History Today: Did you know the world’s first teddy bear was inspired by a US president?
Morris Michtom, a small toy store owner, put two stuffed ’teddy bears’ in his Brooklyn shop window for sale, inspired by an ...
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‘A Bundle of Horridness’: The Great Teddy Bear Panic of 1907
The teddy bear emerged out of a presidency ... Roosevelt, a famously rugged outdoorsman, intended to put a bear in his sights and blow the hapless animal into non-existence.