Nome
About Nome
Nome is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the US state of Alaska. The city is located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on the Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. It had a population of 3,699 in 2020, up from 3,598 in 2010. Nome was incorporated on April 9, 1901. It was once the most populous city in Alaska. Nome lies within the region of the Bering Straits Native Corporation, which is headquartered in Nome.
On the show — 6 mentions total
He was a hero dog, really famous, because he was part of a team of sled dogs who saved a town in Alaska in 1925 called Nome, and they had a terrifying outbreak of a really horrible disease — diphtheria.
from 497: No Such Thing As Oceans Eleven with Puffins, 2023-09-21 at 00:46:45 · read transcript
Other times Nome came up
Surely there weren't many winners from the Chihuahua team. Do you know what the IDF Rod is based on? It's based on an event which happened in 1925 called the Great Race of Mercy. This was a real crisis. There was a town in Nome, which had an epidemic of ditheria. It was beginning. It was, you know, people were starting to die. A few people had already died.
215: No Such Thing As A Chihuahua Dog Sled Team, 2018-05-04 · listen
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Coordinates: 64.5000, -165.4000