21.   In the year -- indeed the very month -- that rugby league celebrates its centenary, rugby union worldwide is on the verge of becoming professional.

22.   Cordon bleu -- the mark of high-class cuisine -- celebrates its centenary this year.

23.   Their creation marks the latest stage in the privatisation of the heavily-nationalised sector, celebrating its centenary this year at the Cairo International Film Festival.

24.   Tower Bridge, one of the most famous monuments in London and a triumph of Victorian engineering, celebrated its centenary Thursday.

25.   Mandela made the remarks in a speech prepared for delivery at the opening of the new offices here of mining giant Gencor, which is celebrating its centenary.

26.   She listed violence, doping, intensive training of young children and financial priorities as the four biggest threats to stopping the modern Olympic movement celebrating another centenary.

27.   The International Olympic Committee returned to its birthplace, the grand amphitheatre of the Sorbonne, to celebrate its centenary here on Thursday.