15 amazing Winnie the facts of Autoh that you have never known

Learn everything about the story of the bien-liked children's book character who has become a Disney icon.


Everyone knows the story of Winnie The Pooh and his friends, including Timid piglet, Smoomy EEYORE, BOUNCY TIGGER and the best human friend of the craftsman, Christopher Robin. But while you may know everything there is to know about the inhabitants of the hundred wood of Acre, you may not know the storybehind The characters of tales of beloved tales and the franchise that followed. To learn more about howWinnie the Pooh came to be and its huge cultural impact, read it for incredible facts Winnie the facts of the Autoh you never knew.

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The story was inspired by the author's son, Christopher Robin.

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Winnie the Pooh is loved around the world by parents and children, but history had its departure from the authorA.A. MILNEson. The character of Winnie L'Equina was in fact inspired by theteddy teddy bear It was given to the son of Milne during his first anniversary in 1921. And the influence of the son of Milne did not stop with his teddy bear: the best human friend of the craftsman was named after The boy,Christopher Robin Milne.

It turns out Christopher was not a fan of his father's choice, though. In his brief,Enchanted places, Christopher wrote that his father "had taken place where he was climbing on my shoulders for infants, whom he had weighed my good reputation and left me with nothing but empty fame to be his son. "

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True Winnie was a bear woman.

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Have you ever wondered why Winnie The Pooh has a female name? While the plush bear was originally called Edward, the son of MilneChanged the name to Winnie After visiting the London Zoo and becoming infamous of a black bear named Winnie, which would feed spoonfuls of condensed milk. Unlike the character of the tales book, the real Winnie was actually a bear. She had been brought to the zoo by a Canadian solid namedHarry Colebourn, who named his "Winnipeg" after his hometown. Which was then shortened to "Winnie".

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Many other characters were also based on stuffed animals.

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Winnie was not the only character based on a real children's toy. After receiving his teddy bear in 1921, Christopher was talentedAnimals more stuffed During the end of the 1920s, including a stuffed pig, tiger, ass, kangaroo and baby kangaroo. These toys have become inspired for piglets, Tigger, Eeyore, Kanga and Roo. The only charactersnotBased on a plush animal of origin ended owl and rabbit.

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Farccised animals of origin can always be seen on the screen.

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But where are Christopher's friends now? Since 1987, Pooh and his friends, Eeyore, piglet, Kanga and Tigus, have all found a house at the flagship ship of the New York Public LibraryStephen A. Schwarzman Building. Visitors from everywhere can go see the stuffed animals of origin that inspired the character characters of beloved tales.

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The only plush animal does not on the screen is ROO.

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There area Original filled animal, however. Once upon a time there was a real kangaroo of baby stuffed that inspired the character of roo, but you will not find it on the screen on the NYPL. Thetoy has disappeared In the 1930s, after a visit to an Apple orchard.

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The illustrations of Winnie The Pooh were not based on the plush animal or the original bear.

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The yellow and big ventric character we see described in the history of Milne is not a literal representation of the plush bear of Christopher Robin, nor the original black bears Winnie. IllustratorErnest Howard Shepard Instead, attracted the memorable well based on the teddy bear of his own son, Growler.

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He has not always worn his emblematic red shirt.

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When the POOH was originally illustrated by Shepard, it was without the emblematic red shirt at which it is seen athletic these days. It was not before 1932 that hisThe red shirt was introduced When the media producerStephen Sleesinger Dresses it on a record recording RCA Victor, after acquiring Milne's business rights to expand the character on the radio and a movie.

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You can send birthday cards to Winnie The Pooh.

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If you are unable to participate in the celebrationNational Winnie The Pooh DayOn January 18, consider celebrating later in the year by sending your own birthday card to the honey loving bear. Every year, NYPL encourages people to post cards forWinnie the anniversary of the pooh August 21st. He will turn 99 this year!

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The fictitious wood of a hundred and acre is based on a real forest in England.

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With most characters inspired by real life, it is not surprising that the framework of the history of Milne has origins of real life. Milne was inspired byCrumbled forest, a wooded area near her at home, about 40 miles southwest of London. Inside the forest is a "five hundred acres", which pushed the idea of ​​a "hundred acre wood".

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Winnie The Pooh has a star on Hollywood's renowned promenade.

Los Angeles, USA - January 17, 2014: The Hollywood Walk of Fame star of Winnie The Pooh located on Hollywood Blvd. that was awarded in 2006 for achievement in motion pictures.
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If you enter the iconic Hollywood promenade of fame, you will see celebrity after celebrity. However, you may be surprised to see that some beloved fiction characters also have their own stars.Honored with a star In 2006, Winnie Autoh is one of these characters, next to Mickey Mouse and Snoopy.

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Walt Disney is the reason for Winnie the incredible name of the POOH.

walt disney movie poster for winnie the pooh 1966
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When Milne wrote his firstWinnie the Pooh History in 1925, "the bad kind of bees", he actually used the name of the character, that's why you still see him sometimes write this way. However, whenWalt Disney bought rights To the character of the story book in 1961, he decided to drop the features of union.

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The story has been translated into more than 50 languages.

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SinceWinnie the Pooh Was a whole tale on the world, it is not surprising that history has been translated into more than 50 different languages! You can read the story of beloved children in French, Polish and evenYiddish, to name a few. Make fun? In Danish, Winnie the name of the Pooh isPeter Plys.

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The most successful translation of history is Latin.

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Penguin's books

While history is considered warmly in a language, itsMost successful translation was made in Latin byAlexander Lenard In 1958. For the first time in an edition of only 100 copies,Winnie Ille PU past 20 weeks on theNew York Times' Best Seller List in 1960. It was the first non-English book to list - and the only Latin book that has ever recovered.

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Forbes named Winnie Autoh the most precious children's character in the world.

Suffolk, Virginia, USA - April 30, 2011: A horizontal studio shot of the fictional cartoon characters Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Eeyore. Here Winnie the Pooh is standing in the foreground waving and is the focal point of the image, while the other characters are defocused in the background.
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In 2002,Strong magazine Classified Winnie Autoh as the most precious fiction character in the world, even above Mickey Mouse, who was second! And it's based on: the old stupid outward has gained an income of about 5.9billion in retail sales.

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There is a world championship Poohsticks held each year.

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While Pooh and his friends love to play a good poohsticks game, it's not the only ones! A.A. Game created from Milne - which consists of dropping a stick on the side of the upstream water of a bridge and crown the winner based on the part of the one who is downstream, was borrowed from the world of Fiction to become a real game. And almost every year since 1984, aPoohsticks World Championship was held by the Rotary Club d'Oxford Spiers.


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