diamond jubilee
Britishnoun
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For her diamond jubilee, the 83-year-old Tharp has remounted a major Beethoven work, “Diabelli,” from 1998, and created a major new Glass dance, “Slacktide,” of which UC Santa Barbara was a co-commissioner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
In The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit, the team helped with an 18th-Century bracket clock and a piece made for Charles's great-great-great grandmother's diamond jubilee in 1897 by Scottish ceramics maker Wemyss Ware.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2022
It yielded a 650-carat diamond, among the world’s largest, that was acquired by British merchants and from which was cut the jubilee diamond, named in honor of Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
When Queen Victoria celebrated her diamond jubilee in 1897, it marked the apex of British power on the world stage.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
The Postmaster-General proposes, as far as his department is concerned, to commemorate Her Majesty's diamond jubilee by the issue of a new 3-cent postage stamp appropriate to the occasion.
From Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton Armstrong Howes
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