Arctic Thaw Affects Greenland in Lost States by Michael J Trinklein

Summary: Arctic Thaw affects Greenland in Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania and Other States That Never Made It by Michael J. Trinklein.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

On Saturday, March 30, 1867, American politican William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801-Oct. 10, 1872), in his capacity as the 24th U.S. Secretary of State (Tuesday, March 5, 1861-Thursday, March 4, 1869), co-signed the Alaska Purchase treaty with Russian diplomat Eduard Guillaume Andreevich Stoeckl (Russian: Эдуард Андреевич Стекль; 1804-Jan. 26, 1892); in August 1867 he had requested that mining engineer Benjamin Mills Peirce (1844-1870) compile ". . . as full of a description as was possible of the condition and resources of Greenland and Iceland"; Peirce submitted his research to Seward Saturday, Dec. 14, 1867, and his findings were published in 1868 as A Report on the Resources of Iceland and Greenland (page 5; https://archive.org/details/areportonresour00statgoog/page/n19/mode/1up);
(left to right) U.S. State Department Chief Clerk Robert S. Chew (1811-Aug. 3, 1873), Secretary of State William H. Seward (second from left), 1st Second Assistant Secretary of State William Hunter (Nov. 8, 1805-July 22, 1886), Russian chargé d'affaires Waldemar Bodisco (1825-July 31, 1878), Russian Ambassador Baron de Stoeckl (third from right), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Charles Sumner (Jan. 6, 1811-March 11, 1874), 6th Assistant Secretary of State and second of William Seward's five children Fredrick William Seward (July 8, 1830-April 25, 1915) in "Signing of the Alaska Treaty," painted by German-born American history painter Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816-July 18, 1868) and gifted to William Seward by American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist Peter Cooper (Feb. 12, 1791-April 4, 1883), Alaska Room, Seward House Museum, Auburn, central Cayuga County, central New York: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Arctic Thaw affects the chapter Greenland in the 2010-released Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania and Other States That Never Made It by Michael J. Trinklein for Quirk Books (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).

Trinklein begins his one-image, one-map, one-page Greenland, chapter 19 of 74 chapters, with a "prime location" (Trinklein:46) for-sale sign, for 535 million acres (535,000,000 = 216,506,819 hectares). He correlates Unitedstatesian conceptions of Greenland statehood as commencing with 24th Secretary of State (Tuesday, Mar 5, 1861-Thursday, Mar 4, 1869) William Henry Seward. Secretary Seward (Saturday, May 16, 1801-Thursday, Oct. 10, 1872) dealt with Russian diplomat Eduard de Stoeckl (1804-Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1892) about the Russian Empire's Alaska Territory.

Alaska ended as Department (Friday, Oct. 18, 1867), District (Saturday, May 17, 1884), Territory (Saturday, Aug. 24, 1912), 49th State (Saturday, Jan. 3, 1959) of Alaska.

The Russian Empire and the United States finalized that land sale at 1.9 cents per acre even as that sale figures at $7.2 million formulated today.

The Danish government guarded, and still guards, Greenland even as Denmark gave Iceland independence Saturday, June 17, 1944, and gauged Danish West Indies as United States-saleable. Eighty years after Secretary Seward, the Truman presidential administration had as 49th United States Secretary of State (Tuesday, July 3, 1945-Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1947) James Byrnes. Secretary Byrnes (Tuesday, May 2, 1882-Sunday, Apr 9, 1972) interacted with Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen (Saturday, Aug. 10, 1895-Sunday, Sep. 13, 1953) Saturday, Dec. 14, 1946.

Chapter 19 in Lost States by Michael J. Trinklein journeys its readers through such unsuccessful attempts as Secretary Byrnes judging Greenland purchasable for $100 million.

Forty-first United States President (Friday, Jan. 20, 1989-Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1993) George Herbert Walker Bush (Thursday, June 12, 1924-Friday, Nov. 30, 2018) kindled another Unitedstates-ifying Greenland.

President Bush and Prime Minister (Friday, Sep. 10, 1982-Monday, Jan. 25, 1993) Poul Schlüter (Wednesday, Apr 3, 1929-Thursday, May 27, 2021) looked at Greenland-located Unitedstatesian bases. It matters to the United States to maintain military bases on Greenland even as the latter manifests north of the United States and the Russian Federation. President Bush notified Prime Minister Schlüter of the United States necessitating an Arctic-Circle, nearby, northeasternmost niche for missile-defense system needs even as he netted nothing officially.

Nineteenth chapter Greenland in Lost States by Michael J. Trinklein observes Arctic thaw and biogeographical, strategic occurrences occasioning Unitedstatesian occupation with Greenland opting for Unitedstatesian statehood.

The Greenland chapter presents the world-largest island as a "fixer-upper" whose "mostly ice" (Trinklein:47) profile Arctic thaw, as part of global warming worldwide, proximitously palliates.

Author Trinklein perhaps facetiously qualifies the white-capped land for pineapple cultivation once Arctic thaw quits its ice cap even as that thaw perhaps quickens other quests. Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane refers to such Arctic thaw-revealed, world-relevant Greenland resources as copper, diamonds, gold, nickel, rare-earth minerals, rubies and uranium. Chapter 24, Iceland, sequences the United States' statehood stirrings, after the Second World War (Friday, Sep. 1, 1939-Sunday, Sep. 2, 1945), for Iceland as 49th state.

The chapter Greenland in 160-page Lost States by Michael J. Trinklein traverses almost 150 years of Unitedstatesian Greenland-statehoodizing temptations that Arctic thaw turns even more tempting.

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 purchase Greenland and to extend statehood to Iceland (Congressional Record--House, vol. 91, part 8 [Oct. 29, 1925; pages 10131-10169], page 10134): via Congress.gov

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On Saturday, March 30, 1867, American politican William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801-Oct. 10, 1872), in his capacity as the 24th U.S. Secretary of State (Tuesday, March 5, 1861-Thursday, March 4, 1869), co-signed the Alaska Purchase treaty with Russian diplomat Eduard Guillaume Andreevich Stoeckl (Russian: Эдуард Андреевич Стекль; 1804-Jan. 26, 1892); in August 1867 he had requested that mining engineer Benjamin Mills Peirce (1844-1870) compile ". . . as full of a description as was possible of the condition and resources of Greenland and Iceland"; Peirce submitted his research to Seward Saturday, Dec. 14, 1867, and his findings were published in 1868 as A Report on the Resources of Iceland and Greenland (page 5; https://archive.org/details/areportonresour00statgoog/page/n19/mode/1up);
(left to right) U.S. State Department Chief Clerk Robert S. Chew (1811-Aug. 3, 1873), Secretary of State William H. Seward (second from left), 1st Second Assistant Secretary of State William Hunter (Nov. 8, 1805-July 22, 1886), Russian chargé d'affaires Waldemar Bodisco (1825-July 31, 1878), Russian Ambassador Baron de Stoeckl (third from right), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Charles Sumner (Jan. 6, 1811-March 11, 1874), 6th Assistant Secretary of State and second of William Seward's five children Fredrick William Seward (July 8, 1830-April 25, 1915) in "Signing of the Alaska Treaty," painted by German-born American history painter Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816-July 18, 1868) and gifted to William Seward by American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist Peter Cooper (Feb. 12, 1791-April 4, 1883), Alaska Room, Seward House Museum, Auburn, central Cayuga County, central New York: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alaska_purchase.jpg

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 purchase Greenland and to extend statehood to Iceland (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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