Crossword clues for wisconsin
wisconsin
- Where the first Ringling Brothers circus was staged, 1884
- A midwestern state in north central United States
- A tributary of the Mississippi River
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- "On, ___" (a state song)
- "Forward" is its motto
- State is against transgression by wife
- Briefly want right-wingers ruling state
- Is in toilet dealing with son in a state
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
organized as a U.S. territory 1836; admitted as a state 1848. Originally applied to the Wisconsin River; a native name of unknown origin. Early spellings include Mescousing and Wishkonsing.
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and the 20th most populous. The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, which is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan. The state is divided into 72 counties.
Wisconsin's geography is diverse, with the Northern Highland and Western Upland along with a part of the Central Plain occupying the western part of the state and lowlands stretching to the shore of Lake Michigan. Wisconsin is second to Michigan in the length of its Great Lakes coastline.
Wisconsin is known as "America's Dairyland" because it is one of the nation's leading dairy producers, particularly famous for cheese. Manufacturing, especially paper products, information technology (IT), and tourism are also major contributors to the state's economy.
Wisconsin is a constituent state of the United States of America.
Wisconsin may also refer to:
Wisconsin is the second album by the hardcore punk band The Crucifucks. The album is noted for having a more "mellow" sound compared to The Crucifucks debut, although its lyrics maintain a stridently anarchist political viewpoint.
Wisconsin is a statue on top of the Wisconsin Capitol Building created by Daniel Chester French.
Usage examples of "wisconsin".
Minnesota then, mind you, Minnesota and Wisconsin, stray grains of wedding rice still sparkling here and there on the Airstream carpet.
Ripon, Wisconsin, in February 1854, a diverse coalition of antislavery politicians, former members of the Whig, Free-Soil, and Know-Nothing parties along with disaffected northern Democrats, organized a new party opposed to the further extension of slavery.
It was with high hopes, but at the same time with genuine regret, that, late in May, they bade farewell to their winter home, launched a canoe, deep-laden with their accumulated stock of furs, and started southward on the swift waters of the Wisconsin.
Parkinson, Chief Librarian and Historian of the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin, for taking a highly unreasonable request for information and supplying it.
Bastille Day enlivened the downtown area in mid-July, culminating in the Great Circus Parade that strutted down Wisconsin Avenue complete with hundred-year-old wagons brought by train from Baraboo, Wisconsin, and unloaded by horses in the train yard to the delight of scores of cheering children and equally happy grown-ups.
According to an FBI informant, a wealthy Barnett supporter in Mississippi had arranged for four P-51 Mustang Canadian surplus fighter planes to be flown from Wisconsin to an abandoned World War II B-17 airstrip in western Tennessee, then flown to Mississippi and placed at the disposal of Governor Barnett.
When the topo map had come up he had checked Bethesda first, and found that the border of the District and Maryland at Wisconsin Avenue was some two hundred and fifty feet above sea level.
The bones, which had undergone river transport, were recovered from an Early Wisconsin glacial floodplain dated at 80,000 years B.
Interviewed in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where she had gone following her release from jail, Mary Brunner agreed to cooperate with the police in return for immunity in the Hinman murder.
Lionel steered his rented car out the driveway of the Edgewater Hotel onto Wisconsin Avenue.
In Wisconsin, for example, there was little difference between Democrats and Greenbackers on the currency question, and even the Republicans in their platform leaned toward inflation, although the candidates declared against it.
Indian Agent at the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin knows this: from the time Billie Freschette returned there until her death in 1968, she received mysterious monthly checks from Switzerland.
Tuesday, in Milwaukee, Senator Eugene McCarthy celebrated his victory in the Wisconsin primary, having soundly beaten noncandidate Lyndon Johnson as well as write-in candidates Robert Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey the night before.
Author, anthologist, editor, publisher, he was born, lived and died in Sauk City, Wisconsin.
Either Roberto of Buenos Aires or Adam of Wisconsin will win the title and become the Sexiest Man on Earth.