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Teddy Bears and Penalty Shootouts

The Anthropocene Reviewed

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Introduction

The English word bear comes to us from a Germanic root barrow, meaning the brown one or the brown thing. Scandinavian languages also don't use a direct name for bear, instead referring to them as honey eaters. Many linguists believe that these names are substitutes created because speaking or writing the actual word for bear was taboo. For centuries Europeans tormented bears in a practice known as bear baiting.

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