Who doesn’t like bears? I grew up with Paddington (first appeared in 1958, I wanted his coat), Winnie-the-Poo (first appeared in 1926), even Smokey the Bear (first appeared in advertisements for the Forest Service in 1944. The ‘Teddy bear’ craze began in America around 1902, inspired by an incident in which President Theodore Roosevelt, while on a hunting trip, refused to shoot a bear. That incident inspired a political cartoonist to lightheartedly satirize the president’s apparent pacifism. A Brooklyn candy store owner named Morris Michtom saw the cartoon and had an idea. After receiving the President’s permission, Michtom and his wife made stuffed bears and called them “Teddy’s Bear.” The rest is history.