Called the First National Service School, it held camps 2-3 weeks long in order to train women in various aspects of military life. One of it’s graduates was Grace Lockwood. She went on to marry Archie Roosevelt, one of Theodore Roosevelt’s four sons.

This is amazing for two reasons. One, Chevy Chase is right near where I live and work and two, women weren’t even given the right to vote until 1920. Their sense of civic duty was astounding!

Wilson's Fourteen Points laid out the principles he deemed necessary for peace to end WWI. For his efforts, in 1919, he was the third American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

A Marconi station was an early radio station named after the nobel laureate Guglielmo Marconi. He won the prize for physics for his work in wireless communication that led to the creation of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America. The station used to transmit President Wilson's statement was located in New Jersey and had been confiscated by the Navy for use during World War 1.

In 1916 A German U-boat, U-53, surfaced outside of Newport, Rhode Island. The ship was intercepted by an American submarine and, after the Germans requested permission to enter the harbor, followed them into the port. The German commander was taken ashore and for the next three hours he proceeded to give tours of his superior ship to Navy officials, their wives, and members of the press.

U-53 left the port before the deadline imposed by the United States and the next day was responsible for the sinking of 5 ships off the northeast American coast.

Called Rio Roosevelt, the river flows through the heart of Brazil. It feeds into the Madeira River which in turn feeds into the Amazon.

After his presidency, Roosevelt took what was supposed to be a speaking trip to South America. He soon found himself on an expedition to discern whether or not the ominous sounding “River of Doubt” fed into the much larger Madeira river further north. The Brazilan explorer Rondon and Roosevelt led the expedition together and it turned out to be a disaster, with most of the men barely making it out alive. If it wasn’t for rubber-tappers in the depths of the jungle helping the group Roosevelt wouldn’t have survived the ordeal. The “River of Doubt” needed a new name after it was confirmed that it fed into the Madeira and Rondon made sure Brazil’s guest of honor receveid credit for the discovery.

Seth Bullock and Teddy Roosevelt first met each other in 1884 when the future president spent time in North Dakota. After the candidate Roosevelt wanted elected by the Republican party failed to be nominated he abandoned politics and headed out west. This first meeting was the start of a friendship that would last decades. Bullock was later brought on by Roosevelt as part of a volunteer cavalry regiment during the Spanish-American War and again as part of a volunteer infantry division during World War 1.