centenary
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The centenary Test in 1977 was also played in Melbourne but this match will be the first men's Test at the venue to use a pink ball.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Monroe’s centenary arrives this month amid a push to re-establish her as a serious actress and a multidimensional person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
A trio of books tied to her centenary reveal an obsessive reader and shrewd social observer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
"I was simply transported," he said ahead of his centenary, reliving how the adult female twisted his head and looked straight into his eyes and her two youngsters sat on him as the cameras rolled.
From Barron's ● May 6, 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
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
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
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 Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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