Milwaukee | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:25 1 History
00:02:35 1.1 Name
00:03:17 1.2 Native American Milwaukee
00:05:36 1.3 Milwaukee since European settlement
00:20:43 1.4 Historic neighborhoods
00:24:05 2 Geography
00:25:48 2.1 Cityscape
00:27:56 2.2 Climate
00:31:56 2.3 Water
00:33:14 3 Demographics
00:34:41 3.1 2010 Census
00:37:39 3.2 Ethnic groups
00:41:32 3.3 Religion
00:44:09 4 Economy
00:44:18 4.1 Early economy
00:47:43 4.2 Brewing
00:51:31 4.3 Milwaukee's economy today
00:54:43 5 Culture
00:55:29 5.1 Museums
00:55:38 5.1.1 Art
00:57:09 5.1.2 Science and natural history
01:00:18 5.1.3 Social and cultural history
01:04:02 5.2 Arenas and performing arts
01:04:38 5.3 Public art and monuments
01:04:59 5.4 City of Festivals
01:06:49 5.5 Cuisine
01:07:47 5.6 Music
01:11:47 5.7 Municipal wireless
01:12:39 6 Sports
01:14:22 7 Parks and recreation
01:15:26 7.1 Parks and nature centers
01:16:04 7.2 Milwaukee County public markets
01:17:13 8 Government and politics
01:21:18 8.1 Crime
01:22:25 8.2 Poverty
01:23:00 9 Education
01:23:10 9.1 Primary and secondary education
01:24:46 9.2 Higher education
01:24:59 10 Media
01:28:08 11 Infrastructure
01:28:18 11.1 Health care
01:29:53 11.2 Transportation
01:30:03 11.2.1 Airports
01:31:35 11.2.2 Intercity rail and bus
01:33:05 11.2.3 Transit
01:34:35 11.2.4 Highways
01:39:51 11.2.5 Water
01:40:28 11.2.6 Bicycle
01:43:44 11.2.7 Walkability
01:44:32 11.2.8 Modal characteristics
01:45:42 11.3 City development
01:47:46 12 Notable people
01:47:55 13 Sister cities
01:48:12 13.1 Friendship cities
01:48:33 14 See also
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Milwaukee (, locally ) is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States. The seat of the eponymous county, it is on Lake Michigan's western shore. Ranked by its estimated 2014 population, Milwaukee was the 31st largest city in the United States. The city's estimated population in 2017 was 595,351. Milwaukee is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee metropolitan area which had a population of 2,043,904 in the 2014 census estimate. It is the third-most densely populated metropolitan area in the Midwest, surpassed only by Chicago and Detroit, respectively .Milwaukee is considered a Gamma global city as categorized by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network with a regional GDP of over $105 billion.
The first Europeans to pass through the area were French Catholic Jesuit missionaries, who were ministering to Native Americans, and fur traders. In 1818, the French Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, and in 1846, Juneau's town combined with two neighboring towns to incorporate as the city of Milwaukee. Large numbers of German immigrants arrived during the late 1840s, after the German revolutions, with Poles and other eastern European immigrants arriving in the following decades. Milwaukee is known for its brewing traditions, begun with the German immigrants.
Beginning in the early 21st century, the city has been undergoing its largest construction boom since the 1960s. Major new additions to the city in the past two decades include the Milwaukee Riverwalk, the Wisconsin Center, Miller Park, The Hop (streetcar system), an expansion to the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and Pier Wisconsin, as well as major renovations to the UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena. The Fiserv Forum opened in late 2018.
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Battle of Santiago de Cuba
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The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was a naval battle that occurred on July 3, 1898, in which the United States Navy decisively defeated Spanish forces, sealing American victory in the Spanish–American War and achieving nominal independence for Cuba from Spanish rule.
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Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.