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Arts and entertainment

Mottos and catchphrases

• "Excelsior" (motto), official motto of the state of New York
• "Excelsior!", catchphrase of Stan Lee, who often used it at the end of his "Stan's Soapbox" column in Marvel Comics
• "Excelsior", sign-off of Detroit radio personality Mark Scott
• "Excelsior", motto of the Finnish Army's Special Jaegers
• "Excelsior", mantra of Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Jr. in the 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook
• "Excelsior!", motto of the fictional Weldon Institute in Jules Verne's Robur the Conqueror
• "Excelsior!", one of the catchphrases of Martin Prince, Jr., a recurring character in The Simpsons

Sports

Schools

• Excelsior Academy, a school in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
• Excelsior College, in Albany, New York
• Excelsior, a common high school and grammar school name
  • Excelsior High School (Norwalk, California) (1903–1981)
  • Excelsior Public School (Excelsior, Minnesota) (1904–1964)
  • Excelsior School, a non-denominational school in Pasadena, California
  • Excelsior High School, Washougal, Washington

Hotels and restaurants

• Excelsior (restaurant), a former restaurant located in Hotel de l'Europe, Amsterdam
• Excelsior, a common hotel name
  • Hotel Excelsior, Berlin (1908–1945)
  • Hôtel Excelsior, Casablanca (est. 1916)
  • Excelsior Hotel Ernst, Cologne (est. 1863)
  • The Excelsior (Hong Kong), a former hotel in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

Places

Transportation

• Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle (Belle Plaine, MN), founded in 1993
• Excelsior Motor Manufacturing & Supply Company (Chicago, IL), a U.S. motorcycle manufacturer operating in Chicago from 1907 to 1931
  • Henderson Motorcycle, a division of the above company from 1919 to 1931
  • Excelsior Super X, a motorcycle made by the above company from 1925 to 1931
• Motorwagenfabrik Excelsior, a Swiss car maker in business between 1896 and 1919
• Compagnie Nationale Excelsior, a Belgian car manufacturer existing between 1904 and 1932
• Excelsior Motor Company, a British bicycle, motorcycle and car maker
  • Excelsior Manxman, a motorcycle made by the above company
• Xcelsior (bus), a transit bus manufactured by New Flyer Industries
• Excelsior tank, a British experimental heavy assault tank
• St Croix Excelsior, ultralight aircraft
• Excelsior (smack), the last surviving fishing smack of the Lowestoft fishing fleet and a member of the National Historic Fleet
• SS Excelsior (ship), one of several steam-powered ships named Excelsior

Nature

• Fraxinus excelsior, the scientific name for the European ash tree
• Excelsior eight-eight (Callicore excelsior), a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found in South America
• Acraea excelsior, a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found in eastern Africa

Typefaces

• "Excelsior", the American term for a three-point font size
• Excelsior (typeface), a serif typeface well-suited to newsprint

Other uses

• Excelsior (chess problem), a chess problem by Sam Loyd
• 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
• Excelsior JET, a Java compiler
• Project Excelsior, a high-altitude skydiving project in the 1950s
• Wood wool, commonly known as excelsior, a packing material

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Excelsior
• All pages with titles containing Excelsior
• Excel (disambiguation)
• Excelsia College