Democrats and organized labor spent millions to remove Walker, but found themselves hopelessly outspent by Republicans from across the country who donated record-setting sums to the governor's campaign.
I.B.M. says it has donated its records from that period to New York University and Hohenheim University in Stuttgart, Germany.
Several dozen artists are selling donated old records, old clothes, old knick-knacks and objects that they have turned into art, sort of, including freshly laid hen's eggs, brownies, paperbacks and nails (the kind hammered into things) signed by the artist.
His descendants donated family records dating as far back as the colonial era to the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Already this year, Americans have donated a record amount to pay down the debt, sending the Treasury more than $7 million in personal checks.
But grumblings could also be heard among the "Cliffies", some of whom were so alarmed by the prospect of a Harvard takeover that they donated a record $15m to their alma mater last year.
The family of Mary Fetchet, a member of the foundation's advisory board, donated the recording of her 24-year-old son Brad's last phone call from the south tower, telling her not to worry.
The big-screen revival of the cult US TV series about Kristen Bell's titular high school (later college) sleuth secured its return after supporters donated a record-breaking $5.702m£3.70m0m) via Kickstarter last year.
The fourth is former eBay chief Meg Whitman whose fortune held steady thanks to eBay's stock, despite the fact that she has donated a record $140 million of her own money to her gubernatorial campaign.
His donors also donated a record-breaking $32 million in January, with over 85% of the money coming through BarackObama.com.
