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	Uncle Sam (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In that version, Uncle Sam was a mystical being who was the spirit of a slain patriotic soldier of the American Revolutionary War, but now appeared in the world whenever his country needed him.
		Uncle Sam was apparently killed by Sinestro in Infinite Crisis # 1, after the Freedom Fighters were sent to investigate a warehouse where the Society had been spotted.
		This Uncle Sam is a ragged old man who is tormented by visions of historical episodes and modern aspects of the United States at its worst.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uncle_Sam_(comics) (644 words)

	Uncle Sam - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Uncle Sam
		The first use of the name in a book was in The Adventures of Uncle Sam 1816 by ‘Frederick Augustus Fidfaddy, Esq.’.
		It was not merely during the three hours and a half which Uncle Sam claimed as his share of my daily life that this wretched numbness held possession of me.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Uncle+Sam (190 words)

	Uncle Sam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States dating from the War of 1812.
		Most earlier representative figures of the United States such as "Brother Jonathan" were overtaken by Uncle Sam somewhere around the time of the Civil War.
		In addition to the appearance of Uncle Sam in politics, the character has also appeared as a comic book hero for both Charlton and DC Comics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uncle_Sam (516 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Uncle Sam is the culmination of a tradition of representative male icons in America which can be traced well back into colonial times.
		Known locally as "Uncle" Sam, he would be the impetus for a regional saying which would eventually become a national icon.
		Uncle Sam Wilson moved to Troy with his brother, Ebenezer, with whom he later began the firm of E. Wilson.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CAP/SAM/sam.htm (474 words)

	Biography of Uncle Sam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Uncle Sam's traditional appearance, with a white goatee and star-spangled suit, is an invention of artists and political cartoonists; Samuel Wilson did not look like the modern image of Uncle Sam.
		As a rule, Brother Jonathan was drawn with a feather in his cap, while Uncle Sam was not; and Uncle Sam is nearly always drawn with a beard, while Brother Jonathan was clean-shaven.
		The single most famous portrait of Uncle Sam is the "I WANT YOU" Army recruiting poster from World War I. The poster was painted by James Montgomery Flagg in 1916-1917.
	home.nycap.rr.com /content/us_bio.html (416 words)

	Uncle Sam $
		Uncle Sam’s federal debt is now $ 7,5 trillion [T], of which all but $1T was built up in the last three decades, the last $ 2T in the last eight years, and the last $1T in the last two years.
		Uncle Sam is the world’s most privileged for having the exclusive right to print the world’s reserve currency at will at a cost of nothing but the paper and ink it is printed on.
		Uncle Sam then uses these arms unilaterally to twist others arms by armed threat and flmail, and if that is not enough to invade the world that provided the money in the first place.
	www.studien-von-zeitfragen.net /Zeitfragen/Uncle_Sam__/uncle_sam__.html (11471 words)

	Ben's Guide (3-5): Symbols of Government -- Uncle Sam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Uncle Sam, a figure symbolizing the United States, is portrayed as a tall, white-haired man with a goatee.
		The exact origins of Uncle Sam as a symbol for the United States are unknown.
		Uncle Sam's traditional appearance, with a white goatee and star-spangled suit, is an invention of artists and political cartoonists.
	bensguide.gpo.gov /3-5/symbols/unclesam.html (277 words)

	Uncle Sam at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The term "Uncle Sam" can also be used as a synonym for America, especially the United States government.
		In some other countries, especially those hostile to the United States, Uncle Sam is often portrayed as a much less respectable figure, and the personification of American arrogance or imperialism.
		The poster was inspired by a similar WWI poster issued in the United Kingdom, picturing Lord Horatio Kitchener in a similar pose.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Uncle_Sam.html (514 words)

	Uncle Sam
		During the War of 1812, the United States was given the nickname "Uncle Sam." Some folks say there was a meatpacker by the name of Samuel Wilson who was born in 1766 in Massachusetts.
		When crates of salted meat were shipped to soldiers during the war, some were stamped US This was the first time the initials had been used for the country, and townspeople assumed that they stood for their friend Uncle Sam.
		Uncle Sam is not a real person, but in 1930, political cartoonists drew pictures of him as a tall, thin man wearing a top hat, red and white striped pants, and a blue jacket.
	www.salem.k12.va.us /south/America/sam.htm (164 words)

	Uncle Sam on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Uncle Sam a big spender in S.C. Uncle Sam symbolizes the red, white and blue.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
		A makeover for Uncle Sam America's icon may be past his prime, but designing a politically correct symbol may not be easy, and some say we shouldn't try.(Suburban Living)
		Uncle Sam(R) Cereal Passes Glycemic Research Institute Criteria.
	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/U/UncleS1am.asp (299 words)

	Uncle Sam Celebriducks for the Connoisseur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The term "Uncle Sam" was originally used by the British as a derogatory term for American troops during the War of 1812.
		The single most famous portrait of Uncle Sam is the "I WANT YOU" Army recruiting poster from World War I. The poster was painted by James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) in 1916-1917.
		Lake George, New York, is the home of the world's tallest statue of Uncle Sam: a 38-foot, 4500-pound fiberglass statue that stands in the parking lot of the Magic Forest amusement park.
	www.beckett.com /celebriducks/uncle_sam/index.asp (777 words)

	Uncle Sam's Place (tm) - Genealogy - Troy, NY
		Sam wins contract to supply meat to the War Department for armies in NY and NJ.
		Sam dies on July 31 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, NY.
		Congress salutes "Uncle Sam" Wilson of Troy, NY as the progenitor of America's national symbol "Uncle Sam".
	www.uncle-sams-home.com /troywlsn.html (306 words)

	Amazon.com: Uncle Sam: DVD: William Smith,David 'Shark' Fralick,Christopher Ogden (II),Leslie Neale,Bo Hopkins,Matthew ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sam's burned and apparently mummified body arrives home in a sealed casket a scant day or two before the 4th of July, and when some of the town's juvenile delinquents perform a disrespectful flag-burning ritual at the fallen war hero's freshly dug grave, not even Death can restrain Sam's patriotic indignation.
		Sam rises from his coffin, appropriates an Uncle Sam costume, and celebrates Independence Day by meting out fatal punishments to the town's hoodlums, crooked politicians, draft dodgers, and anybody else he considers to be un-American.
		Sam is a hardcore patriot(and psychotic and child molester), and blames his "death" on Un-American Americans(he indirectly refers to hippies and draft dodgers as "cowards").
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00026PA7A?v=glance (2460 words)

	The Straight Dope: What's the origin of Uncle Sam?
		Hill, no. Sam Hill is just a soundalike euphemism for "hell" once used by macho American frontiersmen in the presence of women, children, and other sensitive souls.
		A widely held belief, reported as fact in supposedly reliable reference books, is that the original Uncle Sam was one Sam Wilson, a meat packer in Troy, New York, who supplied rations to the U.S. military during the War of 1812.
		This suggests Uncle Sam was dreamed up by critics of the government who simply wanted to personify the object of their scorn.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a3_003.html (551 words)

	Uncle Sam by Steve Darnell and Alex Ross/The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln by Scott McCloud - R A I N T A X I o n l ...
		Through the course of Uncle Sam, he wanders a modern American city, slipping into memories of other times and places--from the death of Black Hawk in 1832 Illinois to a Prisoner of War camp in Civil War Georgia to the Great Plains dust bowl of the 1930s.
		When Uncle Sam is confronted by several other national symbols, however, the comic loses steam.
		In the end, he stands up to a doppelganger Uncle Sam, a slick, self-satisfied version of himself, and succeeds in reclaiming a sense of purpose as well as a sense of his past.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/1998summer/unclesam.shtml (910 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Uncle Sam
		The basic appearance may have been popularized by Dan Rice (1823-1900), a popular circus performer, who apparently wore an Uncle Sam get-up as part of a clown act, possibly beginning in 1844 — but it's hard to be sure of anything Rice claimed, because he didn't always tell the truth.
		But while Nast was important in standardizing the modern appearance of Santa Claus, and in giving the Republicans and Democrats their elephant and donkey, respectively, it isn't clear that he played a similar role with Uncle Sam.
		Sam's appearance was finalized once and for all by James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960).
	www.toonopedia.com /unclesam.htm (505 words)

	Kansas State Historical Society, A Moment in Time, "MEET THE REAL UNCLE SAM"
		It is generally accepted that the character Uncle Sam got his name from Samuel Wilson, a successful meat-packer from Troy, New York during the early 1800s.
		Samuel was widely known by friends and business acquaintances as "Uncle Sam" for his genial character and sense of humor.
		Even today there is no "official" image of Uncle Sam, but the preferred one is lanky and has gray hair and a goatee.
	www.kshs.org /features/feat701.htm (721 words)

	Amazon.com: Uncle Sam: Books: Steve Darnall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From the first full-page illustration of Uncle Sam as a derelict reaching out to the reader, the visually rich narrative makes its overarching point: the spirit of everything great in American history is down on its luck.
		Speaking with a remarkable eloquence, "Uncle Sam" speaks of symbols and countries, and what it means to be patriotic, and to have faith in a symbol.
		Uncle Sam, representing the ideals of freedom, justice and fairness for all, is brought face to face with the spirit of America, totally different from himself, and in the meantime, is down on his luck, a bum on the street wrestling with his mind and his thoughts of the past.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1563894823?v=glance (1856 words)

	The Most Famous Poster (Memory): American Treasures of the Library of Congress
		Uncle Sam is one of the most popular personifications of the United States.
		However, the term "Uncle Sam" is of somewhat obscure derivation.
		"Uncle Sam" Wilson was a man of great fairness, reliability, and honesty, who was devoted to his country--qualities now associated with "our" Uncle Sam.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/treasures/trm015.html (303 words)

	Wordorigins.org: Letter U (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The most famous image of Uncle Sam is from James Montgomery Flagg's WWI recruiting poster.
		But Sam was not the creation of Flagg.
		Uncle Sam predates Flagg's poster by over a century and is the product of a different war.
	www.wordorigins.org /wordoru.htm (746 words)

	Graphic novel review - Uncle Sam - Steve Darnall, Alex Ross
		Darnall uses a giddying torrent of flashbacks to place Sam in many of the situations in American history where its citizens have behaved despicably toward themselves.
		Sam moves through the genocide of the native American, the horror of slavery and civil war, to evils perpetrated in the modern era.
		The flashbacks are as confusing to Sam's view as they are shocking to ours, asking not where the dream of freedom and liberty disappeared to, but whether it ever even existed.
	www.grovel.org.uk /reviews/uncles01/uncles01.htm (259 words)

	Uncle Sam's Place (tm) - Home Page - Troy, NY
		During the war, Sam Wilson was a meat packer (...meat used to be packed in barrels) living and working in Troy, New York.
		The story grew to mythological proportions, resulting in a somewhat fictional image of Sam Wilson emerging as the white bearded, red - white - and - blue clad symbol of America.
		The best known Uncle Sam image originated over fifty years ago as part of a war-time recruitment poster, encouraging qualifed citizens to join the armed forces.
	www.uncle-sams-home.com (240 words)

	Uncle Sam's - St. Louis camping equipment, military surplus and outdoor recreation headquarters. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Uncle Sam's - St. Louis camping equipment, military surplus and outdoor recreation headquarters.
		At Uncle Sam’s since 1978 you’ve been able to find what you need to feel at home in the outdoors.
		We invite you to compare, and then choose Uncle Sam’s, where you’ll always find great buys on camping gear and outdoor equipment.
	www.unclesams.com (104 words)

	Uncle Sam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During the war of 1812, Sam supplied meat to the U.S. Army in barrels marked ~ "U.S." When asked what the initials stood for, one f Wilson's workers said they stood for the meatpacker, Uncle Sam Wilson.
		Illustrators began drawing Uncle Sam as a symbol of the United States, using the same colors and stars and stripes as the American flag.
		In 1869, a famous cartoonist named Thomas Nast gave Uncle Sam a beard.
	www.tooter4kids.com /ourflag/uncle_sam.htm (188 words)

	Uncle Sam (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Goofs: Revealing mistakes: When Sam is blown away, the support wires are visible.
		In fact, when his body leaves a hole in the house, the wires also leave a linear hole in the house.
		Quotes: Sam: Don't be afraid, it's only friendly fire.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0118025 (345 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Uncle Sam / DVD-Video
		It's Fourth Of July Weekend, and the recently discovered corpse of Sgt. Sam Harper - killed by 'friendly fire' during the first Gulf War - is returned to his all-American hometown.
		But when Sam rises from the dead to punish the unpatriotic, only his young nephew and a bitter Korean War veteran (Soul icon Isaac Hayes of Shaft and South Park fame) can stop his red-blooded rampage.
		Uncle Sam has been remastered from original negative materials and loaded with Extras that include an all-new, no-holds-barred audio commentary with Cohen and Lustig!
	www.dvdempire.com /exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=604131&partner_id=48678225 (253 words)

	Uncle Sam's World in Political Cartoons
		Portrayed as straddling the world or bloated with the world in his stomach, Uncle Sam's image changed to reflect the country's new status as a world power with overseas colonies.
		Uncle Sam Is a Little Disgusted (Haiti & San Domingo), March 1908
		Uncle Sam: I Smell Oil (Mexico), Jan. 1914
	www.boondocksnet.com /gallery/us_intro.html (260 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Uncle Sam
		Among the casualties of the auteurist wars is Uncle Sam (with William Lustig at the helm), and I don't care which side of the current cultural-political schism you choose to worship, Cohen's got your number.
		While not much more plotwise than a elemental replay of the director and writer's previous zombie-vigilante collaboration Maniac Cop (from the looks of it, at half the price), Cohen's vicious portrait of wartime America as the land of opportunism, lip service, and raging (albeit spineless) jingoism skewers the hypocrisy of hawks and doves alike.
		But only the sage Isaac Hayes seems to be willing to tell the boy the harsh truth: that Sam was something of a xenophobic, misogynistic, bloodthirsty asshole who probably deserved to get fragged.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1551 (209 words)

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