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dinner and celebration
In Britain the victory was greeted with much celebration, and in 1740, at a dinner in honour of Vernon in London, the song " Rule Britannia " was performed in public for the first time.
The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, takes Scrooge to several differing scenes-a joy-filled market of people buying the makings of Christmas dinner, the celebration of Christmas in a miner's cottage, and a lighthouse.
Other staples of this week long celebration include wooden nickels, dinner theatres, classic car shows, and rodeos.
Members are given a patch and new inductees are invited to attend a yearly celebration dinner.
* March 18-At a celebration dinner to honour the Ottawa Hockey Club, Canadian Governor-General Lord Stanley announces his new trophy to be awarded to the ice hockey champions of Canada.
The dinner comes after, and the rest of the night consists of dancing and celebration.
The sketch presents the 90th birthday of elderly upper-class Englishwoman Miss Sophie, who hosts a celebration dinner every year for her friends Mr Pommeroy, Mr Winterbottom, Sir Toby, and Admiral von Schneider.
The organization convenes every January in New York City for an annual dinner, which forms part of a weekend of celebration and study involving other Sherlockian groups and enthusiasts.
The celebration of Festivus begins with the " Airing of Grievances ", which takes place immediately after the Festivus dinner has been served.
The Feats of Strength is the final tradition observed in the celebration of Festivus, celebrated immediately following ( or in the case of " The Strike ", during ) the Festivus dinner.
In November, 1961, President John Kennedy visited Seattle and was an honored guest at a celebration honoring Magnuson's first 25 years in Congress., Nearly 3, 000 people paid $ 100 a person to attend the dinner.
Isabella Bird is the first dinner guest to arrive at Marlene's celebration.
Phang organised a three-part celebration: an eight-person dinner in a flat on Meard Street ( only two of the diners survived ); a birthday cake and champagne celebration for a group of 30 at the flat ; and the party on the Marchioness.
Started in 1927, the Ahwahnee's first year of operation, the dinner is inspired by the fictional Squire Bracebridge's Yule celebration in a story from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving.
In celebration, the team goes out for a fancy dinner, where Sebastian makes a toast to the finest research group in the world.
* 17 March — In celebration of Saint Patrick's Day, the Lord Lieutenant ( Earl Cadogan ), accompanied by his staff, reviews a military display in the yard of Dublin Castle, followed by dinner and a ball in Saint Patrick's Hall that evening.
In August the couple travelled to Kenya for a tradition Maasai blessing and had a five-day wedding celebration in September that featured a kick-off party in a private airplane hangar, a rehearsal dinner at their home, a reception at the Anderson House in Dupont Circle, and a day-after picnic on the grounds of Duke Ellington High School.
Jefferson-Jackson Day is the most common name given to the annual fundraising celebration ( dinner ) held by Democratic Party organizations in the United States.
At a celebration dinner, the wife of Alan's employer is possessed by Peytraud, who warns him of his own imminent death.
Before the celebration dinner, Helene finds Linda's suicide note, but hides it after becoming upset by the contents ( which are not revealed to the audience ).
It also holds the largest Mawlid-un-Nabi celebration feast ( Ziafat-e-Milad ), which hundreds of thousands people attend throughout the month of Rabi-ul-Awal, in which Tahir-ul-Qadri himself serves the dinner.
The episodes began suddenly after a conflict of who will hold the left and who the right rein and continued and became expanded during the evening of the celebration dinner and afterwise to the roads of Famagusta, where Venetians and Genoese had armed conflict with many victims and damages.
They sing and listen to traditional Uzbek music while having dinner, and after dinner, a man dressed as Santa and Father Time arrive and continue the celebration.

dinner and honor
`` Johnny insisted on cooking a chicken dinner in my honor -- he's always been a good cook -- and I'll never forget him cleaning the chicken in the tub ''.
The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Bolker will give a dinner on Friday at their home in Beverly Hills to honor Mrs. Norman Chandler, chairman of the Music Center Building Fund Committee, and Mr. Chandler.
At the climax of a dinner party thrown in their honor, Capone produced a baseball bat and beat the trio to death.
Bruce Feldman took Ball to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, where Ball attended a private dinner in honor of Anthony Hopkins, meeting several voters who were in attendance.
Nimoy was invited to be guest of honor at the March 1967 National Space Club dinner, and to take an extensive tour of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.
The local newspapers reported that hundreds of people swarmed into town to get a look at Crockett, and a group of leading citizens put on a dinner in his honor that night at the Jeffries Hotel.
The church also holds an annual Hungarian cabbage roll dinner to honor the European heritage of the coalfields.
Earth, Wind & Fire were the specially invited music guests at the June 20, 2000 White House state dinner hosted by President Bill Clinton on the South Lawn of the White House, in honor of His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, and Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Meryem.
In December 1949 a newspaper printed a story " Red Convictions Scare ' Travelers '", that mentioned a dinner given by the Civil Rights Association to honor five lawyers who had defended people accused of being Communists.
Finney was so highly regarded that he even attended a dinner held in his honor by President George H. W. Bush.
Governor Jerry Brown, Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally, and Assemblyman Willie Brown, among others, attended a large testimonial dinner in honor of Jones in September 1976.
In A Celebration of Me, Grover ( performed by Eric Jacobson ), Mrs. Monster attends a benefit dinner in her son's honor.
Specifically the belief was that the movement was based on a canon called " Ta ta ta ... Lieber Maelzel ", WoO 162, said to have been improvised at a dinner party in Maelzel's honor in 1812.
With the President of France about to arrive in the United States to attend a state dinner in his honor, Shepherd – widowed when his wife died of cancer three years earlier – is placed in an awkward predicament when his cousin, with whom he had planned to attend the dinner, gets sick.
On his eightieth birthday in 1953, a dinner was held in London to honor Rocker.
This meeting was to take place at the studio of Yousef Karsh, when he had organized a dinner in Grey Owl ’ s honor ; however, as the dinner began Grey Owl was absent.
Many Brook Farmers supported the transition ; at a dinner in honor of Fourier's birthday, one member of the group proposed a toast to " Fourier, the second coming of Christ ".
Eager to augment his power and angered by Roosevelt's and Barkley's refusal to accept his suggestion of appointing Logan to the Supreme Court, Chandler did not attend a long-planned dinner in Barkley's honor on January 22, 1938 ; instead, he held an event of his own at Louisville's exclusive Pendennis Club at which he alluded to his intentions of challenging Barkley during the upcoming Democratic senatorial primary.
During this time, she also performed at the Toronto Jewish Theater ( TJA ), where she acted in A Night of Stars, and was featured in an audiotape for " Lay Down Your Arms " with the Habonim Youth Choir, where she sang the lyrics in both English and Hebrew, a feat she repeated on February 10, 2005, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel during the March of the Living dinner in honor of then Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger.
As he reaches 150 years of age, a dinner is held in his honor in which he is labeled the Sesquicentennial Robot.
At a special dinner held in Aladdin's honor, the Sultan announces that he wants to make Aladdin his new grand vizier.

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