Teddy bear
Teddy bearA Teddy bear is a stuffed toy bear for children. It was named after former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, whose nickname was "Teddy" and who enjoyed bear-hunting. The name is said to come from an incident on a bear-hunting trip in Mississippi, when Roosevelt's attendants found and caught a juvenile bear. Roosevelt refused to kill the lassoed animal, calling it "unsportsmanlike", and "Teddy's Bear" was immediately publicized by political cartoonists. The first such cartoon appeared the following day, November 16: Clifford Barryman, an editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post, immortalized the incident as part of a front-page cartoon montage. Barryman pictured Roosevelt with his gun beside him with the butt resting on the ground and his back to the bear, gesturing his refusal to take the trophy shot. Written across the lower part of the cartoon were the words "Drawing the Line in Mississippi," which coupled the hunting incident to a political dispute.
The teddy bear is an enduring, traditional form of stuffed animal, often serving the purpose of comforting upset young children. Morris Michtom and his wife Rose displayed two stuffed bears in the window of their Brooklyn store shortly thereafter (February 15, 1903), and received President Roosevelt's permission to call them "Teddy's bears."
At about the same time, in 1902 in Germany, the toymaker Richard Steiff produced a stuffed toy in the form of a bear cub. He launched the product at the March 1903 Leipzig Toy Fair. Michtom's bear had a more endearing, baby-faced appearance, while Steiff's more closely resembled a real bear cub.
In recent years, the Vermont Teddy Bear Company (C), located in the U.S. state of Vermont, has become a popular source of teddy bear-oriented gifts.
Famous fictional teddy bears include Paddington Bear and Winnie the Pooh. Certain animal species, such as giant pandas and koalas, have benefited from their attractively strong resemblance to the toy and have received intense conservation efforts to preserve them.
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Different kind of Teddy Bears
There are many kind of different type of Teddy bears, some of them are intended for kids to play with, and some of them for adults to play with also called "collector items" or "Designer bears" the first type are usually an unjointed bear where arms head and legs are stitched to there body. The other type (the ones for adults) are almost always fully jointed witch means that there arms legs and heads are movable by being attached by with disks and cotter pins.