The Dream Encyclopedia, Second Edition © 2009 Visible Ink Press®. All rights reserved. teddy bear cuddly commodity named after President Theodore Roosevelt. [Am. Hist.: Frank, 46] See:Cuteness Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The ...
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was born on October 27, 1858, in Manhattan, New York City. Teddy was the second of four children born to Martha Stewart Bulloch and businessman and philanthropist Theodore Roosevelt Sr. Known in adulthood for his sturdy, robust frame and demeanor, Theodore was sickly as...
December 2, 1886Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, Jr.marries Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (Second Wife) in Oyster Bay, New York. September 13, 1887Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt, III (Son) born in Cove Neck, New York. October 10, 1889Kermit Roosevelt (Son) born in Oyster Bay, New York. August ...
When Roosevelt grasped the hand of Joe Murray, the savvy political boss who had first nominated him for the state legislature years before, it must have seemed as if his public life had come full circle. "This takes me back 29 years," he said, "to the old Twenty-first Assembly district...
Roosevelt reluctantly agreed to accept the nomination as McKinley’s running mate in the 1900 election. “This election tonight means my political death,” he lamented after McKinley won a second term. Less than a year later, after McKinley wasassassinated by a gunman at the Pan-American Exp...
Teddy Roosevelt entered Harvard College on Sept. 27, 1876, when he was 18 years old. He did well in his studies, following his father’s advice that “your morals come first, your health second, and your studies third.” His father died two years later, in 1878. Devastated, Roosevelt ...
First lady of the United States (1961-1963) as the wife of President John F. Kennedy. She promoted the arts and supervised the redecoration of the White House. Following her husband's assassination she returned to private life and in 1968 married Aristotle Onassis. ...
The teddy bear craze reached its height in America between 1906 and 1908, coinciding with President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt's second term in office. Across the country, adults and children alike were going "teddy bear mad." In addition to the huge variety of regular teddy bears produced ...
“Teddy Roosevelt said conservation is as much development as it is preservation,” Zinke said, quoting from a 1910speechby the Republican president. “Our work returned the American conservation ethic to best science, best practices … rather than an elitist view of non-management that lets natur...
The story of why the toy came to be named after him dates back to a hunting trip in 1902 when Roosevelt refused to shoot an injured bear. Rumor has it that in response, Morris Michtom, a candy store owner in New York displayed two stuffed bears made by his wife in his display window...