Knox may refer to:
Places
United States
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Fort Knox
Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository, which is used to house a large portion of the United States' official gold res ...
, a United States Army post in Kentucky
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United States Bullion Depository, a high security storage facility commonly called Fort Knox
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Fort Knox (Maine), a fort located on the Penobscot River in Prospect, Maine
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Knox Memorial Bridge
The Knox Memorial Bridge crosses the Intracoastal Waterway north of Ormond Beach, Florida. Highbridge Road ( CR 2002) passes over the bridge.
History
Highbridge Road was built at the latest around 1910 as part of the John Anderson Highway, whic ...
, a bridge that crosses the Intracoastal Waterway north of Ormond Beach, Florida
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Knox, Indiana
Knox is a city in Center Township, Starke County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 3,704 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Starke County.
History
Knox was founded in 1851, and is named for American Revolutiona ...
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Knox, Henry County, Indiana
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Knox, Maine
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Knox, New York
Knox is a town in Albany County, New York, United States. The population was 2,692 at the 2010 census.
The town is in the northwestern part of Albany County and is west of Albany, the state capital.
History
The Town of Knox was established i ...
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Knox, North Dakota
Knox is a city in Benson County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 22 at the 2020 census. Knox was founded in 1887.
Geography
Knox is located at (48.341913, -99.692403).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has ...
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Knox, Knox County, Ohio
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Knox, Vinton County, Ohio Knox is a former town in Vinton County, in the U.S. state of Ohio. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place.
History
A post office called Knox was established in 1899, and remained in operation until 1904. The community derived its name from He ...
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Knox, Pennsylvania
Knox is a borough in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,102 at the 2020 census.
Geography
Knox, thhorsethiefcapital of the world, is located northwest of the center of Clarion County at (41.235317, -79.536123). Pen ...
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Knox, Wisconsin
Knox is a town in Price County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 399 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Brantwood is located with the town. The unincorporated community of Clifford is also located partially in the tow ...
, a town
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Knox Mills, Wisconsin, a ghost town
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Knox City, Missouri
Knox City is a city in eastern Knox County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 191.
History
Knox City was platted in 1872 when the railroad was extended to that point. A post office called Knox City has been in o ...
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Knox City, Texas
Knox City is a town in Knox County, Texas, Knox County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,119 at the 2010 United States Census, 2019 census.
Geography
Knox City is in southern Knox County, at the intersection of State Highways Texas Stat ...
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Knox County (disambiguation)
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Knox Township (disambiguation) Knox Township may refer to:
* Knox Township, Knox County, Illinois
*Knox Township, Jay County, Indiana
* Knox Township, Clarke County, Iowa
* Knox Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa
*Knox Township, Benson County, North Dakota
*Knox Township, Colu ...
Other places
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City of Knox
The City of Knox is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It has an area of and in 2020, Knox had a population of 165,147. This municipality is one of only a handful that survived the widespread mu ...
, Victoria, Australia
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Knox Atoll
Knox Atoll ( Marshallese: , ) is an uninhabited coral atoll of 18 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and is the southernmost atoll of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. The total land area is only , but it encloses a largely sand-filled lagoon ...
, Marshall Islands
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Knox Coast
Knox Coast, part of Wilkes Land, is that portion of the coast of Antarctica lying between Cape Hordern, at 100°31′E, and the Hatch Islands, at 109°16′E.
History
The coast was discovered in February 1840 by the U.S. Exploring Expedition (183 ...
, the coast of Antarctica lying between Cape Hordern and the Hatch Islands
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Westfield Knox
Westfield Knox (formerly known as Knox City Shopping Centre) is a shopping centre, outdoor entertainment and professional services complex in the outer eastern Melbourne suburb of Wantirna South, in the Australian state of Victoria. The cent ...
, a shopping centre in Wantirna South, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Ships
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USS ''Knox'' (FF-1052), the prototype and lead ship of the Knox class of destroyer escorts
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''Knox''-class frigate, a class of United States Navy ships
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USS ''Frank Knox'' (DD-742), a ''Gearing''-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II
Organisations
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Knox Automobile Company
The Knox Automobile Company was a manufacturer of automobiles in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, between 1900 and 1914. Knox also built trucks and farm tractors until 1924. They are notable for building the very first modern fire engi ...
, an American Brass Era car manufacturer
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Knox Basketball Inc
Knox Raiders is a member club of the NBL1 South based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club fields both a men's and women's team. The club is a division of Knox Basketball Incorporated (KBI), the major administrative basketball organisation in Melbour ...
, a basketball association in Melbourne, Australia
* Knox Associates, d.b.a. The Knox Company, an American company that makes security devices such as the
Knox Box
A Knox Box is a small, wall-mounted safe that holds building keys for fire departments, emergency medical services, and sometimes police to retrieve in emergency situations. The term "Knox-Box" is a brand name for such products produced by the ...
Schools
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Knox Academy
Knox Academy is a co-educational state secondary school located in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. Originally founded in 1379 as a medieval grammar school, it is one of the oldest schools in the world.
History
The modern school can be tra ...
, a secondary school in Haddington, Scotland
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Knox College (Illinois)
, mottoeng = Truth
, established =
, type = Private liberal arts college
, endowment = $170.2 million (2019)
, president = C. Andrew McGadney
, city = Galesburg, Illinois
, country = U.S.
, enrollment = 1,200
, faculty = 120
, cam ...
, a liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois
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Knox College, Otago
Knox College is a selective residential college, established by the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand and affiliated with University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. The college is set in a landscaped site in Opoho on the opposite s ...
, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Otago in New Zealand
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Knox College, Toronto
, mottoeng = The word gives light
, established =
, religious_affiliation = Presbyterian Church
, type = Federated theological college
, principal = Ernest van Eck
, city = To ...
, a theological college in Toronto, Canada
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Knox Grammar School
, motto_translation = The Manly Thing Is Being Done
, established =
, founder = John Gilmore, William McIlrath, Robert Gillespie and Andrew Reid
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in New South Wales, Australia
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The Knox School (Australia)
The Knox School is an independent, co-educational, non-denominational day school, located in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Wantirna South, Victoria, Australia. The school is a member of the Eastern Independent Schools of Melbourne associati ...
, in Wantirna South, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Churches
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Knox Presbyterian Church (Oakville)
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Knox Presbyterian Church (Ottawa)
Knox Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian Church in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is named after John Knox, a founder of Presbyterianism in Scotland.
History
Knox was founded as a result of the split within the congregation of St. Andrew's, Ot ...
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Knox Presbyterian Church (Toronto)
Knox Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian Church in Canada, Presbyterian Church (building), church in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
History
In 1820, the first Presbyterian congregation in Toronto (then the Town of York) was formed, and aft ...
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Knox United Church (Calgary)
Knox United Church is a Gothic Revival architecture in Canada, Gothic Revival church located in Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada and is a member church of the United Church of Canada.
History
Knox Presbyterian Church was established in 1883 Rev. ...
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Knox United Church (Scarborough)
The Knox United Church, began as Knox Presbyterian Church in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in a wood-frame church built in 1848, the result of the Church of Scotland disruption, that led to the formation of the Presbyterian Church of Ca ...
, a Presbyterian Church in Scarborough, Ontario
People
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Knox (given name)
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Knox (surname)
Knox is a Scottish surname that originates from the Scottish Gaelic "''cnoc''", meaning a hillock or a hump or the Old English "''cnocc''", meaning a round-topped hill.
Notable Knoxes include the Presbyterian reformer John Knox and the American R ...
, including list of persons with the surname
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Knox (musician) (born 1945), guitarist, singer and songwriter of original UK punk rock band The Vibrators
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Knox Cameron
Knox Cameron (born September 17, 1983 in Kingston) is a Jamaican-born American soccer player who most recently played for AFC Ann Arbor in the National Premier Soccer League.
Career
College and Amateur
Cameron grew up in New York City, atten ...
(born 1983), Jamaican-American soccer striker
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Fictional characters
* Knox, one of the characters in the Dr. Seuss book ''
Fox in Socks
''Fox in Socks'' is a children's book by Dr. Seuss, first published in 1965. It features two main characters, Fox (an anthropomorphic fox) who speaks almost entirely in densely rhyming tongue-twisters and Knox (a yellow anthropomorphic dog) who ...
'' (1965)
* Knox Overstreet, a character in the film ''
Dead Poets Society
''Dead Poets Society'' is a 1989 American drama film directed by Peter Weir, written by Tom Schulman, and starring Robin Williams. Set in 1959 at the fictional elite conservative boarding school Welton Academy, it tells the story of an English t ...
'' (1989)
* Florence Mccarthy ("Flurry") Knox, the protagonist's landlord and a key figure in the
Somerville and Ross
Somerville and Ross (Edith Somerville and Violet Florence Martin, writing under the name Martin Ross) were an Anglo-Irish writing team, perhaps most famous for their series of books that were made into the TV series ''The Irish R.M.''. The tel ...
books
* Eric Knox, founder of Knox Enterprises, played by Sam Rockwell, a key character in the film ''
Charlie's Angels
''Charlie's Angels'' is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 22, 1976, to June 24, 1981, producing five seasons and 115 episodes. The series was created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts and was produced by Aa ...
'' (2000)
Other uses
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Knox Bible
''The Holy Bible: A Translation From the Latin Vulgate in the Light of the Hebrew and Greek Originals'' is a Catholic version of the Bible in three volumes (later published in one volume editions) translated by Monsignor Ronald Knox, the English ...
(Knox's Translation of the Vulgate), a 1950 twentieth century translation of the Bible by Msgr. Ronald Knox
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Knox Box
A Knox Box is a small, wall-mounted safe that holds building keys for fire departments, emergency medical services, and sometimes police to retrieve in emergency situations. The term "Knox-Box" is a brand name for such products produced by the ...
, a small, wall-mounted safe that holds building keys for firefighters to retrieve in emergencies
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Knox gelatin, a brand of gelatin now marketed by Kraft Foods
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Henry Knox Trail, marking the Historic path of Colonel
Henry Knox
Henry Knox (July 25, 1750 – October 25, 1806), a Founding Father of the United States, was a senior general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, serving as chief of artillery in most of Washington's campaigns. Following the ...
's transport of cannon during the Revolutionary war.
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Samsung Knox
Samsung Knox is a proprietary security and management framework pre-installed on most Samsung mobile devices. Its primary purpose is to provide organizations with a toolset for managing work devices, such as employee mobile phones or interactive ...
, an enterprise mobile security solution
See also
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KNOX (disambiguation)
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Blaw-Knox tower, a guyed tower for medium wave transmission
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John Knox House, an historic house in Edinburgh, Scotland
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Albright–Knox Art Gallery
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly known as the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, is an art museum at 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York, in Delaware Park. the museum's Elmwood Avenue campus is temporarily closed for construction. It hosted e ...
, a major showplace for modern art and contemporary art in the western New York Region
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Knox Mine disaster
Knox may refer to:
Places United States
* Fort Knox, a United States Army post in Kentucky
** United States Bullion Depository, a high security storage facility commonly called Fort Knox
* Fort Knox (Maine), a fort located on the Penobscot River i ...
, a mining accident that took place near the village of Port Griffith, in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania
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Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship The Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship program is a scholarship program which funds students from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom to undertake graduate study at Harvard University.
The program is named after the businessman, sold ...
, fellowships affiliated with Harvard University, given in honor of Frank Knox
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Knocks (disambiguation)
Knocks may refer to:
*Knocks (Aghalurcher), a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
*Knocks (Clones), a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
* The Knocks, an American electronic music duo
See also
* Knock (disambiguation)
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Nox (disambiguation)
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