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kids! Part 1, Why It's the Way It Is.

Today, on Why It's the Way It Is, we're going to get into why is a teddy bear a teddy bear.

Now I know people call them all kinds of things. They call them stuffies, fuzzies, I fuzzies out but teddy bears is kind of the original name

for when you had like a little friend right that would you take the bed with you and carry

around with you and at a time a long time ago

most of those little stuffies took the shape of a bear and I'm gonna talk about why that came to be and how that name Teddy Bear came into existence.

And to understand it, you have to go all the way back to

1902, 120 years ago.

The President of the United States in 1992

was named Theodore Roosevelt. People would call him Teddy Roosevelt, though he didn't like that nickname.

He might be the most important president in terms of wildlife and wild places in America.

In South Dakota there's a thing in Mount Rushmore

where there's these huge carvings in the mountain

of different president's faces, four very important

presidents. He's one of those presidents alongside George Washington, Abraham

Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson.

Now, he was, just like he was a great conservationist,

and did a lot for wildlife in America and to preserve wild places in America.

He was a very avid hunter, which seems funny now, it seems funny now to imagine a U president who spends a lot of time out hunting bears, right?

But that was a thing then. And in 1902, Theodore Roosevelt was invited down by the governor of Mississippi to go on a bear hunt.

Now when the president comes down to Mississippi to bear hunt, they want to make sure he's paired up with the best guide, the best hunter they can find.

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