Despite 'centipede' meaning '100 feet,' a centipede has never been discovered with 100 legs. The closest, a species found in 1999, has 96 legs.
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| Lithobius forficatus Wikipedia |
In Guayaquil Ecuador, there is a statue in honor of the poet, Jose Olemedo. It is really a statue of Lord Byron.
Nast's drawings appeared for the first time in Harper's Weekly on March 19, 1859, when he illustrated a report exposing police corruption; Nast was 18 years old at that point.
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| Self-caricature of Thomas Nast |
On January 15, 1870 a cartoon by Thomas Nast, titled, A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion, appeared in Harper’s Weekly. The cartoon used the donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party. The symbol gave everyone such a ‘kick’ that it has stuck to the Democrats to this day.
The traditional mascot of the Republican party is the elephant. A political cartoon by Thomas Nast, published in Harper's Weekly on November 7, 1874, is considered the first important use of the symbol.
At first Santa Claus was drawn in his bishop robes, but with possible influences from the earlier English figure of Father Christmas. German-American cartoonist Thomas Nast's image of him, based on the traditional German figures of Sankt Nikolaus and Weihnachtsmann began the journey towards today's image of him as a portly, joyous, white-bearded man.
Samuel Wilson, a meat packer from Troy, New York, supplied barrels of beef to the U.S. Army during the War of 1812 between the USA and Great Britain. Each of the barrels was stamped with "US" for United States but soldiers referred to the chow as "Uncle Sam's." The character and legend of Uncle Sam grew and his story was enhanced by Thomas Nast. In time it became an accepted nickname for the United States government.
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| Englishman in the Campagna by Carl Spitzweg (c. 1845) |
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| The Locomotion for the Stockton & Darlington Railway |
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