With a name that vague, how can you be sure?

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Sometimes I think Jimmy Wales is going to come across this site and beat me without mercy until I break.

What the hell, I’ll risk it.

From the Alaska entry:

The official state song of Alaska is “Alaska’s Flag”, which was adopted in 1955; it celebrates the flag of Alaska.

Perhaps things had to be more cut and dried back in 1955; after all the U.S. had not orbited a chimp yet.

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