In 2008, the Democratic Party gathered in Denver for its 2008 convention. There, a donkey named Mordecai became the first official live mascot in the history of the party, giving a new meaning to the expression political animal. This Democratic symbol aimed to provide a few light-hearted moments at the convention.
Variously known as cupstones, anvil stones, pitted cobbles and nutting stones, among other names, these roughly discoidal or amorphous groundstone artifacts are among the most common lithic remains of Native American culture, especially in the Midwest, in Early Archaic contexts.
At first, in fact, Wordsworth had thought Nutting would have a natural place in The Prelude, but he later struck it out, as not being wanted there. It's easy to see the rightness of that conclusion. Nutting is a self-contained narrative, as complete and satisfying as a fairy-story told by the Brothers Grimm.