History Today: How the world came to embrace the first polio vaccine
On February 23, 1954, the world’s first-ever polio vaccine was administered in Pittsburgh, United States. This day is also ...
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FDR's secret Grand Central train tunnel
An curved arrow pointing right. It is no secret now that Franklin D. Roosevelt had the unique challenge of hiding his crippling disease of what was believed to be polio throughout his terms as ...
Countdown to 47: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Thirty-Second President
Following this political loss came a personal one. In 1921, FDR contracted polio - paralyzing him from the waist down. In the ...
Business Insider9 年
FDR's secret train tunnel beneath Grand Central
An curved arrow pointing right. It is no secret now that Franklin D. Roosevelt had the unique challenge of hiding his crippling disease of what was believed to be polio throughout his terms as ...
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Teacher's Resource
The concerned citizens could include a member of Roosevelt’s family, a person who suffered from polio, a historian who has written a biography of FDR, an activist who works on behalf of rights ...