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Professional ratings. The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking is the debut solo studio album by Roger Waters, bassist/songwriter and co-founder of English rock band Pink Floyd; it was released in 1984. The album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1995.
Richard Proenneke. Richard Louis Proenneke ( / ˈprɛnəkiː /; May 4, 1916 – April 20, 2003) was an American self-educated naturalist, conservationist, writer, and wildlife photographer who, from the age of about 51, lived alone for nearly thirty years (1968–1998) in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin that he constructed by hand near ...
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA) was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 18, 1971, constituting at the time the largest land claims settlement in United States history. [ 1][ 2] ANCSA was intended to resolve long-standing issues surrounding aboriginal land claims in Alaska, as well as to stimulate economic ...
This is a list of films set in Alaska, whether in part or in full.This North American setting is part of the Northern genre. It includes movies in which location shooting occurred both inside Alaska and outside the state, on sound stages or snowy locations closer to Hollywood.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ( ANWR, pronounced as “ ANN-warr ”) or Arctic Refuge is a national wildlife refuge in northeastern Alaska, United States, on traditional Iñupiaq and Gwich'in lands. The refuge is 19,286,722 acres (78,050.59 km 2) of the Alaska North Slope region, with a northern coastline and vast inland forest, taiga ...
Enacted by. Jimmy Carter. Wrangell - St Elias National Park and Preserve. The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act ( ANILCA) is a United States federal law signed by President Jimmy Carter on December 2, 1980. [ 1] ANILCA provided varying degrees of special protection to over 157,000,000 acres (64,000,000 ha) of land, including ...
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (song) " The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking ", is a song written and performed by Roger Waters from his debut studio album, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking. It was released worldwide on 9 April 1984.
The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire by the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $129 million in 2023). On May 15 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty that had been signed on March 30, and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18.