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PART1 CBCCB ACACBPART2 BAC CDD DCB PART3 BACC CDBBDC BCD The History of Uncle SamSeptember 7 marks the 195th birthday of Uncle Sam. The nickname for the United States was given in 1813 and linked to Samuel Wilson, a meat packer from Troy, New York. The nickname eventually lead to a personification of the United States and was used in a great deal of campaigning and recruiting plans. During the War of 1812, Samuel Wilson supplied barrels of beef to the United States Army and stamped U.S. on the outsides. The soldiers soon jokingly referring to the food as Uncle Sams and eventually a local newspaper picked up the story. The coverage led to the people of the United States to adopt Uncle Sam as the nickname for the U.S. federal government. Over time, several cartoonists and artists began developing the image of the Uncle Sam we picture today. The first image came from political cartoonist Thomas Nast in the late 1860s and 1870s. Nast took the idea of Uncle Sam and tied it to an elderly man with a white beard and a stars-and-stripes suit. Nast was responsible for a great deal of our countrys most popular imagery. He created the donkey as the symbol for the Democratic Party and the elephant as the symbol for the Republican Partyas well as a modern drawing of Merry Old Santa Claus, which was featured in Harpers Weekly on January 1, 1881Artist James Montgomery Flagg took the image of Uncle Sam a step further and created possibly Uncle Sams most famous picture. His version of Uncle Sam showed him wearing a tall top hat with a wide blue band and white stars, a red bow tie and a blue jacketUncle Sam is staring sternly ahead and pointing at the viewer. It was its placement on World War I recruiting posters (with the phrase I Want You For the U.S. Army beneath it) that truly solidified Uncle Sam as the personification of the United States. Afterwards, the image was used on the cover of Leslies Weekly in July 1916 with the title What Are You Doing For Preparedness? underneath the image. The image has been used in recruiting and is consistently used in modern culture. Besides appearing as a comic book hero for Quality and DC comics, Uncle Sam is also used in imagery for the New York Yankees. The Major League Baseball team uses Uncle Sams hat in their team logo, where it sits on top of a bat that forms the vertical line of the K in Yankees. Fans often wear Uncle Sam hats to games or events promoting the team. The rock group Grateful Dead featured a skeletal Uncle Sam as one of their symbols, referring back to their song U.S. Blues, Red and white, blue suede shoes, Im Uncle Sam, how do you do? Most recently, the image of Uncle Sam was featured prominently in the 2007 film Across the Universe. A film based around the songs of the Beatles, a larger than life Uncle Sam reaches out from a Vietnam recruiting poster to grab a young man responding to his draft notice during the song, I Want You. Other personifications of the United States previously were Brother Jonathan and Columbia. Brother Jonathan was regarded as the personification of the United States as early as 1776. Brother Jonathan was a term used by British Loyalists to describe Revolutionary Patriots. Believed to be based on the Governor of Connecticut, Jonathan Turnbull, the image of Brother Jonathan soon appeared in political cartoons and posters. Very similar to Uncle Sam, he is pictured with a top hat, a coat with tails and striped pants. Gradually during the Civil War, Brother Jonathan was replaced by Uncle Sam and Columbia. By the end of the war, Uncle Sam had been firmly adopted. Columbia was a name for America taken from African American poet Phillis Wheatley. The first to describe the new nation as the goddess Columbia in 1775, the image stuck, however it wasnt the first time America had viewed herself as a woman. In the sixteenth century, images of America as a woman showed her to be a half-clothed Native American, sometimes as a savage cannibal woman or a regal Indian queen. She was the rebellious princess next to her staunch mother, Britain. As America began to develop, its inhabitants became tired of the Native American image personifying their country. Wheatleys Columbia, a Caucasian goddess, became the new favorite. Usually portrayed as a woman from the Roman Republic, she wore a white toga, often wore a helmet and was accompanied by the flag, the eagle and documents such as the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. However, of all these images the United States has associated itself with, Uncle Sam is the one that has remained constant. Though these other two persons have been abandoned, they remain fascinating images to study. In a sense, they document the journey of America - the changing persons representing a changing country. ORIGIN OF THE NAME GOOGLEOrigin of the name GoogleFrom time to time I read or hear stories of the origin of the search engine and company name Google that are incorrect, which prompts me to write this brief account, based on my understanding of the genesis of the name. The source of my information is my friends and colleages from Wing 3B of the Gates Computer Science Building at Stanford University, where Google was born.In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin called their initial search engine BackRub, named for its analysis of the of the webs back links. Larrys office was in room 360 of the Gates CS Building, which he shared with several other graduate students, including Sean Anderson and Tamara Munzner. In 1997, Larry and his officemates discussed a number of possible new names for the rapidly improving search technology. Sean recalls the final brainstorming session as occurring one day during September of that year.Sean and Larry were in their office, using the whiteboard, trying to think up a good name something that related to the indexing of an immense amount of data. Sean verbally suggested the word googolplex, and Larry responded verbally with the shortened form,googol. Sean was seated at his computer terminal, so he executed a search of the domain name registry database to see if the newly suggested name was still available for registration and use. Sean is not an infallible speller, and he made the mistake of searching for the name spelled as , which he found to be available. Larry liked the name, and within hours he took the step of registering the name for himself and Sergey (the domain name registration record dates from September 15, 1997).David Koller (Email Removed), January, 2004/dk/google name origin.htmlJai Maharaj/jaiOm ShantiHindu Holocaust Museum/holocaustHindu life, principles, spirituality and philosophy The truth about Islam and Muslims/jai/satyamevajayateThe terrorist mission of Jesus stated in the Christian bible:Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not so send peace, but a sword.For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.And a mans foes shall be they of his own household. - Matthew 10:34-36.o Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. The contents of this post may not have been authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion of the poster. 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