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3 days ago · By 1904, the United States had the fifth largest navy in the world, and by 1907, it had the third largest. Roosevelt sent 16 battleships of the Great White Fleet around the world in 1907–1909. Pulitzer prize-winning biographer Henry Pringle states that sending the fleet was, "the direct result of the Japanese trouble."
4 days ago · The United States, led by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, negotiated the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty, giving the U.S. control of the Canal Zone. Work under U.S. supervision began in 1904, and the Panama Canal was completed in 1914. Tens of thousands of people, mostly labourers from Barbados, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, worked on the project.
2 days ago · Theodore Roosevelt Jr. [b] (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or by his initials, T. R., was an American politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He previously held various positions in New York politics, rising up the ...
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3 days ago · Times Square, New York City. Times Square, square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, formed by the intersection of Seventh Avenue, 42nd Street, and Broadway. Times Square is also the centre of the Theatre District, which is bounded roughly by Sixth and Eighth avenues to the east and west, respectively, and by 40th and 53rd streets to the ...
3 days ago · The United States hosted the Summer Olympic Games four times: the 1904 Games were held in St. Louis, Missouri; the 1932 and 1984 Games were both held in Los Angeles, California, and the 1996 Games were held in Atlanta, Georgia.
4 days ago · Glenn Hammond Curtiss (born May 21, 1878, Hammondsport, N.Y., U.S.—died July 23, 1930, Buffalo) was a pioneer aviator and leading American manufacturer of aircraft by the time of the United States’s entry into World War I. Curtiss began his career in the bicycle business, earning fame as one of the leading cycle racers in western New York ...
5 days ago · Download free public domain image of “The 1904 World's Fair, St Louis, Missouri: an exhibit of United States military uniforms: models of men and horses. Photograph, 1904. Created 1904. Work ID: zxb82d3t.” from the Look and Learn History Picture Archive
