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As the historical resources in the Yahoo! Uncle Sam - Sam Wilson Category attest, the American icon Uncle Sam was in fact based on a real man , albeit a rather short, pudgy, beardless one. A businessman from Troy, New York, Samuel Wilson pr...
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Uncle Sam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Uncle Sam is the national personification of the United States and sometimes more specifically of the American government, with the first usage of the term dating from the War of 1812 and the first i...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Sam
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Although Uncle Sam is one of our most familiar icons, many Americans have little or no concept of his origins. If pressed, the average American might point ...
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xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/SAM/sam.htm
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Born: c. 1812 Birthplace: United States Best Known As: Cartoon symbol of the United States Uncle Sam is the cartoon embodiment of the government of the United States of America, a character who appeared in newspapers and magazines beginning...
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Samuel Wilson was a real person. ... The soldiers knew about the generosity of Sam Wilson and they also knew the barrels of beef were from his meat-packing business, so they insisted the “US” stood for Uncle Sam… before long, a fictitious cartoon character by the same name became synonymous with the United States.
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Watch the Yes, Virginia, There Was a REAL Uncle Sam Podcast Episode from Jud's New England Journal on mefeedia.com ... Oh, sure, people in the states of Delaware and Indiana still think Uncle Sam was a Sam Wilson, born in Wilmington, Delaware, and buried in ... Responses to “Yes, Virginia, There Was a REAL Uncle Sam”...
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Certainly this image of a pointing Uncle Sam has become an American icon. ... ; Uncle Sam says, "I Want You For U.S. Army" ; ... Uncle Sam, 1917.
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On This date, Samuel Wilson of Troy, New York was basking in the limelight shown by Congress….or he would have been had he been alive. He was born in 1766 in Massachusetts. He moved to Troy and was such a kindly man, that people affectio...
http://symonsez.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/will-the-real-...
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In reality, there is no real Uncle Sam in history who wore the American Flag as an outfit and directed Americans to join the Army and fight for the Country. However, there was a man whom soldiers referred to as Uncle Sam that eventually became the name of the symbol Americans know today.
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hubpages.com/hub/The-Real-Uncle-Sam
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