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  2. File:Czar's Ratification of the Alaska Purchase Treaty - NARA ...

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    This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the National Archives and Records Administration as part of a cooperation project.The National Archives and Records Administration provides images depicting American and global history which are public domain or licensed under a free license.

  3. Alaska Purchase - Wikipedia

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    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) [1].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.

  4. Russian colonization of North America - Wikipedia

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    The Alaska Purchase Treaty clearly states that the agreement was for a complete Russian cession of the territory. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] The Alaskan Native peoples, in their struggle for democracy and indigenous rights , take issue with the legitimacy of colonial rule itself rather than the purchase from the Russian Empire.

  5. Grigory Shelikhov - Wikipedia

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    Grigory Shelikhov was a founder of the predecessor of the Russian-American Company. Grigory Ivanovich Shelikhov (Григорий Иванович Шелихов in Russian) (1747, Rylsk, Belgorod Governorate – July 20, 1795 (July 31, 1795 New Style)) was a Russian seafarer, merchant, and fur trader who established a permanent settlement in Alaska.

  6. Alaska payment conspiracy - Wikipedia

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    The Alaska payment conspiracy (Russian: Аляскинский платежный заговор, romanized: Ali͡askinskiĭ platezhnyĭ zagovor), also known as the Orkney conspiracy (Russian: Оркни заговор), is a conspiracy theory that the Russian Empire never received payment for the Alaska purchase from the United States, and that instead the ship, the Orkney, that carried the ...

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    On Football analyzes the biggest topics in the NFL from week to week. For more On Football analysis, head here.. The NFL was already planning to explore the onside kick before Dan Campbell made a ...

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    1. Tennis Ball. Tennis balls are so useful that you may want to buy some to keep around the house even if you don’t play. For example, half a tennis ball can help screw open tight caps.

  9. From Gen Z to Boomers: How much money each generation ... - AOL

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    Americans in all age brackets are making far less money than they think they need to be successful, according to new research. A "Secret to Success" study published Tuesday by Empower, a financial ...