centenary
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They reunite in February for concerts honoring the centenary of Mstislav Rostropovich, one of Mr. Noseda’s predecessors as music director of the NSO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
In April, Ryder Cup organisers defended ticket prices for next year's centenary golf event between Europe and the United States in Ireland.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
Marking the club's centenary, Fiorentina's new home shirt features an embossed pattern inspired by the ornamental frames of Renaissance art found in the city of Florence.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 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
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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
"We will see many centenaries this year and next in the run-up to the centenary of the end of the First World War," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2017
Haller had collected the cases of many centenaries, amounting to sixty-two who had reached from 100 to 120; twenty-nine from 120 to 130; and fifteen from 130 to 140.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
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