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.
Thomas Aquinas is considered one of the Catholic Church's greatest theologians and philosophers. The English philosopher Anthony Kenny considers Aquinas to be 'one of the dozen greatest philosophers of the western world'.