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
This thorough but deferential biography was published to coincide with the queen’s diamond jubilee.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 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
It would have been a splendid way of commemorating the "diamond jubilee" if a scouring had been organised in 1897.
From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs
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