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About Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan at the confluence of the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic Rivers. Milwaukee is the 31st-most populous city in the United States and the fifth-most populous city in the Midwest, with a population of 577,222 at the 2020 census. The Milwaukee metropolitan area has over 1.57 million residents and ranks as the 40th-largest metropolitan area in the nation. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County.

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Tucked away in a Milwaukee warehouse, something big has been pounding away since 1959 — a huge, great hammer, the kind of thing where you just have a giant hammer to smash down on your metal and get it into the shape you want.

from 537: No Such Thing As The Notorious British Institute of Graphologists, 2024-06-27 at 00:25:04 · read transcript

Other times Milwaukee came up

  1. I can confirm there's no shortage of things they've named dances after. There are so many hundreds of dances. Really? They just going through Wikipedia on random pages and going, okay, well, I'm going to do this after George Washington High School in Milwaukee. It is amazing the number of things they have done so now after. I think it must be an extension of the nursery rhyme thing.

    338: No Such Thing As Carthaginian YouTube, 2020-09-11 · listen

  2. I've, Dan, I've got some inns with the Scottish country dancing community. I can confirm there's no shortage of things they've named dancers after it. There are so many hundreds of dances that are they just going through Wikipedia on random pages and going, okay, well, I'm going to do this after George Washington High School in Milwaukee. It is amazing the number of things they have dances known after.

    No Such Thing As Carthaginian YouTube, 2020-09-11 · listen

  3. That would be a bit confusing, but once she's inside with a little pencil, she's like, ah, I'm home. She was going to say, what are all these women doing here? If you go to this website, by the way, Shaw and Sons, the company that did the whole Milwaukee, you can just buy this stuff. You can buy yourself a spanker, if you like, for 595. Really?

    No Such Thing As A Sausage Cat, 2024-07-04 · listen

  4. Can I read it an introductory sentence to you? Yeah. Is it from your new novel? It's from a piece about another kind of forging which is a thing called drop forging and it's in Kadahi. I'm sorry, I'm sure I'm pronouncing it wrong, Milwaukee. It begins like this, tucked away in a Kutahee Warehouse. Something big has been pounding away since 1959. Oh, Jesus. This is a huge great hammer.

    No Such Thing As The Notorious British Institute of Graphologists, 2024-06-27 · listen

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Coordinates: 43.0500, -87.9500

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