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Alaska Celebrates 50 Years as One of the United States
A musician performs at a celebration marking 50 years of Alaska statehood. He stands in front of a mock-up of the Anchorage Times front page from July 1958 announcing the success of Alaska's bid for statehood. Alaska formally became the 49th U.S. state January 3, 1959.
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David Pensak holds 38 patents — and found inspiration for his most famous invention, the Raptor Internet firewall, in a cartoon about a buzzard. He says, “Innovation is quite basic, extremely logical and certainly inherent in any human being living and breathing today.”
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