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In Wisconsin, the First World War and 1918 flu pandemic came together in a typical yet tragic way.

No matter how methods have changed over the ages, a lot of time and energy go into transforming the springtime sap flows of maple trees into sweet, sugary syrup.

Solar energy is cheaper, more efficient and more widely available than ever, but its viability was never assured. Technologies that enable the conversion of sunlight into usable electricity are the products of an uncoordinated, decades-long series of events that followed a circuitous and halting path

In 1989, a long simmering conflict over American Indian treaty rights helped prompt a landmark educational law in Wisconsin.