Where did alaska's name come from?
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It is the corruption of Aleut word meaning “great land” or “that which the sea breaks against”.  \n\nHere is the origin of all state names:\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0854966.html
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I saw the documentry on PBS.It was in Alaska.I don't recall the mans name.But you could find it on PBS site I bet.
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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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ALASKA\n\nFascinatingly, Alaska is the state that is farthest north, east, and west while Hawaii is farthest south. The reason that Alaska is farthest east and west is due to the fact that the Aleutian Islands cross the 180° meridian of longitude, placing some of the islands actually in the Eastern Hemisphere and thus degrees east of Greenwich (and the Prime Meridian).
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Well Alaska has only one neighbor-- Canada\n\nYou did not specify that the neighbor has to be a U.S. state\n\nIf you follow my logic it cannot be Maine as it is touching New Brunswick, Quebec and the U.S. state New Hampshire.\n\nIf you want a more exact answer then Alaska is touching the Yukon territory
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According to the English, it is derived from a place name indicating that they came from a place near the woods, or perhaps a grove of trees. My guess is that it is of Scandinavian origin and can be found all over Northern Europe.
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Alaska - it has the Arctic Ocean to the North,  and the Pacific Ocean to the South.
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Arkansas-The early French explorers of the state gave it its name, which is probably a phonetic spelling for the French word for "downriver" people, a reference to the Quapaw people and the river along which they settled.\n\nKansas-The state is named after the Kansas River that flows through it, which in turn derived its name from the Siouan word Kansa meaning "People of the south wind."
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"Eskimo" is an American Indian word which translates to "eater of raw meat". Ironically, scientists put the Indians in a separate anthropological category while the Eskimos are considered more closely related to the natives of northern Asia. The people we call Eskimos originally came from Asia across a land bridge (which no long exists) into northern North America (now call Alaska). They gradually spread across the Artic regions. There are approximately 1,500 Eskimos living in the Soviet Union and about 50,000 in Greenland.
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The root of the word Caucasian: \n"  1807, from Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas; applied to the "white" race 1795 (in Ger.) by Ger. anthropologist Johann Blumenbach, because their supposed ancestral homeland lay there; since abandoned as a historical/anthropological term. Lit. meaning "resident or native of the Caucasus" is from 1843. The mountain range name is from Gk. kaukhasis, from Scythian kroy-khasis, lit. "(the mountain) ice-shining."  "\n\nThe fact that the word 'Caucasian' has the word 'Asian' in it is a coincidence, it is in fact the word for 'being a native of the Caucasuss Mountains'. If you're from American, you're American. If you're from Canada, you're Canadian. If you're from Caucasuss, you're Caucasian.
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A number of theories exist regarding the naming of North and South America. The most widely recognized is that they are named after Amerigo Vespucci, who was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a New World, previously undiscovered by Europeans. The second and less generally accepted is that the continents are named after an English merchant named Richard Amerike from Bristol, who is believed to have financed John Cabot's voyage of discovery from England to Newfoundland in 1497. A third theory that has been advanced is that America was named for a Spanish sailor bearing the ancient Visigothic name of 'Amairick'.\n\nThe America's are the European name for the area know as the new world, once humans formd a country the people who are citizens are called AMERICAN's, a shortened name of USA. All US citizens are called Ameicans but not all people who live in the US are called that, some are called Illegal Immigrants, Undocumanted workers or plainly immigants
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Excerpt from Wikipedia article:\n\nThe name of the lake is named after the Erie tribe of Native Americans who lived along its southern shore before European contact.
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Do you consider Alaska continental US? If so I would guess Alaska.  Otherwise maybe California?  Or what about Washington or Oregon?\n\nJust guesses, helped with ideas from hubby.
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Alaska Jan 3rd, 1959\nHawaii Aug 21, 1959
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The word Asia entered English, via Latin, from Ancient Greek Ασία (Asia; see also List of traditional Greek place names). This name is first attested in Herodotus (about 440 BC), where it refers to Asia Minor; or, for the purposes of describing the Persian Wars, to the Persian Empire, in contrast to Greece and Egypt. Herodotus comments that he is puzzled as to why three different women's names are used to describe a single land mass (Europa, Asia and Libya, referring to Africa), stating that most Greeks assumed that Asia was named after the wife of Prometheus but that the Lydians say it was named after Asias, son of Cotys who passed the name on to a tribe in Sardis.\n\nEven before Herodotus, Homer knew of a Trojan ally named Asios, son of Hyrtacus, a ruler over several towns, and elsewhere he describes a marsh as ασιος (Iliad 2, 461). The Greek term may be derived from Assuwa, a 14th century BC confederation of states in Western Anatolia. Hittite assu- "good" is probably an element in that name.\n\nAlternatively, the ultimate etymology of the term may be from the Akkadian word (w)aṣû(m), cognate of Hebrew יצא, which means "to go out" or "to ascend", referring to the direction of the sun at sunrise in the Middle East, and also likely connected with the Phoenician word asa meaning east. This may be contrasted to a similar etymology proposed for Europe, as being from Semitic erēbu "to enter" or "set" (of the sun). However, this etymology is considered doubtful, because it does not explain the fact that the term "Asia" first came to be associated with Anatolia, which actually lies west of the Semitic speaking areas.
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A difficult question to ask.  Generally, the American Indian, or Native American, would be the most likely candidate.  However, their ancestors arrived here via the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska not once, but three times.\nNow scientists speculate, and with some evidence, that early Europeans arrived here across the icefields of the Atlantic Ocean during the last major ice age, about 10,000 years ago.\nSo who is truly American?  Whoever is born here, I guess.
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US State - Alaska; or as a percentage of land area being mountainous - Hawaii.\n\nState meaning nation - Russia and China; or as a percentage - Bhutan, Nepal, Lesotho, Andorra, Lichtenstein and some Pacific Ocean island nations for the same reason that Hawaii is listed.