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    census, up from 3,598 in 2010. Nome was incorporated on April 9, 1901. It was once the most-populous city in Alaska. Nome lies within the region of the...
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    US territory of Alaska by 20 mushers and about 150 sled dogs across 674 miles (1,085 km) in 5+1⁄2 days, saving the small town of Nome and the surrounding...
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    (4 km) west of the central business district of Nome, a city in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. As per Federal Aviation Administration records...
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    64.49028°N 165.41306°W / 64.49028; -165.41306 The Nome Gold Rush was a gold rush in Nome, Alaska, approximately 1899–1909. It is separated from other...
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    Nome Census Area is a census area located in the U.S. state of Alaska, mostly overlapping with the Seward Peninsula. As of the 2020 census, the population...
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  • The Fourth Kind (category Films set in Alaska)
    to be a dramatic re-enactment of true events that occurred in Nome, Alaska - in which a psychologist uses hypnosis to uncover memories of alien...
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  • romanized: nomoí) Nome, Alaska Cape Nome, Alaska Nome, North Dakota Nome, Texas Nome, Norway Nome, Queensland, Australia Nome (mathematics) Gnome, spelled Nome in the...
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    habitable area of Little Diomede Island in the Nome Census Area of the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. All the buildings are on the west coast...
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    Arctic. William Goosak, a Russian fur trader, introduced them to Nome, Alaska, during the Nome Gold Rush, initially as sled dogs to work the mining fields...
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    Balto (category Nome, Alaska)
    1925 serum run to Nome, in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported from Anchorage, Alaska, to Nenana, Alaska, by train and then to Nome by dog sled to...
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  • Bering Air (category Nome Census Area, Alaska)
    Bering Air is an American airline headquartered in Nome, Alaska, United States. It operates domestic scheduled passenger and charter airline services,...
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    Leonhard Seppala (category People from Nome, Alaska)
    However, in 1900, he emigrated to Alaska during the Nome gold rush. His friend Jafet Lindeberg had returned from Alaska and convinced Seppala to come to...
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  • The Alaska Gold Rush was a gold rush in the Klondike region of the Yukon in Canada from 1896 to 1899. Alaska Gold Rush may also refer to: Nome Gold Rush...
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    [kiŋiɣin]; Russian: Уэйлс, romanized: Ueyls) is a city in the Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 145, down...
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  • 1966 Time Zone in Nome, Alaska, USA, Timeanddate.com. Time Zone in Adak, Alaska, USA, Timeanddate.com. Time Zone in Yakutat, Alaska, USA, Timeanddate...
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    Gunnar Kaasen (category People from Nome, Alaska)
    delivered a cylinder containing 300,000 units of diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925, as the last leg of a dog sled relay that saved the U.S. city...
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    Eskimos in the vicinity of Nome, Alaska from 1901 to 1909. Alaska and Western Canada Collection Images documenting Alaska and Western Canada, primarily...
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    Wyatt Earp (category People from Nome, Alaska)
    13, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2017. "Wyatt Earp – Visit Nome" (PDF). Visit Nome Alaska. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 13, 2017. "Noted...
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    Siŋik or Central Yupik: Cingik; Russian: Головин) is a city in Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 156, up from...
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  • by Ladislas Fodor and is set during the Nome gold rush. The film featured Johnny Horton's song "North to Alaska", sung during the opening titles, setting...
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  • Kaułiq or Akauchak) is an abandoned townsite in the Nome Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It has a population of zero as of the 2000 and 2010...
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  • miles (64 km) offshore, south of the village of Wales, Alaska and about 90 miles northwest of Nome. The island is about 1 mile (1.6 km) wide with steep...
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    Uŋalaqłiit; Yup'ik: Ungalaqliit; Koyukon: Kk'aadoleetno’) is a city in Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States, in the western part of the state. At the 2010 census...
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    Togo (dog) (category Nome, Alaska)
    Seppala and his dog sled team in the 1925 serum run to Nome across central and northern Alaska. Despite covering a far greater distance than any other...
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    Iñupiat (category Alaska Native ethnic groups)
    into their curriculum about Iñupiaq language and culture. Nome Elementary School in Nome, Alaska has also put in place plans to incororate an Iñupiaq language...
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    Nome, Alaska) is a small islet with mostly vertical rock faces in the Bering Strait, located southeast of the Diomede Islands and west of Alaska's Cape...
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    portion of Alaska including Yakutat. The Alaska Panhandle communities were in the Pacific Time Zone, while most of the interior was on UTC−10:00. Nome and the...
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    O'Connell. In 2019, Dormer portrayed Curtis Welch, town physician of Nome, Alaska, in the Disney film Togo. Dormer has become a well known television actor...
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    Ocean. It commonly includes North Slope Borough, Northwest Arctic Borough, Nome Census Area, and is sometimes taken to include parts of the Yukon-Koyukuk...
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  • L. James Sullivan (category People from Nome, Alaska)
    June 27, 1933, in Nome, Alaska. Sullivan lived in Nome until he was seven years old, concerned that World War II would spread to Alaska, Sullivan's family...
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