centenary
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The organisation went on to say how Francis celebrated his centenary last year surrounded by family and friends.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
The basilica was due to be finished for this year’s centenary of Gaudí’s death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
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
Northern Ireland Minister Hugo Swire warned about the possibility of dissident groups using upcoming centenaries for their own purposes.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2023
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
The Ruders, a joint commission by the Britten-Pears Foundation and the Royal Philharmonic Society in honour of their various centenaries and bicentenaries, was delightful from beginning to end.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2013
Old Kanuha was the senior of all these centenaries.
From Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff
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Perfect Ten: Dec, Cent, Mille
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