* 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.

David Samuel " Sam " Peckinpah ( February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984 ) was an American film director and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ).

David Samuel " Sam " Peckinpah was born February 21, 1925, in Fresno, California, where he attended both grammar school and high school.

* 1766 – Samuel Wilson, American meat-packer, namesake of Uncle Sam ( d. 1854 )

In 1 Sam 12: 6-17, the Deuteronomic Historians composed a speech of Samuel that puts him as the judge sent by God to save Israel.

Samuel Marshall " Sam " Raimi ( October 23, 1959 ) is an American film director, producer, writer and actor.

Prime Minister of Guyana Sam Hinds | Samuel Hinds at the local Unification Church headquarters, 2012

* July 31 – Samuel Wilson, American thought to be the real-life basis for Uncle Sam ( b. 1766 )

* Front of name: Sometimes a nickname can come from the front: Chris from Christopher / Christina, Ed from Edward / Edmond / Edgar / Edwin, Iz or Izzy from Isaac / Isaiah / Isidore / Izale / Isabel / Isabella, Joe or Jo from Joseph / Josephine / Joanna, Abby from Abigail, Nick or Nico from Nicholas, Peg from Peggy, Sam from Samuel / Samantha / Samson

His parents, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines, had three girls and two boys: Johnson and his brother, Sam Houston Johnson ( 1914 – 78 ), and sisters Rebekah ( 1910 – 78 ), Josefa ( 1912 – 61 ), and Lucia ( 1916 – 97 ).

Samuel " Sam " Houston ( March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863 ) was a nineteenth-century American statesman, politician, and soldier.

Sam Houston was the son of Major Samuel Houston and Elizabeth Paxton.

Their children were born on his family's plantation near Timber Ridge Church, including Sam Houston on March 2, 1793, the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born: Children-Paxton 1783, Robert 1787, James 1788, John Paxton 1790 ( first clerk of Izard County, Arkansas 1819-1838 ), Samuel 1793, William 1794, Isabella 1796, Mary Blair 1797, and Elizabeth Ann 1800.

Adonijah was the fourth son of King David and Haggith according to the book of Samuel ( See: 2 Sam.

Thus Saul ( 1 Sam 10: 1 ) and David were anointed as kings by the prophet Samuel:

Samuel D. " Sam " Waksal, Ph. D., ( born 8 September 1947 ) is the founder and former CEO of the biopharmaceutical company ImClone Systems.

The movie was adapted by Samuel G. Engel, Sam Hellman, and Winston Miller from the book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal by Stuart N. Lake.

* Samuel " Sam " McGuire ( Robert Carradine ): is Lizzie and Matt's father.

Samuel Cornelius Phillips ( January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003 ), better known as Sam Phillips, was an American businessman, record executive, record producer and DJ who played an important role in the emergence of rock and roll as the major form of popular music in the 1950s.

* 1915 Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr. and his wife Rebekah Baines Johnson, parents of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, move into their home in Johnson City with their five children, Lucia, Sam Houston.

His daughter, Betsy, was married to Samuel Wilson, famous as " Uncle Sam ", and at that time a resident of Troy, New York.

Near the town's center is the boyhood home of Samuel Wilson, the meat-supplier who is believed to have inspired the Uncle Sam character.

* Samuel Wilson, meat-packer and origin of Uncle Sam

A very small portion of the historic Oakwood Cemetery, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and burial place of Samuel Wilson, a possible namesake of Uncle Sam, resides within the northwestern part of the town.

They have a son, Samuel Paul, known as Sam ( born 2001 ), who is raised in Elizabeth's Jewish religion.

He also gets along with Watch Commander Samuel Vimes, despite the latter's legendary dislike of magic, as both of them share the belief that the most important thing about magic is knowing when not to use it.

Sir Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, begins investigating the crime, originally suspecting both a Klatchian named 71-Hour Ahmed and a senior Morporkian peer, Lord Rust, of being involved.

As of his latest promotion, his full name and title is ; " His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh ; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes ": When serving as Ambassador for Ankh-Morpork, he is also referred to simply as " His Excellency ", and is also nicknamed " Blackboard Monitor Vimes ," and " Vetinari's Terrier " ( or hammer ): According to his wife, Sybil, Vimes is recognised by many as Lord Vetinari's right-hand man.

The main events of Night Watch, set only a few weeks after Vimes joined the Watch, are stated as occurring more than thirty years prior to the present from which Vimes came, this makes Samuel Vimes at least 46 years old at the time of the events of that book.

They are known as ' Sammies ' ( which is based on the British terms " Bobbies " and the now obsolete " Peelers ", meaning police officers, after Robert Peel ), even to the people who may have never actually heard of Samuel Vimes himself.

Samuel " Young Sam " Vimes II ) is Sam and Sybil Vimes ' son and only child ; he was born at the end of the events in Night Watch, is about fourteen months old by the time of Thud !, and at the age of six years old by the time of the events of Snuff.

* Samuel Vimes article in Discworld & Pratchett Wiki

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Later, he fought alongside the remnants of Samuel Vimes ' ( then known as John Keel ) Night Watch against the remnants of the Cable Street Particulars ( colloquially known as the Unmentionables ), the late Lord Winder's secret police.

In essence, this amounts to Carrot Ironfoundersson and Samuel Vimes, respectively the captain and commander of the City Watch, and hence used to keeping Vetinari alive – on the grounds that they would be ' on top of the pile ' if the city collapsed, as the city's rightful heir to the throne and the highest ranking noble respectively.

The Assassins ' Guild no longer accepts contracts on the Patrician – he is the only person besides Samuel Vimes to have been taken off the register.

He was arrested by his own Commander of the Watch ( Samuel Vimes ) for attempted murder, and spent part of the book incarcerated.

Whilst one may speculate that while Vetinari basically has a watchmaker's vision of the state, with everything in perfect balance and needing only the occasional drop of fine oil, he is actually pragmatic enough to appreciate that it requires to be kept in trim with a heavy hammer, aka Samuel Vimes.

Dwarfish courtship is an incredibly tactful affair, primarily concerned with finding out which gender the other dwarf is ( this may have been retconned by the time of the novel, ' Thud ', where it is stated that Samuel Vimes, a human, has picked up a knack for judging the gender of dwarfs, making it likely that they are able to tell amongst themselves ).

Trolls normally express themselves in a very physical way, and according to Samuel Vimes, trollish is " basically body language, and they like to shout ".

Samuel Vimes theorizes that Chrysophrase did this solely to try to keep him off guard.

Samuel Vimes, upon seeing him, classifies him as the loser's loser.

He accompanied Samuel Vimes to Überwald for the negotiations in Bonk, in The Fifth Elephant, and was temporarily appointed ' cultural attache ' by Vimes.