Summary: Michael J Trinklein absents Arctic thaw from Iceland in Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania and Other States That Never Made It.
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| graphic of Iceland's coat of arms, with United States flag replacing Icelandic flag as emblem in the shield (also termed escutcheon), designed by Hrefna Sigurðardóttir for "That Time The United States Was Thinking Of Buying Iceland" by journalist Anna Andersen, published April 28, 2015, in Reykjavik Grapevine, an English-language, Icelandic street magazine and online newspaper headquartered in Reykjavik, southwestern Iceland: Iceland Visual History Blog, via Facebook April 28, 2015 |
Michael J. Trinklein absents Arctic thaw from Iceland in his Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania and Other States That Never Made It, available since 2010 by Quirk Books (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
Author Trinklein broaches, after Nazi-German defeat in World War II (Friday, Sep. 1, 1939-Sunday, Sep. 2, 1945) the United States Congress backing Iceland as 49th state. The Unitedstatesian Congress considered Iceland whose independence from Denmark Saturday, June 17, 1944, before unconditional Nazi-German surrender Monday, May 7, 1945 and during the Unitedstatesian occupation. Nazi-German occupation of Denmark Tuesday, April 9, 1940-Saturday, May 5, 1945 and Nazi-German submarine U-boat attacks Sunday, Sep. 3, 1939-Tuesday, May 8, 1945 demanded neutral-Iceland defenses.
Unitedstatesian occupation entailed entry and exit dates expressed by agreements Monday, June 16, 1941 and Monday, Oct. 7, 1946 even as physical presence entailed later dates.
Tuesday-Saturday, July 8-12, 1941 featured first-landed United States Marine Corps even as Monday, March 31, 1947 and April 1947 figured respectively finished air and troop presences.
California 9th-district United States Representative (Thursday, Jan. 3, 1935-Monday, Jan. 3, 1949) Bertrand Wesley Gearhart (Saturday, May 31, 1890-Tuesday, Oct. 11, 1955) guided getting Iceland statehood. Author Trinklein hails east-west symmetric Unitedstatesian Alaska and Iceland even as he honors the unitary parliamentary republic's democratic tradition and "well educated ... resourceful" (Trinklein:57) citizens. "Bud" Gearhart interconnected Iceland Unitedstatesian statehood and such other-island statehoods as Atlantic-Ocean, Caribbean-Sea, Pacific-Ocean, Philippine-Sea islands even as invoking Alaskan 49th, Hawaiian 50th statehoods ultimately intervened.
Michael J. Trinklein joins Arctic thaw, military bases and strategic biogeography in the Lost States chapter on Greenland even as he never judges Iceland global warming-wise.
Alaska, Greenland and Iceland know a common, overlapping history in 24th Secretary of State (Tuesday, Mar 5, 1861-Thursday, Mar 4, 1869) William Henry Seward. Secretary Seward.
Secretary Seward (Saturday, May 16, 1801-Thursday, Oct. 10, 1872) liked the above-listed trio even as he located Russian Alaska Friday, Oct. 18, 1867 within Unitedstatesian limits. Meeting Russian diplomat Eduard de Stoeckl (1804-Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1892) made Alaska Unitedstatesian for 1.9 cents per acre even as money made Danish West Indies Unitedstatesian. Twenty-five million dollars in gold coin Friday, Aug. 4, 1916 netted Danish Antilles/Virgin Islands/West Indies whose Unitedstatesian sovereignty officially niched Saturday, March 31, 1917.
Global warming occasions Unitedstatesian-opportune Greenland Arctic thaw in Lost States by Michael J. Trinklein even as military presence, strategic biogeography, Unitedstatesian business opportunized Hawaii, opportunize Iceland.
Captain James Cook (Sunday, Nov. 7, 1728-Sunday, Feb. 14, 1779) perceiving Hawaiian sugarcane Sunday, Jan. 18, 1778 prompted Unitedstatesian sugar-industry businesses even as fast-food Iceland prospers.
Iceland quarters such fast-food businesses as Domino's Pizza, Pizza Hut, Sbarro Pizza, Subway, Taco Bell and TFI Fridays even as Kentucky Fried Chicken qualifies as longest-lasting. The United States retained a military presence in Iceland through Keflavík International Airport's United States Naval Air Station Keflavík (NASKEF) until the latter's closure in 2006. Hawaiian statehood similarizes, for author Trinklein, Icelandic annexation for military strategies, strategic biogeography and such business as Hawaii and Iceland as world-dependable, world market-cornered lava producers.
Arctic thaw perhaps triggers Unitedstatesian Greenland in Lost States by Michael J. Trinklein even as Hawaiian and Icelandic gas-grill lava-rock briquettes perhaps trigger Unitedstatesian Iceland.
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| American lawyer and politician Bertrand Wesley "Bud" Gearhart (May 31, 1890-Oct. 11, 1955), who served seven terms (Thursday, Jan. 3, 1935-Monday, Jan. 3, 1949; 74th to 80th U.S. Congress) as the U.S. representative for California's 9th District (East Bay region of San Francisco Bay Area), introduced a resolution Monday, Oct. 29, 1945, to extend statehood to Iceland and to purchase Greenland (Congressional Record--House, vol. 91, part 8 [Oct. 29, 1925; pages 10131-10169], page 10134): via Congress.gov |
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Dedication
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graphic of Iceland's coat of arms, with United States flag replacing Icelandic flag as emblem in the shield (also termed escutcheon), designed by Hrefna Sigurðardóttir for "That Time The United States Was Thinking Of Buying Iceland" by journalist Anna Andersen, published April 28, 2015, in Reykjavik Grapevine, an English-language, Icelandic street magazine and online newspaper headquartered in Reykjavik, southwestern Iceland: Iceland Visual History Blog, via Facebook April 28, 2015, @ https://www.facebook.com/icelandvisualhistory/posts/885142824875241/;
Reykjavik Grapevine, via Facebook Jan. 2, 2021, @ https://www.facebook.com/ReykjavikGrapevine/posts/from-the-vault-a-look-back-at-that-time-the-us-was-considering-buying-our-countr/10158479883117779/;
The Reykjavík Grapevine Picture gallery (The Reykjavík Grapevine), All Rights Reserved, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/reykjavikgrapevine/17185071876/
Reykjavik Grapevine, via Facebook Jan. 2, 2021, @ https://www.facebook.com/ReykjavikGrapevine/posts/from-the-vault-a-look-back-at-that-time-the-us-was-considering-buying-our-countr/10158479883117779/;
The Reykjavík Grapevine Picture gallery (The Reykjavík Grapevine), All Rights Reserved, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/reykjavikgrapevine/17185071876/
American lawyer and politician Bertrand Wesley "Bud" Gearhart (May 31, 1890-Oct. 11, 1955), who served seven terms (Thursday, Jan. 3, 1935-Monday, Jan. 3, 1949; 74th to 80th U.S. Congress) as the U.S. representative for California's 9th District (East Bay region of San Francisco Bay Area), introduced a resolution Monday, Oct. 29, 1945, to extend statehood to Iceland and to purchase Greenland (Congressional Record--House, vol. 91, part 8 [Oct. 29, 1925; pages 10131-10169], page 10134): via Congress.gov @ https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1945/10/29/house-section
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