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2002 marked the 100th birthday of the teddy bear. The cuddly children’s toy, - quite unlike a real bear- was invented almost simultaneously in the United States and Germany but the United States undoubtedly gave it its name. In November 1902 Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, was hunting in Mississippi. The President failed to make a kill so his hosts caught and tethered a bear, presenting it to the President as a sitting target. Naturally the President refused, uttering the immortal words, ‘Spare the bear! I will not shoot a tethered animal.’The teddy bear is a relative newcomer, despite being possibly the most popular toy in the world. At the beginning of the 20th century Richard Steiff wanted to make soft toys more lifelike by giving them moving joints. One of his first experiments with this technique was a bear which was shown at the Leipzig Toy Fair in Germany in March 1903.