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  1. State of N central USA; nickname Badger State
  2. area 145,500 sq km/56,163 sq mi capital
  3. Madison towns Milwaukee, Green Bay, Racine
  4. features Great Lakes products premier
  5. dairying state, cereals, coal, iron, zinc,
  6. lead, agricultural machinery, precision
  7. instruments, plumbing equipment population
  8. (1995) 4,816,000 famous people Edna Ferber,
  9. Harry Houdini, Joseph McCarthy, Spencer
  10. Tracy, Orson Welles, Thornton Wilder, Frank
  11. Lloyd Wright history originally settled by
  12. the French; passed to Britain 1763; became
  13. American 1783; state 1848.
  14.