centenary
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Sir Henry Wood composed the melody for the centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1905.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Hassan Perez, a historian, former student leader and close collaborator of Castro, acknowledged that the centenary was arriving under "the most complex conditions that could have been imagined."
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Founders appear at centenary celebrations and sign pledges to “common prosperity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
He resurfaced, conspicuously, at the Communist Party’s centenary celebration in Tiananmen Square the following summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
There was also, poignantly now, a slender, hardbound history of Centralia, prepared to mark the town’s centenary just before the outbreak of the fire.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
The festival was bookended by two comedies celebrating their centenaries: Charlie Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush” and Buster Keaton’s “Go West.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
With 2019 short on big musical centenaries, the 150th anniversary of the death of Berlioz features prominently.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 1, 2019
It celebrates the centenaries of two laws that enfranchised some British women and gave those over 21 the right to stand for Parliament.
From Economist ● Apr. 19, 2018
Running from 13 July to 8 September, the 124th Proms season will mark several centenaries: Leonard Bernstein's birth, Claude Debussy's death and the parliamentary recognition of women's right to vote.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2018
The centenaries of Hawthorne and Longfellow and Whittier were celebrated at a period of comparative indifference to their significance.
From Modern American Prose Selections by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees
Vocabulary lists containing centenary
Perfect Ten: Dec, Cent, Mille
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