The square was the centrepiece of the millennium celebrations for the city with singer, Cliff Richard lighting a beacon known as The Flame of Hope, which stood between Baskerville House and Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

The complex's elaborate opening ceremony was a centrepiece of Australia's bicentenary celebrations, which were held nationwide to mark the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet from England, and the foundation of European settlement in what was to become the City of Sydney in 1788.

Every year on Vappu, Manta serves as a centrepiece for the celebrations.

It also signalled the birth of the Merdeka Tournament ( Pestabola Merdeka ), that was to all intents and purposes the centrepiece of the independence celebrations.

The usual pattern for building a railway terminus was to conceal the metal structure behind an elaborate facade: Eiffel's design for Budapest used the metal structure as the centrepiece of the building, flanked on either side by conventional stone and brick-clad structures housing administrative offices.

The design of the Eiffel Tower was originated by Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, who had discussed ideas for a centrepiece for the 1889 Exposition Universelle.

United States President Woodrow Wilson and his adviser Colonel Edward M. House enthusiastically promoted the idea of the League as a means of avoiding any repetition of the bloodshed of the First World War, and the creation of the League was a centrepiece of Wilson's Fourteen Points for Peace.

Canadian motels were often constructed as poorly weatherized cabins in which a centrepiece of the motor court was an outdoor swimming pool usable for little more than two months of the year.

The centrepiece of each visit was a trip into the Rovers, the Queen Vic, or the Woolpack to be offered a drink.

Although synthesizers were still used in many songs, the instrument was no longer featured as the centrepiece of Rush's compositions.

The centrepiece of the campaign in North America, an expedition to capture Louisbourg was aborted due to the presence of a large French fleet and a gale that scattered the British fleet.

The centrepiece of Henry's renovated abbey was a shrine to Edward the Confessor.

Pope intended this poem to be the centrepiece of a proposed system of ethics that was to be put forth in poetic form.

The NCDC ended four decades of disputes over the shape and design of Lake Burley Griffin — the centrepiece of Griffin's design — and construction was completed in 1964 after four years of work.

In 1865, a replacement cross was commissioned from E. M. Barry by the South Eastern Railway as the centrepiece of the station forecourt ; about east of the original site.

It was the centrepiece of the show, Stuckist Clowns Doing Their Dirty Work, the first exhibition of the Stuckists in Mayfair, and depicted Saatchi with a sheep at his feet and a halo made from a cheese wrapper.

Much of the equipment used by the Workshop in the earlier years of its operation in the late 1950s was semi-professional and was passed down from other departments, though two giant professional tape-recorders ( which appeared to lose all sound above 10 kHz ) made an early centrepiece.

The Festival's centrepiece was in London on the South Bank of the Thames.

The Festival's centrepiece was the South Bank Exhibition, in the Waterloo area of London, which demonstrated the contribution made by British advances in science, technology and industrial design, displayed, in their practical and applied form, against a background representing the living, working world of the day.

A note in Himmler's telephone log from 30 November 1941 saying " no liquidation " was to be the centrepiece of Irving's efforts in Hitler's War to prove that Hitler was ignorant of the Holocaust

The Cenotaph was originally commissioned by David Lloyd George as a temporary structure to be the centrepiece of the Allied Victory Parade in 1919.

In April 2006, the bridge was the centrepiece of the Brunel 200 weekend, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Benn also led the government's campaign to close down the many off-shore pirate radio stations of the time, a campaign that formed the centrepiece of the 2009 film The Boat That Rocked, and he was responsible for introducing the Marine Broadcasting Offences Bill.

The second single was the album's centrepiece ballad " I'll Stand by You "; this track received substantial airplay, and was a top 10 success in the US and UK, and top 20 in Canada.

The centrepiece of this was an extended sketch featuring an orchestra in which Drake appeared to play all the instruments ; as well as conducting and one scene in which he was the player of a triangle waiting for his cue to play a single strike-which he subsequently missed.

However, the ducal family still entertain in the state rooms, and dine on special occasions in the saloon, around the great silver centrepiece depicting the 1st Duke of Marlborough on horseback — the same piece that Consuelo Vanderbilt liked to call her cache mari because it conveniently hid her detested husband, across the table, from view.

Other than the aquatic play area in front of the Ontario Science Centre ( the centrepiece of Teluscape ), Dundas Square is Toronto's only 24-hour waterplay area, open all day and night except during special events, maintenance, and other exceptions.

The report titled " Norwegian Jihad " was also the centrepiece of a one hour special report on Norwegian State Television.

* Peplos: Athena's robe, the sacred centrepiece of the festival of the Panathenaea, Athenian men are said by the Chorus to have been worthy of it once ( line 566 ).

The centrepiece of the festival is at Pak Tai Temple where are the " Bun Mountains " or " Bun Towers "( 包山 ), three giant 60-feet bamboo towers covered with buns.

The centrepiece of the festival is a parade on the Sunday.

The Nordiques president publicly announced that they would make Lindros the centrepiece of their franchise turnaround, and refused to trade Lindros, saying that he would not have a career in the NHL as long as he held out.

The centrepiece of Ascot's year is held in June: Royal Ascot is without doubt the world's most famous race meeting, steeped in history dating back to 1711.

Rod Laver Arena was the centrepiece of the 12th FINA World Aquatics Championships, which were held from 17 March-1 April 2007.

One of the best known Tattoos is held on the Esplanade in front of Edinburgh Castle each August and forms the centrepiece of the annual Edinburgh Festival.

The monument is the centrepiece of a preserved battlefield park that encompasses a portion of the grounds over which the Canadian Corps made their assault during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, a military engagement fought as part of the Battle of Arras.

Within the grounds, overlooking the lake, is an unusual turfed amphitheatre, which used to form the centrepiece of an annual event called the Claremont Fête champêtre.

At the rear of the College grounds is the Sports Hall, the centrepiece of which is a basketball court, renovated in recent years with a multi-purpose hardwood floor.

The centrepiece of the grounds was the timber exhibition building which housed 1, 700 individual exhibits in total.

St. Bartholomew's Roman Catholic Church is arguably the centrepiece of the town's architecture.

The town still retains its ancient character, with the large Church of San Esteban building as an impressive centrepiece.

" Church later offered to donate the statue to the Trump Organization, to act as a centrepiece of the golf resort Trump was planning in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, but after its removal from the site the statue was returned to the sculptor, who displays it in a castle-like installation at his Brechin workshop.