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Playgrounds were an integral part of urban culture in the USSR. In the 1970s and 1980s, there were playgrounds in almost every park in many Soviet cities. Playground apparatus was reasonably standard all over the country; most of them consisted of metallic bars with relatively few wooden parts, and were manufactured in state-owned factories.
The history of Wisconsin includes the story of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of the Native American tribes who made their homeland in Wisconsin, the French and British colonists who were the first Europeans to live there, and the American settlers who lived in Wisconsin when it was a territory.
This is a list of National Historic Landmarks in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. National Historic Landmarks are designated by the U.S. National Park Service, which recognizes buildings, structures, districts, objects, and sites which satisfy certain criteria for historic significance. There are 45 National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin.
Trips to the park are still a treasured part of childhood, but today's playgrounds have changed a lot since you were a kid. Safety concerns have made a lot of old favorites, from merry-go-rounds ...
Schoolchildren on a slide at the East Texas State Normal College Training School in 1921. The earliest known playground slide was erected in the playground of Washington, D.C.'s "Neighborhood House" sometime between the establishment of the "Neighborhood House" in early 1902 and the publication of an image of the slide on August 1, 1903, in Evening Star (Washington DC) [3] [4] The first bamboo ...
The Legacy Foundation’s donation of $3.75 million will supplement the $1.35 million the Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools committed to playground upgrades for a total budget of $5.1 million.
Of the residents of Wisconsin, 71.7% were born in Wisconsin, 23.0% were born in a different US state, 0.7% were born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island areas, or born abroad to American parent(s), and 4.6% were foreign born. [117] In 2018, the countries of origin for Wisconsin's immigrants came from Mexico, India, China, Laos and the Philippines. [118]
Wisconsin Magazine of History 23 no. 2 (December 1939): 138-162. Still, Bayrd. Milwaukee: the History of a City. (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1948); a standard scholarly history. Wachman, Marvin. History of the Social-Democratic Party of Milwaukee, 1897-1910. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1945).