Big Chungus did not originate in the meme world, but in the 1941 Merrie Melodies cartoon Wabbit Twouble. In the short, Bugs Bunny mocks an unusually portly version of Elmer Fudd by inflating himself ...

Asher Wertheimer was a Jewish tycoon who asked John Singer Sargent to paint him. The results are strange, slippery—and some ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s new Pentagon pick, Pete Hegseth, is being blasted for tattoos that are allegedly symbols of ...

Hegseth has about 12 tattoos on his right arm and chest, all but one of which (the exception is an indistinct symbol that appears to represent the numeral "7") are clear references to his military ...

Hashim Djojohadikusumo is leading the Indonesian delegation at the climate change conference COP29 in Azerbaijan. But he is more a representative of corporate interests.

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The Unicode Consortium has issued its latest collection of emoji you could be using on an iPhone in late 2025, including a ...

We’re still awaiting that wacky pack of emoji characters previewed in May. And we probably won’t actually see the ...

Who creates the symbols so many of us now use to communicate? How do they get on our phones? And why can’t we all agree on ...

Pepe the Frog—what started as an innocent cartoon character has evolved into a complex symbol of internet culture.

According to the Federal Reserve Board, the central banking system of the US, the US officially adopted the dollar sign in ...