Word: russia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a Russian named Babean who will enter Cornell as soon as he acquires a knowledge of the English language. He escaped from Russia by pretending to visit the Paris Exposition...
...described the vast extent of Alaska, stating that it was almost equal in size to all the states east of the Mississippi, and its natural resources. He said that the income to our national treasury from the fur industry alone had more than paid the price of purchase from Russia. Besides the seals and fur-bearing animals, there are vast quantities of fish in the neighboring waters, forests which surpass those of Maine, great coal fields, and petroleum and precious metals in abundance. The climate of the southern coast in winter is as mild as that of Virginia...
Turkey, today, is no match for Russia. Constantinople is a fixed point in Russian policy, and only the influence of England wards off the inevitable result of the clever diplomacy and vast resources of the empire of the Tsars...
...Seal Russia...
...Seal Russia...