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To: luvbach1

Reason is they got rid of Alaska Catherine the Great thought it was too much open space for Russia empire hold on

She didn’t see in the future that be reality show US president vp caindate, Alaska US Freepers LOL!

Cathy the Great mess up on it


28 posted on 06/09/2014 9:59:11 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: SevenofNine

[ Reason is they got rid of Alaska Catherine the Great thought it was too much open space for Russia empire hold on

She didn’t see in the future that be reality show US president vp caindate, Alaska US Freepers LOL!

Cathy the Great mess up on it ]

Our 49th State for a Horse....


45 posted on 06/09/2014 10:14:10 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: SevenofNine

Ummm... Catherine the Great was dead for almost 100 years before the US bought Alaska.

Alexander II was Czar when Russia sold us Alaska, and some say he did it so the British wouldn’t take it from him (the Crimean war—Russia versus Britain—took place only ten years earlier).


75 posted on 06/09/2014 1:14:57 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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