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		<title>An Old Idea: Wisconsin and its University</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 06:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This September marks the beginning of fall term for more than 180,000 students across the twenty-six campuses of the University of Wisconsin System. The return to school is an opportunity for reunion and renewal, for the discovery of new possibilities and the re-evaluation of old ideas — including the idea of public higher education itself. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laura Sherry and the Wisconsin Players: Little Theatre in the Badger State</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 03:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The announcement in the New York Times on October 9, 1917, was straightforward and short: "WISCONSIN PLAYERS COMING." The amateur acting company from Milwaukee, which had been at the vanguard of the American Little Theatre Movement for the better part of a decade, was about to make its East Coast debut. In bringing the Wisconsin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mississippi Flood: Awash In History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This article documents flooding that occurred in April 2011. As of May, Prairie du Chien is once more dry and green, and all the parks and historic sites mentioned below are now open for visitors. The Father of the Waters is reenacting a familiar natural drama at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Swollen by spring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Be Fair, We Must Level Up</title>
		<link>http://www.acceity.org/2011/02/we-must-level-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protestors in Wisconsin on February 19, 2011. Photo &#169; 2011 Mark Danielson. Obtained under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License. The protests this month in Madison have incorporated much discussion of fairness — something that people on all sides claim to be seeking. The debate reminds me of a quote by Dr. Samuel Johnson, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering James Gates Percival</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engraving of James Gates Percival as a young man. Buried deep in southwest Wisconsin, beneath a granite monument at the hamlet of Hazel Green, lies the body of a great nineteenth century student. His works in language, literature, and science have shaped our culture to the present day, yet these contributions are nearly as forgotten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil in Them Thare Hills?</title>
		<link>http://www.acceity.org/2010/09/oil-in-them-thare-hills/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acceity.org/2010/09/oil-in-them-thare-hills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This ain't no lie: a long time back, before it was "America's Dairyland," Wisconsin was oil country — sort of. In 1865 and 1866, sixty-six "petroleum mining" companies were chartered in Wisconsin. This oil boom had its roots in the 1850s. That decade, a number of chemists perfected the process of distilling kerosene from crude [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Speed Rail: A Wisconsin Tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With federal funding ready for a new high speed railway across Wisconsin, the next decade may see trains whizz between Madison and Milwaukee at top speeds of 110 mph. The rail plans are a matter of some debate today, but high speed trains were once taken for granted in Wisconsin. The new railroad, in fact, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rhetoric and the Masses in &#8220;Julius Caesar&#8221;</title>
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		<comments>http://www.acceity.org/2010/02/rhetoric-and-the-masses-caesar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar commemorates one of the great turning points in the history of Western Civilization: the transition of Rome from a republic to an empire. Before the time of Caesar, Roman sovereignty had resided with the people and the Senate. After Caesar, power fell into the hands of a hereditary emperor. Shakespeare's play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explosive Nonviolence: Two Bombings in 1970</title>
		<link>http://www.acceity.org/2009/08/explosive-nonviolence-two-bombings-in-1970/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acceity.org/2009/08/explosive-nonviolence-two-bombings-in-1970/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In August, 1970, two explosions tore through quiet nights on different sides of the globe. Neither took place in a war zone. Each was carried out by people supposedly dedicated to non-violence, but each group felt that nothing less than an explosion could achieve its goals. One explosion did what its detonators hoped. One did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Ban on Banks: Wisconsin&#8217;s Radical 1846 Constitution</title>
		<link>http://www.acceity.org/2009/02/wisconsin-constitution-banned-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acceity.org/2009/02/wisconsin-constitution-banned-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political leaders have been debating for months over how to deal with the banking-induced financial crisis currently seizing the world, but controversy over banking is nothing new. Wisconsin's history demonstrates this vividly. In 1846, as Wisconsin was preparing for statehood, a political convention met in Madison to author the state constitution. The draft this convention [...]]]></description>
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