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uncle sam

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Uncle Sam is the nickname for the largest diamond ever discovered in the United States. It was found in 1924 in Murfreesboro, Arkansas at the Prairie Creek pipe mine, which later became known as the Crater of Diamonds State Park . The diamond was named ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uncle \Un"cle\, n. [OE. uncle, OF. oncle, uncle, F. oncle, fr. L. avunculus a maternal uncle, dim. of avus a grandfather; akin to Lith. avynas uncle, Goth. aw? grandmother, Icel. The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
symbol of the United States of America, 1813, coined during the war with Britain as a contrast to John Bull , and no doubt suggested by the initials U.S. in abbreviations. "[L]ater statements connecting it with different government officials of the name ...