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Noun: Seward's Folly
  1. The transaction in 1867 in which the United States Secretary of State William Henry Seward purchased Alaska from Russia
    - Alaska Purchase

Type of: dealing, dealings, transaction

Encyclopedia: Seward's Folly

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