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Wisconsin Central Transportation Corp
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Wisconsin (river)
Wisconsin river, c.430 mi (690 km) long, rising in the lake district, NE Wis., and flowing generally SW across central Wis. to the Mississippi River near Prairie du Chien. At Portage it is connected by a short canal with the Fox River, and thus with Lake Michigan. There are many hydroelectric... Read more |
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University of Wisconsin
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. The origins of higher education in Wisconsin came in the provision of the new state's 1848 constitution mandating the founding of a public, nonsectarian institution of higher learning, financed by the sale of the state's designated public lands.... Read more |
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Manitowoc
Manitowoc, Wisconsin/USA Established as a trading post in 1795, the name probably comes from an Algonquian word meaning ‘Abode of the Great Spirit’.... Read more |
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Menasha
Menasha, Wisconsin/USA Settled in 1843, its name comes from a Winnebago word for ‘island’. It lies opposite an island in the Fox River.... Read more |
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Wausau
Wausau , city (1990 pop. 37,060), seat of Marathon co., central Wis., on the Wisconsin River; settled 1839, inc. 1872. It is an industrial, commercial, insurance, and agricultural city in the heart of Wisconsin's dairy region. Its many manufactures include wood and plastic products, electric motors,... Read more |
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Sauk
SAUK SAUK. The Sauks, or Sacs, originally spoke a Central Algonquian dialect and referred to themselves as asa •ki • waki, meaning "People of the Outlet." They left their central Michigan location for northern Wisconsin after Iroquois attacks in the mid-seventeenth century. The... Read more |
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Selig Perlman
Perlman, Seligworks by perlmansupplementary bibliographySelig Perlman (1888-1959), American economist, was born in Bialystok, Poland. After attending the school of commerce in Bialystok from 1900 to 1906 and the University of Naples for a year, he went to the United States in 1908. He gained his... Read more |
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Wisconsin School
Wisconsin School A group of ecologists, led by J. T. Curtis and his associates, who developed a range of simple ordination methods in 1950 and later, while studying the vegetation of Wisconsin. In the most widely applied scheme, density–frequency-dominance (DFD) values are estimated for... Read more |
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Security Capital Corp
Security Capital Corporation 184 West Wisconsin AvenueP. O. Box 3097Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-3097U.S.A.(414) 273-8090Fax: (414) 277-6406 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1993Total Assets: $3.44 billion (1996)Employees: 1,094Stock Exchanges: NASDAQSICs: 6712 Bank Holding Companies; 6036 Savings... Read more |
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