As the F”hnblew the first breaths of spring into the Alps in March 1845, two Swiss men embarked on a circuitous voyage that took them from the impoverished canton of Glarus in eastern Switzerland to
By 1860 Wisconsin's Danish-born population had climbed to 1,150. But these newcomers remained only a small segment of the state's increasingly complex ethnic mosaic, and the challenges of adapting to
In the spring of 1841, six young Swedes and one hunting dog sailed from Gavle, Sweden, as extraordinary passengers aboard a merchant ship bound for New York. By fall of that year, members of the group
Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly
