What is the story behind alaska's nickname?
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Alaska\n    Alaska is called “The Last Frontier”, because of its opportunities and many lightly settled regions, and the “Land of the Midnight Sun”, because the sun shines nearly around the clock during Alaskan summers.\n    source: Encarta
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There is a Kim Brooks in Alaska, who was born in 1974.\nhttp://www.zabasearch.com/query1_zaba.php?sname=kim%20brooks&state=AK&ref=&se=&doby=&city=&name_style=1
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people will tell you we crossed the land bridge between siria and alaska meaning we migrated somewhere from siria or india, however this fact was later disputed due to archological finds predating this concept. \n\nOur history tells us we've been here since time immemorial
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I think it was from Greek mythology.  Asia was one of the Oceanids.  There was also an Anatolian (Turkish) king of that name.
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Sitka, Alaska, formerly belonged to Russia
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The Tlingit (pronounced "clink-it") are an Alaska Native tribe and Canadian First Nations people. Their name for themselves is Lingít, meaning "people". The Russian name Koloshi (from an Aleutian term for the labret) or the related German name Koulischen may be encountered in older historical literature.\n\nThe Tlingit are a matrilineal society who developed a complex hunter-gatherer culture in the temperate rainforest of the southeast Alaska coast and the Alexander \n\nArchipelago. The Tlingit language is well known not only \nfor its complex grammar and sound system but also for using certain phonemes which are not heard in almost any other human language.\n\n\nCheck the below URL for more information
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Alphabetically: Alaska and Hawaii
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It's within the Arctic Circle in which that happens. Part of Alaska is included in that area, but not all of it.
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a girl in alaska won the state wrestling title in highschool this year. As far as I know, no other girl has accomplished this feat in this country.
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The gov uses smoke and mirrors to hide the facts things like this:\nOr for people who are making fun of those who claim everything is about oil. There's also this little fact:\n\nThe Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person. \n\nIn 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments. \n\nAlaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production. \n\nHoover Institution\n                                                                    Kuwait:\n\nDemocracy, Kuwait Style\n                                                                           Peter Berkowitz\n\n\n\nIt’s not that the woman question was the only issue faced by voters. From the owner and editor in chief of Kuwait’s largest newspaper, to the chief executive officer of Kuwait Petroleum Company, to the former Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, our interlocutors argued that the Kuwaiti economy is stagnating and that the remedy is privatization. This is a difficult proposition, however, in a country where 90 to 95 percent of the labor force is employed by the government, which generally pays more than the private sector. And designing institutions to create the right incentives will be difficult in a country whose oil wealth supports a massive welfare state with no taxes that generously funds its citizens’ health, education, and housing needs. \n\nIf Alaska pays\nKuwait pays even it’s indirectly after the gulf war losses\nDubai pays\n\nWhy can’t your state pay you? With all the resources of the feds why can’t the feds pay 50 times what Alaska pays?\n\nThe dems and reps have all the power shouldn’t they have the responsibility for their mismanagement?\n\nVOTE! Vote for anyone as long as they
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The country to the West of the US state of Alaska is the Russian Federation. To the east, is Canada.\n\nDoes this help?
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From Wikipedia:\n\n"The community is named after the cove of the same name. Peggy is a nickname for Margaret, and the village may have taken its name from St. Margaret's Bay upon which it is situated. Local folklore has several alternative origins for the name. Some people claim Peggy was an early settler, while others say she was a survivor from a shipwreck."
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Alaska - has small islands in Aleutian chain on 'other' side of international dateline
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So anthropologists tell us, and I think it is true.  The islands between Alaska and Russia are the remnants of a peninsula that used to connect Asia with North America.  In the warmest weather, asians explored across this peninsula to the North American continent, and even down the Central American peninsula into South America.  This was in early pre-history, however, since the "land bridge" has been sunk for a very long time.  They separated into different gene pools a long time ago, and have only re-established contact in modern times.
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"Stink" is a nickname Schlereth got from his teammates. Schlereth was the first native Alaskan to play in the NFL, and the stinkhead is an Eskimo delicacy. Hence the nickname "Stink".
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Obviously, you're wanting us to tell you Mt. McKinley National Park in Alaska is the largest.  \n\nThe park was established as Mount McKinley National Park on February 26, 1917. Ironically, only a portion of Mount McKinley (not even including the summit) was within the original park boundary. The park was designated an international biosphere reserve in 1976. A separate Denali National Monument was proclaimed by Jimmy Carter on December 1, 1978.\n\nMount McKinley National Park, whose name had been subject to local criticism from the onset, and Denali National Monument were incorporated and established into Denali National Park and Preserve by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, December 2, 1980. At this time the Alaska Board of Geographic Names changed the name of the mountain back to "Denali," even though the U.S. Board of Geographic Names maintains "McKinley". Alaskans tend to use "Denali" and rely on context to distinguish between the park and the mountain. The size of the national park is 4,740,906.73 acres (19,185.78 km²), of which 4,724,735.16 acres are federally owned. The national preserve is 1,334,200 acres (543.09 km²), of which 1,304,132 acres are federally owned. On December 2, 1980, a 2,146,580 acre Denali Wilderness was established within the park.
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Alaska was purchased for $7.2 million in 1867 ($134 million in 2005 dollars) from Russia.  It has been a wonderful purchase since it has provided so much oil for the USA.  It was not well received when it was purchased.  But in hindsight, it was a great purchase.