texts: Well, we try. Listen, let me just ask you a few questions.  When did Alaska become a state? </s> <s> 1959. </s> <s> Who use to own it? </s> <s> Russia. </s> <s> When did we get it from them?
labels: 1867.  Seward's Folly. We paid 7.2 million dollars for it. A tidy sum then, as well as now. I'm quoting my father, of course.