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.
Mary Adelaid Nutting Nutting was the first nurse to ever be appointed to a University professoership. In 1894, Nutting because principal of the John's Hopkins School of Nursing. Nutting also created a course on dietetics at Johns Hopkins, the first course of its kind in any nursing school in the United States.