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The Aleutian Islands campaign (Japanese: アリューシャン方面の戦い, romanized: Aryūshan hōmen no tatakai) was a military campaign fought between 3 June 1942 and 15 August 1943 on and around the Aleutian Islands in the American Theater of World War II during the Pacific War. It was the only military campaign of World War II fought ...
However, from when Sarah Palin was announced as McCain's running mate on August 29, polls showed John McCain consistently ahead. RealClearPolitics gave the state an average of 55.8% for McCain, compared to 41.3% for Obama. In addition, McCain's 193,841 vote total is the most received by a presidential candidate in the state's history.
Obama drafted Executive Order 13653: Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change [5] in 2013, Executive Order 13677: Climate-Resilient International Development [6] in 2014, and Executive Order 13754: Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience in 2016, which created the Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area. [7]
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he will ask Congress to designate more than 12 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, including the Coastal Plain, as a wilderness area.
Although Romney easily won its three electoral votes, it was one of six states [a] to swing toward Obama relative to 2008, when Alaska was won with a 21.5% margin of victory by Republican nominee John McCain running with the incumbent governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, as his vice-presidential candidate. Obama closed his margin of defeat by 7.55% ...
President Obama took on a bear, albeit the domestic kind, in his Alaskan adventure with survival expert Bear Grylls. President Obama tangles with Bear Grylls, Alaska wilderness -- and fish Skip to ...
Barack Obama met with the adventurer to film an episode of 'Running Wild with Bear Grylls' and to discuss how climate change is affecting Alaska.
The largest of those is Unimak Island, with an area of 1,571.41 mi 2 (4,069.9 km 2), followed by Unalaska Island, the only other Aleutian Island with an area over 1,000 square miles (2,600 km 2). The axis of the archipelago near the mainland of Alaska has a southwest trend, but at Tanaga Island (about 178° W) its direction changes to the ...