A highly infectious disease of pigs caused by a pestivirus and characterized in its classical form by high fever, lassitude, purple discoloration of abdominal skin, conjunctivitis and nervous signs including circling, incoordination, tremor and convulsions.
His birth name we are told was Tuthmosis, meaning Born of the god Thoth, though this is a Greek version. His actual Egyptian name was Djehutymes I, but he is also sometimes referred to as Thutmose I, or Thutmosis I. His thrown name was A-Kheper-ka-re (Aakheperkara).
Thomas Nast was a German-born American editorial cartoonist known as the Father of the American Cartoon. He is best remembered for his satirical political cartoons and caricatures that helped to expose the corruption of Democratic Representative Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall Democratic party political machine.