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George C. Thomas Memorial Library, also known as the former North Star Borough Library or AHRS FAI-004, was declared a National Historic Landmark in... 1978. According to the National Park Service, "This log structure was the site of a 1915 meeting between U.S. Government officials and native Alaskans to settle land and compensation claims. The meeting started a dispute that was not resolved until passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971.
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Kelly Susan Moneymaker is a popular music singer, who is most noted for replacing Gioia Bruno in the music group Exposé. Moneymaker was born... and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska. She ended up moving to Seattle and working with The Tubes, then moved to California and worked with Todd Rundgren, Wayne Newton and Connie Stevens. Moneymaker was invited to join Exposé by Jeanette Jurado after being introduced to her through a recommendation. Moneymaker performed on both the album Exposé and the new tracks for their Greatest Hits album. She did not sing any lead vocals on Exposé work, but did background vocals and performed Bruno's songs during concert appearances. In 1996, with Arista Records dropping Exposé's contract, Moneymaker pursued solo projects. She has released two independent albums, Like a Blackbird, and Through these Basement Walls. She wrote, recorded and produced a soundtrack album for Days of our Lives, and has made appearances on that show.
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Ian Brody Hutzler is an American actor primarily known for his roles on soap operas. Hutzler played the role of Zachary Smith on Guiding Light from... 1996–1997 and the role of Cody Dixon on The Young and the Restless from 1999-2004 before moving on to Days of our Lives, where he played the role of Patrick Lockhart from 2004–2007. He has also made several television guest appearances on shows, such as The WB series Charmed, Angel and the short-lived 2000 NBC series, Titans. He also starred in the 2008 film Green Flash, along with Torrey DeVitto and Paul Wesley. In 2011, he played Navy Lieutenant Michael Jensen in NCIS. In 2012 he will be playing Jason Sheridan in Ringer.
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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.
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Lincoln Brewster is a contemporary Christian musician and pastor. As a guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Brewster became a sought-after session... guitarist in the early 90s. Brewster is the senior worship pastor at Bayside Church in Roseville, California. Brewster has been musically inclined since his early childhood in Homer, Alaska. At the age of one, his mother, Cheryl, noticed how well he could keep rhythm on a drum set his grandfather had given him. At the age of five, his mother introduced him to the mandolin. Quickly mastering the instrument, he began playing for cruise ship tourists alongside his mother in Homer. By the age of 12, Brewster had a band called Lincoln and the Missing Links, which included his mother on bass and vocals. In his late teens, he moved with his family to Modesto, California, where he attended Grace M. Davis High School and joined the high school jazz band and marching band . Due to connections gained in Los Angeles, he had recording contract offers by 19. Feeling an emptiness in his life, Brewster attended church services with his high school sweetheart, Laura.
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Jon Button is an American bass player born in Fairbanks, Alaska, and based in Los Angeles, California. Button has played on commercial, film and... television scores and toured with a number of well-known artists. He plays both electric and upright string bass. Jon Button was born into a musical family in Fairbanks, Alaska. The youngest of five siblings, Button started learning piano at age four, and bass at seven. During his teen years, he played in jazz and blues bands and with local symphonies and orchestras. In high school, Button won music scholarships and later attended the University of North Texas' music program. Button moved to Los Angeles in 1994 and found work playing on film and television scores, including the Emmy Award winning Batman Beyond. He has played on a number of recordings, including Borrowed Heaven by the Corrs and Tour Fijación Oral by Shakira. He has performed live and toured with such well known artists as Michelle Branch, Rachael Yamagata, Mandy Moore, Shakira, Sheryl Crow, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of The Who.
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Laura Zoe Quist is a film actress.

Rick Holmstrom is an American electric blues and rhythm and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. Holmstrom has released five albums since 1996,... and previously worked with William Clarke and Rod Piazza. In addition, Holmstrom has played and recorded with Jimmy Rogers, Billy Boy Arnold, Jody Williams and R. L. Burnside. One critic observed of Holmstrom, "he delivers music with technical savvy and traditional stylings, without sacrificing originality and pure adventure". Holmstrom was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States, and his father was a DJ. After relocating to Southern California, and while attending college in Redlands, California, he joined a local blues group. Holmstrom also went to blues concerts, where he played guitar with Smokey Wilson and Junior Watson. He joined William Clarke's backing band, and played both lead and rhythm guitar for three years up to 1988. Joining forces with Johnny Dyer, Holmstrom played on his albums, Listen Up and Shake It! . He moved on to join Rod Piazza's backing group, the Mighty Flyers and, in 1996, released his first solo album, Lookout! on Black Top Records.
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