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The Knox College mascot is the Prairie Fire, a name it adopted in 1993 due to sensitivity about its previous nickname, the Old Siwash. The word Siwash is a corruption of the French term "sauvage." This was a derogatory term used by European traders to refer to the indigenous people, with the French explorers experiencing Native American warfare ...
The Galesburg High School athletic teams compete in the IHSA Western Big 6 Conference, with the team name "Silver Streaks" and team colors of black, gold, and silver.The Silver Streaks moniker refers to the CB&Q streamlined Pioneer Zephyr, a high-speed train that ran through Galesburg from 1934 to 1960.
Knox College: Galesburg, Illinois: 1994 Prairie Fire Mascot is the Fox Plainsmen Nebraska Wesleyan University: Lincoln, Nebraska: 2000 Prairie Wolves Red Raiders Colgate University: Hamilton (village), New York: 2001 Raiders: Red Raiders Southern Oregon University: Ashland, Oregon: 1980 Raiders/Red Tailed Hawk [32] Red Men/Lady Reds Carthage ...
Adolph Putnam "Ziggy" Hamblin (1896 – August 17, 1966) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. A native of Galesburg, Illinois, Hamblin attended Knox College in that city. He received 16 varsity letters at Knox, competing in football, basketball, baseball, and track. [1]
The Galesburg High School girls basketball team is currently the No. 3-ranked team in the state. Here's how they've gotten there so far. Chemistry, strong coaching lead to stellar start for ...
Karen Bjornson (born 1952), model; born in Galesburg; Amy Carlson, Television actress best known for her roles in Blue Bloods, Third Watch, and Another World. Lived in Galesburg when she attended Knox College. Vir Das, comedian and Bollywood actor (lived in Galesburg while attending Knox College)
Old Main is the oldest building on the campus of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Completed in 1857, it is a distinctive Gothic Tudor design of Swedish architect Charles Ulricson. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961 as one of the few surviving sites to host one of the famous 1858 Lincoln–Douglas debates. The building ...
Flavor Flav has been a lot of things in his career: a Grammy-nominated rapper and co-founder of Public Enemy, a reality TV star, a noted clock enthusiast, even the official hype man of the U.S ...