Milwaukee
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Known for its breweries.
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Jacob Misiorowski of the Milwaukee Brewers has a fastball that averages 99.9 mph and has topped out at 103.6.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
His mother, whom J. Edgar Hoover would call “the most dangerous woman in America,” was born into a middle-class home and grew up in a suburb north of Milwaukee.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ran one photo in 1949 and a second image was used in Gloria Steinem’s 1988 book, “Marilyn: Norma Jeane.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
One was published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Ahlhauser took the other six home.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
Standing where they could see her pregnant condition, she told them that she was alone with her three small children, and that my father was away, preaching, in Milwaukee.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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