Random historical information...
The wine bottle does not have a wine label made of paper as the earliest known wine label of such material is from 1822 (for a Schloss Johannisberger Cabinets Wein). Until then it was common for wine bottles, at least in Europe and during this particular time, to have seals (not wax seals, but seals which where part of the bottle). They informed the consumer about the producer, the year of production, and maybe the place of origin.
The news about the grizzly bear in the London Gazette is actually a historical one, even though I neither know whether the respective newspaper carried an article about the story, nor at what time of the year it happened. But fact is that in 1811 George III got such a bear with the name 'Martin' as a present from the Hudson Bay Company. The grizzly was the first of his kind in England and made part of the no longer existing Royal Menagerie in the Tower of London.
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