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Centennial, Wyoming

Loggers returned to the area in 1905 to cut timber for a coal mine near Coalmont in Jackson County, Colorado.


Adalberto Almeida y Merino

During his bishopric he attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council, and celebrated the centennial of the Diocese.

Alabama State Capitol

In 1961 Governor John Patterson flew the Confederate battle flag over the capitol in celebration of the centennial of the Civil War.

Alfred Trower

Trower then transferred to London Rowing Club and in August 1876 Trower, together with Gulston, R H Labat, and J Rowell went to Philadelphia on the steam ship Wyoming to take part in the town's centennial regatta.

Bai T. Moore

After a state funeral at the Centennial Memorial Pavilion, attended by cultural troupes from the Dey, Gola, Vai, Kpelle, Gbandi, and Gio tribes, Bai T. Moore was finally laid to rest in his native Dimeh.

Brampton Centennial Secondary School shooting

The Brampton Centennial Secondary School shooting was a school shooting that occurred at Brampton Centennial Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario, Canada on May 28, 1975.

Brunswick brickworks

In 1887 the company had ordered Bradley & Craven automatic brick presses, which were fabricated by Langlands foundry and a year later purchased another at the centennial exhibition.

Bryn Mawr School

Other structures built of complementary materials include Howell (1969) which houses the Upper School and the Edith Hamilton Library, Hardy (1969) for science and math, the Cafeteria (1948), Katherine Van Bibber Gymnasium (1959), the Lower School complex designed by Marcel Breuer (1972), Centennial Hall (1987), the Barbara Landis Chase Dance Studio (1992), the Lower School Science building (1996), the Admissions Cottage (1997), and a variety of small outbuildings and additions.

Canaanville, Ohio

According to the Centennial Atlas of Athens County (1905), the community originally called Canaanville was slightly to the west, west of where Ohio State Route 690 now intersects with US Route 50.

Carnegie library

In 1935, the centennial of his Carnegie's birth, a copy of the portrait of him originally painted by F. Luis Mora was given to libraries he helped fund.

Centennial Bridge

Veterans Memorial Centennial Bridge, in Idaho (formerly Bennett Bay Centennial Bridge)

Centennial Dome

Although the Centennial Dome is now gone, most of the exhibitions it housed have been located since 1970 in the Hall of Valor Museum at the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park in New Market, Virginia.

Centennial Regional Arena

The Centennial Regional Arena is located in Brooks, Alberta and is home to the Brooks Bandits, an ice hockey team in the Alberta Junior Hockey League.

Centennial Tower

City Center Building, briefly known as the Centennial Tower, Hayward, California

Charles Brackett

His mother was Mary Emma Corliss, whose uncle, George Henry Corliss, built the Centennial Engine that powered the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

Christian Boesch

In 1983, he appeared again at that theatre for their Centennial Gala and Don Giovanni (as Masetto), opposite James Morris, Edda Moser, Carol Neblett, Paul Plishka, Roberta Alexander and John Macurdy.

Christopher Rawson

In 1999, he wrote Where Stone Walls Meet the Sea, a 600-page centennial history of the Donald Ross-designed Sakonnet Golf Club in Little Compton, Rhode Island and of the summer colony of which it is a part.

Civil War Times

It was established in 1962 by Robert Fowler due to centennial anniversary interest in the Civil War in the United States.

Corporate Magic

Other major projects include the Oklahoma Centennial Spectacular, Coca-Cola's Centennial, the Boy Scouts of America’s 100th Anniversary Jamboree, international product launches for Mazda, Land Rover and Jaguar, annual corporate gatherings and awards programs for Prudential Financial, Xango and Rite Aid, and several projects for the Dallas Cowboys.

Downtown Bakersfield

The Rabobank Arena (formerly known as the Centennial Garden), is a large indoor multipurpose arena.

Executive curl

After 42 years absent, the executive curl insignia became effective again for service dress uniforms on June 11, 2010 on the occasion of the Pacific Canadian Naval Centennial International Fleet Review parade of nations in Victoria, British Columbia.

George B. Loring

He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1868, 1872, and 1876; appointed United States centennial commissioner for the State of Massachusetts in 1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1881).

H. W. Brands

He is also the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and a Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1985.

Ibsen Year

Cate Blanchett, who played the title role in Hedda Gabler in the Sydney Theatre Company's visiting performance there, was awarded the Ibsen Centennial Commemoration Award, presented by Minister of Equality Karita Bekkemellem.

J. Reilly Lewis

In April 2004, Dr. Lewis received the Distinguished Washingtonian Award presented by the University Club of Washington, D.C. in honor of its centennial.

Jakob Sederholm

In the 1974 historical novel Centennial, James Michener listed Sederholm among those scientists who made early estimates of the age of the Earth.

KKHI

KXWA, a radio station (101.9 FM) licensed to Centennial, Colorado, United States, which held the call letters from 2008-2011.

Lakeside Leisure Centre

It is the former home to the Brooks Bandits of the AJHL, who played in the Centennial Arena, which seats 900 from September 2000 - January 20, 2010

Lila Ammons

After organizing big celebrations for her grandfather's centennial, she started performing with boogie and blues pianist Axel Zwingenberger.

Liz Anderson

Casey was a member of the Sheriff's Posse, which was going to take part in the National Centennial Pony Express Celebration.

Martin Pearlman

His music for three Samuel Beckett plays (Words and Music (play), Cascando, ... but the clouds ...) was commissioned by and premiered at the 92nd Street Y in New York for the Beckett centennial in 2006 and produced at Harvard University in Cambridge.

Merrill Jenson

With Sissel and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir commemorating the centennial of Norwegian independence.

Monarchy in Saskatchewan

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, presided over the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of Saskatchewan's entry into Confederation and Princess Anne marked Regina's centennial.

Myra Merritt

She was to appear with that company many times through 1991, including appearances in L'enfant et les sortilèges (as the Fire, directed by John Dexter), the Centennial Gala (the duet from Don Giovanni), La bohème (as Musetta, opposite Plácido Domingo), Les contes d'Hoffmann (as Antonia, conducted by Julius Rudel), Porgy and Bess (as Clara), L'italiana in Algeri (as Elvira) and Don Giovanni (as Zerlina).

NHK Tokyo Children's Choir

It also toured extensively throughout the world and has won important awards, such as in BBC World Amateur Chorus Competition (No. 2 in the children's area), the Centennial of Zoltán Kodály's Birth Competition (No. 1 in the children's area), EBU World Chorus Competition (No. 1 in the children's area), etc.

Nora Guthrie

She has continued curating her father's work for his centennial celebration with the album New Multitudes.

Randolph, Massachusetts

According to the centennial address delivered by John V. Beal, the town was named after Peyton Randolph, first president of the Continental Congress.

Rudolf Tobias

On the occasion of the centennial of Tobias's birth in 1973, a memorial museum was opened in Selja, Käina Parish in the house where he was born.

Salvatore Di Vittorio

Other notable restorations of historical interest include: Respighi's 1908 orchestration of Claudio Monteverdi's Lamento di Arianna (from the lost opera Arianna, 1608) edited in 2012, and Di Vittorio's completion of Respighi's orchestration of the Tre Liriche (Three Art Songs, 1913) edited for its centennial anniversary in 2013.

Sam M. Fleming

Additionally, he was the treasurer of the Tennessee Historical Society and member of the Tennessee Historical Commission and State of Tennessee Civil War Centennial Commission.

St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts

Located on Front Street one block east of Yonge Street, it was Toronto's official centennial project, commemorating the 1967 Canadian Centennial.

Staunton Military Academy

W. Duke Myers (1960) Centennial First Captain and first cadet full colonel at Staunton Military Academy; Lt. Colonel, United States Army; Nephrologist; Fellow of American College of Physicians (FACP), Fellow of American Society of Nephrology (FASN), Founding member of the Texas Chapter of American Society of Hypertension; Voted outstanding Clinical Professor of Medicine at Texas Tech University

Strata-Dome

The "High Dome", painted blue and lettered "American Railroads 1869–1969", was part of the 1969 Golden Spike Centennial Limited to mark the centennial of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. Both cars later ran on the final Capitol Limited run April 30, 1971 when the train was discontinued at the start of Amtrak.

The First Game

The First Game is a painting by Arnold Friberg, and was commissioned in 1968 by Chevrolet Motor Division as one of four paintings to commemorate the then-upcoming centennial celebration of college football in the United States.

The Phoenix Network

The Guetzloe Report and The Phoenix Network were one of 14 radio shows/networks invited to broadcast live from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on February 6, 2011 for the Reagan Centennial Birthday Celebration.

The Power of the Dream

The music video shows Céline Dion performing the song during the opening ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics with David Foster on the piano, accompanied by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Centennial Choir (Morehouse College Glee Club, Spelman College Glee Club and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus).

Toshiki Okada

Besides directing his own plays, he has also directed Samuel Beckett's Cascando for the Tokyo International Arts Festival Beckett Centennial Memorial Festival, Kōbō Abe's Friends at the Setagaya Public Theater, and several workshop programs with theater students.

William M. Hoffman

In 1991, Hoffman was commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera Company to write the libretto for The Ghosts of Versailles first produced in celebration of the company's centennial.

World Athletes Monument

The monument was dedicated during the Centennial Olympic Games by Lord Morris of Castle Morris representing Queen Elizabeth II.


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