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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

183. Favouring the odds?


Which term in English language owes its origin to the cartoon?

4 comments:

pratishtha said...

n is shite, please rephrase for more clarity!

Anonymous said...

Gerrymander!

Anonymous said...

Printed in 1812, this political cartoon illustrates the electoral districts drawn by the Massachusetts legislature to favor the incumbent Democratic-Republican party candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists, from which the term gerrymander is derived. The cartoon depicts the bizarre shape of a district in Essex County, Massachusetts as a dragon....

Bipin Banavalikar said...

Gerrymander