Jubilee

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Contents 1 Anniversaries and celebrations 2 Architecture & Landmarks 3 Arts & Entertainment 3.1 Film 3.2 Literature 3.3 Music 3.4 Radio 3.5 Television 3.6 Theatre 4 Business 5 Food 6 Internet Sites 7 Nature & Science 8 Social Organizations 9 Sports 10 Theology 11 Transportation 12 History

[edit] Anniversaries and celebrations

Jubilee is a historical term for a time of celebration or rejoicing. It is defined in Leviticus 25:9 as "Yovel" in Hebrew, as the sabbatical year after seven cycles of seven years.

• Jubilee (Christian), a special year for the remission of sins
• Silver Jubilee (25 years)
• Golden Jubilee (50 years)
• Diamond Jubilee (60 years in Britain, 75 years in the United States, 100 years in South Asia)
• Platinum Jubilee (70 years in Britain, 75 years in South Asia)
• Sed festival, a ritual celebration or Jubilee of an Egyptian king's reign
• The Buckley Jubilee is a yearly festival on the second Tuesday of July in Buckley that has taken place for over 200 years

[edit] Architecture & Landmarks

• Jubilee clock is a term used in reference to a number of clocks constructed in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Golden or Diamond Jubilee
• Jubilee College State Park is an Illinois state park located a few miles west of Peoria, Illinois
• Jubilee Street (Chinese: 租庇利街) is a street in Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
• Jubilee Tower is a tower in Darwen completed in 1898 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
• Jubilee Walkway is one of the official walkways in London, England
• Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
• Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
• Jubilee Campus is a campus of the University of Nottingham, opened 75 years after it first received its royal charter.

Jubilee II is a paddle wheeler owned and operated by St. Croix Boat & Packet located in Stillwater, MN on the St. Croix River

[edit] Arts & Entertainment

[edit] Film

• Jubilee (1977 film) is a cult film directed by Derek Jarman

[edit] Literature

• Jubilee (novel), by Margaret Walker
• Jubilee (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe

[edit] Music

• Jubilee (band) is a rock n’ roll band from Los Angeles, California.
• Jubilee (Seattle band) is a indie band based in Seattle, Washington
• Cowboy Jubilee is a Western song by the band Riders in the Sky
• Fisk Jubilee Singers, a group of African American singers in the 1870s
• Jubilee (album), by Grant Lee Buffalo
• Jubilee (Sex Pistols album), a singles collection by the Sex Pistols
• Jubilee was the name given to the demo version of the Beatles song Junk
• "Jubilee" was a song on the 10,000 Maniacs 1989 album Blind Man's Zoo
• Jubilee Records, a record label specializing the Rhythm & Blues musical genre
• Jubilee Songs, a term used by many African Americans for Pentecostal gospel music with lyrical content largely centered on the primacy of holy living, spiritual gifts and the imminent return of Jesus
• Jubilee Tour was the name of a concert tour by Jane's Addiction in support of the Jubilee Organization
• Jubilee (song), by Patti Smith, 2004.

[edit] Radio

• Jubilee (Doctor Who audio), audio drama based on the television series

[edit] Television

• Jubilee (Summer Wine episode), an episode of Last of the Summer Wine
• Jubilee (TV series) a 1959-1969 television program
• Jubilee's Fairytale Theater is an episode of X-Men: The Animated Series
• Jewbilee, an episode of South Park

[edit] Theatre

• Jubilee (musical), a 1935 stage musical by Cole Porter
• Jubilee! - Vegas Production Show, produced by Donn Arden and running in Las Vegas since 1981
• Jubilee (play), a play by Peter Barnes which premiered at the Swan Theatre in summer 2001.

[edit] Business

• Jubilee Foods, a Midwestern grocery store chain in the United States

[edit] Food

• Cherries jubilee is a flambéed dessert dish made with cherries and liqueur commonly served as a sauce over vanilla ice cream
• Jubilee chicken can refer to one of two chicken dishes created to celebrate the jubilees of different monarchs

[edit] Internet Sites

• Calm of the Storm, official site of Jubilee Cheung

[edit] Nature & Science

• The Golden Jubilee, the largest faceted diamond in the world (545.67ct/109.13g)
• Jubilee River is a hydraulic channel in southern England
• Mobile Bay jubilee, a natural phenomenon in the U.S. state of Alabama where sea fauna flock to the shores of Mobile Bay

[edit] Social Organizations

• Jubilee Action is a children's human rights charity based in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
• Jubilee (movement), an international organization dedicated to debt cancellations and poverty reduction
• Jubilee USA, the USA based arm of the Jubilee movement for debt cancellation and poverty reduction
• Jubilee Partners, a Christian intentional community and refugee welcome center in Comer, Georgia

[edit] Sports

• Jubilee Arena was an indoor arena located in Montreal, Canada
• Oki Jubilee Stadium is the home stadium of the St George Illawarra Dragons, an NRL rugby league team

[edit] Theology

• A Jubilee (Biblical) is a yearlong celebration and time of forgiveness in Judaism and Christianity - held every 50 years (Leviticus 25), (or 49 years according to the Book of Jubilees), in the Jewish form and at somewhat more arbitrary intervals in the Christian form
• Book of Jubilees, an apocryphal Hebrew text
• Jubilee Synagogue is a synagogue in Prague, Czech Republic

[edit] Transportation

• Jubilee Line, a London Underground metro system route
• LMS Jubilee Class, a class of steam locomotive
• Silver Jubilee (train), a former LNER express service between London and Newcastle.
• The White Star Line commissioned five steamships called the "Jubilee Class" because they were built at the turn of the 20th Century, the largest of which was the SS Suevic.

[edit] History

• Operation Jubilee, the code name for the Dieppe Raid by Allied forces onto German-occupied French soil in 1942