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In Spanish, it is called javelina, jabalí (a word also used to describe wild boar), sajino, or pecarí. The word javelina derives from the Spanish word for "wild boar". [7] In French Guiana and Suriname, the animal is called pakira. The scientific name Tayassuidae derives from the same source as the Portuguese tajaçu. [8]
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.
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.
Wisconsin has 609 historical markers across the state, each one marking a person, place or event that is significant to Wisconsin history. The program started in 1943, when then-Governor Walter ...
Norman Wengert (1916–2001), faculty member at City College of New York, North Dakota State, Maryland, Wayne State, Penn State, University of Sarajevo (Milwaukee) James Wright (born 1939), president of Dartmouth College (Madison) Nicholas S. Zeppos (born 1954), chancellor of Vanderbilt University (Milwaukee)
Wisconsin has 2,776 places deemed historically significant by the National Register and State Register of Historic Places. Not one acknowledges Latino history in the state.
The state program returns 20% of the rehabilitation cost, up to $3.5 million per parcel, to the owner as a Wisconsin income tax credit. This federal program returns 20% of the rehabilitation cost ...
The Wisconsin Historical Society (officially the State Historical Society of Wisconsin) is simultaneously a state agency and a private membership organization whose purpose is to maintain, promote and spread knowledge relating to the history of North America, with an emphasis on the state of Wisconsin and the trans-Allegheny West. [3]