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Excelsior Amusement Park, located on Lake Minnetonka in the town of Excelsior, Minnesota Excelsior Brigade , a New York infantry brigade in the Union Army in the American Civil War Excelsior Diamond , a famous diamond, once the largest known
The state seal of New York features the state arms (officially adopted in 1778) surrounded by the words "The Great Seal of the State of New York".A banner below shows the New York State motto Excelsior, Latin for "Ever Upward", and the secondary motto E Pluribus Unum, Latin for "Out of Many, One"—adopted in 2020.
"Excelsior" is a short poem written in 1841 by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Overview. The poem describes a young man passing through a mountain village ...
Loyd had a friend who was willing to wager that he could always find the piece which delivered the principal mate of a chess problem. Loyd composed this problem as a joke and bet his friend dinner that he could not pick a piece that didn't give mate in the main line (his friend immediately identified the pawn on b2 as being the least likely to deliver mate), and when the problem was published ...
The coat of arms of the state of New York was formally adopted in 1778, and appears as a component of the state's flag and seal.. The shield displays a masted ship and a sloop on the Hudson River (symbols of inland and foreign commerce), bordered by a grassy shore and a mountain range in the background with the smiling sun rising behind it.
Excelsior, or wood wool. Wood wool, known primarily as excelsior in North America, is a product made of wood slivers cut from logs. It is mainly used in packaging, for cooling pads in home evaporative cooling systems known as swamp coolers, for erosion control mats, and as a raw material for the production of other products such as bonded wood wool boards.
Excelsior: Ever upward Latin: 1778 [46] North Carolina: Esse quam videri: To be, rather than to seem Latin: 1893 [47] North Dakota: Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable — English January 3, 1863 [48] [49] Serit ut alteri saeclo prosit: One sows for the benefit of another age Latin: March 11, 2011 [50] Northern Mariana ...
Excelsior University is a private online university in Albany, New York. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees and comprises three schools: the school of undergraduate studies, the school of graduate studies, and the school of nursing .