* January 3 – Harper's Weekly publishes Thomas Nast's first drawing of the modern Santa Claus ( although Santa existed previously ).

Thomas Nast's caricature of the Cincinnati Convention from Harper's Weekly, April 13, 1872.

Thomas Nast's passion for drawing was apparent from an early age, and he was enrolled for about a year of study with Alfred Fredericks and Theodore Kaufmann and at the school of the National Academy of Design.

Even if Nast's cartoons were not particularly offensive, Falwell argued that the Hustler parody advertisement in this case was so " outrageous " as to take it outside the scope of First Amendment protection.

Between 1932 and 1936, Nast's companion was the Vanity Fair writer Helen Brown Norden Lawrenson, author of The Hussy's Handbook ( 1942 ), Latins are Still Lousy Lovers ( 1968 ), and Stranger at the Party ( 1975 ).

In the words of the artist's grandson, Thomas Nast St Hill, " it was generally conceded that Nast's support won Cleveland the small margin by which he was elected.

The story was not to be on GQ's website, not to be published in Conde Nast's foreign magazines, and not to be publicized.

He was formerly a writer and investigative reporter with The New York Times and later with Condé Nast's business magazine, Portfolio.

Webb was recently added as a contributing editor for Conde Nast's Cookie magazine a lifestyle guide redefining modern motherhood.

Shrimpton's first photo session with Bailey was in 1960 ( either for Condé Nast's Brides on 7 December 1960 or for British Vogue ).

One of Condé Nast's oldest titles, the American edition of House and Garden, ceased publication after the December 2007 issue.

The elder Nast's socialist political convictions put him at odds with the Bavarian government, and in 1846 he left Landau, enlisting first on a French man-of-war and subsequently on an American ship.

Nast's cartoons and articles about the Garibaldi military campaign to unify Italy captured the popular imagination in the U. S. In 1861, he married Sarah Edwards, whom he had met two years earlier.

Nast's aunt financed his studies at Georgetown University, where he graduated in 1894.

In 2010, the plaec Condé Nast's Reader Choice award for the world's second most-beautiful island.

Condé Nast's headquarters are in New York City.

In Nast's cartoon " A Matter of Taste ", published March 15, 1879 ( seen at right ), John Confucius expresses disapproval of Senator James G. Blaine for his support of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

She also wrote a column for Condé Nast's magazine Women's Sports & Fitness, and has been a contributing editor at Elle magazine.

The legend of Wigwag's founding by a group of young exiles from The New Yorker-an exodus which followed The New Yorker's acquisition by Conde Nast and Conde Nast's subsequent dismissal of The New Yorker's longtime editor William Shawn-attracted an enormous amount of attention to its launch and early publication.

The current editor is Adam Rapoport, previously Style Editor at Condé Nast's GQ magazine.

The magazine became part of Condé Montrose Nast's publishing empire when he bought an interest in it in 1911 ; he became its sole owner in 1915.

Condé Nast Traveler is produced at Condé Nast's U. S. headquarters at 4 Times Square, New York, NY.

In the final analysis his contribution to American historiography was founded on almost intuitive insights into religion, economics, and Darwinism, the three factors which conditioned his search for a law of history.

A Feynman diagram represents a perturbative contribution to the amplitude of a quantum transition from some initial quantum state to some final quantum state.

As the final against the Germans approached, the media learnt of Greaves ' return to fitness and, while appreciating Hurst's contribution, started to call for the return of England's most prolific centre forward.

His last set of " Lighter Side " strips, which had been written but not penciled, were illustrated after Berg's death by 18 of Mads other artists as a final tribute ; this affectionate send-off included the magazine's final new contribution from Jack Davis.

In 1970 he made his final contribution to the film industry where he sang the title song of the Disney film The Aristocats.

In 1970, several years after his retirement, songwriters Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman got him to sing the title song of the Disney film The Aristocats, which ended up being his final contribution to the film industry.

The Member will normally receive a pension of either 1 / 40th or 1 / 50th of their final pensionable salary for each year of pensionable service depending on the contribution rate they will have chosen.

In the final perfection of production and marketing we find that Glen Alden Company has produced 60 to 75 percent of all Plymouth ’ s fuel contribution.

In truth, a few songs sounded like solo efforts, while Lodge's " Survival ", Hayward's appropriate closing " The Day We Meet Again " and Pinder's lone final contribution and lead vocal, " One Step Into The Light " ( curiously as the band is depicted as doing so on the cover photo – where Pinder is perhaps significantly barely glimpsed at all and almost out of focus ) were all high points on the album.

However, his final contribution to the game was missing a penalty in the shoot-out, hitting the ball over the bar and sending the Germans through to the final.

His final contribution to the band was to play bass on a single track which appeared on the band's next album Mysterious Traveller (" American Tango ", which, ironically, he'd co-written with Zawinul ).

The novel Q was written by four Bologna-based members of the LBP, as a final contribution to the project, and published in Italy in 1999.

The two victories were his contribution to the final triumph of his father over Licinius.

... It is a supreme tragedy to me personally that I am unable to continue making my full contribution to such great international undertakings as the creation of the postwar peace organization, the solution of the many other problems involved in the promotion of international cooperation, and the final development of a full and complete structure of a world order under law.

This means that, at each contribution of the perturbation series, we have to add a multiplicative factor in the integrands so that, the limit will give back the final state of the system by eliminating all oscillating terms but keeping the secular ones.

The game was also Soraya Saga's final contribution to the Xenosaga project.

The VEGAS algorithm, due to G. P. Lepage, is a method for reducing error in Monte Carlo simulations by using a known or approximate probability distribution function to concentrate the search in those areas of the graph that make the greatest contribution to the final integral.

In December 2000, Becker addressed the WWP at a conference in New York stating the ultimate goal of WWP and its front groups: " We know that the biggest single contribution that we can we make to the final transition to socialism everywhere is to build a truly revolutionary party that can lead the struggle to overthrow imperialism at its center.

She created the leading female role in Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra ( 1815 ), Otello ( 1816 ), Armida ( 1817 ), Mosè in Egitto ( 1818 ), Maometto II ( 1820 ), and five other Rossini operas up to and including his final contribution to the genre, Semiramide, which was also written with Colbran in the major role.

Kilburn's final analysis of Trueman's contribution to Yorkshire cricket is: " In an XI representing all the county history he would be selected ".

Janco made his final contribution to the Dada adventure in April 1919, when he designed the masks for a major Dada event organized by Tzara at the Saal zur Kaufleutern, and which degenerated into an infamous mass brawl.

The village would not be captured until the final struggle began on 3 September, by which time the 12th was the King's only contribution, and the regiment had more than 3, 000 casualties.