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Bamse was bought in Oslo, Norway, by Captain Erling Hafto, the master of the Norwegian whale-catcher Thorodd, and he was taken to sea from an early age.In her childhood memories of pre-war Honningsvåg, Captain Hafto's daughter Vigdis remembers Bamse as a very kind dog that would look after the children while they were playing.
The author Michael Bond introduced Paddington Bear to the world in 1958. [1] Inspired by his purchase of a teddy bear as a Christmas present for his wife, and naming the bear Paddington as the couple lived near Paddington Station, Bond imagined the arrival of a real bear at the station in his first novel, A Bear Called Paddington.
The first of Bond's twenty nine original books, A Bear Called Paddington, was published in 1958. [1] Although the books are divided into chapters and each book has a time frame, the stories all work as stand-alone stories, and many of them were used like this in the TV series. In order of publication, the titles are: [27] A Bear Called ...
Examples of computer clip art, from Openclipart. Clip art (also clipart, clip-art) is a type of graphic art. Pieces are pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively and comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is created, distributed, and used in a digital form.
The bronze statue stands over 9 ft (2.7 m) high, on a low black granite pedestal. The subject is portrayed in traditional Native American clothing, with an eagle feather in his hair, a necklace of bear claws and two large Indian Peace Medals, and a pipe tomahawk in his left hand.
The 1961 Walt Disney film Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog was based on the book and has a Skye Terrier as Greyfriars Bobby. [ 28 ] The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby , another film, was released in the UK in February 2006 starring James Cosmo and Christopher Lee (released elsewhere in 2005 under the alternative title Greyfriars Bobby ...
In medieval England, the bugbear was depicted as a creepy bear that lurked in the woods to scare children. It was described in this manner in The Buggbears , [ 2 ] an adaptation, with additions, from Antonio Francesco Grazzini ’s La Spiritata (‘The Possessed [Woman]’, 1561).
The statue is a popular attraction: children frequently climb the statue to pretend to ride on the dog. [8] There is a plaque at the base of the statue, which reads: "Dedicated to the indomitable spirit of the sled dogs that relayed antitoxin six hundred miles over rough ice, across treacherous waters, through Arctic blizzards from Nenana to ...