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A Special Resource of Our Danish Legacy
by Nina York Unlike our neighbor Puerto Rico, which became United States property in 1898 resulting from the Spanish-American War, our little island paradise of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John was duly purchased in 1917 from Denmark at a cost of $25 million. For over 200 years the Danes had run what started…