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Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race |
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Iditarod Trail Sled Dog RaceU.S. dogsled race. It is held each March and run over a route between Anchorage and Nome, Alaska. It originated in 1967 as a race of about 25 mi (40 km), but by 1973 it had evolved into the current race, a 1,100-mi (1,800-km) trek roughly tracing an old mail route established in 1910. The race also commemorates an emergency mission to get medical supplies to Nome during a diphtheria epidemic in 1925. It typically takes 9–14 days to complete the race. See also dogsled racing. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Reports on the progress of the famed Iditarod sled dog race have been tweaking the imaginations of newspaper readers around the world for the past 10 days, but 23-year old Eugene bicycle painter Peter Basinger has no trouble visualizing what the Iditarod racers are going through. the 1,160 mile Iditarod sled dog race in Alaska after earlier failing to finish the race. Proceeds from the sale of T-shirts and commemorative envelopes help send an Oregon team to the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, held each March in Alaska, or to other long-distance races. |
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