Thomas Nast
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 11 Jul
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19th‑century political cartoonist who designed the Prohibition Party symbol
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentKingpilled (host)Kingpilled · I Saw "Young Washington," and I Have MANY Thoughts · 1:54:11 · 11 Jul
…The Santa Claus you picture every December, plus the Republican elephant, were drawn by Thomas Nast, a German immigrant.…
JoshStuff You Should Know · Editorial Cartoons: Art as Satire · 24:33 · Apr 2025
…All right, we're back. Josh promised talk of Thomas Nast. He's the most famous American political cartoonist, probably very influential cartoonist of the 19th century. And that's, you know, early on, you were like, what? What was going on back then? Well, the Civil War was going on back then.…
James CooperSomething You Should Know · The Origins of Christmas Traditions & A Simple Way to Achiev... · 17:55 · Dec 2024
…Nicholas, or Twas the Night Before Christmas. And that's when we learned about the reindeer. And he was described in that as a jolly old elf. When printing and magazines came along in the later 1800s, especially Harper Collins and things like that, we got the illustrations from Thomas Nast, which developed him into the much chubbier, tubbier, plumpy one tha…
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