The Sickly Boy Who Became the Strenuous Life
On October 27, 1858, Theodore Roosevelt was born a sickly, asthmatic boy in Manhattan — and grew up to remake the American presidency.
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The Day a Frenchman Signed Away a Canal Zone
On November 18, 1903, Philippe Bunau-Varilla — who was not Panamanian — signed a treaty giving the United States permanent control of the Panama Canal Zone.