How To Use Bicentenary In A Sentence
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11 years ago, the bicentenary of the French Revolution produced a parade of breathtaking proportions down the Champs Elysées.
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The bicentenary of the event will be celebrated on Monday and Tuesday with a new plaque in the Peace Gardens, plus a lecture and children's workshop.
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And indeed, Sandian studies and bicentenary celebrations can be found in many different countries but we haven't been able to find anything here.
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The bicentenary of the three-year conflict between the United States and Britain, now upon us, has finally begun to inspire historians to shed more light on it.
The War Without a Loser
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As part of the Royal Horticultural Society's bicentenary celebrations, there will be an Apple Festival in various locations on various dates between October 10 and 31.
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In addition, the centre has thrown itself into the bicentenary celebrations with gusto.
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If you're a glutton for Dickens and you'll need to be, with the BBC already stuffing its schedules with the forthcoming bicentenary of his birth, jolly spoofery abounds in The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, which features Robert Webb as an upstanding Victorian retailer of nonsense items thrown into sudden penury by bewhiskered evil Stephen Fry in a stovepipe hat.
Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights
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Written to appear for the bicentenary of the Revolution in 1989, as an Oxford History the book was conceived as a narrative for general readers rather than the student textbook it has nevertheless largely become.
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This year there's an updating of Handel's Saul by Olivia Fuchs; Donizetti's opera seria Maria di Rohan, directed by Stephen Medcalf with Mary Plazas in the title role; and – to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Ambroise Thomas – a rare staging of his most celebrated opera Mignon, conducted by the festival's artistic director Andrew Greenwood.
This week's new live music
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A meeting will take place in the sacristy of the Church next Monday after the evening Mass to finalise the preparations for the first anniversary of the bicentenary of the Church.
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The council was hosting a civic reception to mark the bicentenary of St Peter's Church in the town.
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After lunch the President will visit St. Peter's Church to mark the bicentenary celebrations from 2.15 pm to 3.15 pm.
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He was born in 1896 and died at the age of 92 years in 1988, the year of the bicentenary of his country of birth.
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Also as part of bicentenary events, the museum is showcasing the ‘Trafalgar Roll’, which is the result of two decades' research by a couple of historians into as many of the sailors who served at the battle as possible.
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To celebrate its bicentenary it has created seven historical gardens to show how horticulture has evolved over the last 200 years.
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And on 30 January 1849, you celebrated the bicentenary of the execution of Charles I with your friend Walter Savage Landor.
A letter to Charles Dickens on his 200th birthday
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It also highlights the poverty of Bayreuth's bicentenary celebrations.
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In fact, the troupe first staged the play in Delhi at the behest of the French Embassy on the occasion of Hugo's bicentenary celebrations.
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The Windeward Bound is a ship that's commemorating the bicentenary of Matthew Flinders's voyage.
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The research was conducted before a bicentenary exhibition.
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Children met Hans Christian Andersen characters as part of the bicentenary festivities organised to mark the anniversary of his birth.
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The bicentenary parade, featuring National Pike Groups, the Gleneagle marching band and a visiting pipe band will lead the parade and groups will march in traditional clothing of the time and will carry pikes and replica weapons.
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There is still a sizeable chunk of the world which sees the English as top-hatted toffs who can be cruel to their urchins, so it remains to be seen what they will think after the British Council's celebrations of Charles Dickens' bicentenary.
Charles Dickens goes global in British Council's bicentenary festival
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The ex-pupils would be heartily welcomed to all the functions in connection with the bicentenary festival.
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A statue was erected to mark the bicentenary of the composer's birth.
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Our bicentenary is approaching, in another 10 years.
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Many organisations will have eyed the bicentenary of the train as a platform for special events.
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It was resubmitted, with the ingeniously coined description "landscape laboratory" in 2009 to mark the bicentenary of Darwin's birth, but still failed to make the cut.
UK nominates 11 sites for Unesco world heritage status
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The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich is to host a joint retrospective of the bicentenary year of the battle of Trafalgar.
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A hundred years from now the bicentenary federation celebrations will surely have a different group in pride of place - we cannot imagine right now who it will be.
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A statue was erected to mark the bicentenary of the composer's birth.
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We celebrate today the bicentenary of the original opportunity, 20 July 1810.
20 Julio de 1810 « Unknowing
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The year 1998 marked the bicentenary of the publication of the famous Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus, in which he argued that the population of a region would always grow until checked by famine, pestilence or war.
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Is to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of louis Braille (1809-1852) french inventor of this alphabet for the blind people over the world.
France 2009/10 national football team kits
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So you have a bicentenary, a centenary and a present day feat all remembered together.
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As part of the bicentenary celebrations the Society is producing a facsimile of the Naval Gold Medal for Trafalgar, awarded posthumously to the hero of the Senior Service.
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A statue was erected to mark the bicentenary of the composer's birth.
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The approaching bicentenary of the battle in 1815 promises a host of books, but it will be hard to better these two early risers.
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Flying Scotsman will return to Yorkshire in triumph next month, when it is the star attraction at the NRM's Railfest celebrations, which mark the bicentenary of the train.
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Noted for his efficiency, courtesy and sense of fair play, Seán was the County co-ordinator for the 1798 bicentenary celebrations.
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Muskets, drunken rebels and burning torches: next month marks the bicentenary of one of our bloodiest uprisings
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The completion of the Scottish songs recording project will coincide with the bicentenary of Haydn's death and the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns' birth in 2009.
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This year, which sees significant milestones for both Schumann (his bicentenary) and Hugo Wolf (the 150th anniversary of his birth), is a natural focus for a festival whose raison d'être is a celebration of 19th-century song, and both composers dominate the fortnight of recitals.
This week's new live music
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Next year is the bicentenary of Andersen's birth, and his native Denmark will marshal an enthusiastic programme of celebrations.
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The bicentenary celebration was combined with the harvest festival service on Friday and the packed church was appropriately decorated for the occasion.
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As part of the bicentenary celebrations, the society has organized an exhibition featuring works by all its presidents.
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The biggest international naval review since the bicentenary celebrations will be launched on Friday, July 27.
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But it did it and I'm quite surprised that the celebration, the bicentenary of this amazing event was not more widely publicised - it did appear in one of the English newspapers.
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He hopes the uniform can be put on display in time for the bicentenary of his ancestor's birth on December 20 this year.
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The festival, from Saturday 29 May until Saturday 6 June, will be the biggest event of the bicentenary year, with an amazing variety of more than 100 heritage steam and diesel locomotives on show.
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A tale about a villager teaching toads to sing La Marseillaise as part of the French Revolution bicentenary celebrations is typical.
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‘The Triumph of Watercolour’ is an appropriate title for the Royal Watercolour Society's bicentenary show at the Picture Gallery.
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Next year is the bicentenary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the stretch of railway between Chippenham and Bath is a world heritage site.
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If you're a glutton for Dickens and you'll need to be, with the BBC already stuffing its schedules with the forthcoming bicentenary of his birth, jolly spoofery abounds in The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, which features Robert Webb as an upstanding Victorian retailer of nonsense items thrown into sudden penury by bewhiskered evil Stephen Fry in a stovepipe hat.
Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights
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The British Council programme, marking the bicentenary of Dickens' birth, which falls on 7 February 2012, will include film, performance, talks and debates in countries from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe.
Charles Dickens goes global in British Council's bicentenary festival
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The year marks the bicentenary of the running of the world's first steam locomotive - the Penydarren - as well as the 100th anniversary of the first 100 mph run.
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On Thursday evening a candlelight procession through the grounds is also expected to be an integral part of the bicentenary celebrations.
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It means we will have a beautiful railway arch in plenty of time for the bicentenary celebrations of its architect.
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But as the bicentenary of its discovery approaches, morphine's combination of ready availability, clinical efficacy and familiarity to those who practice medicine continue to outweigh its vices.
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The country's bicentenary celebrations are backdropped by more political turmoil and a state of near-civil war.
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This became the template for an educational reenactment that was to be repeated fifteen years later during the bicentenary.
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The timing is perfect: This year marks the bicentenary of the birth of its architect, Sir George Gilbert Scott 1811-1878, who will be commemorated with a special service at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday—a rare honor for an architect.
Gothic Renaissance in London