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Meet The Guy Who Reportedly Told Trump To Buy Greenland

The United States has been trying to annex Greenland for centuries. The massive island in the Artic—which is home to 56,000 people and holds vast oil and mineral reserves—is currently an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. In 1867, Secretary of State William H. Seward planned to purchase Greenland, but it fell apart; in […]

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