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ALAS. [3 records]

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Record 1 2011-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
CONT

Russian America: Name of Alaska until 1867. A state of U.S.A., the northwest part of North America, bounded on north by Arctic Ocean, on east by Canada, on southwest by Pacific Ocean, and on west by Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean.

OBS

... ceded by Russia to United States of America for $7,200,000 by the Treaty of 1867 negotiated by Secretary of State Seward (hence the early nickname of Alaska, "Seward's Folly"); organized in 1884, received final U.S. territorial status in 1912.

OBS

The State of Alaska became the 49th state of the United States of America in 1959.

OBS

Alaska: A state name usually not abbreviated.

OBS

Nicknames: Last Frontier; Land of the Midnight Sun; Seward's Folly.

OBS

Capital: Juneau. Largest town: Anchorage.

OBS

AK: The ISO two-letter code to be used only as post symbol in addresses or for data in rows or columns where the number of characters is restricted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
CONT

Alaska : Vient (d'un mot eskimo signifiant : le continent). État des États-Unis d'Amérique, séparé des 48 États par le Canada.

OBS

Histoire : En 1741, un Danois, Béring, au service des Russes, explora l'Alaska. Les États-Unis achetèrent ce territoire pour 7 200 000 dollars en 1867.

OBS

L'État de l'Alaska est devenu le 49e État des États-Unis d'Amérique en 1959.

OBS

Alaska : Le nom de l'État ne s'abrège pas.

OBS

Capitale : Juneau.

OBS

AK : Code ISO à deux lettres à n'utiliser que comme indicatif de la poste pour l'adressage ou dans les tableaux où les données figurent en colonnes et dans un nombre limité de caractères.

Spanish

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Record 2 2004-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Applied Arts (General)
OBS

Artists' Legal Advice Services (ALAS) was established in 1985 by Canadian Artists Representation Ontario, with the assistance of the Cultural Collective of the Law Union of Canada. It offers through Legal Aid Ontario a free-of-charge summary legal advice clinic in Toronto to artists of any discipline and who qualify for Legal Aid. The advice is in person, by appointment in consultations that last up to one-half hour.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Arts appliqués (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 3 1993-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

Language spoken by the Alas, an Indonesia people living in northern Sumatra

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue parlée par les Alas, peuple indonésien vivant dans la partie septentrionale de Sumatra

Spanish

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