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97 unusual facts about Wisconsin


105th Cavalry Regiment

Organized and Federally recognized 15 November 1949 with Headquarters at Merrill.

1985 in organized crime

November 23 - Cleveland crime family Boss James T. "Blackie" Licavoli dies of a heart attack at the age of 81 while serving a prison sentence at the Oxford Federal Correctional Institution in Oxford, Wisconsin.

Adjuncts

New Glarus Brewing Company, of New Glarus, Wisconsin, produces Raspberry Tart, a framboise made with raspberries, wheat and year old Hallertau hops, and fermented in large oak vats.

Altaite

Besides these mountains altaite can also be found in Zyryanovsk, Kazakhstan; the Ritchie Creek Deposit in Price County, Wisconsin; the Koch-Bulak gold deposit in Kazakhstan; Moctezuma, Mexico; and Coquimbo, Chile among other locations.

American Water Spaniel

Dr. Fred J. Pfeifer, from New London, Wisconsin, set up Wolf River Kennels in order to save the breed.

Badger State Games

The 2006 summer games saw Bill Wambach of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin break the national high-jump record for the 80-to-84 year old division with a jump of 1.26 meters.

Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos

He taught at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1969 and again in 1980 as a visiting professor.

Big Indian Farms

Before 1896 these two leaders and many of the people had lived at a similar village called Indian Farms near Rozellville in Marathon County.

Brothertown Indians

Upon arrival, the Brothertown cleared their communal land and began farming, after building a church near Jericho.

Browns Lake

Browns Lake, Wisconsin, a census-designated place in Racine County, Wisconsin

Buena Vista Marsh, Wisconsin

Buena Vista Marsh is located on fragmented lands south of the Village of Plover and the Wisconsin River, east of Biron, Wisconsin Rapids, and Kellner, north of State Road 73, Adams County, and Waushara County, and west of Bancroft and Interstate 39 / U.S. Highway 51.

Charles Dunn

Dunn then resumed his law practice settling and living in Belmont, Wisconsin for the rest of his life.

Clarence E. Macartney

At this point, two of Clarence's older brothers, who were pastors in Wisconsin, convinced the family to move to Madison, so Clarence transferred to the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Cleghorn, Wisconsin

The now-extinct community of Hadleyville lies approximately three miles to the west, along Eau Claire County Highway "HH".

Conrad Krez

Krez was City Attorney of Sheboygan from 1856 to 1859 and District Attorney of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin from 1859 to 1862 and again from 1870 to 1876.

Cornucopia, Wisconsin

Cribbage League is a five-week cribbage contest between the residents of Cornucopia and the nearby community of Red Cliff, Wisconsin, taking place every January and February.

Cranberry Creek Archeological District

Cranberry Creek Archeological District, also known as Cranberry Creek Mound Group, is an ancient American Indian burial mound site from circa AD 100–800 near New Miner, Wisconsin, United States.

Damian Miller

Miller attended Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and as a junior was named the NAIA District 14 Player of the Year and helped lead his team to the NAIA seminifinals.

Dansk Evangelical Lutheran Kirke

The Dansk Evangelical Lutheran Kirke is a Lutheran church in Hartland, Wisconsin, located at 400 West Capitol Drive, which was built in 1910 for the Danish-speaking Lutheran congregation of the town.

Devil in a Woodpile

Adding Madison, Wisconsin native Joel Paterson to the lineup in 2003, the group released its third record for Bloodshot in 2005.

Eagle Bluff Light

The Eagle Bluff Light, also known as Eagle Bluff lighthouse, is a lighthouse located near Ephraim in Peninsula State Park in Door County, Wisconsin.

Edna Murray

On April 23, 1934, outlaws John Dillinger, Homer Van Meter and John "Red" Hamilton arrived at Murray's home seeking refuge after being ambushed by federal agents and police at their hideout near Rhinelander, Wisconsin.

Eielsen Synod

In 1971, it had 75 members scattered among churches in French Lake and Jackson, Minnesota, Centerville, South Dakota, Taylor and Lodi, Wisconsin.

Electronic Theatre Controls

Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) is a privately held corporation with global headquarters in Middleton, Wisconsin, United States.

Fiskars

The business areas of Fiskars Brands include Outdoor Recreation, Portland, Oregon, USA; Fiskars School, Office, and Craft, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Fiskars Garden and Outdoor Living, Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA; Fiskars Europe, Brussels, Belgium; and Fiskars Corporation and Fiskars Housewares, Helsinki, Finland.

FM H-10-44

A reproduction H-10-44 locomotive sits atop the Beloit Fishing Bridge, a former railroad bridge which crosses the Rock River several hundred yards south of the foundry where the H-10-44s were built, in Beloit, Wisconsin.

Fox River State Recreational Trail

The trail begins at the CityDeck in Green Bay, Wisconsin, follows the Fox River south through De Pere, then deviatiating east, away from the river, were it follows a former railroad bed through Rockland, Wrightstown, Greenleaf, Holland, and ends at Ott Road in Hilbert.

Francis R. Tillou

In August 1835, the Federal Land Office at Green Bay put up for sale the area which would become Madison, Wisconsin, and on October 7, 1835, Tillou bought the first 100 acres.

Fred Prehn

He was brought up on a farm in that county; received his education in public schools in Newton, Wisconsin, and attended Manitowoc High School.

Fred Schmitz

Schmitz (December 25, 1820 - February 8, 1905) was an American musician and farmer from Northeim, Wisconsin who served a single term as a Reform Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Manitowoc County.

Gibbsville

Gibbsville, Wisconsin, a census-designated place in the town of Lima, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States

Glass-Jet

Glass Jet boats were manufactured by the J&R Plasticraft Corporation in Reeseville, Wisconsin.

Greenhills Historic District

The historic area of Greenhills was originally built by the federal government during the 1930s as one of three "Greenbelt Communities", (Greenbelt, Maryland and Greendale, Wisconsin were also part of this project).

Harlow S. Orton

In 1858, Orton was again elected to the Assembly, succeeding Democrat Frank Gault in a 5th District which now included the Towns of Dane, Vienna, Westport, Springfield, Middleton, and Madison (but only the 1st Ward of the City of Madison), and described his profession as "Capt. of the Dane Cavalry"; he was assigned to the standing committees on the judiciary and the militia.

Heffron, Wisconsin

Some consider Heffron and Dopp to be closely related, because of their proximity.

Henry Wellcome

Henry Solomon Wellcome was born in a frontier log cabin in Almond, Wisconsin to Rev. S. C. Wellcome, an itinerant missionary who travelled and preached in a covered wagon, and Mary Curtis Wellcome.

James Cabanis

James Henry Cabanis (December 25, 1838 - ?) was an American merchant from Georgetown, Grant County, Wisconsin who spent two years as a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Grant County.

James Conahan

His artwork has been exhibited at the Point Gallery in Naperville, Illinois, the Fieldstone Gallery in Door County, Wisconsin, and the Daley Center in Chicago.

James Vint

In 1910, Vint was elected to the Assembly to represent the Eighth Milwaukee County district (the 8th and 23rd wards of the City of Milwaukee).

Jody Samson

In 2001 Samson went to work for Albion Swords in New Glarus, Wisconsin where he made replicas of the swords he originally made for the Conan films.

Joseph D. Beck

Born near Bloomingdale, Wisconsin, in Vernon County, Wisconsin, Beck graduated from Stevens Point Normal School and University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Kenosha/Racine Lead-Free Communities Partnership

The Kenosha/Racine Lead-Free Communities Partnership is a joint venture of Kenosha County, Wisconsin and the city of Racine, Wisconsin, along with various community organizations.

Kieler

Kieler, Wisconsin, unincorporated community in the Town of Jamestown in Grant County, Wisconsin

Kohler-Andrae State Park

Kohler-Andrae State Park comprises two adjacent Wisconsin state parks located in the town of Wilson, a few miles south of the city of Sheboygan.

La Crosse, Kansas

La Crosse was founded in 1876, named after either the sport or La Crosse, Wisconsin, the hometown of a local newspaper editor.

Lake Five, Wisconsin

Lake Five is located on County Highway Q along the northern border of Waukesha County; it abuts the village of Richfield to the north.

Lauren Sesselmann

Lauren Marie Sesselmann (born August 14, 1983 in Marshfield, Wisconsin) is an American-born Canadian soccer defender and former forward, who currently plays for Houston Dash in the National Women's Soccer League.

Lee Pattison

Lee Pattison (July 22, 1890, Grand Rapids, Wisconsin - December 22, 1966, Claremont, California) was a noted American pianist, composer, arranger, opera director, and teacher.

Lloyd Pettit

Pettit was born in Chicago and moved as a small child to the Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood, Wisconsin where he graduated from Shorewood High School.

Lucia A. Simpson

Lucia A. Simpson was built in 1875 by Rand & Burger in Manitowoc, Wisconsin for Simpson & Co. of Milwaukee.

Mark Lipscomb, Jr.

In 1964 Lipscomb ran for the Assembly's first Milwaukee County District (the 1st Ward of the City of Milwaukee, and the 6th Ward of the City of Glendale).

Maurice Coakley

Maurice P. Coakley (January 9, 1906 - March 14, 1991) was a lawyer from Beloit, Wisconsin who served seven years as a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Senate from the 15th District (Rock County), resigned to serve in World War II, then spent 25 years as a lobbyist for the Wisconsin Manufacturers Association.

McNeil v. Wisconsin

After the bail hearing, McNeil was approached by other detectives investigating a murder in Caledonia, Wisconsin, near Racine.

MetJet

MetJet was a charter operator (chartered from Sun Country) based in De Pere, Wisconsin.

Milwaukee County Transit System

MCTS is a partner in the Southeast Wisconsin Transit System, a joint-venture transit partnership that also includes Waukesha Metro Transit and Wisconsin Coach Lines in Waukesha, Washington County Commuter Express operated by Riteway Bus Service in Richfield, Belle Urban System (THE BUS) in Racine and Kenosha Area Transit (KAT) in Kenosha.

Milwaukee Falls Lime Company

The Milwaukee Falls Lime Company is located in Grafton, Wisconsin.

Minocqua-Hazelhurst-Lake Tomahawk Elementary School

The Minocqua-Hazelhurst-Lake Tomahawk Elementary School is an elementary school district serving 580 children in grades K-8 living in the towns of Minocqua, Hazelhurst and Lake Tomahawk.

Mirro Aluminum Company

The Manitowoc Aluminum Novelty Company, founded in neighboring Manitowoc, Wisconsin by Henry Vits in 1898.

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The Aluminum Manufacturing Company by Joseph Koenig in Two Rivers, Wisconsin in 1895.

Mukwonago, Wisconsin

The lakes lie midway along the Mukwonago River from its source springs to its meeting with the Fox River, which travels further southeast through Big Bend and beyond.

Nasonville, Wisconsin

Solomon later donated a portion of this land, on which the hamlet of Lindey would be erected.

New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light

The vocals of Justin Vernon were recorded at April Base studios in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, and were overdubbed later in the recording process.

Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company

The Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company is located in Prentice, Wisconsin.

Princess Winona

Princess Winona (Princess We-Noh-Nah) is the central Native American character in a "Lover's Leap" romantic legend set at Maiden Rock on the Wisconsin side of Lake Pepin in the United States.

Ralph Capone

In the 1930s, Capone purchased a home and later was a silent partner in a hotel/tavern in Mercer, Wisconsin.

Ralph Shinners

Born in Monches, Wisconsin, Shinners is the only major league player to come out of the Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Red Faber

As a teenager, Faber attended college prep academies in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin and Dubuque, Iowa.

Richard W. Gilsdorf

He served his first appointment at St. John Church in Little Chute, Wisconsin, for two years, and then received assignment to the faculty of Sacred Heart Minor Seminary near Green Bay.

Robert F. Morneau

He graduated from Bear Creek High School and studied at St. Norbert College in De Pere and Sacred Heart Seminary in Oneida before earning his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Robert Moevs

Robert Walter Moevs (2 December 1920, in La Crosse, Wisconsin – 10 December 2007) was an American composer of contemporary classical music.

Robert W. Harer

==Biography== Harer was born on August 15, 1941 in Baldwin, Wisconsin.

Springfield, Jackson County, Wisconsin

:For other places named Springfield, see Springfield, Wisconsin.

St. Croix Boom Site

Its location at the head of Lake St. Croix, the broad, slow area of the river that stretches from Stillwater to Prescott, Wisconsin, where the St. Croix joins the Mississippi River, is undeveloped and features many islands and tall sandstone bluffs on either side of the river.

St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin

The tribal headquarters is located on the Sand Lake Reservation Community, which is one mile (1.6 km) west of the unincorporated community of Hertel, Wisconsin.

Stephen Steele Barlow

Barlow came to Wisconsin about 1840, continued his legal studies, and settled at Delavan in Walworth County, where in 1841 he was admitted to the bar.

Stephen Taber III

He continued working in NY and later Wisconsin where he claimed to have learned much of the basics of beekeeping.

Steven Avery

To avoid any appearance of conflict, Mark R. Rohrer, the Manitowoc County district attorney, requested that neighboring Calumet County authorities lead the investigation.

Summerwind

Arnold received treatment and Ginger moved in with her parents in Granton, Wisconsin.

Temra Costa

Costa graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a degree in International Agriculture and minor in Women's Studies before moving in 2003 to California, where she led a state campaign to encourage consumers to buy locally produced food, serving as Buy Fresh Buy Local campaign manager for Community Alliance with Family Farmers.

The FBI Story

After receiving a tip, Hardesty and Crandall head to Spider Lake, Wisconsin on April 22, 1934, but after barking dogs alerted the gangsters they scattered.

Thor Johnson

He founded the Peninsula Music Festival in 1952 that still plays every August in Fish Creek, Wisconsin.

Tim Michels

Timothy J. Michels (born August 7, 1962) is a businessman from Brownsville, Wisconsin.

To Be Alive!

After a screening at the United Nations Pavilion at Expo 1967 in Montreal, Quebec, To Be Alive was only available for public screening at the Golden Rondelle Theatre at the S.C. Johnson headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin.

Tom Nissalke

Nissalke, who is a graduate of Florida State University, first got his start in coaching on the high school-prep level at the Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

Tom Whitecloud

He was born in New York, but his father divorced and remarried, and he was raised on the Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation near Woodruff, Wisconsin.

Tower Hill State Park

In 1830 a businessman from Green Bay, Wisconsin, named Daniel Whitney was traveling along the Wisconsin River and recognized a sharp bluff near the town of Helena as a promising location for a shot tower.

W. C. Bradley Co.

Lamplight in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, was purchased and added to the W. C. Bradley Co.

W. C. Zumach

Zumach was born on a farm in Black Creek, Wisconsin but moved with his parents to Milwaukee three years later and attended Milwaukee Public Schools.

Wally Gilbert

In December 1938, Gilbert was signed as the player-manager of the Northern League franchise at Wausau, Wisconsin.

Wilmot Union High School

Wilmot Union High School is a public secondary school located in Wilmot, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in the township of Salem, Kenosha County, Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Highway 168

Because it paralleled Highways 54 and 156, the road was turned over to Outagamie County control in 2003, and is now designated as County Highway VV.

Wisconsin Highway 183

-- in 1989? I think... -->, and is now designated as County Trunk Highway CC (CTH-CC) in Pepin and Pierce counties.

Wisconsin Highway 42

It runs north–south in northeast Wisconsin from Northport's ferry dock to Sheboygan.

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Just outside of town, WIS 42 turns due east on School Road to its intersection with Europe Bay Road, where it turns north towards Gills Rock.

WKQH

Licensed to Marathon, Wisconsin, USA, the station serves the Wausau-Stevens Point area.

WNXR

The transmitter site is on Spider Lake Road, south of Iron River, Wisconsin.

WZTI

On January 22, 2008, Good Karma Broadcasting, owner of WAUK, purchased Jackson-based religious station WRRD-AM (540) from Salem Communications, and moved WAUK's sports talk format to the full-time signal on February 12, casting doubt on the nighttime simulcast agreement with WMCS.


1933 Wisconsin milk strike

The cooperative milk pool attempted to coordinate their efforts with larger farm groups, specifically the National Farm Holiday Association and Wisconsin Farmers' Holiday Association.

1943 Michigan Wolverines football team

Michigan's starting lineup against Wisconsin was Rudy Smeja (left end), Bob Hanzlik (left tackle), John Gallagher (left guard), Fred Negus (center), Rex Wells (right guard), Robert Derleth (right tackle), Art Renner (right end), Jack Wink (quarterback), Bob Nussbaumer (left halfback), Wally Dreyer (right halfback), and Bob Wiese (fullback).

Alonzo Cushing

Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin nominated him for the medal in 2002 and, following a lengthy investigation, the U.S. Army approved the nomination in February 2010.

Bob Enyart

A series of late night phone calls by Enyart to the general manager of the Kenosha, Wisconsin station which carried his program but publicly disagreed with Enyart's views prompted Senator Russ Feingold to call for a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigation to see if any laws had been broken by the talk show host.

Carlos Santiago

Carlos E. Santiago, Puerto Rican American labor economist and chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Darold Treffert

He interned in Eugene, Oregon. He completed a residency in psychiatry at University Hospitals (now University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics) in Madison, Wisconsin.

David Bourgeois

After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1990, he took at job at Spy magazine, where he worked under Kurt Andersen and Graydon Carter.

Geneva, Wisconsin

Experience Estabrook, Attorney General of Wisconsin, lived in Geneva.

Gilbert Brown

Burger King even made it available for a short time as a promotion in Wisconsin Burger King restaurants.

GrammaTech

GrammaTech and the University of Wisconsin have been collaborating since 2001 to develop analysis, reverse-engineering, and anti-tamper tools for binary executables.

Greg Buttle

He stood atop the Penn State career tackles list for over 30 years (until Paul Posluszny surpassed his mark of 343 versus Wisconsin on November 4, 2006).

Henry Cullen Adams

In 1902, Adams was elected to the United States House of Representatives from the 2nd District of Wisconsin to the 58th United States Congress and was reelected to the 59th Congress serving until his death (March 4, 1903 - July 9, 1906).

History of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

The current University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee was established in 1956, as a result of the merger of the Wisconsin State College of Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin's Milwaukee extension, a UW branch that had been offering graduate degrees in Milwaukee.The new university consisted of the WSCM campus near the lakefront and the University of Wisconsin extension in downtown Milwaukee.

Jack Ryan

John J. Ryan, known as Jack, head football coach at Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin

Jayaque

These churches are sponsored by the Lutheran Church of Penzberg, Bavaria, Germany as well as through relationships with churches in the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, in southeast Wisconsin, USA.

John Kellogg

John Azor Kellogg (1828–1883), American military leader and politician from Wisconsin

John P. Koehler

He served as the head football coach at Lawrence Institute in Wisconsin, now Lawrence University, from 1904 to 1905, at the University of Denver from 1906 to 1910, and at Marquette University from 1914 to 1915, compiling a career college football record of 39–29–4.

Jonathan Moore

Jonathan Baker Moore (1825–1889), Wisconsin State Assemblyman and Union Army general

Kathleen Vinehout

She also assisted the Wisconsin Farmers Union in agriculture and dairy policy and worked part time in 2005 as an advocate at the state capitol for the Farmers Union.

Linothorax

In January 2009, Dr. Gregory S. Aldrete of the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay and Scott Bartell presented a paper discussing the protective qualities of the linothorax at the joint American Philological Association/Archaeological Institute of America Convention held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Louis B. Butler

NPR commented on the Senate's reluctance to confirm Butler in an August 4, 2011 article, stating that "Some of the longest waiting nominees, Louis Butler of Wisconsin, Charles Bernard Day of Maryland and Edward Dumont of Washington happen to be black or openly gay".

Milwaukee-Watertown Plank Road

The Milwaukee-Watertown Plank Road, known more commonly in the modern era as the Watertown Plank Road, was a plank road important to the early development of southeastern Wisconsin, especially to its terminal cities Milwaukee and Watertown, in the period shortly after statehood.

Nancy Oestreich Lurie

Between 1954 and 1963, Lurie worked frequently as a researcher and expert witness for tribal petitioners in cases brought before the U. S. Indian Claims Commission, including Lower Kutenai (Ktunaxa), Lower Kalispe l(Kalispel), Quileute, Sac and Fox Nation, Winnebago (aka Ho-Chunk), Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Eastern Potawatomi; after 1963 she appeared as an expert witness in regard to the Wisconsin Chippewa and Menominee in federal courts.

Neil Cornrich

Cornrich represents a number NFL players, including Phil Dawson, Dallas Clark, Ted Ginn, Jr., and Montee Ball, the 2012 Doak Walker Award winner from the University of Wisconsin selected by the Denver Broncos in the 2013 NFL Draft.

Norwalk, Wisconsin

Norwalk, Wisconsin was given its name by Selium McGary, one of the pioneers of Monroe County, who named it after Norwalk, Ohio, where he had previously lived.

Paul O. Husting

The New York Times described him as "the most aggressive leader" of the "loyalist" (i.e., supportive of Woodrow Wilson's pro-Allied policies) forces in Wisconsin, and contrasted him with "Senator La Follette and the pro-German constituency behind him".

Phoenix Peak

of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, which started in 1906-07 to design and build steam "locomotive sleds" for hauling logs over ice and snow, probably the earliest successful vehicles of their type.

Portage Canal

In the summer of 2006, US Representative Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, helped to break ground on the current renewal attempts.

REGI

Raptor Education Group Inc., wildlife rehabilitation centre in Wisconsin, USA

SCLS

The South Central Library System a consortium spanning 53 Public Libraries in South Central Wisconsin.

Scott Tolzien

Tolzien did not play in any games for Wisconsin in 2007, as Wisconsin had Tyler Donovan, Allan Evridge, and Dustin Sherer at quarterback.

Statewide opinion polling for the Republican Party presidential primaries, June 2012

Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Jeb Bush of Florida, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and John Thune of South Dakota all succeeded in leading polls in their home states at some point in 2011, although only Pawlenty actually launched a campaign.

T. Texas Tyler

"T-Texas Tyler", a ballad on songwriter and recording artist Bucky Halker's 2008 CD Wisconsin 2.13.63, Volume 2, recalls Tyler's performances in Burley, Idaho in the early 1950s when he struggled with alcohol and drugs and barely made it through his set many nights, but still managed moments of skillful performance.

The Mike Schneider Polka Band

The Mike Schneider Polka Band was the featured subject of the September 15, 2005-edition of the show Positively Milwaukee on WTMJ-TV for its work on the Wisconsin Polka, a benefit project for Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.

Tri-state area

Three other prominent areas that have been labeled tri-state areas are the Cincinnati tri-state area, including Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana; the Pittsburgh tri-state area, covering parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia; and the Chicago tri-state area, also known as Chicagoland, which includes Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

U.S. Route 18 in Wisconsin

US 18 enters Wisconsin at Prairie du Chien and ends in downtown Milwaukee at Lincoln Memorial Drive, across from the Milwaukee Art Museum.

University of Wisconsin–Fox Valley

In addition, the magazine has published work by former poets laureate of three states: Mary Crow, Colorado; Walt McDonald, Texas; and Ellen Kort, Wisconsin.

Unofficial badges of the United States military

In 2004, Congressman Mark Green, (Republican, Wisconsin) introduced H.R. 3950 to provide for the establishment of a combat artillery badge to recognize combat service by artillerymen.

West Lakeland Township, Washington County, Minnesota

It is just north of Interstate 94 and touches the west bank of the St. Croix River.

Wilfrid Worland

Wilfrid V. Worland (1907–1999) was an architect who between the 1930s and the 1990s shaped the suburban landscape of Washington, D.C., by specializing in town houses and who designed two developments named for him --"Worland", a five-story apartment building on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, D.C., and a town house cluster also called "Worland" on Democracy Boulevard in Bethesda, Md.

William McCoy

William John McCoy (1834–1897), American politician and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly

Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association

For example, in collaboration with Wisconsin Library Association, WEMTA members unified statewide advocacy for libraries, including an annual Library Legislative Day, co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Library Association.

Wisconsin Highway 39

Entering Mineral Point on Fountain Street, it passes the entrance to the Iowa County Fairgrounds to Dodge Street, where it heads north with Business Route US 151 around the downtown area.

WISN

WISN-TV, a television station (channel 12 analog/34 digital) licensed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

WJJA

WMLW-TV, a television station (channel 49 analog/48 digital) licensed to Racine, Wisconsin, United States, which held the call sign WJJA from June 1983 to April 2008

WOZN

WOZN-FM, a radio station (106.7 FM) licensed to serve Mount Horeb, Wisconsin

WRPN

WRPN-FM, a radio station (90.1 FM) licensed to Ripon, Wisconsin, United States