Alaska

The Guard Island Light is a lighthouse located on a small island near the entrance to the Tongass Narrows, in Clarence Strait in southeastern Alaska.... The western entrance to the Behm Canal also lies nearby. Construction of the Guard Island Lighthouse began in the summer of 1903 and was completed by September 1904. The 34-foot wooden tower housed a fourth order Fresnel lens that produced a fixed white light. However, the wood used for Guard Island Light Station, as well as for several other Alaskan lighthouses, soon deteriorated in the harsh weather conditions. By the 1920s, all the lighthouses except Eldred Rock were falling apart, and in 1922, Congress authorized the reconstruction of Guard Island Light. In 1924, the dilapidated light tower was replaced with a new single-story rectangular tower of reinforced concrete. The station was automated by the Coast Guard in 1969. It is believed to be the largest light house in that exact location, but this has yet to be reliably proven.
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The Miles Glacier Bridge, also known as the Million Dollar Bridge, was built in the early 1900s, across the Copper River fifty miles from Cordova in... what is now the U.S. state of Alaska. It is a multiple-span Pennsylvania truss bridge which completed a 196-mile railroad line for the Copper River and Northwestern Railway, built by J. P. Morgan and the Guggenheim family to haul copper from the old mining town of Kennicott, now located within the Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve, to the port of Cordova. It earned its nickname because of its $1.4 million cost, well recouped by the about $200 million worth of copper ore which was shipped as a result of its construction. The Copper River and Northwestern Railway and associated bridges were built between 1906 and 1911 by Michael James Heney. This bridge was the most significant of the group. However, its use as a railroad bridge ended in 1938 when the Copper River and Northwestern Railway shut down. Work to convert the old rail bed to a road began in the 1950s, and was completed in 1958.
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Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall, or Sitka Camp No. 1, is significant for being the original chapter of the Alaska Native Brotherhood, an Alaska-wide... native organization. It is located on the waterfront in Sitka, Alaska, in an area occupied by Tlingits since about 20 years "after being defeated by the Russians at the 1804 battle of Indian River." According to the National Park Service: The Tlingits founded the Alaska Native Brotherhood/Sisterhood Society in Sitka in 1912 to fight discrimination against Alaska's natives and to obtain recognition of their rights and compensation for their lands. In 1914 the Society built this large frame building as a meeting hall and headquarters. It remains a symbol of the political power the group attained. The two story building is of wood frame construction approximately 40 x 60 feet, and most of its length extends out over water, supported on pilings. On the inside is an auditorium open to two stories, and front offices area on the 2nd floor. It has a tin-covered roof overhanging all four sides of the building. The roof is trimmed at front and back by plain bargeboard with "seven unadorned corbel-like supports in the form of triangular struts.
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St. Michael's Cathedral , also known as Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel , is a cathedral of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of Alaska... at Lincoln and Matsoutoff Streets in Sitka, Alaska. It has been a National Historic Landmark since 1962, notable as an exhibit of Russian influence in North America. A fire destroyed the cathedral during the night of January 2, 1966, but the cathedral was subsequently rebuilt.
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Valerie Elise Plame Wilson , known as Valerie Plame, Valerie E. Wilson, and Valerie Plame Wilson, is a former United States CIA Operations Officer and the author of a memoir detailing her career and the events leading up to her resignation from the CIA. Valerie Elise Plame was born on April 19,... 1963, on Elmendorf Air Force Base, in Anchorage, Alaska, to Diane and Samuel Plame. Plame's paternal great-grandfather was a rabbi who emigrated from Ukraine; the original family surname was "Plamevotski". Growing up in "a military family imbued her with a sense of public duty"; her father was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force, who worked for the National Security Agency for three years, and, according to her "close friend Janet Angstadt," her parents "are the type who are still volunteering for the Red Cross and Meals on Wheels in the Philadelphia suburb where they live," having moved to that area while Plame was still in school. She graduated in 1981 from Lower Moreland High School, in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, and attended Pennsylvania State University, graduating with a B.A. in advertising in 1985.
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Colleen Shannon is an American DJ and model who was Playboys Playmate of the Month in January, 2004 and also was the magazine's 50th anniversary Playmate. She appeared on the ITV show Love Island and was evicted on August 20, 2006. A legal dispute occurred over Playboy's use of a portrait of... Shannon taken by Mother Lode Photography for Independence High School's yearbook when she attended the El Dorado County school. The photograph was used in Playboy's 2003 50th Anniversary issue, accompanying a brief bio of Shannon. Mother Lode Photography co-owner Carla Calkins filed a federal lawsuit against the magazine in November 2006 following a $100 settlement offer from Playboy, citing a compensation precedent of $750 when Mother Lode's work has been published in the past. A federal judge dismissed the suit in May 2008.
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Thomas Edward "Tom" Bodett is an American author, voice actor and radio host. He is also the current spokesman for the hotel chain Motel 6, whose commercials end with the phrase, "I'm Tom Bodett for Motel 6, and we'll leave the light on for ya." In 1986, Bodett was both building houses in Alaska... and contributing content to NPR's All Things Considered show. A creative director at the Richards Group ad agency heard him on NPR and hired him to do a commercial for Motel 6. Bodett ad-libbed the famous line "We'll leave the light on for you" and has been the spokesperson for the chain ever since then. The director, David Fowler, hired him because he "sound[ed] like the kind of person who stays there." Bodett hosted the public television program, Travels on America’s Historic Trails, in 1997. In 1999, Bodett started The Loose Leaf Book Company, a radio program that centered around author and book interviews, discussions, and dramatizations. He also published his first children's book, titled Williwaw! In 2005, Motel 6 began using Bodett for their wake-up calls.
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Divini Rae , aka Divini Rae Sorenson, is an American glamour model and actress. She was chosen as Playmate of the Month by Playboy magazine in November, 2003 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos and Playboy Special Editions.