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Feb 6, 2013 | Capital City Weekly
Southeast History: The salvage ship Edith in Alaska
The steam freighter "Edith" in 1915 headed to Southeast Alaska to begin the salvage on the steamer "Ramona" at the Spanish Islands, the "Olympia" in Prince William Sound, and possibly help with the salvage of the freighter "Delhi" on Straits Island.
How many Eskimo words for 'snow'? Maybe more than you think
Anthropologist Franz Boas didn't mean to spark a century-long argument. Traveling through the icy wastes of Baffin Island in northern Canada during the 1880s, Boas simply wanted to study the life of the local Inuit people, joining their sleigh rides, trading caribou skins and learning their folklore.
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Updated: Wed Feb 06, 2013 12:12 pm
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