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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Centennial \Cen*ten"ni*al\, a. [L. centum a hundred + annus year.]
Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.
Happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial jubilee; a centennial celebration.
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Lasting or aged a hundred years.
That opened through long lines Of sacred ilex and centennial pines.
--Longfellow.
Centennial \Cen*ten"ni*al\, n. The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary. [U. S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before. 2 Happening once in a hundred years. 3 Lasting or aged a hundred years. n. The hundredth anniversary of an event or happening.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years; "centennial celebration" [syn: centenary]
n. the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) [syn: centenary]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 295
Land area (2000): 10.024372 sq. miles (25.963003 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 10.024372 sq. miles (25.963003 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13440
Located within: Wyoming (WY), FIPS 56
Location: 41.297981 N, 106.137614 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 82055
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Centennial is of or relating to a century, a period of 100 years.
Centennial may also refer to:
Centennial is a 12-episode American television miniseries that aired on NBC from October 1978 to February 1979. It was based on the novel of the same name by James A. Michener, and was produced by John Wilder.
The miniseries follows the history of the area of the fictional town of Centennial, Colorado, from 1795 to the 1970s. Its cast included Michael Ansara, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Conrad, Barbara Carrera, Richard Crenna, Timothy Dalton, Sharon Gless, Andy Griffith, Mark Harmon, Gregory Harrison, David Janssen, Alex Karras, Brian Keith, Sally Kellerman, Stephen McHattie, Lois Nettleton, Donald Pleasence, Adrienne La Russa, Lynn Redgrave, Clive Revill, Pernell Roberts, Robert Vaughn, Dennis Weaver, Anthony Zerbe and Stephanie Zimbalist.
The miniseries was one of the longest (26½ hours, including commercials) and most ambitious television projects ever attempted at the time. It had a budget of US$25 million, employed four directors and five cinematographers, and featured over 100 speaking parts spanning 26 hours of television viewing time. Centennial was released on DVD on July 29, 2008.
Centennial is a novel by American author James A. Michener, published in 1974.
Centennial traces the history of the plains of northeast Colorado from prehistory until the early 1970s. Geographic details about the fictional town of Centennial and its surroundings indicate that the region is in modern-day Weld County. Since the novel was written, the Denver suburb of Centennial has been incorporated, although its location in Arapahoe County is far from Michener's fictional town of the same name. Much of his book was based on the Weld County city of Greeley.
Many episodes in the book are loosely based on actual historical events in eastern Colorado and southeast Wyoming, which for novelistic reasons are brought to a single locale. For example, "The Massacre" is based on the Sand Creek Massacre which took place in Kiowa County, Colorado in 1864. Other parts of the book are loosely based on a family from Sterling in Logan County.
Centennial was made into a popular twelve-part television miniseries, also titled Centennial, that aired on NBC from October 1978 through February 1979, and was filmed in several parts of Colorado. In 2008, NBC Universal began to market a six volume DVD set.
Centennial is an instrumental LP released in 1984 by John Stewart, a former member of the Kingston Trio. This album is produced by Stewart and he also plays all instruments. The album was released on Stewart's own label "Homecoming Records". It is also the first part of his "American Journey" series, the others being The Last Campaign, The Trio Years and An American Folk Song Anthology.
The album was reissued on CD on the label "Laserlight" in 1991 as "American Sketches". Selection from Centennial was also released on the 1984 "Homecoming Records" sampler The Gathering.
A centennial is a 100 year anniversary or otherwise relates to a century, a period of 100 years.
Notable centennial events at a national or world-level include:
- Centennial Exhibition, 1876, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. First official World's Fair in the United States, celebrating 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. About 10 million visitors attended, equivalent to about 20% of the population of the United States at the time. The exhibition ran from May 10, 1876 to November 10, 1876. (It included a monorail.)
- New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, 1939-1940, celebrated one hundred years since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 and the subsequent mass European settlement of New Zealand. 2,641,043 (2.6 million) visitors attended the exhibition, which ran from 8 November 1939 until 4 May 1940.
- 1967 International and Universal Exposition, better known as Expo 67, celebrating Canada's centennial year. This "Category One" World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from April 27 to October 29, 1967. 62 nations participated, and it set the single-day attendance record for a world's fair, with 569,500 visitors on its third day. Official attendance was 50,306,648. Was endpoint of the Centennial Voyageur Canoe Pageant, the longest canoe race in history. (Its monorail was a major attraction.)
- 100th Anniversary of the Independence of Albania
- First World War centenary, started in 2014 with commemorations of the outbreak of the war and will continue until 2018.
Selected regional or other centennial events include:
in Argentina- Argentina Centennial (1910)
- Centenary of Western Australia, in 1929, which included the Western Australian Centenary Air Race across Australia.
- 1934 Centenary of Melbourne
- Canadian Centennial (1967)
- Centennial of the City of Toronto
- American Civil War Centennial
- Oregon Centennial
- Texas Centennial Exposition
- Decade of Centenaries
Usage examples of "centennial".
I would drive to Centennial as soon as my classes ended, establish contacts with the Denver Public Library, which was some fifty miles away, introduce myself to the faculties at Greeley, Fort Collins and Boulder, and prepare research reports on what had actually happened at Centennial during its history, which had started only in 1844 with the arrival of Zendt and one of the mountain men.
I was simply submitting arbitrarily selected insights as to the character and background of Centennial and its settlers, and I could depend upon the home office to polish whatever segments they might want to publish.
We are hiring you as a sensitive, intelligent man, and all we want from you are some letters which share with us your understanding of what transpired at Centennial, Colorado, between the years 1844 and 1974.
I think it was then I began to see my little object-town Centennial in a rather larger dimension than the editors back in New York saw it.
The place attracted me like a magnet and I wished that I were writing of it and not Centennial, which at this point seemed pretty ordinary to me, but as I drove south, it occurred to me that I must be following the old Skimmerhorn Trail, and when I came to the low bluffs that marked the delineation between the river bottom and the prairie and I was able to look down into Centennial and its paltry railroad, with cottonwoods outlining the south side of the Platte, I had a suspicion that perhaps it too had had its moments of historic significance.
Its pungent aroma, even in the spring of the year, permeated Centennial with a clean, earthlike smell.
I ate dinner at the hotel, and my waiter was a man whose ancestors had come to Centennial with the building of the railroad in the 1880s and had lingered.
I was reflecting on the fact that during my visit to Centennial, I had met a black, a Mexican and many Caucasians, but not one Indian.
Now part of an uplifted mountain, now sunk at the bottom of some sea, Centennial experienced wild fluctuations.
We have observed this phenomenon before, so there is no need to recapitulate, except to state that at the location we are talking about, a spot to the north of Centennial and slightly to the east, the deposit eventually, was more than two hundred feet thick.
This final rock had a peculiar characteristic: at the spot we are talking about, north of Centennial, some variation occurred in the cement which bound the granular elements together.
New Rocky Mountain area had long been determined and the land looked pretty much as it looks today, a small, wandering muddy stream joined the river at the spot where Centennial was to be.
Rainfall at Centennial is only thirteen inches a year, when any farmer knows that to produce even miserly corn or wheat requires twenty-one.
Clovis point, with its functional design, its exquisite workmanship and its pronounced fluting, would be the finest work of art ever produced in the Centennial region.
As to the date for the arrival of man into the Americas, we know for certain only that Clovis man operated around Centennial about 12,000 years ago, because we have the projectile points he used and carbonized remnants of his fires.