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  2. Horicon Marsh - Wikipedia

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    The first permanent modern settlement along the marsh was the town of Horicon. In 1846, a dam was built to power the town's first sawmill. The dam held the water in the marsh, causing the water level to rise by nine feet. The "marsh" was called Lake Horicon, and was, at the time, called the largest man-made lake in the world.

  3. Smith: Horicon Marsh hunt gives veterans a valuable ... - AOL

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    The Horicon Marsh Veteran Hunt is a nonprofit organization founded by Dodge and the late Ryan Voy of Horicon, friends who grew up hunting on the marsh. The idea for the event was born on Memorial ...

  4. Here’s how long it takes to freeze to death: The dangerous ...

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    How long does it take to freeze to death? ... an emergency physician at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital, told CBS News. More than 1,000 people die from hypothermia each year. Victims are often ...

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  6. Fourmile Island Rookery State Natural Area - Wikipedia

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    Fourmile Island is located within Horicon State Wildlife Area which comprises roughly the southern half of Horicon Marsh. The northern portion is managed as the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge. The island supports one of the largest heron and egret rookeries in the Midwest. Oak, basswood, elm, aspen, and cottonwood trees comprise most of the ...

  7. January–February 2019 North American cold wave - Wikipedia

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    Islip, New York set a record low on the morning of January 31 at −3 °F (−19 °C). [103] In Williamsville (near Buffalo), a locally well-known homeless man, Lawrence "Larry" Bierl, was found frozen to death in a bus shelter on the morning of January 31. [104] The wind chill that previous night was −25 °F (−32 °C). [105]

  8. Minor attacks of the Black Hawk War - Wikipedia

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    In 1872, amateur historian Nehemiah Matson related a story about the execution of a couple, James and Lucy Sample, by Potawatomis. According to Matson, the two were bound to a tree and then burned to death. The executions, said Matson, were directed by a man named Mike Girty, who was supposedly a mixed race son of Simon Girty. [15]

  9. January 1998 North American ice storm - Wikipedia

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    The North American Ice Storm of 1998 (also known as the Great Ice Storm of 1998 or the January Ice Storm) was a massive combination of five smaller successive ice storms in January 1998 that struck a relatively narrow swath of land from eastern Ontario to southern Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in Canada, and bordering areas from northern New York to central Maine in the United States.