Alaska
64.0000°N -150.0000°W · Q797
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Alaska. It sits in United States.
A hot dessert named for a frozen territory the United States had just bought.
The name is usually credited to Delmonico's in New York, marking the 1867 purchase of Alaska, though the printed name only surfaces decades afterward. Meringue-over-ice-cream dishes were already circulating in Europe under other names, so the recipe is older than its geography.
American bed sizes use state names as units of bigness.
The scale runs through California king, which is longer and narrower than a standard king, to beds named for Texas, Wyoming and Alaska. Alaska is by far the largest state by area, and the Alaskan King is the largest of the beds, a nine-foot square. It is a specialty order rather than a standard retail size, and standard sheets do not fit it.