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Uncle Drew
Uncle Drew, also known as the Uncle Drew Pepsi Max campaign and 2018 Lionsgate film, is an elderly streetball persona played by Kyrie Irving in old-age makeup, created by Pepsi in 2012, with over 100 million short views and a $42.5 million US gross.
Uncle Fester
Uncle Fester, or Fester Addams, is a fictional character in The Addams Family, created by cartoonist Charles Addams and named in the 1964 TV series, where Jackie Coogan played him.
Uncle Frank (film)
Uncle Frank is a 2020 American drama film, also an Amazon Prime Video original, written and directed by Alan Ball, starring Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, and Peter Macdissi; set in 1973, it follows a closeted gay professor's road trip to his father's funeral in South Carolina.
Uncle from Another World (異世界おじさん)
Uncle from Another World (異世界おじさん, Isekai Ojisan) is a Japanese web manga by Hotondoshindeiru, serialized on KADOKAWA's ComicWalker since June 29, 2018. A man wakes from a 17-year coma claiming to have lived in the fantasy world Granbahamal; his memory-playback magic drives the comedy. Adapted as a 13-episode 2022–2023 Atelier Pontdarc anime with Sega supervision.
Uncle Grandpa
Uncle Grandpa is a Cartoon Network animated comedy created by Peter Browngardt, airing September 2, 2013 to June 30, 2017 across five seasons and 153 episodes, about a magical uncle and grandpa helping kids from his RV, spun off from Secret Mountain Fort Awesome.
Uncle Kracker
Uncle Kracker, born Matthew Lynford Shafer (1974), Detroit-area singer and former Kid Rock DJ; solo albums Double Wide and Midnight Special; hits "Follow Me," "Drift Away" (28 weeks No. 1 AC), "When the Sun Goes Down," "Smile." Not the band Cracker or Kid Cudi.
Uncle Meat
Uncle Meat is the April 21, 1969 double album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, recorded October 1967–February 1968 as the soundtrack to an unfinished film finally released in 1987, featuring the King Kong variations and studio overdub experiments.
Uncle Murda
Uncle Murda, real name Leonard Grant (born 1978), is a Brooklyn East New York rapper known for mixtapes, Roc-A-Fella and G-Unit deals that produced no studio album, and his annual Rap Up year-in-review songs.
Uncle Remus
Uncle Remus, fictional Black storyteller created by Joel Chandler Harris, voice of the 1880 Brer Rabbit tales; largely African-derived folktales, later adapted by Disney and criticized for racial portrayal.
Uncle Ruckus
Uncle Ruckus, also called Uncle Ruckus (no relation), is the self-hating Black white-supremacist character of Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks, voiced by Gary Anthony Williams, appearing in 47 episodes from "The Garden Party" (2005) and the planned 2013 Uncle Ruckus Movie Kickstarter.
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam, also linked to Samuel Wilson of Troy, New York, is the national personification of the United States government: a white-haired, goateed figure in a star-spangled suit, known from the 1917 Flagg "I Want You" poster.
Uncle Samsik (삼식이 삼촌)
Uncle Samsik (삼식이 삼촌) is a 2024 Disney+ Korean political period drama, 16 episodes, May 15–June 19, 2024, written and directed by Shin Yeon-shik. Song Kang-ho's first drama role; 40 billion won budget; IMDb 6.6/10; set in late-1950s to early-1960s Korea.
Uncle Scrooge
Uncle Scrooge (Uncle $crooge) is the long-running Disney comic starring Scrooge McDuck, created by Carl Barks in 1947; first published as Dell Four Color #386 (March 1952), it peaked as the best-selling US comic of 1960 and ran under Dell, Gold Key, Gladstone, Gemstone, Boom!, and IDW.
Uncle Silas
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh is an 1864 Gothic mystery novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, narrated by the heiress Maud Ruthyn.
Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom is the enslaved Christian hero of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, partly based on Josiah Henson; stage adaptations turned his name into a slur for Black servility.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 anti-slavery novel, was the 19th century's best-selling US novel and spawned Tom shows, Tomitudes, films, and the contested 'Uncle Tom' epithet.
Uncle Tupelo
Uncle Tupelo, also called the architects of alt-country and the No Depression band, was an American alternative country band from Belleville, Illinois (1987–1994) led by Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy, whose four albums spawned Wilco and Son Volt.
Uncle Vanya (Дядя Ваня)
Uncle Vanya (Дядя Ваня) is Anton Chekhov's four-act play subtitled Scenes from Country Life, reworked from The Wood Demon, published 1897 and premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1899 under Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko.
Uncle Waffles
Uncle Waffles, born Lungelihle Zwane in 2000, is an Eswatini-born DJ and producer who became an early figurehead of amapiano, going viral in 2021 and topping charts with "Tanzania".
Unclean animal
Unclean animals are species forbidden as food or sources of ritual impurity in religious law, chiefly Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 (pig, camel, shellfish), with parallels in Jewish kashrut and Islamic najāsāt rules on dogs, pigs, and blood.
Uncleared margin rules
The uncleared margin rules (UMR) are post-crisis standards, developed by BCBS and IOSCO, requiring covered counterparties in bilateral over-the-counter derivatives to exchange variation and initial margin.
unCLIP
unCLIP is a two-stage text-to-image method introduced by OpenAI in April 2022, in which a diffusion prior generates a CLIP image embedding that a decoder turns into pixels.
Uncoated woodfree paper
Uncoated woodfree paper is a printing and writing paper made from chemically processed pulp with no coating; it resists yellowing and suits books, forms, and copy paper.
Uncombable hair syndrome
Uncombable hair syndrome (spun glass hair, pili trianguli et canaliculi, cheveux incoiffables) is a rare childhood hair shaft anomaly causing dry, frizzy, silvery hair that cannot be combed flat; caused by PADI3, TGM3, or TCHH mutations and improving by adolescence.
Uncommitted National Movement
Uncommitted National Movement: 2024 US campaign urging Democratic primary voters to vote uncommitted over Biden's Gaza policy; began as Listen to Michigan (101,000 votes, 13%), won about 30 DNC delegates, was denied a Palestinian American speaker, and refused to endorse Harris.
Uncommon Places
Uncommon Places is a series of large-format color photographs of motels, parking lots, and streets by Stephen Shore, made on North American road trips and collected in a 1982 book.
Uncommon Valor
Uncommon Valor (1983) is a Ted Kotcheff action war film starring Gene Hackman as a Marine colonel leading a privately funded rescue of POWs in Laos; first of the 1980s POW/MIA rescue films.
Uncompahgre Peak
Uncompahgre Peak, highest summit of Colorado's San Juan Mountains at 14,318 ft (LiDAR; 14,309 ft in 1963 USGS survey), sixth-highest Colorado fourteener, in Uncompahgre Wilderness near Lake City; Class 2 South Ridge route.
Uncompahgre Project
The Uncompahgre Project, originally called the Gunnison Project, is a Bureau of Reclamation irrigation project in western Colorado authorized in 1903, one of the Reclamation Service's first five.
Uncomplicated crown-root fracture
Uncomplicated crown-root fracture (ICD-11 NA0D.04): traumatic tooth fracture through enamel, dentin, and cementum without pulp exposure, typically extending below the gum; treated by fragment removal, restoration, and 5-year follow-up.