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Milwaukee was the birthplace of the typewriter and this history is honored once again with a three-day festival at various locations.

The wall-sized woodcut artworks will be available for auction after.

Heres what you need to know about a new festival celebrating the invention of the typewriter in Milwaukee 150 years ago as well as modern-day writers, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs and all-around Brew City enthusiasts.

In the forest the human brain was expanding and expanding at a phenomenal rate. Sometime at around 200,000 to 150,000 years ago, this process came to an end.

For most of the recent past, economic geography has shifted to ever-larger cities across the globe. By the end of the last decade, many were convinced that we were entering a supreme era of the glittering, high-rise “superstar” city that would inevitably swallow all the best bits of the economy, and serve as unparalleled centers of tech, culture, political activism, and global trade. Globally, the ranks of city-dwellers more than doubled over the last 40 years, from 1.5 billion in 1975 to 3...