The "Alaska" part of the name is rumored to be a reference to the United States' purchase of Alaska in 1867 (and was possibly Ranhofer making fun of this political move), although there's little ...

The Greenlandic broadcasting corporation said satirically on Tuesday that the government of the autonomous territory, which belongs to Denmark, is planning to purchase the US state of Alaska.

Two years after Secretary of State William Seward had brokered the purchase of Alaska from Russia, U.S. leaders suspected the British trading post at Fort Yukon might be located on American soil.

Making things odder: Neither VerBruggen nor I could locate the provision in the bill that seemed to authorize this Alaska Purchase. So I asked a staffer in Cassidy's office and was told they are ...