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Ralph Ritsema 1896 - 1972

Ralph Ritsema of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan was born on May 7, 1896, and died at age 76 years old in July 1972.

Ralph Ritsema

Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan 49009

May 7, 1896

July 1972

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In 1896, in the year that Ralph Ritsema was born, in April, the first study on global warming due to CO2 - carbon dioxide - in the atmosphere was published by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius. Arrhenius concluded that human activity due to the Industrial Revolution would amplify CO2 in the atmosphere, causing a greenhouse effect. His conclusions have been extensively tested in the ensuing 100+ years and are still seen to hold true.

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In 1904, at the age of merely 8 years old, Ralph was alive when the "Teddy's Bear" was first produced. After seeing a political cartoon of President Teddy Roosevelt refusing to kill a clubbed and tied up bear, Jewish Russian immigrant Morris Michtom - who owned a candy shop and sold stuffed animals that he and his wife made at night at the store - made a "Teddy's Bear" and put it in his shop's window. The stuffed bears were an immediate success and Michtom and his wife went on to found the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.

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