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Uncle Sam's New York

Drink where the Beat Generation poets like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg got their start, experience one of New York City’s classic dive bars with an original jukebox, and live rock history on world famous Bleecker Street.


Albert Coady Wedemeyer

If Uncle Sugar, Russia, and Britain united strongly in their endeavor to bring about a coalition of these two political parties the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party in China by coercing both sides to make realistic concessions, serious post-war disturbance may be averted and timely effective military employment of all Chinese may be obtained against the Japanese.

Bjørn Nørgaard

They include the 3,000 year-old snake women from Czechoslovakia, the ape man from India in Uncle Sam's top hat, the Indian elephant woman, the Maya woman, Greek sculptures and a Matisse figure.

Deutscher Michel

Der Deutsche Michel (literal. "The German Michael") is a figure representing the national character of the German people, rather as John Bull represents the British and Uncle Sam represent the Americans.

Doesn't Remind Me

Directed by Chris Milk, the award-winning music video for "Doesn't Remind Me" starts off with a blurred image of an Uncle Sam poster tacked to a wall of a young boy's bedroom, as he innocently plays with a toy fighter plane.

Établissements Jean-Pierre Moueix

In an auction at Sotheby's New York the work was purchased for US$ 86.3 million by the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, recording the highest price paid for a postwar work of art.

Frank Bellew

Frank Henry Temple Bellew (April 18, 1828 – June 29, 1888), American artist, illustrator, and cartoonist, and the first person to portray the figure of Uncle Sam.

Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet

Uncle Sugar, being the way the letters "U" and "S" were spelled out, was used in the armed services in place of Uncle Sam, especially when describing waste of taxpayers' money on needless equipment or stinginess of not providing necessary or expected equipment.

Khalid Hasan

# Letters to Uncle Sam by Saadat Hasan Manto, Alhamra, Islamabad, ISBN 969-516-047-6

Max Friedman

He composed several songs about World War I including "Like a Baby Needs its Mother That's How Uncle Sam Needs You" (1917); "Our Own American Boy (1917); and the post-war "Give the Job to the Gob and the Doughboy" (1919), a plea for employers to hire veterans, featuring lyrics by Lew Porter and Alex Sullivan.

Princeton Reunions

Classes celebrating a major reunion (multiples of five—-5th, 10th, and so on) often wear themed costumes, which have ranged from Dutch boys and Roman legionnaires to firefighters and Uncle Sam look-alikes.

Ramón Valdés

In some episodes, he portrayed a character named Super Sam, an English-speaking, money-thirsty superhero dressed as Superman, clearly mocking Uncle Sam and the relatively wealthy situation of United States, when compared to average Latin American countries, as well as criticizing the American colonialism.

Rollo in Emblemland

In it, a young boy named Rollo falls asleep and finds himself not in Wonderland, but in "Emblemland", a place described by Cupid as "the home of all Emblems.... Emblems are signs and symbols. I'm an Emblem, because I am the symbol of love; Uncle Sam is the symbol of the United States, and John Bull is the symbol of England, and the Owl is the symbol of wisdom...."

Shall Noise Upon

The record, which went under 'Mysteries of the Old Soul' as a working title, was recorded during the summer of 2007 in the Catskill Mountains, in a "house inhabited by spirits" and located next door to the home of the original Uncle Sam.

Srulik

Yosef Lapid, Dosh's colleague on the editorial board of Maariv, described Srulik as an icon of Israel in the same way that Marianne and Uncle Sam were icons of France and the United States.

Tex Thompson

In Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters, a new Americommando appears as an agent of S.H.A.D.E. and its field leader.

The Arm Behind the Army

These are Uncle Sam's fist, the narrator notes, and behind it is American labor "Uncle Sam's muscle" the arm behind the army.

Tom McFadden

Tom McFadden is an actor who has starred in film and on television, his first feature movie was in the 1968 movie Hot Spurs, his other films include Wrong Is Right (1982), A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985), 976-EVIL (1989), and Uncle Sam (1997).

Uncle Jam Wants You

In some ways, Uncle Jam Wants You (a reference to the "Uncle Sam wants you!" US Army recruitment posters) is a more militant sequel to the group's previous album, One Nation Under a Groove.


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