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I requested my travel planner because I want to come visit. Well I want to move back, but that's sometime off. Gotta have $$$$, and a job first!!! Planning for the move not just jumping in and hoping all goes well shocking I know I was reading the planner, and when I got to page 11 there it was... America bought Alaska from Russia. Hummm?????
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Alaska was purchased from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for $7.2 million ($113 million in today's dollars) at about two cents per acre ($4.74/km²). The land went through several administrative changes before becoming an organized (or incorporated) territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.
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".[6] It is also known as Alyeska, the "great land", an Aleut word derived from the same root.
We have been through this already. I would be willing to quit-claim the Juneau capitol building to someone if they would be willing to pay me for it.
Alaska's purchase only included the property that was owned by Russia. If you don't have title to the property that you sell you will end up in court, which is exactly where this deal ended up.
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I was reading the planner, and when I got to page 11 there it was... America bought Alaska from Russia. Hummm?????
