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...Eleazer Williams In the early 19th century Williams, a Mohawk missionary who once tried to establish his own kingdom in Wisconsin, propagated the story that he was the Bourbon prince in exile, spirited to the Americas by French royalists after the Revolution. Williams' conceit-he went so far as to forge his own adoption papers-was later satirized by Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
...world of women’s hockey, bracketology can be a convoluted science. The Harvard women’s hockey team, ranked sixth in the latest national poll, will face top-ranked University of Wisconsin on Saturday night at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis. A six-one pairing is not the most logical but, in this case, seems to reflect a decision to avoid an intra-conference matchup between the Crimson and third-ranked Dartmouth.“I am on the [NCAA selection] committee, so I sort of anticipated they were going to do that...
...women’s hockey team is currently ranked sixth in the national polls and opens NCAA Tournament this weekend against top-ranked Wisconsin...
...Like so many young African students, part of a movement initiated by President Kennedy to encourage immigration from the continent, Rockey arrived in the United States in the early ’70s, looking for opportunity in the post-Civil Rights era. He found it at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where he received his degree in 1975, and in Minnesota, where he earned his master’s at Mankato State and went to work for the Burlington Railroad...
...Akpan’s career brought him and his young wife, Bette, an American from Wisconsin, to Texas. In Grand Prairie, a large suburb of Arlington, itself a major satellite city of Dallas, the Akpans went about raising a family...