Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
If you are a fan of the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Odd Wisconsin web site, you may also be interested in On This Day in Wisconsin History from WHS. There is even a RSS feed. You can also submit an event of historical significance to the database.
Today’s Odd Wisconsin describes Wisconsin’s first election in 1836. I thought that this was interesting: That first census taken in August 1836 was performed in order to identify voters. It found only 11,683 non-Indian residents within the bounds of today’s Wisconsin: Brown County – 2,706 Crawford County – 850 Iowa County – 5,234 Milwaukee County …
Photo from SlashPhone There is a very interesting article in the International Herald Tribune about QR, or quick response codes. It begins with a young woman snapping a picture with her cell phone of QR code on a movie poster and instantly retrieving show times and a review of the film. From the article: QR, …
Featured Images is a new photo collection from the University of Wisconsin – Madison Archives. According to Archivist, David Null, each month the site will feature interesting historical campus photos about which little is known. Viewers are invited to contribute comments and identifications. A new subject or department will be featured each month. This month, …
According to Boing Boing, a scientist at NASA believes that the moon may be an ideal place for a digital archive of earthly information. He calls it the “ultimate time capsule.” From Boing Boing: The benefits of lunar storage are that there is no oxygen to erode the material, constant sub-freezing temperature and the Moon …
My family’s favorite season is fall. From apple picking to corn mazes to watching the leaves turn, we love to get outside and enjoy the season. So I was pleased to discover that the Wisconsin Tourism Department Web site has a very nice Fall Color Report. It will tell you when colors are at their …
Looking for a few good books to curl up with now that the weather is getting cool? Here are a couple of tips on where you can get them for free or low cost. 1. Take a trip to your local public library. Enough said. 2. If you’d rather buy than borrow, check out the …
Once again this year, the Wisconsin Humanities Council is sponsoring a statewide discussion series entitled, A More Perfect Union: To Establish Justice. From the web site: This year’s A More Perfect Union theme, To Establish Justice, once again comes from the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution. The phrase reminds us of our early founders’ commitment …
Today, my email address got some wonderful news. “Your Email Addres Has Won Award” said the message. It was one of only “10 lucky winners in the Euro Millones Lottery International Email Address draw[ing]” Funny that the prize officials chose to notify her through the Law-Lib listserv then. I hope all those other email addresses …
Earlier this week, PBS’ History Detectives ran an episode on old 1914 Harley-Davidson motorcycle bearing the “Cross of Lorraine,” a historic symbol of French nationalism. According to Mary Koshollek, Director of Information and Records Services at Godfrey & Kahn, who told me about the broadcast, the owner thought it may have been involved in WWI, …