Russia's Back Door to the West

[Kiwiwriter]

Originally posted by Dac+Sep 19 2005, 04:54 PM-->

Good book. Nome, Alaska was a very busy place with all the lend-lease aircraft being ferried to Siberia.

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Ah, yes, Nome, Alaska. The town developed overnight with the 1898 gold rush, and was named because some explorer scribbled on his map: "Cape. Name?" and that got translated to "Cape Nome." Great chapter on Nome in Joe McGinniss's "Going to Extremes," his 1975 two-year sojourn in Alaska. It is truly the end of the world.

Wyatt Earp was fined there for spitting on the street and fighting. He went up there with his Jewish common-law wife to find gold. He never found any.

I always like the card in the game "Billionaire" for the "Nome Gnomes Hockey Club."

[Dac]

Originally posted by Kiwiwriter@Sep 20 2005, 08:26 AM
Ah, yes, Nome, Alaska. The town developed overnight with the 1898 gold rush, and was named because some explorer scribbled on his map: "Cape. Name?" and that got translated to "Cape Nome." Great chapter on Nome in Joe McGinniss's "Going to Extremes," his 1975 two-year sojourn in Alaska. It is truly the end of the world.

Wyatt Earp was fined there for spitting on the street and fighting. He went up there with his Jewish common-law wife to find gold. He never found any.

I always like the card in the game "Billionaire" for the "Nome Gnomes Hockey Club."

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Don't they punish people in the U.S. military by sending them to remote places like Nome, or is that just myth?

[Kiwiwriter]

Originally posted by Dac+Sep 20 2005, 12:16 PM-->

Don't they punish people in the U.S. military by sending them to remote places like Nome, or is that just myth?

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That's a myth. But Paul Tibbets, when he ran the 509th Composite Group, did send his screw-ups to Alaska. It was a standard threat made by COs to juniors.

I believe Nome has some tracking stations to monitor the Bering Strait and Russia, and that sort of thing. The only way in or out is by sea or air.

[Dac]

Originally posted by Kiwiwriter@Sep 21 2005, 07:43 AM
I believe Nome has some tracking stations to monitor the Bering Strait and Russia, and that sort of thing. The only way in or out is by sea or air.

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Or by dogsled.

[Kiwiwriter]

Originally posted by Dac+Sep 21 2005, 02:20 PM-->

Or by dogsled.

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Ah, yes, the legendary Iditarod. They don't say "Mush." They say "Gee"or "Haw." My wife is an expert on dogs.