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  Uncle Duke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uncle Duke is a fictional character in the comic strip Doonesbury.
Duke's early life is murky, but it is almost certain that he had a father, and was born in a hospital.
Duke and Honey ended up on a desert island, where they survived for months, believing themselves to be stranded in the Atlantic, until he took a pair of bird watchers hostage, who summarily informed him that he was on Matagorda Island, a few miles from the mainland of Texas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uncle_Duke   (2043 words)

  
 The Dukes of Hazzard, Ye-Haa!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Dukes of Hazzard is a 2005 movie based on the American television sit-com The Dukes of Hazzard, it is scheduled for release on August 5.
Uncle Jesse (portrayed by actor Denver Pyle) was the patriarch of the Duke clan, and the father-figure to all Dukes who stayed with him on the dilapitated "Duke Farm".
The "faux Dukes" (one of the more polite ways viewers described the "long-lost nephews" of Uncle Jesse) were never popular with viewers, and were immediately written out the show when Schneider and Wopat reached a settlement and returned to the series in early 1983.
www.juiceenewsdaily.com /0605/entertainment/dukes_yehaa.html   (845 words)

  
 Doonesbury@Slate - Cast Bios
Some people regard "Uncle" Duke, a rabid controlled-substances buff, as " the High Lord of Inner Space." But in fact he has a long record, some of it involving public service.
Duke enjoyed a brief career as a laetrile farmer.
Duke disappeared for l7 months, then surfaced as "the 53rd hostage." Upon release he settled down as a drug smuggler in Florida, a career cut short by an ill-fated sightseeing cruise to the Falklands War.
www.doonesbury.com /strip/thecast/duke.html   (479 words)

  
 newsobserver.com | The best uncle we never knew
But in his day, William J. Duke was a pillar of the community and substantial citizen, farming 640 acres in the section around present Hebron Road and what used to be called Duke (now Danube) Lane.
Uncle Billie was a formative figure to his little brother Wash. When their parents encountered financial reverses in the 1820s, Wash was sent to live with and learn farming from his brother, and from him absorbed the intense Methodism that marked the rest of his life.
For Uncle Billie's greatest claim to fame was as a lay preacher -- spreading hellfire, brimstone, hymns (his favorite was "The Old Ship of Zion") and salvation from brush arbor to camp meeting.
www.newsobserver.com /978/story/421795.html   (503 words)

  
 York, Richard, duke of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Richard was brought up as a royal ward, having become duke of York on the death of his uncle Edward in 1415.
He served in the retinue of Henry VI in France (1431) and was lieutenant general of France and Normandy (1436–37).
The death of the king’s uncle Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, in 1447 made York heir presumptive to the throne, and the government, to get him out of the way, promptly ordered him to Ireland as lieutenant.
www.bartleby.com /65/yo/York-Ric.html   (448 words)

  
 The Dukes of Hazzard Cast
Boss Hogg got her to waitress at The Boar's Nest in exchange for lending the Dukes the money to buy a car (which turned out to be a big mistake for him!) and enter it in his race.
Uncle Jesse never broke his word unless it was to get his boys out of trouble (which happened a little too much).
She had the biggest crush on Uncle Jesse and did everything to be next to him.
www.dukesonline.com /dukescast.html   (1219 words)

  
 Wired 8.08: The Revolution Will Be Satirized
As Duke takes the usual questions and spits back the answers (on his political record: "I've run from things, not for things"), Trudeau is slamming a door, cranking up the stereo, punching up lines for Newman on a blueberry iMac, laughing silently at his delivery, and yipping some more.
Trudeau seems well aware that the digital world he's temporarily exploring with the Duke campaign is where his career is headed, and he knows it's high time he got on the fast track of 21st-century media.
Having introduced Duke as a Doonesbury character in 1974, Trudeau has since used him to send up everything from Sino-American rapprochement to the Iranian hostage crisis and the social policies of Newt Gingrich.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/8.08/duke.html   (933 words)

  
 UNC-TV:Biographical Conversations With: Mary Semans:
Washington Duke sells his original land (to be purchased in 1931 by Duke university) and moves into the city of Durham, where the family begins their tobacco business.
Mary Semans is elected to Duke Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, national political science honorary, for her outstanding contributions to society.
Mary Semans steps down as chairman of the Duke Endowment; she is elected to the new position of chairman emeritus.
www.unctv.org /biocon/msemans/timeline.html   (847 words)

  
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028, 02/01/80 - "Officer Daisy Duke" Boss Hogg has fits when the new deputy working for the Hazzard County sheriff turns out to be Daisy Duke, and there is a $10,000 reward at stake for a pair of criminals she is chasing.
083, 04/02/82 - "Dukes in Danger" The Dukes are taken prisoner at the farm by two escaped convicts, shortly before Hogg and Rosco stumble onto the scene, aiming to foreclose on Jesse.
135, 11/09/84 - "Cool Hands- Bo and Luke" The Dukes are arrested and land on a chain gang, pawns in the scheme of a neighboring county's crime lord to acquire the holdings of his bitter rival - Boss Hogg.
www.pitt.edu /~vicious/Dukes_epi.txt   (4477 words)

  
 Universal Press Syndicate: Characters
Duke Some people regard "Uncle" Duke, a rabid controlled-substances buff, as " the High Lord of Inner Space." But in fact he has a long record, some of it involving public service.
Aftr a failed bid for the presidency, Duke recently became a key advisor to the governor of Minnesota.
Huan is the only person standing between Duke and permanent incarceration, having devoted her considerable talents to the thankless task of protecting her imagined paramour from himself.
www.amuniversal.com /ups/features/doonesbury/chars.htm   (649 words)

  
 Tube City Almanac: Fear and Loathing in the Funny Pages
Anyway, as those of you familiar with "Doonesbury" and HST know, the character of "Uncle Duke" was heavily inspired by Thompson.
Duke was introduced as a booze-swilling, pill-popping, gun-toting writer for the underground press, and a womanizing lout.
Their paths diverged as Duke took on a life of his own, and over the decades his ever-evolving career has differed dramatically from that of HST.
mckeesport.dementia.org /blog/000261.html   (536 words)

  
 TV ACRES: Television Character Bios - Luke & Bo Duke (The Dukes of Hazzard)
In exchange, the Duke boys wouldn't have to serve any jail time, but they were restricted from crossing county lines, and from carrying fire arms until their probation period expired.
Besides worrying about the terms of their probation, the Dukes' Boys main day-to-day threat was Boss Hogg, a fat little southern politician dressed in white who loved to eat and, even more, loved to frame the Duke Boys for crimes they didn't commit.
As for the Duke Boys, Luke Duke is the oldest of the cousins.
www.tvacres.com /char_duke_boys.htm   (1277 words)

  
 The Dukes of Hazzard - Uncle Jesse Duke
The Dukes of Hazzard - Uncle Jesse Duke
Said to have had all ten commandments under his long johns (according to the balladeer) and his word was law.
The Dukes of Hazzard is trademark and copyright of Warner Bros. Television.
www.davidhales.net /thedukesofhazzard/characters/unclejesseduke.htm   (319 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : The Establishment of the Duchy of Austria; September 17, 1156.
But the duke of Bavaria has resigned to us the march of Austria, with all its jurisdictions and with all the fiefs which the former margrave Leopold held from the duchy of Bavaria.
The duke of Austria, moreover, shall not owe any other service to the empire from his duchy, except that, when he is summoned, he shall come to the courts which the emperor shall announce in Bavaria.
But great as these were they did not satisfy one of the later dukes of Austria; and some of the most successful of medieval forgeries distorted in the 14th century the original terms of Frederick's grant.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/medieval/austria.htm   (567 words)

  
 Uncle Duke
Uncle Duke pokes and prods the origins of sex.
Uncle Duke examines the role of parents in education.
Uncle Duke examines women from an anthropological standpoint.
www.myblindmule.com   (166 words)

  
 Dukes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In the late 1970's "The Dukes of Hazzard" producers called City Hall in Hazard, Kentucky to ask if anyone would mind if they used the word "Hazard," in their new TV show.
Today, the Dukes of Hazard are minor celebrities, signing autographs but also fielding prank phone calls, with people calling Fred Duke, especially, and asking for Bo, Luke, Daisy or Uncle Jesse.
Neither Duke drives a 1969 Dodge Charger, like the characters in the TV show "The Dukes of Hazzard." "I never did have a Dodge," Joe Duke said.
www.wsgs.com /dukes1.htm   (1145 words)

  
 Tom's Dukes of Hazzard
Uncle Jesse got to drive the General Lee once in a blue moon, and you could tell he was lovin' it, even though he could barely fit through the window.
She also was friends with the Dukes and never ever liked what Boss and Rosco did to them.
Duke, who were Bo and Luke wanna-be's for a season.
members.aol.com /TJHolmes1/dukes.html   (2451 words)

  
 Salvatore Fabris
Duke Karl, whose ambition knew no bounds, tried to obstruct this by introducing, abetted by the Church and the nobility in Sweden, religious and political demands calculated to make Sigismund renounce the throne of Sweden.
The plan had been to murder Duke Karl during the performance, but he had been warned that an attempt on his life was imminent, and did not come to the banquet.
Gustavus Adolphus was himself the son of Duke Karl (Karl IX of Sweden).
www.thearma.org /essays/Fabris_the_Assassin.htm   (2403 words)

  
 Uncle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uncle Charlie Osborne, a musician from the Appalachian Mountains
Uncle Duke, a character in the comic strip Doonesbury
Uncle Fester, a character in the sitcom The Addams Family
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uncle   (362 words)

  
 The Great Thompson Hunt - HST & Friends - Transmetropolitan
Uncle Duke first appeared in Doonesbury in 1974.
Uncle Duke bounces around the globe with his ever faithful and naive companion, Honey Huan.
However, Duke finds out "the divorce is final" when he returns from his stint as Redskins manager.
www.gonzo.org /hst/hst.asp?ID=12   (697 words)

  
 Get a Free Daily Joke Mail from Uncle Dukes Joke Club get Jokes rated PG and/or rated R   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
When you join Uncle Duke's Joke Club, you'll see that there really are two clubs from which to choose.
By becoming a member of Uncle Duke's Joke Club you are agreeing that you have a sense of humor.
Uncle Duke's Joke Club assumes no responsibility for you having someone giggle uncontrollably or making someone pass milk through their nose by telling these jokes.
www.uncledukesjokeclub.com   (1134 words)

  
 Hunter Thompson Death Blows Uncle Duke's Mind In Cartoon Tribute (washingtonpost.com)
This is Hunter S. Thompson we're talking about, a man immortalized both by the "Fear and Loathing" persona he created for himself and by the one cartoonist Garry Trudeau hung on him as Uncle Duke in "Doonesbury." The former was a loose howitzer who positively gloried in outraging community standards.
Reached by phone in his New York studio, he said that he had done a week's worth of strips as a tribute to Thompson and that he hoped Tuesday's would not be misinterpreted.
For Trudeau's Duke, in the end, is a character far more sinister than the self-created, self-destructive gonzo artist who shot himself last month.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A18756-2005Mar8.html   (726 words)

  
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Enter the Funeral of King Henry the Fifth, attended on by the Duke of BEDFORD, Regent of France; the Duke of GLOUCESTER, Protector; the Duke of EXETER; WARWICK; the Bishop of WINCHESTER, and the Duke of SOMERSET.
But now thy uncle is removing hence, As princes do their courts when they are cloyed With long continuance in a settled place.
King Henry Ay, marry, uncle, for I always thought It was both impious and unnatural That such immanity and bloody strife Should reign among professors of one faith.
www.cs.utah.edu /~goller/books/SHAKESPE/1_HENRY6.NEW   (19609 words)

  
 Uncle Jesse Duke - Justin's Dukes of Hazzard site (via CobWeb/3.1 vn1.cs.wustl.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Uncle Jesse did have a fl car called "Black Tilly", which he used to run moonshine back in the days when he was in the Old Time Ridgerunner Association.
Uncle Jesse got to drive the General Lee once in a blue moon, and you could tell he was enjoying it, even though he could barely fit through the window.
Jesse Duke and Boss Hogg knew each other from "the good ol' days", when they used to make booze together.
www.thedukesofhazzard.net.cob-web.org:8888 /jesse.html   (232 words)

  
 george duke
Duke studied the piano at school (where he ran a McCann, Les -inspired Latin band) and emerged from the San Francisco Conservatory as a Bachelor of Music in 1967.
Duke had always had a leaning towards soul jazz and after he left Zappa, he went for full-frontal funk.
As a pioneer of the rather new technology of synthesizers, George Duke has to be mentioned in the same breath as Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, Don Preston, Jan Hammer, and Sun Ra.
www.united-mutations.com /d/george_duke.htm   (2924 words)

  
 Tribute to the Dukes of Hazzard - Bloom-Enterprises.com
Below is a photograph of the original cast of the Dukes of Hazzard.
The recent cast members from left and in the front row are John Schneider (Bo Duke), Catherine Bach (Daisy Duke), and Tom Wopat (Luke Duke).
In May 2000, the Dukes were back on CBS in their television movie Dukes in Hollywood.
www.bloom-enterprises.com /doh/doh.html   (602 words)

  
 Culpepper Log: February 20, 2005
Besides his writing, he provided the inspiration for Gary Trudeau's best Doonesbury character, Uncle Duke.
It's even better that Thompson apparently HATED the Duke character, expressing the desire to do bodily harm to the author.
Uncle Duke got his worst torment being stuck at home in Aspen- with John Denver as his next door neighbor.
www.morethings.com /log/2005_02_20_culpepper_archive.html   (1396 words)

  
 Crosswalk.com
My dad passed away 19 years ago, and Uncle Duke is very healthy, 74 years old, that's how old my dad was when he passed away.
I made a CD for him, and I'd say, "Here you go, Uncle Duke." Then he started faxing me more words and the heading of the songs.
It's also put me in touch with my uncle in a way that I hadn't made a connection with him before.
www.crosswalk.com /fun/music/541386.html?view=print   (951 words)

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