Zonker, still not ready for the “ real world ”, was living with Mike and JJ until he was accepted as a medical student at his Uncle Duke ’ s “ Baby Doc College ” in Haiti.

The Dukes of Hazzard follows the adventures of " The Duke Boys ", cousins Bo and Luke Duke, who live in a rural part of the fictional Hazzard County, Georgia with their attractive cousin Daisy and their wise old Uncle Jesse, as they race around in their customized 1969 Dodge Charger stock car, christened ( The ) General Lee, evading crooked county commissioner Boss Hogg and his inept county sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, and always managing to get caught in the middle of the various escapades and incidents that often occur in the area.

Of the characters, only Uncle Jesse and Boss Hogg appear in every single episode ; Daisy appears in all but one, the third season's " To Catch a Duke ".

* Jesse L. Duke ( Denver Pyle ), referred to by just about everyone in Hazzard other than Boss Hogg as " Uncle Jesse ", is the patriarch of the Duke clan, and the father-figure to all Dukes who stayed with him on the dilapidated " Duke Farm.

* Coy Duke ( Byron Cherry ) ( 1982 – 83 ), the replacement for Bo, is another blond-haired cousin who moved to Uncle Jesse's farm along with cousin Vance after Bo and Luke left Hazzard to join the NASCAR circuit.

In November, Phil released The Uncle Duke project, a collaboration with his uncle Dave " Duke " Keaggy, with Phil setting his uncle's eclectic poetry to music.

" The song " Spring " was previously released on 2000's Uncle Duke as " Interlude.

In July, Keaggy also released an expanded edition of Uncle Duke.

First released in 2000, this new edition was entitled The Uncle Duke Project and included the original album plus a bonus disc of new songs, alternate versions and an interview with Phil and his uncle.

Zonker's family consists of his mother, father, " Uncle " Duke, his nephew Zipper, and his sister.

After his graduation from Walden, Zonker eventually enrolled in " The Baby Doc College of Physicians " ( which was run by Uncle Duke, an old family friend ).

Most of the adventures are read from a post card by Uncle Jesse Duke to his pet raccoon Smokey.

George's third embassy was between May and August 1533 when he travelled to France with his Uncle the Duke of Norfolk to be present at a proposed meeting between the King of France and the Pope.

Uncle Duke

Despite Zonker calling him " Uncle Duke ", Duke appears to be his surname ; the back matter for the Doonesbury collection " Death of a Party Animal " refers to him as " Raoul Duke ," a throwback to the character's origins.

In March 2005, following the suicide of Hunter S. Thompson, the strip ran a tribute, with Uncle Duke lamenting the death of the man he called his " inspiration ".

Author and gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, the obvious inspiration for Trudeau's Uncle Duke character ( Thompson originally wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas under the pseudonym Raoul Duke ) said in numerous interviews that he was irritated and unhappy with the characterization.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

It is, of course, easy to see how `` J '' will mean Uncle Jack to one person and little Jane to another.

It is evident that Lizzie did not tell everything she overheard between her father and her Uncle Morse.

Joel Chandler Harris's ' Br ' er Rabbit ' of the Uncle Remus stories is said to be patterned after High John the Conqueror.

* 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.

The best-selling anti-slavery novel from the 19th century is Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852.

Uncle Tom's Cabin is mentioned briefly in Gone with the Wind as being accepted by the Yankees as, " revelation second only to the Bible ".

Uncle Peter is Aunt Pittypat's coach driver.

Uncle is nearly asleep when he feels the bugs walking on his nose.

Algernon, however, refuses his consent until Ernest explains why his cigarette case bears the inscription, “ From little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack .” John-Ernest is forced to admit to living a double life.

Long fascinated by Uncle Jack ’ s hitherto absent black sheep brother, she is predisposed to fall for Algernon in his role of Ernest -- whose name she ’ s particularly fond of.

* March 20 – Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.

* Uncle John Joad – Older brother of Pa Joad ( Tom describes him as " a fella about 60 ", but the narrator later tells you he is 50 ), feels responsible for the death of his young wife years before when he ignored her pleas for a doctor because he thought she just had a stomachache, when she actually had a burst appendix.

The beginning of the propagation of dance and accompanying music called polka is generally attributed to a young woman, Anna Slezakova ( born Anna Chadimova ) of Labska Tynice, Bohemia, who danced to accompany a local folk song called " Strycek Nimra koupil simla ", or " Uncle Nimra Bought a White Horse ", in 1834.

It became the best-selling American novel of the 19th century, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and is considered " the most influential Christian book of the ...

Clark quickly realizes that once Uncle Tom is released, no matter what happens, their kidnappers will have little reason to keep their prisoners alive.

Uncle Tom feels that Clark is dangerous and maladjusted, and attributes this to the mother giving priority to her career.

: This article is about the character from the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the resulting epithet.

Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The phrase " Uncle Tom " has also become an epithet for a person who is slavish and excessively subservient to perceived authority figures, particularly a black person who behaves in a subservient manner to white people ; or any person perceived to be a participant in the oppression of their own group.

At the time of the novel's initial publication in 1851 Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of minstrel shows ; Stowe's melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slavery for White audiences by portraying Tom as a Christlike figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because Tom refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who escape from slavery.

Formal innovation characterised Mon oncle d ' Amérique ( My American Uncle ) ( 1980 ) in which the theories of the neurobiologist Henri Laborit about animal behaviour are juxtaposed with three interwoven fictional stories ; and a further counterpoint to the fictional characters is provided by the inclusion of film extracts of the classic French film actors with whom they identify.

Major Brabazon-Plank, later Major Plank, is a recurring fictional character from the Uncle Fred and Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a famed explorer who led an expedition up the Amazon but is afraid of babies.

Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham, commonly known as Uncle Fred, is a fictional character who appears in short stories and novels written by P. G. Wodehouse between 1935 and 1961.

For example, in The Reptile Room, Uncle Monty and the Baudelaires plan a trip to Peru ; there are also references to the fictional nobility of North American regions, specifically the Duchess of Winnipeg and the King of Arizona.

Uncle Remus is a fictional character, the title character and fictional narrator of a collection of African-American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881.

Uncle Fester, or Fester Addams, is a member of the fictional Addams Family and the antagonist of the crossover films.

In Robert Coover's 1977 novel The Public Burning, Coover mixes historically inaccurate accounts of Richard Nixon interacting with historical figures and fictional characters such as Uncle Sam and Betty Crocker.

He played the role of Uncle Dave Thornton, the Walt Disney-esque founder of the fictional California theme park Wonderworld.

As with racial guilds, some are based in existing fantasy works, like Dragonlance (" Knights of Solamnia ", " Dragonarmies of Ansalon ", " Dwarven Warriors of the Neidar Clan ", " Priests of Takhisis "), The Lord of the Rings (" Rangers of Arnor ", " Rangers of Ithilien ", " Society of Morgul Mages ", " Army of Angmar "), others are based on those fictional works but not found in them ( like the " Ansalon Elvish Archers ", " Secret Society of Uncle Trapspringer " and the " Thornlin Militia "), and original ones (" Union of the Warriors of the Shadow ", " Ancient Order of the Dragon ", " Gladiators of Athas "( also loosely based on the Darksun series from AD & D 2nd Edition ), " Vampires " ( currently closed ), " Calian Warriors ", " The Free Mercenaries of Sparkle ", the " Spirit Circle of Psuchae ", and the " Army of Darkness ").

Though Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin is fictional, the book addressed the notion of everyone being involved in the perpetuated cycle of chattel slavery, even women, people living in the north, and people who did not own slaves.

The Tar-Baby is a fictional character in the second of the Uncle Remus stories published in 1881 ; it is a doll made of tar and turpentine used to entrap Br ' er Rabbit.

In National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Clark refers to his boss as " four flushing " in his tirade over his corporate Christmas present ; in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York it's used by the mafia boss Johnny in the fictional film Angels with Even Filthier Souls ; and in Uncle Buck, Pooter the Clown calls Buck a four flusher, which results in Buck punching the clown right in the face.

Uncle Jesse may refer to any of several fictional characters, including:

Uncle Marvel is a fictional comic book character originally created for Fawcett Comics, and today owned by DC Comics, who appears in stories about the Marvel Family team of superheroes.

A picture of John Van Trompe, a fictional abolitionist in Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Uncle Sam is a fictional character, a DC Comics superhero based on national personification of the United States, Uncle Sam.

His highest-profile television roles have included hospital radio DJ Eddie McKenna in BBC Scotland's Takin ' Over The Asylum the leading character, DCI Red Metcalfe, in the BBC crime drama series Messiah ( BBC One, 2001 – 05 ); DI Chappell in ITV police drama The Vice ( 1999 – 2003 ); as a drunk who fantasises about finding redemption by joining the Salvation Army in Promoted to Glory ( ITV, 2003 ); as Adolf Hitler in Uncle Adolf ( ITV, 2005 ) and as a fictional Chancellor of the Exchequer in Richard Curtis's The Girl in the Café ( BBC One, 2005 ).

Uncle Leo is a fictional character portrayed by Len Lesser in 15 episodes of the American sitcom Seinfeld.