A cartoon mouse, for heaven’s sake, in the land of Molière ... But now we’ve one of the more playful French regions. Nantes has the giant elephant and other mega-machines at Les Machines de l’île. The ...

PEZ has released many Halloween-themed dispensers over the decades, but the green-faced Witch from the 1960s is one of the rarest. Made for a very short time and discontinued due to its spooky ...

Donkey Kong Bananza is bringing back the DK Rap, but after going uncredited for the seminal hip hop classic in the Mario Movie, the song's composer wasn't aware it was returning in the Switch 2 game.

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These new side-by-side spots are at 2625 Main Street in Deep Ellum, where the old Braindead Brewing was before closing in 2021. A full-size white donkey with parade florals greets you at Ghost Donkey.

But it was Nast’s revival of the Democratic donkey in his Jan. 18, 1870 cartoon, shown above — “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” — that popularized the symbol.

From thomasnast.com, where the cartoon is explained: As mentioned in the above quote, while the first Thomas Nast Republican elephant cartoon appeared in the Harper’s Weekly issue dated November 7, ...

The elephant and the donkey were meant to be satirical In an 1870 cartoon for the magazine Harper’s Weekly, Nast showed a donkey kicking a dead lion. The donkey represented a section of Democrats he ...

Elephant And Donkey Gained Popularity In a political cartoon from 1874 called 'Third Term Panic', Nast is credited with portraying the elephant as a symbol of the Republican Party.

Nast depicted the donkey in several works, which started as his dislike for the democrats. The Republican elephant also owes its rise to Thomas Nast, who used it in an 1874 cartoon published in Harper ...

You may be surprised to learn that the relationship between the elephant and donkey and political parties in the U.S. goes all the way back to the mid-1800s. Read on to find out how we got here.