• Wrangell Institute was an American Indian boarding school in Wrangell, Alaska, United States, operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for natives of...
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    Wrangell (Tlingit: Ḵaachx̱ana.áakʼw, Russian: Врангель, romanized: Vrangel') is a borough in Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census the population...
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    school, then college, in Sitka, Alaska Wrangell Institute, Presbyterian church-led initiative, run by the BIA in Wrangell, Alaska Chinle Boarding School, at...
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    USS Wrangell (AE-12) was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1375) as SS Midnight during February 1944 at Wilmington, North Carolina...
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  • boarding school in Skagway, and later attended boarding school at the Wrangell Institute for Alaska Native youth. He served in the Army in World War II, and...
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    Margarethe Mathilde von Wrangell, after 1928 Princess Andronikow, née Baroness von Wrangell (7 January 1877 in Moscow – 21 March 1932 in Hohenheim) was...
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  • the room" for speaking their Iñupiaq language. Later, she attended Wrangell Institute and Mount Edgecumbe High School, both boarding schools administered...
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    workers carve the pole in Wrangell, Alaska. Because Sitka and Wrangell native groups were rivals, it has been argued that the Wrangell carvers may have altered...
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    von Wrangell, Renée Galabert, Isabelle Archinard, and last but not least, Curie's secretary of over 30 years: Léonie Razet. The Radium Institute also...
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    Glacier, which lies on the northeast side of Mount Wrangell, in the Wrangell Mountains, within Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park. It begins by flowing almost...
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    Fort Wrangell in which Tlingit were killed and a white man (Leon Smith) was killed in retribution led to a two-day bombardment of Old Wrangell. However...
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    names: authors list (link) Sentinel, Wrangell. "Unique 360-degree totem goes up at Sealaska Heritage in Juneau". Wrangell Sentinel. Retrieved 2023-01-22. Beacon...
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    The Wrangell Bombardment was the bombardment of the Stikine village of Old Wrangell (Tlingit: Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw) by the United States Army in 1869. The...
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    Skagway Municipality, Sitka City and Borough, Yakutat City and Borough, Wrangell City and Borough, Haines Borough, as well as the state's largest city,...
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    Generalfeldmarschall Friedrich von Wrangel. His cousin, Baron Nikolai Von Wrangell (1869 - 1927), also belonging to the Estonian Knighthood, reached high...
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    Indian Association, Skagway Village, the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe, and the Wrangell Cooperative Association. Some citizens of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation...
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    altercation in Fort Sitka. In the December 1869 Wrangell Bombardment the Stikine village of Old Wrangell was bombarded by the United States Army. The army...
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    state of Alaska. It currently terminates in Vitus Lake south of Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, about 10 km (6.2 mi) from the Gulf of Alaska....
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    largely wilderness. Mountains include Denali in the Alaska Range, the Wrangell Mountains, and the Ray Mountains. The native people of the interior are...
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    may be substantially smaller. Among these eleven, only Lake Clark and Wrangell–St. Elias have most of their facilities in the preserve. Wikimedia Commons...
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    Rural, mostly unpopulated areas south of the Alaska Range and west of the Wrangell Mountains also fall within the definition of South Central, as do the Prince...
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    000 square miles (16,000 km2) from the Canada–US border to just south of Wrangell. Rodney Dial is the current mayor of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska...
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    almandine. Fine crystals of almandine embedded in mica-schist occur near Wrangell in Alaska. The coarse varieties of almandine are often crushed for use...
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    borough. Petersburg is located on the north end of Mitkof Island, where the Wrangell Narrows meets Frederick Sound. Petersburg is halfway between Juneau, 190 km...
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  • Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean (71° North, 179° West). The camps on Wrangell were revealed in the 1982 book "The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration...
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    High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (category Physics research institutes)
    15083°W / 62.39167; -145.15083) is north of Gakona, Alaska just west of Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park. An environmental impact statement led to permission...
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    Jordan. Interprovincial Park of Montoni (Livorno/Grosseto, Italy) Kluane/Wrangell-St. Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatshenshini-Alsek is a World Heritage Site on the...
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    Stephen R. (20 May 2005). "Periodically Triggered Seismicity at Mount Wrangell, Alaska, After the Sumatra Earthquake". Science (journal). 308 (5725):...
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    Island class cutters (USCGC Adak, Aquidneck, Baranof, Maui, Monomoy, and Wrangell) were stationed in Manama, Bahrain, as a part of Patrol Forces Southwest...
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    Malaspina Glacier (category Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve)
    Nearly all of the glacier is encompassed by the southeast lobe of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Radar data and aerial photographs...
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