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Dinner

Even in systems in which dinner is the meal usually eaten at the end of the day, an individual dinner may still refer to a main or more sophisticated meal at any time in the day, such as a banquet, feast, or a special meal eaten on a Sunday or holiday, such as Christmas dinner or Thanksgiving dinner.


2013 in rugby league

1: Huddersfield, England - Four new members are formally inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame at a fundraising dinner at the John Smith's Stadium: Lewis Jones, Martin Offiah, Garry Schofield and Mick Sullivan.

Alain Sailhac

On 13 May 2010 Sailhac, along with other chefs from The French Culinary Institute (now known as The International Culinary Center), Jacques Pepin, Jacques Torres and André Soltner, prepared a $30,000-per-couple dinner for President Barack Obama’s fund-raiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee at Manhattan’s St. Regis Hotel.

Andries Treurnicht

The far-right Western Goals Institute organized his London visit, and the Conservative Monday Club held a dinner in his honour, at which at least one British Conservative Party MP, Tim Janman, was present.

Avern Cohn

He is a past President of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and has served for 14 years as General Chairperson of the Yeshiva Beth Yehudah Annual Dinner.

Bettina Gorton

Gorton had attended a dinner at the American Embassy in Canberra, accompanied not by his wife, but by Geraldine Willesee, the daughter of a Labor senator, Don Willesee.

Brian Whittingham

He worked on the squad that built the QE2, launched 1967 and attended a gala dinner on board in 2008 to mark the ship's retirement to become a floating hotel in Palm Jumeirah, Dubai.

Bright Sheng

In 1999, the White House commissioned Sheng to compose a piece to honor the Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji at a state dinner hosted by President Bill Clinton.

Castle to Castle

Kerouac was at dinner with Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows at their apartment when he described Céline's work as "a portrait of existence as rotten and mad" (p. 301).

Characters in Molly Moon

He was later seen with Mrs. Trinklebury that November, and went out for dinner with the main characters of the series to a French restaurant, along with the rest of the famous Hollywood stars.

DeWint House

Samuel Fraunces (owner of Fraunces Tavern in New York City) came up to prepare the dinner for Washington and his guest.

Dignitatis Humanae Institute

To mark the close of the conference was the annual dinner, with the guest of honour Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, who delivered the keynote address.

Dinner Party Wars

Over the years, she has appeared on several UK TV shows including Top of the Pops, ITV’s breakfast show GMTV, and the children’s show Blue Peter, and now watches over the Dinner Party Wars contestants to spot all the ‘do’s and don’ts’ of hosting and provides advice on how to throw the ultimate dinner party.

Doo-Ri Chung

At the state's dinner honoring South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and his wife, Kim Yoon-ok on October 13, Michelle Obama joined her Korean guests with a beautiful asymmetrical purple dress designed by Doo-Ri Chung.

Driving club

It used to meet at Lord Chesterfield's house, and drive, in procession, to dinner at the Castle Hotel in Richmond.

Emily Hahn

There she became involved with prominent Shanghai figures, such as the wealthy Sir Victor Sassoon, and was in the habit of taking her pet gibbon, Mr. Mills, with her to dinner parties, dressed in a diaper and a minute dinner jacket.

Evan Durbin

Durbin became Labour MP for Edmonton, 1945–1948, and was amongst those invited to Hugh Dalton's "Young Victors Dinner" held at St Ermin's Hotel, off Victoria Street SW1.

Gung Haggis Fat Choy

By 2005, the event had grown to a fundraising dinner serving 570 people, and co-hosted by Shelagh Rogers - the host of CBC Radio's "Sounds Like Canada" morning flagship show.

Hasan Adan Samatar

A spokesman for Eagle Media, which had put together the tribute dinner and gala party, indicated that the organization had sought to present Samatar the prize years earlier but was waiting for the artist to return to Minnesota.

Jean Georges

In the Season 2 episode of Gossip Girl, "The Magnificent Archibalds", Blair was telling Serena over the phone that Cyrus took her mother to Jean Georges for dinner.

Jenni Trent Hughes

In 2003 Hughes presented Dinner Doctors on Channel 5 with Anneka Rice.

Johnny Roventini

He shared a dinner table with General and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, clowned around with Red Skelton, sat ringside with fighter Jack Dempsey and participated in numerous parades and other public events.

Jurong FC

Jurong Reptile Park pull out in between the season and there is a financial crisis in the club and facing a gravely financial problems, The New Paper planned and set up a "SAVE JURONG CAMPAIGN", "SAVE JURONG LIFE-LINE", "Walkaton", Golf Tournament" and a "Gala Dinner & Dance" in order to raise a fund of $500,000,00 which was achieved.

Karl King

He was given a testimonial dinner for 250 people in 1951 at the age of 59 where band world luminaries including Glenn Cliffe Bainum, Albert Austin Harding, Paul V. Yoder, and William H. Santelmann attended (as well as William S. Beardsley, the governor of Iowa).

Lee Raymond

Lee Raymond received the Woodrow Wilson Award from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution for Corporate Citizenship during a dinner held in his honor in Dallas, Texas in early 2003.

Manufacturing Dissent

The film also presents extended footage of the Al Smith annual memorial dinner from which Moore, in Fahrenheit 9/11, took a clip of President George W. Bush greeting the guests as the "haves and have-mores", insinuating that President Bush views the elite upper-class as his constituency, not the average American.

Mariyah Moten

Mariyah Moten and other delegates of Miss Intercontinental 2009 attended the official state dinner ceremony with President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko and other government officials.

Michele S. Jones

News agencies discovered that Jones was a Facebook friend of Paul W. Gardner, the attorney of the Salahis, and that Jones exchanged email notes with the couple, telling them she was putting them on a waiting list in case tickets became available for a state dinner with the President and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Midwest Buddhist Temple Ginza Holiday Festival

Several other exhibits and booths feature other Japanese items, such as Japanese dry goods and snacks, kimonos, jewelry, anime, origami folding, and an abundance of traditional Japanese cuisine, including their famous grilled Chicken Teriyaki dinner, Udon (Japanese cold noodles), sushi, Edamame, and kintoki (Japanese snow cone topped with sweet azuki beans).

Mitchell Guist

On Swamp People they would regularly be featured hunting for their dinner which included Alligator gar, Blue catfish, Crayfish, Cottontail rabbit, Squirrel, Bullfrog, Alligator Snapping Turtle, and once by accident an American Alligator.

New York Golden Gloves

In late 1926, Paul Gallico of the New York Daily News and fellow editors were having dinner.

Nicholas Hervey

One such event, on 25 September 1989, was the Western Goals Institute dinner at Simpson's-in-the-Strand, chaired by Lord Sudeley, for El Salvador's President, Alfredo Cristiani, and his inner cabinet.

Oenopides

However, when it saw how Thyestes, a mythological figure, was served his own son for dinner by his brother Atreus, the sun was so horrified that it left its course and moved to the zodiac instead.

Pig's trotters

In the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) and Sybil Gordon (Alice Krige) are out to dinner when Sybil orders "her favorite" and Harold says, "for two".

Robert Treat Center

Among the first guests at the original hotel were President Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Wilson, who came to represent the national administration for the Newark Board of Trade annual dinner as part of the 250th anniversary of the city of Newark.

Rosseau Lake College

The Guest Speaker for the 2007 dinner was the Government of Canada's Minister of the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario and Federal Minister of Health, Tony Clement.

Samuel Ringgold Ward

:The amiable Rev. James Sherman, at that time minister of Surrey Chapel, with his accustomed kindness took me in his carriage to the dinner; and afterwards, for four months, not only made me his guest, but made his house my home.

Scottish Council for Development and Industry

The 2010 Awards Dinner was addressed by former Major of New York, Rudy Giuliani.

Sean Coffey

In May 2011, Council for Unity honored Sean and Anne Coffey, Earvin Johnson, Jr and Michael Mulgrew at their Annual "Champions for Children" dinner.

St Thomas of Canterbury College

The 50th Celebration Dinner was held at the Showgate Room at Riccarton Raceway Function Centre.

Swanson

Campbell Soup spun off Swanson's TV dinner business with several other brands, including the Vlasic brand of pickles, on March 30, 1998, to a new company called Vlasic Foods International, whose name was changed to Pinnacle Foods in 2001.

Tom Hendrie

In 1981, Hendrie appeared with his then wife on the ITV game show 3-2-1, reaching the final round and winning a canteen of cutlery and china dinner service.

Turban Cowboy

Peter is invigorated by their jump and keeps up skydiving despite Lois' concern, even as his jumps usually result in accidents like falling on Meg at dinner, falling on a ninja that killed a woman, and falling on the castle of the Pig King from Angry Birds with only one pig left alive.

United Nations Youth and Students Association of Austria

Social programs may vary from a dinner at a typical Austrian “Heurigen”, a reception at the city hall of Vienna hosted by the mayor of Vienna, a reception at the famous Spanish Riding School of Vienna, or a clubbing at a fashionable disco in Vienna.

Veere

The town of Veere forms the setting for "Van Loon's Lives", a book of contemporary fantasy written by Hendrik Willem Van Loon in 1942, in which the protagonists are able to magically summon the great men and women of history for weekend dinner parties, leading to often humorous incidents.

Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie

On 7 May 2007, she attended a state dinner at the White House, hosted by President George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush.

White House china

It was first used at a dinner function attended by Gerald Ford and Mrs. Ford, Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Carter, George H. W. Bush and Mrs. Bush, and Lady Bird Johnson.

William Imrie

At a dinner in Broughton Hall, West Derby, Ismay and Imrie decided they would form a partnership.

Won't Go Home Without You

Robert Christgau gave a positive review on the album as well as the song, saying "The devilishly memorable "Won't Go Home Without You" combines confidence with affection rather than macho." Channel 4 called the song "the musical equivalent of a dog's fart at the dinner table" and gave it just one star out of a possible ten.

Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths

Those present at the opening dinner in 1835 included the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel.


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