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The turning point for their relationship was a celebration of Juneteenth Day, a holiday commemorating the day in 1865 when slaves in Texas first learned that the Civil War was over and, two and a half years after the fact, that President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Both Times leads record yesterday's Bill Clinton-led White House ceremony commemorating the estimated $70 billion in the federal plus column.
In 1960, Penderecki exploded the lyrical associations of the string orchestra in his Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima for 52 stringed instruments, a brutal piece commemorating an act of violence.
Among the questions unexplored in the reams of news copy commemorating the 20 th century's end is the likely fate of Boomer Irony.
Stamp collectors moan that the Postal Service issues too many stamps, often commemorating frivolous subjects such as Bugs Bunny, hoping that customers will buy and hold these stamps rather than use them.