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Someone asked me if that girl was Hungary, so I answered, 'I don't know, Alaska...'

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...the name was first used by Russian explorers in the 18th century when they borrowed it from the Aleut word 'alaxsxaq', which literally meant: 'the object toward which the action of the sea is directed'.

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It was a Russian Colony until 1867 when they sold it to the US.

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"Alaska" comes from the Aleut word Alyeska, meaning "great land," or "that which the sea breaks against."

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