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Is Anchorage a City or a Borough? Does It Matter?
In 1975, the City of Anchorage and the Greater Anchorage Area Borough united into what we now know as the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA). We’re celebrating the milestone in 2025 to empower involvement in local government and inspire our neighbors to imagine what is possible in our next fifty years.
In this edition of History Takes, a retelling of our first 50 years with perspectives from notable neighbors on topics that shape our local government, MOA Chief Administrative Officer Bill Falsey explores our history as a government of service areas. Enjoy!
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By Senior Master Sgt. Julie Avey Miss Malaynee White, Miss Fairbanks, Elevates Visibility for Women in the Trades
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — At just 20 years old, Melaney White, crowned Miss Fairbanks and a rising contender in the Miss Alaska USA competition, is using her platform to champion a cause close to her heart, women in the trades, and challenging gender stereotypes to shine a spotlight on women pursuing careers in the trades.
Malaynee serves as a civilian maintenance generalist at the Alaska Air National Guard’s 168th Wing, an Arctic air refueling unit stationed at Eielson Air Force Base, responsible for operations ranging from aerial refueling to missile warning and space surveillance. Her role involves everything from plumbing and structural upkeep to heating-system maintenance and building operations.
Michael Engelhard: No Place Like Nome.
“Kristina’s Cache: A Memoir of Adventure and Survival in Alaska” to Be Showcased at the Manila International Book Fair
LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, August 25, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ — Author and oceanographer Kristina Ahlnäs brings readers a gripping tale of grit, faith, and reinvention in her award-winning memoir “Kristina’s Cache: A Memoir of Adventure and Survival in Alaska,” which will be featured at the Manila International Book Fair 2025, happening from September 10–14 at the SMX Convention Center Manila.
1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
The September Massacres were a series of killings and summary executions of prisoners in Paris that occurred in 1792 from 2 September to 6 September during the French Revolution. Between 1,176 and 1,614 people[1] were killed by sans-culottes, fédérés, and guardsmen, with the support of gendarmes responsible for guarding the tribunals and prisons,[2] the Cordeliers, the Committee of Surveillance of the Commune, and the revolutionary sections of Paris.[3][4][5]
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1531 – Francesco Cattani da Diacceto, Bishop of Fiesole (died 1595)
Francesco Cattani da Diacceto (2 September 1531 – 4 November 1595), often referred to as Francesco Cattani da Diacceto il Giovane in order to distinguish him from his grandfather, the philosopher Francesco di Zanobi Cattani da Diacceto (1466–1522), was Bishop of Fiesole from 1570 until his death in 1595 and author of several works including an Essamerone (“Hexameron”) and a translation into vernacular Florentine Italian of the Hexaëmeron and De Officiis Clericorum of Saint Ambrose.[1]
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Graham Greene CM (June 22, 1952 – September 1, 2025) was a Canadian First Nations (Oneida) actor and recording artist, active in film, television and theatre in a career spanning over 50 years. He achieved international fame for his role as Kicking Bird (Ziŋtká Nagwáka) in Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves (1990), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His other notable films include Thunderheart (1992), Maverick (1994), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Skins (2002), Transamerica (2005), Casino Jack (2010), Winter’s Tale (2014), The Shack (2017), and Wind River (2017).
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Welcome to the Stump the Bookseller blog!
Stump the Bookseller is a service offered by Loganberry Books to reconnect people to the books they love but can’t quite remember. In brief (for more detailed information see our About page), people can post their memories here, and the hivemind goes to work. After all, the collective mind of bibliophiles, readers, parents and librarians around the world is much better than just a few of us thinking. Together with these wonderful Stumper Magicians, we have a nearly 50% success rate in finding these long lost but treasured books. The more concrete the book description, the better the success rate, of course. It is a labor of love to keep it going, and there is a modest fee. Please see the How To page to find price information and details on how to submit your Book Stumper and payment.
Thanks to everyone involved to keep this forum going: our blogging team, the well-read Stumper Magicians, the many referrals, and of course to everyone who fondly remembers the wonder of books from their childhood and wants to share or revisit that wonder. Isn’t it amazing, the magic of a book?
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
Albert Einstein, adapted
“Even when we fall, we rise again—a little wiser, a little braver, and with a way better story to tell.”
Jessica W. Bowman
“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.”
Jack Kornfield
“You can plan for a hundred years. But you don’t know what will happen the next moment.”
Tibetan proverb
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
Carl Jung
“Vulnerability is not oversharing. It’s sharing with people who have earned the right to hear our story.”
“True belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world. Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”
Brené Brown
“Emotions are not problems to be solved. They are signals to be felt.”
Vironika Tugaleva
“True healing is not a straight line. It is a spiral. You come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”
Cristie Robbins
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I built my life.”
J.K. Rowling
“You can rewrite the story. You just have to pick up the pen.”
“The only people who get upset when you set boundaries are the ones who benefited from you having none.”
Unknown
I would consider our music as like a bouquet of roses in rainbow colors. Just imagine a bouquet of roses with one color. It would be boring, man.
Flaco Jimenez,
singer, songwriter, accordion virtuoso
1939-2025
Once in everyone’s life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half asleep.
E. B. White,
writer
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett Marden – 1848-1924 – Author
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Seneca – BC-65 AD – Philosopher
Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Henry Ford – 1863-1947 – Founder of Ford Motor Company
If it isn’t a little scary it probably isn’t worth your time.
Ted Murphy – Entrepreneur
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson,
writer, poet, essayist
It was not till quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say: ‘I don’t know.’
W. Somerset Maugham,
writer, playwright
Important:
Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.
Jay Samit
1647 – The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungan’s Hill: English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
The Battle of Dungan’s Hill took place in County Meath, in eastern Ireland on 8 August 1647. It was fought between the armies of Confederate Ireland and the English Parliament during the Irish Confederate Wars. The Irish army was intercepted on a march towards Dublin and destroyed. Although it is a little-known event, even in Ireland, the battle was very bloody (with over 3000 deaths) and had important political repercussions. The Parliamentarian victory there destroyed the Confederate Leinster Army and contributed to the collapse of the Confederate cause and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1649.[1]
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1306 – Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria (died 1353)
Rudolf II “the blind” (8 August 1306 – 4 October 1353) was Count Palatine of the Rhine (see Palatinate) from 1329 to 1353.
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Loni Kaye Anderson (August 5, 1945 – August 3, 2025) was an American actress. She is best known for playing receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on the CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982), which earned her nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards.
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
Loni Anderson,
actor
1945-2025
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Betty Crocker: Toffee-S’mores Icebox Cake
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The Book Junction: Where Readers Go To Discover Great New Fiction!
Mystery & Thriller Most Wanted
Welcome to the Stump the Bookseller blog!
Stump the Bookseller is a service offered by Loganberry Books to reconnect people to the books they love but can’t quite remember. In brief (for more detailed information see our About page), people can post their memories here, and the hivemind goes to work. After all, the collective mind of bibliophiles, readers, parents and librarians around the world is much better than just a few of us thinking. Together with these wonderful Stumper Magicians, we have a nearly 50% success rate in finding these long lost but treasured books. The more concrete the book description, the better the success rate, of course. It is a labor of love to keep it going, and there is a modest fee. Please see the How To page to find price information and details on how to submit your Book Stumper and payment.
Thanks to everyone involved to keep this forum going: our blogging team, the well-read Stumper Magicians, the many referrals, and of course to everyone who fondly remembers the wonder of books from their childhood and wants to share or revisit that wonder. Isn’t it amazing, the magic of a book?
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