This Day in Alaska History-November 9th, 1929
Century-Old Blast still a Mystery
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 1908, a colossal blast incinerated a swath of wilderness deep in Siberia, at about the same latitude as Anchorage. The explosion that July day registered on seismic recorders all over the world. Within minutes, 80 million trees lay flat and scorched in a circle 60 miles wide. Scientists calculated the shock was more than […]
Anchorage Man in Dinghy Arrested in Russia After Drifting Across Bering Sea
An exhausted 72-year-old Anchorage man was arrested upon his arrival near the Russian community of Lavrentiya recently after floating across the Bering Sea to make landfall there. Russian media reported that 72-year-old John Martin of Anchorage was discovered on Russia’s eastern coast in the Chukotka region on Wednesday by border guards. When contacted by authorities in […]
First Dogs in the Americas Arrived from Siberia, Disappeared after European Contact
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A study reported in the journal Science offers an enhanced view of the origins and ultimate fate of the first dogs in the Americas. The dogs were not domesticated North American wolves, as some have speculated, but likely followed their human counterparts over a land bridge that once connected North Asia and the Americas, […]