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Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England
7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals
Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.
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Born August 13, 1756 • England
Died June 1, 1815 (aged 58) • London • England

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political cartoon of Napoleon Bonaparte and King George III
political cartoon: William Pitt, the Younger
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George Cruikshank
British artist
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Thomas Nast
Thomas Nast
American political caricaturist
George Grosz.
George Grosz
German artist
Harry Furniss: Getting Gladstone's Collar Up
Harry Furniss
Anglo-Irish caricaturist
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
Illustration by Walter Crane for The Frog Prince (1873).
Walter Crane
British illustrator and painter
Leech, John
John Leech
British caricaturist
Otto von Bismarck and William II
Sir John Tenniel
English artist
May, Phil
Phil May
British caricaturist
Gerald Scarfe
English caricaturist
Doyle, Richard: The Fairy Queen's Messenger
Richard Doyle
British artist
Paul Klee
Paul Klee
Swiss-German artist
Francisco Goya: Self-portrait
Francisco Goya
Spanish artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Rudolf Bauer
German-born artist
Ralph Steadman
British artist and cartoonist
Garry Trudeau
Garry Trudeau
American satirist
Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer
American cartoonist and writer
The New Yorker's Idea of the Map of the United States, cartoon by John T. McCutcheon
John T. McCutcheon
American cartoonist