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Shelley Hughes
1:25 - 1:57
“But I want to tell you, it is time to rotate the globe. It is time to start looking at Alaska from the top of the world.”
- Speaker
- Shelley Hughes
- Timestamp
- 1:25 – 1:57
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- August 6, 2026
From the transcript
Okay, so in 4th grade we all looked at a map like this with Hawaii and Alaska tucked down under, under the lower 48, right? And we also— next slide please— often looked at Alaska from this angle, tucked up in the left corner, right, on the globe. But I want to tell you, it is time to rotate the globe. It is time to start looking at Alaska from the top of the world. So next slide.
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