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
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
The basilica was due to be finished for this year’s centenary of Gaudí’s death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
US-indicted Cuban leader Raul Castro received a standing ovation as he appeared in public for the first time in months Thursday, attending an event in Havana to mark the centenary of his brother Fidel's birth.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
A recent centenary conference and festival devoted to him in modern Hungary simply described him, correctly, as 'European'.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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
The company, led by the artistic director, Mikko Nissinen, opens its season with “Genius at Play,” a program developed in celebration of the centenaries of Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2018
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing centenary
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