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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. One of the most widely distributed photos of the abolitionist movement . [ s 3] Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal. 7 July 1865. Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C., United States. [ s 1] Portrait of Sir John Herschel.
v. t. e. An example of a classic full-page Sunday humor strip, Billy DeBeck 's Barney Google and Spark Plug (January 2, 1927), showing how an accompanying topper strip was displayed on a Sunday page. The Sunday comics or Sunday strip is the comic strip section carried in most Western newspapers. Compared to weekday comics, Sunday comics tend to ...
The Bernie Sanders mittens meme refers to a photograph of Bernie Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont and former presidential candidate, seated during the inauguration of Joe Biden and wearing a face mask and distinctive mittens, which went viral. [ 1] The photograph became an Internet meme, inspiring altered versions in which Sanders was ...
Original form. "A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed." Coined by. Henrik Ibsen. " A picture is worth a thousand words " is an adage in multiple languages meaning that complex and sometimes multiple ideas [ 1] can be conveyed by a single still image, which conveys its meaning or essence more effectively than ...
In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...
Best funny quotes. “Whoever established the high road and how high it should be should be fired.”. — Sandra Bullock. “Keep calm and carry a wand.”. — A.W. Jantha, “Hocus Pocus & The ...
Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1. E.W. Cole began a small publishing and second-hand book selling business in 1865, and by 1873 had opened the first incarnation of his book arcade, with the recognisable rainbow arch facade. [1] The Cole's Book Arcade became one of the great iconic stores of Melbourne in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
America's Funny But True History. America's Funny But True History (formally America's Horrible Histories) is one of the many spin-offs of Horrible Histories. The series is written by Elizabeth Levy and explores the history of North America, focusing on the United States in the latter books. The books appear in school and library reading and ...