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The clip-clop of horse hooves, the bang of a cannon and the music melodies of the 1800s were heard at Theodore Roosevelt ...
On this Memorial Day, we present an excerpt from a speech of President Theodore Roosevelt, delivered on this holiday in 1902 ...
Spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta), also known as laughing hyenas ... from the Bible to African folk tales, from Theodore Roosevelt ("foul and evil ferocity...as cowardly as it is savage") and ...
Enough Is Enuf is a romp through the graveyard of spelling reform movements, tracing the efforts of language crusaders both noble and deluded—from Ben Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt to obscure but ...
Theodore Roosevelt played a significant role in the ... it was not new to the taxonomic record. “Who Is Laughing Now, Oom John?” What’s interesting about Roosevelt’s Yellowstone trip ...
Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos: Stephen Frink via Getty Images and Library of Congress When Theodore Roosevelt was 8 years old, he walked down the stairs of his parents’ brownstone ...
Three weeks after its deployment was announced, the USS Theodore Roosevelt and its supporting carrier strike group are now operating in the waters off of Yemen. The U.S. Navy ships are the latest ...
Theodore Roosevelt’s attendance at the 1901 Minnesota State Fair in Minneapolis had been headline news ever since he’d accepted the invitation in April. “ROOSEVELT WILL COME,” read one ...
The watch is engraved with the words, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT FROM D.R. & C.R.R." Jason Wickersty / National Park Service When a client brought in a late-1800s pocket watch, Edwin Bailey, owner of ...
Bailey responded by smiling, laughing, tearing up and ... in 1987 while on loan from the National Park Service to the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site, a museum in Buffalo dedicated to the ...
By Christopher Maag Theodore Roosevelt’s favorite pocket watch, which he carried around the world and wore in the White House, was returned Thursday to the president’s former home on Long ...
To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Theodore Roosevelt carefully crafted his image of rugged manliness. The wealthy heir became a Badlands cowboy and a volunteer Rough Rider and war hero.