100 years ago this month: the sad death of a most famous Californian

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SFGate article:California grizzly bear Monarch: a symbol of suffering

The last California grizzly bear to live in San Francisco stands inside a tinted glass case at the California Academy of Sciences, a tragic reminder of a species that humans extinguished

The dark brown bear named Monarch was captured in 1889 in a publicity stunt concocted by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst and kept for 22 years in a cage. California’s last captive grizzly, whose image is on the state flag, died 100 years ago this month in Golden Gate Park.

Reading this article really got to me. I’ll never look at the California flag again without thinking of Monarch.

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I should have picked a user name that lends itself to cool combos.