Silver Jubilees in The British Empire and Commonwealth Realms
In the Commonwealth Realms, a Silver Jubilee is held in the 25th year of a monarch's reign. This is followed by a Golden Jubilee in the 50th year, a Diamond Jubilee in the 60th year and a Platinum Jubilee in the 70th year.
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“There is probably not more than one hundred dollars in cash in circulation today. That is, if you were to call in all the bills and silver and gold in the country at noon tomorrow and pile them on the table, you would find that you had just about one hundred dollars, with perhaps several Canadian pennies and a few peppermint Life Savers.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
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—Rupert Murdoch (b. 1931)
“I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.”
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)
“We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
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And woe pursue who to a master quotes
The funnier of our witty marginal notes.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)