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The location of a popular spy-themed Milwaukee restaurant, the Safe House, is hush-hush, of course. Still, hungry James Bond types show up at an alley door marked "International Exports, Ltd." Food and fun await diners who know the password.

first appeared: 7/16/2006

Door County cherries and Wisconsin-grown cranberries flavor some of the fruit wines made by von Stiehl Winery in Algoma (pop. 3,357). Established in 1967, von Stiehl is the state's oldest licensed winery.

first appeared: 7/2/2006

In the winter, volunteers in Junction City (pop. 440) saw blocks of ice from frozen ponds and store them in a metal icehouse. During the summer, the ice is sold to benefit community projects.

first appeared: 6/25/2006

The rolling terrain of Hillsboro (pop. 1,302), "Czech Capital of Wisconsin," reminded immigrants of their homeland when they arrived in the 1850s. Czech food, music and dancing can be enjoyed every June during the town's Cesky Den festival.

first appeared: 6/4/2006

In 1932, Albert Dremel founded the Dremel Co. in Racine. Among his more than 50 patents was a compact and lightweight high-speed rotary tool that appealed to hobbyists and craftspeople. Today, the versatile tool has 150 bits and attachments.

first appeared: 5/21/2006

In 1889, the Milwaukee Letter Carriers convened a meeting of letters carriers from across the nation in their city. Sixty letter carriers from 18 states attended and formed the National Association of Letter Carriers union.

first appeared: 5/14/2006

Grocery tins, apothecary items and an old-fashioned candy counter offer a taste of early 1900s shopping at the Cedarburg (pop. 10,908) General Store Museum, home to the Roger C. Christensen collection of antique packaging and advertising art.

first appeared: 4/23/2006

Legendary U.S. Sen. William Proxmire, who served in Congress from 1957 to 1989, created the Golden Fleece Award to spotlight government waste. He served more than 20 years without missing a roll-call vote, a Senate record. Proxmire died last December.

first appeared: 4/9/2006

On Dec. 31, 1967, the Green Bay Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys at Lambeau Field in Green Bay to win the NFL championship in minus-13-degree weather with a wind chill of minus 46. The game was dubbed the "Ice Bowl."

first appeared: 3/26/2006

A 1,336-pound grand champion steer raised by Brock May, 12, of Mineral Point (pop. 2,617) was sold last October for a record-setting $100,000 at the American Royal Junior Premium Livestock Auction in Kansas City.

first appeared: 3/12/2006

More than 60 historic racing sleds, drivers’ uniforms, race videos, photos and a library are attractions at the Snowmobile Hall of Fame and Museum, located on 20 acres in the heart of snow country in St. Germain (pop. 1,932).

first appeared: 2/26/2006

The Richard I. Bong World War II Heritage Center in Superior (pop. 27,368) relates the story of "America’s Ace of Aces" Maj. Richard Bong, who shot down 40 enemy aircraft and was awarded the nation’s highest military award, the Medal of Honor, in 1944 for his service. The center honors all World War II veterans.

first appeared: 2/12/2006

Hildegarde was the world’s highest paid cabaret star in the 1940s, earning $17,500 a week. Born Hildegarde Loretta Sell in 1906 in Adell (pop. 517), she is credited with making a single name vogue among entertainers.

first appeared: 1/29/2006

The world’s largest disc golf course is Highbridge Hills Sports Complex near Ashland (pop. 8,620) with five 18-hole courses. Disc golf mimics traditional golf, but uses flying plastic discs thrown toward pole-mounted baskets.

first appeared: 1/15/2006

MISS WISCONSIN 2006—Tracy Gest is earning her degree in communications at Carroll College in Waukesha. Gest is a classical pianist and created a CD to raise money for diabetes research.

first appeared: 1/8/2006

In 2001, the last of four dams on the Baraboo River was removed, making the 115-mile river the longest in American history to be restored to free flowing. The river meanders from Elroy (pop. 1,578) to Portage (pop. 9,728).

first appeared: 1/1/2006

Completed in 1916, the world’s largest round barn at the Central Wisconsin State Fairgrounds in Marshfield (pop. 18,800) was designed to hold bleachers and 250 head of cattle for shows and sales. The barn is 150 feet in diameter, 70 feet high and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

first appeared: 12/18/2005

The Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Capitol grounds in Madison is believed to be the nation’s largest farmers’ market with about 300 vendors selling Wisconsin-grown produce and goods to 20,000 weekly shoppers.

first appeared: 12/4/2005

Former governor and U.S. senator Gaylord Nelson, who was born in Clear Lake (pop. 1,051) and died in July at age 89, is known as the "father of Earth Day." First held on April 22, 1970, Earth Day promotes awareness of the environment.

first appeared: 11/20/2005

The largest public collection of Irish music in America is housed at the John J. Ward Irish Music Archives in the Irish Fest center in Milwaukee. The collection includes more than 40,000 recordings and pieces of music memorabilia.

first appeared: 11/6/2005

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