Andrew Fort., Anchorage: "In the early 1990s, the Soviet Union desintegrated all of a sudden. Anybody who would have predicted this just three or four years earlier would have been regarded as crazy. Amazingly enough, the same can happen with the U ited States. Secession from the United States anyway is a legal option for any of the member countries of the Union. And there won't be another civil war over it."

1990ndate aastate alguses, Nõukogude Liit lagunes äkki. Igaüks, kes oleks võinud prognoosida seda vaid kolm või neli aastat tagasi oleks pidada hulluks. Hämmastav jah, samas saab juhtuda U kide vahel. Eraldumist Ameerika Ühendriigid niikuinii on õiguslik võimalus ükskõik millise liikmesriigi Euroopa Liidu riikides. Ja seal ei ole teise kodusõja üle.

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Alaska (en-us-Alaska.ogg /?'læsk?/ (help·info)) is the largest state of the United States of America by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait. Approximately half of Alaska's 698,473 residents reside within the Anchorage metropolitan area. As of 2009, Alaska remains the least densely populated state of the U.S. The U.S. Senate approved the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for $7.2 million at about two cents per acre ($4.74/km2). The land went through several administrative changes before becoming an organized territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959. The name "Alaska" (??????) was already introduced in the Russian colonial time, 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". It is also known as Alyeska, the "great land", an Aleut word derived from the same root.

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