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I literally thought Maine was voting to bring back bear-baiting pits but apparently that's not the case. SO LET'S TALK ABOUT BEAR-BAITING, because this is the Wikipedia wormhole I've gone down today.

Turns out the top bear-baiting area in Elizabethan London was called the Bear Garden, and let's just read this sentence over and over, shall we: At least some bears — perhaps the fiercest, longest-enduring ones — were given names: "George Stone," "Ned Whiting," and the most famous, "Sackerson."

Apparently Sackerson was pretty famous in his own right, showing up in The Merry Wives of Windsor (I.i.140) and from an article called 'But where do they get the bears?': Animal Entertainments in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Cheshire, we find out that: "The evidence is not sufficient to say exactly how many Seckerstons or Sackersons were involved in bearbaiting in the sixteenth century, or how (or whether) they were interrelated, but it does show that the name was a famous one in connection with bears."

In other Wikipedia wormholes, may I present: the Dyatlov Pass Incident, the Papal Tiara, and speaking of Maine apparently State Routes have their own Wikipedia pages, which seems to my eye excessive.

In kind-of nerdy Medium articles news: A Thousand Points of (Head and Tail) Light: How regulations dictate style in automotive design and The history of the pilcrow.

Pop Sonnets is the best Tumblr:

Etcetera: Animated GIF movie posters. Netflix is picking up A Series of Unfortunate Events (which Claire points out will be a literal series of of unfortunate events)

a heart full of memes / no fear no regret,

Emily