Alaska

As the largest state (region) in the United States, Alaska joined the union in 1959 and became the 49th state located in the northwestern part of the North American continent. After being bought by the United States in 1867, the area was called "stupidity of Sydward" by Secretary of State Williams Ward who arranged to purchase land from Russia. Buyer critics believe there is nothing to offer on this land, but gold found in the 1890s caused runaway by explorers and settlers. Alaska is surrounded by the North Beaufort Sea and the Arctic Ocean, the Yukon area of ​​Canada and the eastern part of British Columbia, the Alaska Bay and the Pacific Ocean in the south, the Western Bering Strait and the Bering Sea, and the Chukchi Sea in the northwestern part. The capital is Juneau

From the late 1700s to 1867, when US Secretary of State William Seward bought this area for $ 7.2 million, or about 2 cents per acre, Russia currently dominated the majority of Alaska.

Alaska has 17 out of 20 highest peaks in the United States. It is 20, 320 feet, mountain. McKinley is the tallest mountain in North America

In Alaska, about 5,000 earthquakes occur annually. In March 1964, the strongest earthquake recorded in North America occurred in Prince William Sound with a magnitude of 2

The most powerful volcanic eruption of the 20th century occurred when Novolta volcano erupted in 1912 and made a valley of smoke in Katmai National Park.

People have lived in Alaska since 10,000 BC. At that time, the overpass bridged from Siberia to the eastern Alaska, immigrants passed through them and were pursuing a group of animals. Among these immigration groups, Athabaskans, Aleuts, Inuit, Yupik, Tlingit and Haida remain in Alaska.

Alaska has more than a dozen universities and universities. Alaska accredited universities include Alaska Anchorage University, Alaska Fairbanks University, Southeast Alaska University, and Alaska Pacific University. Alaska is the only province that does not have the first division of NCAA. Alaska encountered the problem of "brain drain". Many young people including the majority of the best academic graduates left the state after graduating high school and did not go home. As of 2013, there are no law school or medical school in Alaska. The University of Alaska is trying to solve this problem by offering a 4-year scholarship to the top 10% of Alaska's high school graduates through Alaska's scholarship program.

In this period of Alaska, with the arrival of a long winter, the light will gradually disappear. But on 5 October all men, women and children in Alaska got an income of $ 1,100 from the Alaska government. why? Alaska Permanent Fund Bonus (PFD). PFD provides annual income distribution from domestic oil income that has been reinvested in the global market. Bethel City in West Alaska, which was filmed in January 2017, is the center of people living in small communities with little or no work, depending on a permanent funds bonus to keep the family warm. Picture by Ben Mason. The fund has a very broad global portfolio of approximately $ 60 billion. This includes complex financial instruments such as stocks, shopping malls in the suburbs of Washington DC, Private equity in Israel, venture capital (a small portion of Snapchat), infrastructure, mezzanine debt