A baguette is a long, thin loaf of French bread. Your mom might ask you to buy a baguette at the bakery on your way home for dinner. Baguettes are distinctive because of their shape, and if they're baked well, they have a crisp crust and a soft interior. In the 1700s, the word baguette referred only to rod-like architectural details, though by the mid-20th century, it also meant bread..
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.
The Elephant â Political cartoonist Thomas Nast was also responsible for the Republican Party elephant. In a cartoon that appeared in. in 1874, Nast drew a donkey clothed in lion's skin, scaring away all the animals at the zoo.