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Punch, in full Punch, orthe London Charivari, English illustrated periodical published from 1841 to 1992 and 1996 to 2002, famous for its satiric humour and caricatures and cartoons. The first editors, of what was then a weekly radical paper, were Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, and Joseph Stirling Coyne. Among the most famous early members of the staff were the authors William Makepeace Thackeray and Thomas Hood and the illustrator-cartoonists John Leech and Sir John Tenniel. The cover drawing by Ri...

Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema announced major federal investments they secured across Arizona. These investments through the Fiscal Year 2023 bipartisan annual budget will support law enforcement and

In 1843, 31-year-old English author and journalist Charles Dickens, a prodigy who had already gained fame and acclaim with “The Pickwick Papers,” and “Oliver Twist,” would write his holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol,” in just six weeks.

Since the stone age, winter festivals have bestowed their warming glow of fire and light and bountiful feast in nearly every culture of human civilization drudging through the cold, dark,

The spirit of Christmas was being relegated to a minor holiday under the smokestacks of industrial profit. And then Scrooge and Tiny Tim came onstage.

I did not rush to the computer with this column. Instead, when I got home around 10 p.m. on December 16, I sat in the darkened front room of my

But if Ebenezer Scrooge is a supreme feat of literary imagination, whats less well-known is that the character had an inspiration in real life. John Elwes was a man so truly miserly.

Charles Dickens’s words were codified in 1843, when first published as A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. The novella, illustrated by John Leech, was published by London’s Chapman and Hall, and has been a holiday staple ever since.  Changes in times and ...

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