Thomas Nast
Thomas Nast is credited with creating symbols for both the Republican and Democratic
parties In the 1870s, influential political cartoonist Thomas Nast helped to establish the donkey as the symbol of the Democratic Party. Nast also provided the Republicans with their elephan
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Traversing as they do all of Eurasia, the Silk Roads encompassed almost every climate and vegetation zone and crossed every kind of terrain. This sketch of Silk Road geography has the modest aim of introducing a few of the important features of Eurasian physical geography which help us to understand patterns of human habitation and interaction across that vast expanse. There are always regional variations which deserve more detailed treatment. Before the advent of modern technology, geography and ecological zones were critical determinants of where and how people lived, moved and interacted. Boundaries such as we know them, delineated by modern states, did not exist, but boundaries there were, either natural or manmade, and in both cases they turn out to have been quite permeable.
The amount of lands owned by Britain and France increased the rivalry with Germany who had entered the scramble to aquire colonies late and only had small <span>area of Africa.</span>
The Federalist Papers consist of eighty-five letters written to newspapers in the late 1780s to urge ratification of the U.S. Constitution. ... Celebrated statesmen Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay weighed in with a series of essays under the pseudonym “Publius ...
