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| Adjective | 1. Coming next after the twenty-fifth in position.[Wordnet]. | |
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Date "26th" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1639. (references) |
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| 26th century | The 26th century (Gregorian Calendar) comprises the years 2501-2600. (references) | ||
| 26th Daytime Emmy Awards | The 26th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 1999 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1998). (references) | ||
| 26th of July Movement | The 26th of July Movement (Spanish: Movimiento 26 de Julio) was the revolutionary organization led by Fidel Castro that in 1959 overthrew the Fulgencio Batista regime in Cuba. Its name originated from the (failed) attack on the Moncada Barracks, an army facility in Santiago, on July 26, 1953. The movement was re-organized in Mexico in 1955 by a group of exiled revolutionaries (including the brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro, and the Argentinian Che Guevara, numbering a mere 81 people). Their task was to form a disciplined guerrilla force ready to overthrow Batista. Some members of the movement remaining in Cuba carried out acts of sabotage and tried to stir up political discontent there. (references) | ||
| 26th Regiment of Foot | The 26th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army. It was raised as the Cameronian Guard in 1688 by the Lords of the Convention of the National Covenant and named for Richard Cameron. The following year it entered British service under King William III, following his pardoning of Cameron. Although the regiment took the name of its colonel, it became popularly known as The Cameronians until 1751, when it was ranked as the 26th Foot. The regiment was known as the 26th (Cameronian) Regiment until 1881, when it merged with the 90th Regiment of Foot to form The Cameronians (Scotch Rifles). Because of its origins in a religious movement, the regiment issued bibles to all of its new soldiers as part of their kit, a tradition that continued after amalgamation. (references) | ||
| 26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Hungarian) | The 26th Waffen-Grenadier Division der SS was one of the thirty-eight divisions fielded by the Waffen-SS during World War II. Some sources cite it as having a proper name as well as a number, either Hungaria or Gömbös, or no proper name at all. It was formed very late in the war, recruited primarily from Hungarians, and thus bore the secondary designation ungarische Nr. 2 ("Hungarian #2). (references) | ||
| Government of the 26th Dáil | The 26th Dáil was elected on June 15, 1989 and first met on July 12 when the 25th Government of Ireland was appointed. The 26th Dáil lasted 1,259 days. (references) | ||
| Members of the 26th Dáil | This is a list of the members who were elected to the 26th Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (legislature) of the Republic of Ireland. These Teachtaí Dála (Members of Parliament) were elected in the 1989 General Election and served until 1992. The Twenty-Sixth Dáil lasted 1,259 days, and saw a change of Taoiseach from Charles J. Haughey to Albert Reynolds. (references) | ||
| Ministers of State of the 26th Dáil | On July 12, 1989 the 21st Government of Ireland was officially appointed by Dáil Éireann. The new Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats government was lead by An Taoiseach, Charles J. Haughey. (references) | ||
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