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Colonel Reb was the official mascot of Ole Miss Rebels, the collegiate athletic teams of the University of Mississippi ("Ole Miss") in Oxford, Mississippi. Designed in 1936, [ 1 ] the Colonel served as the teams' official sideline mascot from 1979 until 2003.
Ole Miss cheerleaders (including Colonel Reb) performing as the halftime entertainment during a Houston Rockets game. In 1980, Ty Cobb, along with fellow cheerleaders Sam Martin, John White, and Jeff Hubbard (as Ole Miss Rebels mascot Colonel Reb) began performing ball handling skits and acrobatics which incorporated a mini-trampoline during the time-outs and half-time of Ole Miss basketball ...
Rebel Black Bear, Colonel Reb Tony the Landshark, an anthropomorphic shark , was the mascot of the Ole Miss Rebels , the collegiate athletic teams of the University of Mississippi . It replaced Rebel Black Bear as the mascot in fall 2018. [ 1 ]
George Ronald Christmas (born March 11, 1940) [1] is a retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general. Christmas was awarded the Navy Cross and Purple Heart for valor in 1968, during the Vietnam War .
The Confederate Rebel General, a copy of the former Ole Miss Colonel Reb, was removed in September 2020 after a decision in regard to a petition aimed to change the mascot following protests over the murder of George Floyd. [8] The current logos include the Pineville "P" and "Rebels" in Brush ATF script.
The process of Christmas becoming a national holiday in the U.S. began when Representative Burton Chauncey Cook of Illinois introduced a bill in the U.S. Congress after the U.S. Civil War (1861–1865). It passed in both houses of Congress, and President Ulysses S. Grant signed it on June 28, 1870.
Until 2004, the school mascot was Colonel Reb, a Confederate plantation owner. [474] South Burlington: South Burlington High School Confederate themed Captain Rebel mascot (1961), use of the Confederate Battle Flag, and playing of Dixie almost immediately sparked controversy during the Civil Rights era and every decade since. The school board ...
Lieutenant Colonel James Abercrombie †, while leading the retreat at the Battle of Bunker Hill, he was fatally injured in the thigh from being shot by a rebel. Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe , he was a captain who traveled across the Northeast to look for American spies.