August 12th, 2008
This week in Washington, DC, the Smithsonian turned 162 years old.
The Smithsonian Institution was based on a gift of James Smithson, a British scientist, who left his entire estate to the United States of America in 1827. His gift of over 100,000 gold sovereigns, or $500,000, (just under $9.5 million in today’s dollars) required […]
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August 2nd, 2008
Political cartoons are almost as old as newspapers. And poking fun of presidents, political leaders and politics is a mainstay of humor today.
Three-time Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist Herbert Block (”Herblock”), cartooned about politics starting with his first cartoon that appeared in the Chicago Daily News, back in 1929. The topics he covered early […]
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