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The Plumb-pudding in danger, or, State Epicures taking un Petit Souper is an 1805 editorial cartoon by the English artist James Gillray. The popular print depicts caricatures of the British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and the newly-crowned Emperor of France Napoleon , both wearing military uniforms, carving up a terrestrial globe ...
The particular cartoon cited in 1928, "May His Shadow Never Grow Less", was a tribute drawn at the end of the 1927 calendar year to flier Charles Lindbergh, [4] it was for the flight across the Mexico America border to improve the relations between the two countries. [3]
A Sept. 1868 cartoon in Alabama's Independent Monitor, threatening that the Ku Klux Klan (represented by a Democratic donkey, reflecting the status of the Klan at the time as a functional auxiliary of the contemporary Southern Democratic Party) would lynch scalawags (left) and carpetbaggers (right) on March 4, 1869, predicted as the first day of Democrat Horatio Seymour's presidency (the ...
A Washington Post cartoonist announced that she had quit the paper this week because it rejected her cartoon of Amazon founder and Post owner Jeff Bezos groveling to President-elect Trump. Post ...
Tony Namate is a Zimbabwean cartoonist who has gained international recognition for his scathing cartoon commentary on socio-political issues in Zimbabwe and beyond. [1] [2] His 2011 collection of political cartoons, whose title -- "The Emperor's New Clods" -- alludes to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Emperor's New Clothes", has been described by the Association of American Editorial ...
A political cartoon from 1919 depicting the October Revolution's impact on the Paris peace talks. The first Red Scare in the United States accompanied the Russian Revolution (specifically the October Revolution) and the Revolutions of 1917–1923. Citizens of the United States in the years of World War I (1914–1918) were intensely patriotic ...
Flash flooding, some turning life-threatening, occurred around Dallas, including interstate 35 and farther to the east in northern Texas, to the north in Beware Dallas: Dangerous, disruptive flash ...
Ryland Randolph (1835 – April 5, 1903) was a newspaper publisher, Ku Klux Klan leader, and state legislator who lived in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.He used his newspaper, the Independent Monitor, to lambast Republicans during the Reconstruction era as carpetbaggers, scalawags, and freed blacks, and attacked fellow legislator Shandy Jones and others with a cartoon of them being lynched. [1]