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  • In 1815, at the age of six, Lincoln first went to school in Knob Creek, Kentucky.

    Inside Abe Lincoln's Log School Linda 2008

  • In 1815, at the age of six, Lincoln first went to school in Knob Creek, Kentucky.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Linda 2008

  • EASOM: Yes, yesterday I came over McAfee (ph) Knob, which is the most-photographed knob in Virginia.

    CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Vietnam Veteran Walks Appalachian Trail in Honor of All War Veterans - April 30, 2000 2000

  • We make the assumption that bright lights have to change people, and I suppose that Sloan has changed a little from the farm boy who grew up in an area with the impossibly rural name of Gobbler's Knob, which is 15 miles south of McLeansboro, Ill., itself not exactly a roaring metropolis.

    SI.com 2011

  • We make the assumption that bright lights have to change people, and I suppose that Sloan has changed a little from the farm boy who grew up in an area with the impossibly rural name of Gobbler's Knob, which is 15 miles south of McLeansboro, Ill., itself not exactly a roaring metropolis.

    SI.com 2011

  • The Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club annually announces Phil's forecast at dawn on Gobbler's Knob, which is about 65 miles from the city of Pittsburgh.

    icLiverpool 2010

  • The Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club annually announces Phil's forecast at dawn on Gobbler's Knob, which is about 65 miles from the city of Pittsburgh.

    icLiverpool 2010

  • It probably will not help to know that the same kind of Knob infests the ambulance service as well. on January 22, 2007 at 10: 12 pm | Reply Notacriminal

    Memory Is The Guardian Of Everything « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • "Knob" is British slang for pecker, but FSJ used the term "nob", which is short for nabob.

    The music industry nobs have finally figured out what we're doing 2007

  • During the progress of the great battle which was fought there, my mother and I, and many others, went to the "Knob," which overlooks

    Memoirs of a southern woman "within the lines", Mary Polk Branch 1912

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