The 1990s confirmed the United States as the world's sole superpower. Bipolarity had disappeared with the Soviet Union; contrary to predictions, Germany and Japan had not yet turned economic muscle into military might to create a new era of “multipolarity.”

Without the rich and eccentric collection of Alaskana at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England, my initial interest in Alaska could not have advanced very far.

Another said that he should be glad to know how the Devonshire trainbands, who had fled in confusion before Monmouth's scythemen, would have faced the household troops of Lewis

Much shock was expressed in the British press about the Palace’s utter failure to control the Markles and the Markles’ lack of etiquette.