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Uncle and Sam
Why don't Uncle Sam mind his own fucken business??
`` Uncle Sam '' was, indeed, a rich uncle to Prokofieff, in those opulent, post-war victory years of peace and prosperity, bold speculations and extravaganzas, enjoyment and pleasure: `` The Golden Twenties ''.
in the spacious hunting grounds of `` Uncle Sam '' ; ;
Into its chanceries each day pour reports from ministries around the earth and an endless stream of home-office instructions on how to handle Uncle Sam in an infinite variety of contingencies.
Uncle Sam would then accuse them of creating a monopoly by `` unfair competition ''.
* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.
An Uncle Sam is mentioned as early as 1775, in the original " Yankee Doodle " lyrics of the Revolutionary War.
With the American Revolutionary War came " Brother Jonathan " as another personification and finally after the War of 1812 Uncle Sam appeared.
Costumes may serve to portray various other characters during secular holidays, such as an Uncle Sam costume worn on the Independence day for example.
The production stirred deep controversy by featuring nude performers in Mickey Mouse masks dancing on the ruins of the World Trade Center and a female singer with a painted on Hitler toothbrush moustache performing a straight arm Nazi salute, along with sinister portrayals of American soldiers, Uncle Sam, and Elvis Presley impersonators.
American recruiting poster depicting Uncle Sam
* 1766 – Samuel Wilson, American meat-packer, namesake of Uncle Sam ( d. 1854 )
Originally co-creator Sam Rolfe wanted to leave the meaning of UNCLE ambiguous so it could be viewed as either referring to " Uncle Sam " or the United Nations.
Contrary to popular belief, Nast did not create Uncle Sam ( the male personification of the American people ), Columbia ( the female personification of American values ), or the Democratic donkey, though he did popularize these symbols through his art.
His nickname became " Sam " among army colleagues at the academy, since the initials " U. S ." stood for " Uncle Sam ".
* July 31 – Samuel Wilson, American thought to be the real-life basis for Uncle Sam ( b. 1766 )
Editorial cartoon: Uncle Sam directs U. S. Senators and Representatives implicated in the Crédit Mobilier scheme to commit Hari-Kari.
Political cartoon from 1860 depicting Stephen A. Douglas receiving a traditional " over-the-knee " spanking from Historical Columbia | Columbia as Uncle Sam looks on approvingly.
Democratic cartoon from 1833 showing Jackson destroying the bank, to the approval of the Uncle Sam like figure to the right, and annoyance of the bank's president, shown as the Devil himself
** The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam: Part Two-Haboush Company, Goldstone Films-Robert Mitchell and Dale Case
He wrote " If you wanted to sum up the relative position of Britain and America in this century – the ebbing away of the pink areas of the map, the fading of national self-confidence as Uncle Sam proceeded to colonise the globe with fizzy drinks and Hollywood – you could do it like this: they had Star Trek, we had Blake's 7 ... No ' boldly going ' here: instead, we got the boot stamping on a human face which George Orwell offered as a vision of humanity's future in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
* Uncle Sam ( October 30-December 1911 ) ( Broadway )
Illustration of Sam from the 1888 " New Edition " of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Uncle and Up
* Paper-and-pencil puzzles such as Uncle Art's Funland, Connect the dots, Nonograms, and the Logic puzzles published by Nikoli: Sudoku, Slitherlink, Kakuro, Fillomino, Hashiwokakero, Heyawake, Hitori, Light Up, Masyu, Number Link, Nurikabe, Ripple Effect, Shikaku and Kuromasu ; see List of Nikoli puzzle types
Uncle Cleans Up ( 1965 ) is a children's story written by J. P. Martin as part of his Uncle series.
As before, Uncle Cleans Up ends in Uncle's capture by the Badfort Crowd before he escapes, this time with the help of his loyal friend the Old Monkey, and a great battle is fought in which the Badfort Crowd are completely defeated -- until next time.
* " Uncle Sam's Boys Smash the Germans: or, Helping the Allies Wind Up the Great World War "
By the mid-1940s, the newspaper's Sunday comics included Bringing Up Father, Blondie, a full-page Prince Valiant, Flash Gordon, The Little King, Buz Sawyer, Feg Murray's Seein ' Stars, Tim Tyler's Luck, Gene Ahern's Room and Board and The Squirrel Cage, The Phantom, Jungle Jim, Tillie the Toiler, Little Annie Rooney, Little Iodine, Bob Green's The Lone Ranger, Believe It or Not !, Uncle Remus, Dinglehoofer and His Dog, Donald Duck, Tippie, Right Around Home, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith and The Katzenjammer Kids.
Bjerke also published two collections of mystery short stories in 1970, titled " Onkel Oscar starter opp " (" Uncle Oscar Starts Up ") and " Onkel Oscar kjører videre " (" Uncle Oscar Drives On ").
Television series in which he appeared included Hopalong Cassidy, Judge Roy Bean ( in which he played the lead, Texas Justice of the Peace Judge Roy Bean ), Cimarron City, the episode " Duel at Sundown " of Maverick with James Garner and Clint Eastwood, Leave It To Beaver ( as both " Uncle Billy " and " Captain Jack "), The Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, Route 66, Bringing Up Buddy, The Californians, Bus Stop, The Lloyd Bridges Show, Cade's County and The Rifleman.

Uncle and patriotic
Sammie wears a patriotic costume and represents the American historical figure Uncle Sam, who was born in Troy.
Given his resemblance to Uncle Sam, Coltrin named his new cereal after the mythical patriotic character.

Uncle and based
Robinson says that he based the lecherous character of Uncle Monty in the film Withnail and I on Zeffirelli.
He also played the title role in the television series My Uncle Silas, based on the short stories by H. E. Bates, about a roguish but lovable poacher-cum-farm labourer looking after his great-nephew.
The term " Uncle Tom " is used as a derogatory epithet for an excessively subservient person, particularly when that person perceives their own lower-class status based on race.
Stowe never meant Uncle Tom to be a derided name, but the term as a pejorative has developed based on how later versions of the character, stripped of his strength, were depicted on stage.
In 1945, he auditioned for a bit part voicing one of the animals in the new Disney feature film Song of the South ( 1946 ), based on the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris.
The film is based on the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris.
Walt Disney had long wanted to make a film based on the Uncle Remus storybook, but it wasn't until the mid-1940s that he had found a way to give the stories an adequate film equivalent, in scope and fidelity.
Unlike the Snow White comic strip, which only adapted the film, Uncle Remus ran for decades, telling one story after another about the characters, some based on the legends and others new, until it ended on December 31, 1972.
" Mantegna based his raspy voice for Fat Tony on his Uncle Willy, a long-standing cigarette smoker.
Given the lax copyright laws of the time, stage plays based on Uncle Tom's Cabin —" Tom shows "— began to appear while the novel was still being serialized.
The title is a corruption of " melodrama ", thought to harken back to the earliest minstrel shows, as a film short based on a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin by the Disney characters.
The following history is mainly based on Rosa's stories, especially " His Majesty, McDuck ", first published in Uncle Scrooge Adventures # 14.
Voortrekker ' Uncle ' Paul Kruger, first president of the South African Republic upon its reacquired independence after the brief British annexation, adopted the Calvinstic principles in its political form, and formulated the Boer cultural mandate based on the Afrikaner Calvinist conviction that the South Africans had a special calling from God, not unlike the people of Israel in the Bible.
The United Artists 1933 release " Mickey's Mellerdrammer "— the name a corruption of " melodrama " thought to harken back to the earliest minstrel shows — was a film short based on a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin by the Disney characters.
He draws mostly Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, and he has also written and / or illustrated stories based on the animated series DuckTales.
As he continued to work on Heavy Traffic, Bakshi began pitching his next project, Harlem Nights, a film loosely based on the Uncle Remus story books.
The marker memorializes the local legend that the real run-away slave, on whom the character of Eliza Harris of “ Uncle Tom's Cabin ” was based, stopped at the Silliven home on her way to freedom.
They aligned themselves with internet phenomenon Têtes à claques to create an eBay auction based on popular T-A-C character Uncle Tom, an infomercial host who pitches absurd products.
* Harriet Beecher Stowe ’ s Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin: an Electronic Edition of the National Era Version — Edited by textual scholar Wesley Raabe, this is the first edition of the novel to be based on the original text published in the National Era
"), おっちゃんVSギャル (" Uncle vs. Gal "), クイズ仕事人 (" Business People Quiz "), クイズ! 紳助くん (" Shinsuke-kun Quiz "), 3 ・ 3が9イズ (" 3. 3 is 9 ", based on Hollywood Squares ), 世界痛快伝説 !! 運命のダダダダーン!
He also produced a series of stories based on the Our Gang film series, provided covers for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, illustrated the aforementioned adaptations of two Disney animated features, drew stories featuring Raggedy Ann and Andy and Uncle Wiggily, wrote and drew a lengthy series of comic books promoting a bread company and featuring a character called " Peter Wheat ", and did a series of pantomime ( i. e. without dialogue ) two-page stories featuring Roald Dahl's Gremlins for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 34 – 41.
During that era the scene was based in a series of short-lived nightclubs such as The Place, Hobos, Uncle Sams and Bundulees.
Uncle is based on his agent and father, Jade is based on an assortment of his nieces, and Tohru is based on one of his stunt team members as well as himself.

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