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Personal Names George R. Stewart Author’s detail George R. Stewart was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania on May 31, 1895.? When he was 12, his family moved to California.? It is said that, when his mother insisted that he attend Princeton University, he traveled there by freight train; in any case, he remained an avid （渴望的，贪婪的，热心的）traveler throughout life.? Stewart received his Ph.D. in English literature from Columbia University in 1922, and joined the English faculty at Berkeley in 1924.? He was a prolific（多产的，丰富的） and highly successful writer of novels and of popular non-fiction, especially dealing with U.S. history and with the American West; many of his books remain in print. Uncle Sam During the War of 1812, the US government hired meat packers （屠宰业者）to provide meat to the army. One of these meat packers was a man named Samuel Wilson. Samuel was a friendly and fair man. Everyone liked him and called him Uncle Sam.? Sam Wilson stamped the boxes of meat for the army with a large US for United Sates. Some government inspectors came to look over Sams company. They asked the worker what the US on the boxes stood for. As a joke, the worker answered that these letters stood for the name of his boss, Uncle Sam. Middle Ages The period of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West (5th century) to the fall of Constantinople (1453), or, more narrowly, from 476 to 1453 Text Organization Part 1.(para1-para3):The introduction of American naming habits; Part 2.(para4-para11):How Americans take their family names; Part 3.(para12-para20):The origin and development of American given names. Reading Comprehension 1. In what area of naming have Americans been creative? Answer： Americans have been more creative in the area of given names. As family names are inherited, they usually have little wish to change them, but always try to find a particular given name for their children. And the name pattern has been changing along with the fashions and