific Northwest.

The Peter Pan cannery in King Cove is one of the largest operations under one roof in Alaska.

She served as the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Alaska from 1994 to 2002 under governor Tony Knowles, becoming the first female elected to statewide office in Alaska.

The Peter Pan facility is one of the largest cannery operations under one roof in Alaska.

Statues of Seward are located in Seward Park in Auburn, in Madison Square Park in New York City, on the grounds of the Z. J. Loussac Public Library in Anchorage, Alaska, and in Volunteer Park in Seattle.

* Kodiak Island Public Access Atlas ( Alaska DNR )

File: Falsepass_ak_port2010. JPG | Public buildings, mid-foreground, False Pass, Alaska

Over 40 % of the year-round jobs are government-funded, including the City, Tribe, Nenana School District, Yukon-Koyukuk School District, and highway maintenance by the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.

Four years later he was in Anchorage working as Assistant Supervisor of Surveys of Public Lands for Alaska.

* Alaska News Nightly, a headline news radio program broadcast on the Alaska Public Radio network.

They act in an official police capacity only when called into service by the State of Alaska, which has a broad statute governing citizen's arrests, which is why Alaska has unarmed Village Public Safety Officers ( VPSO's ) all of whom are fully academy-trained, employed by local tribal non-profit corporations and are deputized by the Commissioner of Public Safety to make misdemeanor non-traffic arrests and charge for violations.

* AK ( Radio Program ), a weekly broadcast produced by Alaska Public Radio

To ensure the possibility of public debate about the content of the papers, on June 29, US Senator Mike Gravel ( then Democrat, Alaska ) entered 4, 100 pages of the Papers to the record of his Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds.

Category: Public high schools in Alaska

The University of Alaska Anchorage ( locally called UAA ) is divided into six teaching units at the Anchorage campus: the colleges of Education, Health and Social Welfare, Arts and Sciences, Business and Public Policy, the Community and Technical College, and the School of Engineering.

The proposed acquisition led to an antitrust lawsuit filed by the Alaska Public Interest Research Group, which was resolved by a consent decree reached between Safeway and the Alaska Attorney General's office which required the company to divest 7 stores.

KAKM is a Public television station in Anchorage, Alaska, broadcasting locally on digital channel 8 as a PBS member station.

The station is owned by Alaska Public Telecommunications, Inc., and was the only PBS station in Alaska that was not part of AlaskaOne during its existence.

KAKM became the flagship station of Alaska Public Television, the successor to AlaskaOne, replacing KUAC-TV in Fairbanks, on July 1, 2012.

Alaska Public Media ( AKPM ) is a non-profit organization with member television and radio stations that are part of PBS, NPR and other public broadcasting networks.

Formerly known as Alaska Public Telecommunications, Inc., AKPM relies upon several funding sources, including member donations, state and federal dollars, and grants from private foundations, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ( CPB ), and elsewhere.