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Klan Rags: A True Story of Jewish Defiance in 1920s Alabama
They all knew he was a pretty good shot. So was his wife.
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Pandemic tales: Bread machines and submarines
The machine itself is white plastic, short and squat, and replete with lots of buttons and blinking lights. I think it looks like a prop from the original Star Trek.
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Spawned out salmon: A personal reflection
We all were out at sea for our five year migration and life cycle. Most of us didn’t make it back. But look around… We are the lucky ones. We made it back.
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Fourth of July in Alaska 100 years ago
One young man and one young woman were proved to far excel their competitors by making perfect jumps without disturbing their equilibrium. Two white men tried the game and soon found that it looked easy but was difficult to accomplish.
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News items from 100 years ago in Alaska
To those who will be in need of dental services, I will say it is my intention to return North on the first boat landing at Bethel, early in July, and later will visit McGrath, Tacotna, Ophir, Flat and all other places heretofore covered.
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Giant 4th of July Parade in Anchorage...100 years ago
The pioneers of Alaska, with packhorses equipped for the trail, awakening the days when the intrepid conquerors of the wilderness first threaded the trails of the great northern empire...
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Battling the Pandemic in Alaska in 1918: A Familiar Strategy
This article is a reprint from the Anchorage Daily Times, November 7, 1918. It discusses the influenza pandemic of the time in Anchorage and elsewhere in Alaska...
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Captain Horn’s encounter: Alaska Navy pilot shares his story of being chased by a UFO
I asked my back-seater, “Jim, are you seeing what I’m seeing?” He says “I sure as hell do!”
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Unfriendly skies: The extraordinary flight of JAL 1628, Alaska’s best known UFO encounter
Three UFOs played tag with Japan Air Lines (JAL) cargo flight 1628 for 50 minutes while they were visually observed by a sometimes terrified flight crew.