Nick’s Big Trip is a must for all the family with fantastic activities, prizes and giveaways for visitors of all ages. Fans of Nick’s cartoon stars SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora the Explorer will be able to meet their heroes, while little ones have fun in the soft play area.
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Thousands of demonstrators have burned Danish and Dutch flags in the Afghan capital in the latest protests against cartoons and a film considered insulting to Islam.
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America is often represented in illustrations and political cartoons by symbolic characters. The fierce-looking bald eagle is a familiar one. The most widely-known human symbol of the United States is Uncle Sam. He's an old, gray-bearded fellow with stars on his top hat who has been around since the War of 1812. You still see him — sometimes on stilts — walking down Main Street in Independence Day parades.
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Hundreds of people took to the streets in Pakistan's major cities Friday, to protest the re-publication of a controversial Danish cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammed.
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Iranian lawmakers have condemned Danish and Dutch newspapers for reprinting a satirical cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.
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In response to the arrest on Tuesday of three people who allegedly were planning to kill the artist who drew the cartoon, Kurt Westergaard. five major newspapers in Denmark have reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban.
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Known for his brilliant cartoons for The New Yorker and his award-winning children’s books, William Steig (1907–2003) was an American original whose achievements remain unparalleled. He first gained fame through his artwork for The New Yorker where he ushered in a new era by radically transforming the way cartoons were created at the magazine.
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One of Britain's favourite cartoonists is to be the subject of a major online archive in a £1m digitisation project at the University of Kent's British Cartoon Archive. Giles, who worked for the Daily Express and Sunday Express from 1943 to 1991, is recognised as having had considerable influence on the style of British social and political cartooning.
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Swedish police have ordered artist Lars Vilks out of his own home telling him it is no longer safe for him to live there. The head of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, says he will pay as much as $150,000 to anyone who can kill Vilks because of what he calls offensive pictures of the Muslim Prophet Mohammad.
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Join editorial cartoonist Guy Badeaux in the Canadian Museum of Civilization's newest exhibition Face to Face: The Canadian Personalities Hall for an interesting discussion on politics and editorial cartoons on Sunday, August 26, 2007, at 2 p.m.
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A yellow man with bulging eyes and an insatiable appetite for donuts rules the U.S. box office. Homer Simpson and his cartoon clan pulled in $71.9 million over the weekend, propelling The Simpsons Movie to number one.
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