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• n  a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event
• n  any joyous diversion
• n  the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual
  the celebration of marriage

• Juneteenth celebrations began there in the years following General Gordon Granger's 1865 proclamation in Galveston and continued for decades.
• When asked how his New Year celebrations have been, the pilgrim a middle-aged businessman wearing a heavy winter coat against the bitter winds that knife through the monastery .
• The firecrackers that crackled in the plaza of the central city of Morelia late Monday in celebration of Mexico's independence day served as a prelude to a nastier set of .

• jubilation
• festivity
• solemnization
• solemnisation

News & Articles

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• Celebration kicks off
  A sellout crowd helped kick off the Dean Martin Day Hometown Celebration Friday at Froehlich’s Classic Corner Restaurant. Bob Morelli, appearing as the music legend himself, kicked off a dinner show benefitting the Grand Theater Restoration Project that drew well over 250 people.
  June 15, 2013 - The Steubenville Herald-Star
• Juneteenth celebration set for Saturday in Ann Arbor
  Juneteenth, the annual celebration commemorating the end of slavery in America, comes to Ann Arbor's Wheeler Park on Saturday, June 15. The local chapter of the NAACP sponsors the event, which takes place from noon-6 p.m. at the park,...
  June 15, 2013 - AnnArbor.com
• Celebration of the Arts showcases students’ work
  Springfield High School held the annual Celebration of the Arts, May 22, with overwhelming attendance by parents, friends and interested members of the school community. The work displayed and/or performed covered all of the arts taught through various courses and electives. A majority of students contributed to the exhibits, and these photographs are just a small representation of that work. In ...
  June 14, 2013 - Springfield Press

Quotes

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• Bryan Cranston in The Associated Press
  It's a double celebration,said Cranston. "It's my 21st anniversary today. However, when I turned to my wife and said, 'Is being nominated enough of an anniversary present for you?' And she said, 'No.' I went, 'OK. I'll be right back.' We...
• Barack Obama in Washington Post
  Obama called it the "meaning of our liberty and our creed" that those days are no more: "Why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent Mall, and why a man whose father less than...
• Pope Benedict XVI in AFP
  Shalom! It is with joy that I come here just a few hours before the celebration of your Pesah (Passover), to express my respect and esteem for the Jewish community of New York City,Benedict told some 400 people gathered at the synagogue.