Bear (disambiguation)
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Bear may refer to:
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- Bear, a mammal
- Bear (ship), a famous exploration ship
- Bear (novel), a novel by Marian Engel
- Bear community, a subculture of the gay community consisting of large, hairy, and usually bearded, men
- Bear market, one of several market trends referring to a cyclical downturn in a stock market
- Microsoft Bear, an unofficial mascot hidden in Windows 3.1 and Windows 95
- A verb meaning "carry" or "endure"
- BEAR, a particle beam weapon developed as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative: see Particle beam weapon#SDI / BEAR project
- BEAR, Battlefield Extraction and Retrieval Robot
- Bear (diesel locomotive), a character from The Railway Series books by Rev.W.Awdry
- Bear (comic book), an alternative comic book by Jamie Smart
- The Bear, a play by Anton Chekhov
- The Bear (movie), also known as L'Ours, a 1988 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
- The Bear (opera), an opera by William Walton
- Bear Inn, a popular name for British public houses
- Bear Inn, Oxford a particularly historic British public house
- CKQB-FM, a radio station in Ottawa whose on-air brand name is The Bear
- Tupolev Tu-95/Tu-20/Tu-142, a series of Soviet bomber aircraft given the NATO reporting name Bear
People:
- Bear Cut Ear, a chief of the Crow tribe
- Greg Bear, an american science fiction author
- Bear Bryant, an American college football player, who coached at several institutions, most notably his alma mater, the University of Alabama
- Bear Grylls, youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest
- Bear Hunter (d.1863), a Shoshone chief
- Bear's Rib, a Hunkpapa Sioux chief
- Blackbear Bosin (1921-1980), a Comanche-Kiowa artist and painter
- Conquering Bear (d.1854), a Brulé Sioux leader
- Crazy Bear (Assiniboine chief), an Assiniboine chief
- Hollow Horn Bear (c.1850–1913), a Brulé Sioux leader
- Mato-tope (c.1795–1837), chief of the Mandan tribe, also known as Four Bears
- George Halas, founder of the Chicago Bears, known as Papa Bear
- Kicking Bear (1846–1904), a Lakota chief
- Lean Bear (1813–1864), a Cheyenne chief
- Satanta (d.1878), a Kiowa war leader who was also known as White Bear
- Sitting Bear (c.1830–1871), a Kiowa warrior and medicine man
- Owsley Stanley, nicknamed Bear, the largest LSD manufacturer of the 1960s and soundman for the Grateful Dead
- Standing Bear (c.1834–1908), a chief of the Ponca tribe
- Ten Bears (1792-1873), a Comanche leader
- Ray Young Bear, a Meskwaki poet
- Yonaguska (d.1839), a Cherokee leader also known as Drowning Bear
Places:
- Bear, Delaware, an unincorporated community in the United States
Sports teams:
- Baylor Bears, sports teams of Baylor University
- California Golden Bears, sports teams of the University of California, Berkeley
- Chicago Bears, an American football team
- Alberta Golden Bears, the men's teams at the University of Alberta
[edit] See also
- Bear Creek (disambiguation)
- Big Bear (disambiguation)
- Celebrity bears
- List of fictional bears
- List of historical animals
- List of historical bears
