Spending much of his youth on Bear Island, in Penobscot Bay off the coast of Maine, he had trouble with geometry, being unable to understand the abstraction necessary to imagine that a chalk dot on the blackboard represented a mathematical point, or that an imperfectly drawn line with an arrow on the end was meant to stretch off to infinity.

A line joining the Southernmost point of West Spitzbergen to North Cape of Bear Island, through this island to Cape Bull and thence on to North Cape in Norway ( 71 ° 10 ' N 25 ° 47 ' E ).

In 2003 it was suggested that the plane went down northwest of Bear Island.

Bear Island has average temperatures even higher than the rest of the archipelago.

There are also a number of smaller islands, such as Barents Island ( Barentsøya ) (), Kvitøya (), Prins Karls Forland ( English: Prince Charles Foreland ) (), Kongsøya (), Bear Island (), Svenskøya (), Wilhelmøya () and other smaller islands or skerries ().

* June 10 – Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.

The island is mentioned in the novels The Enemy by Desmond Bagley ( 1977 ), Sea of Death by Richard P. Henrick ( 1992 ), The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth ( 1994 ), Quantico by Greg Bear ( 2005 ), The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde ( 2005 ), Forbidden Island by Malcolm Rose ( 2009 ), And then you die by Iris Johansen ( 1998 ), The Island by R J Price ( better-known as the poet Richard Price ) ( 2010 ) and The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin ( 2011 ).

In the western parts of the sea ( close to Bear Island ), this front is determined by the bottom topography and is therefore relatively sharp and stable from year to year, while in the east ( towards Novaya Zemlya ), it can be quite diffuse and its position can vary a lot between years.

* Aconite poisoning is used as a means of disposal in the Alistair MacLean novel Bear Island.

This occurred in Bear Creek, Williams Island.

They set off on 10 May or 15 May, and on 9 June discovered Bear Island.

The ships once again found themselves at Bear Island on 1 July, which led to a disagreement between Barentsz and Van Heemskerk on one side and Rijp on the other.

The land area of the Town of Cranberry Isles is composed of five islands: Great Cranberry Island ( with the postal designation Cranberry Isles, ZIP code 04625 ), Little Cranberry Island ( with the postal designation Islesford, ZIP code 04646 ), Sutton Island, Bear Island, and Baker Island.

Also part of Tuftonboro are several islands in Lake Winnipesaukee including Little Bear Island and Cow Island among others.

Harrison Bay State Park, the Hamilton County Landfill, Bear Trace Golf Course, a course designed by Jack Nicklaus, and Skull Island, a recreational area owned by TVA, are all located in Harrison.

Victor Summerhayes and Charles Sutherland Elton | Charles Elton's 1923 food web of Bear Island ( Arrows point to an organism being consumed by another organism ).

The Coney Island Polar Bear Club consists of a group of people who swim at Coney Island throughout the winter months, most notably on New Year's Day, when additional participants join them to swim in the frigid waters.

* Greg Bear used the concept of the Noösphere as the interaction space of his ' noöcytes ' when he expanded his short story Blood Music to a full length novel in 1985.

Mainly Scarpa worked on Disney comics, but many years ago he used to do something non-Disney once in a while, so he did one ( Rolf Kauka's ) Lupo story and one ( Hannah and Barbera's ) Yogi Bear story.

After returning to the Federal Republic of Germany, he made The Rats ( Die Ratten ) which went on to win the Golden Berlin Bear at the 1955 Berlin Film Festival, and The Devil Came at Night ( Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam, 1957 ) which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and is based on the true story of Bruno Lüdke.

This is unlikely, as Scrooge McDuck made his first appearance in 1947, in the story Christmas on Bear Mountain.

The Mi-Go also appear as sinister brain collectors in the short story " Boojum ", written by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear.

Scrooge made his first appearance in the Donald Duck story " Christmas on Bear Mountain " as a curmudgeonly man who decides to test Donald and his nephews to see if they are worthy of inheriting his wealth.

In the story that follows, the Bear Clan assumes the foundation role for the whole nation, and when they land they find the nation's friendship tribe, the Menominee.

* Talking halma pieces featured in a Rupert the Bear story.

In American Scouting, parts of the story are found in the Wolf Cub Scout Book, the Bear Cub Scout Book, and the Cub Scout Leader Book.

The story was recounted in Barry Siegel's true crime novel A Death in White Bear Lake.

As the story ends, and he comes close to the hypersurvivalist's southern enemy, he begins to find traces of them, primarily in the symbol that they rally behind: the Bear Flag of California.

Based on the Alice Munro short story " The Bear Came Over the Mountain ", the movie was the first feature film directed by Christie's sometime co-star, Canadian actress Sarah Polley.

* Gentleman Bear ( 1985 ): The touching story of a London gentleman and his inseparable companion of over seventy years, his teddy bear.

The novel began as a short story entitled " Wang's Carpets " which originally appeared in New Legends, a collection of short stories edited by Greg Bear ( Legend, London, 1995 ).

The Way fictional universe is a trilogy of science fiction novels and one short story by Greg Bear.

In the story the dog Azeban is one of a litter of six dogs born to Awasosqua ( Bear Woman ).

Set around the late 1920s, Maple Town Monogatari tells the story of Patty Rabbit, who soon after arriving in Maple Town, befriends a boy her age, Bobby Bear, while at the same time antagonizing the sly — if usually " endearingly " unsuccessful — thief, Wild Wolf.

Dubbed as " Elmo's Musical Adventure ", the story unfolds inside Baby Bear's imagination as he attends a performance with Papa Bear, conducted by Keith Lockhart.

The short story inspired director Kōji Wakamatsu, who drew from it his movie Caterpillar, which competed for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

This film was originally slated to have been released in November 2003, but story and production problems forced Disney to swap release dates with Brother Bear ( originally slated for spring 2004 ) in December 2002.

However, music on the show was kept to a minimum-the other things that Eric Hill wrote the story to the episodes except the " Alphabet Song " and Bear asked Do you want to sing the " Alphabet Song " with the question mark and they all sang it together but the " Alphabet Song " was cancelled in " Spot's Alphabet ".

She made her feature-length film directing debut with Away from Her, based on the Alice Munro short story The Bear Came Over the Mountain.

1966 brought The Ballad of Smokey the Bear ( narrated by James Cagney ), the story of the famous forest fire-fighting animal seen in numerous public service announcements.

He led an expedition on the ship Antarctic to Bear Island and Svalbard including the isolated Kong Karls Land in 1898.

A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a movie-making crew across the Barents Sea to isolated Bear Island, well above the Arctic Circle, for some on-location filming, but the script is a secret known only to the producer and screenwriter.

Bear Peninsula () is a peninsula about 80 km ( 50 mi ) long and 40 km ( 25 mi ) wide which is ice covered except for several isolated rock bluffs and outcrops along its margins, lying 48 km 30 mi ) east of Martin Peninsula on Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land.

Polar Bear Provincial Park is an isolated wilderness park in the far north of Ontario, Canada.