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| Adjective | 1. Coming next after the twenty-eighth in position.[Wordnet]. | |
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Date "29th" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1628. (references) |
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| 29th Avenue Station | The 29th Avenue Station is located at a grade crossing portion of the Expo Line, a part of Vancouver's Skytrain light-rail rapid-transit system. (references) | ||
| 29th Canadian parliament | The 29th Canadian parliament was in session from 1972 until 1974. The membership was set by in the 1972 federal election and it was dissolved prior to the 1974 election. It was controlled by a Liberal Party of Canada, but they only could form a minority government needing support of David Lewis's NDP. The Liberals were led by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. (references) | ||
| 29th century | The 29th century (Gregorian Calendar) comprises, for some, the years 2801-2900. This is almost the same as the twenty-eight hundreds, which is the time between 2800 and 2899. (Some people argue that, because there was no year 0, this is not the same as the 29th century, although some people, correctly or incorrectly, treat it as so). (references) | ||
| 29th Daytime Emmy Awards | The 29th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 2002 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (2001). (references) | ||
| 29th G8 summit | The 29th G8 summit took place in Évian-les-Bains, France, in June 2003. As is usual for G8 summits, there were a range of protests. A number of non-G8 countries were invited to the summit (Algeria, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa) as well as the President of the Swiss Confederation and representatives of the UN, the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO, providing "an opportunity for an exchange of views on growth and international co-operation". (references) | ||
| 29th Regiment of Foot | The 29th Regiment of Foot was raised in 1694 by Colonel Thomas Farrington, an officer of the Coldstream Guards during War of the Grand Alliance known in America as King William's War. It was disbanded in 1698 after the Peace of Ryswick and reformed in 1702 for the War of the Spanish Succession, also known as Queen Anne's War. The regiment served under the John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough at the victorious Battle of Ramillies in 1706 against the French in what is now Belgium and in the siege of Ostend. In 1727 the regiment saw action at Gibraltar and were sent to Fortress Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island in 1745. In 1749, the regiment was at the site of Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the soldiers cleared the land for the new town. An altercation with some Native Americans led to an order that all officers in the regiment must always be armed, thus earning their first nickname as the "Ever Sworded" due to the swords the officers are required to wear even when off-duty a tradition still in effect today as the officer of the day is still armed even at the officers mess. (references) | ||
| 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Italian) | The 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Italian) was formed in September 1944, when Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS (italienische Nr. 1) was upgraded to a division. It was given the number 29 when Waffen-Grenadier Division der SS (Russische Nr 1) (29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Russian)) was disbanded, but it did not come close to divisional size. (references) | ||
| British 29th Division | The British 29th Division, known as the Incomparable Division, was a First World War regular army infantry division formed in early 1915 by combining various units that had been acting as garrisons about the British Empire. Under the command of Major General Aylmer Hunter-Weston, the division fought throughout the Battle of Gallipoli, including the original landing at Cape Helles. From 1916 to the end of the war the division fought on the Western Front in France. (references) | ||
| German 29th Infantry Division | Created as the 29th Infantry Division in the fall of 1936, and upgraded to 29th Motorized Infantry Division in the fall of 1937. It was mobilized in August 1939 for the invasion of Poland. In early 1943 the division was lost in the Battle of Stalingrad, and then reconstituted in France in the early spring from the recently formed 345th Infantry Division. Thereafter it fought in Italy at Salerno and Anzio, and was destroyed by the British in northern Italy just before the end of the war. (references) | ||
| Members of the 29th Dáil | This is a list of the members who were elected to the 29th Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (legislature) of the Republic of Ireland. These Teachtaí Dála (Members of Parliament) were elected in the 2002 General Election and will serve until 2007 at the latest. (references) | ||
| Ministers of State of the 29th Dáil | On June 6, 2002 the 26th Government of Ireland was officially appointed by Dáil Éireann. The Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats was lead by An Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern. (references) | ||
| Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford | Robert Alexander Lindsay (b. 5 March 1927), 29th Earl of Crawford, 12th Earl of Balcarres, KT PC, is a Scottish nobleman and politician. (references) | ||
| U.S. 29th Infantry Division | The U.S. 29th Infantry Division was a United States infantry division that existed during World War I and World War II. (references) | ||
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