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Along with the 2008 Russian presidential election, on 2 March 2008 there was an unofficial election held in Sochi to elect the mascot for the 2014 Winter Olympics. 270,000 voters along with their ballots received a coupon with four mascot candidates: Ded Moroz, a snowflake, a polar bear and a dolphin.
Hidy and Howdy were the official mascots of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They were anthropomorphic twin polar bears who wore western/cowboy style outfits. Students of Bishop Carroll High School in Calgary were used as performers during Hidy and Howdy's four years as the mascots of the XVth Olympic Winter Games.
The Little Polar Bear (in Dutch: Lars de kleine ijsbeer) is a franchise about a polar bear cub named Lars who first starred in a number of books written by Dutch author, Hans de Beer. The first of several animated adaptations of the books is a Japanese original video animation , released on April 28, 1990, with animation production by I.G ...
Held on the Tips of Fingers was released in 2005 on Babel Label and later re-released by The Leaf Label in 2014. [1] This album sees Polar Bear's original line up augmented by London-based electronic artist, songwriter and producer Leafcutter John, who has played a distinctive role in shaping the group's later albums.
The Polar Bear Plunge event in Maryland is the largest polar bear plunge in the United States. It is held annually at Sandy Point State Park and raises funds for the Special Olympics. [ 42 ] Sponsored by the Maryland State Police , in 2007, Plungapalooza raised $2.2 million and had 7,400 participants. [ 43 ]
One popular legend is that a group of hunters who were never able to kill a mighty bear (Coal's ancestor). Today the sons of these hunters still chase the bear across the night sky as constellations. Because of his irreversible and undoubted strength, Coal represents Stronger [6] from the Olympic motto. His favorite color is red as seen on his ...
In 2003, the original Peppy – measuring 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) high and 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long, [5] and with an indeterminate gender [6] – was donated to the Leicester Museum & Art Gallery in Leicester, the city in which Fox's Confectionery is based. [4] The stuffed bear had been lost in a company factory for approximately 20 years. [3]
Orboretum: The Orb Collection is the fourth compilation album by the Orb released on 8 November 2024 on Cooking Vinyl. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Alex Paterson 's words, the compilation is "a sort of director's cut, reframing our output, making new neuro pathways, and new juxtapositions."