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| Brief history of the automobile industry in Wisconsin. |
| Brief explanation Thomas Jefferson's descendants in Wisconsin. |
| Brief history of Wisconsin's various capitol buildings built and destroyed over the decades. |
| How Wisconsin Became the Dairy State |
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| Brief history of the dairy industry in Wisconsin. |
| Brief explanation of The Edgerton Bible case and its wider ramifications. |
| Brief history of the cranberry industry in Wisconsin. |
| Brief account of the Peshtigo Fire that, in 1871, destroyed in two hours a swath of forest 10 miles wide and 40 miles long. |
| Brief run explanation of the earliest European explorers to set foot in Wisconsin. |
| Brief overview of the fire that burned down The Newhall House, a large hotel in Milwaukee, in 1883. |
| Brief description fo the events surrounding Milwaukee's Third Ward fire of 1892. |
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