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Examples

  • The manager added that Annus is giving back the medal to avoid further controversy.

    USATODAY.com - Hammer thrower to return gold medal, manager says 2004

  • It was her Annus Mirabilis, the year she wowed the Conservative Party Conference, which in turn led to multiple media appearances and an unexpected, unplanned career as an education commentator.

    The confusing world of Katharine Birbalsingh 2011

  • Progressio, and "Centesimus Annus, not to mention" Gaudium et Spes, a decree of the Second Vatican Council.

    New Releases 2009

  • Annus Mirabilis, by John Dryden Dryden's poem depicts the Battle of Lowestoft, in which the English fleet managed not to be defeated by the Dutch.

    Ten of the best 2011

  • Annus Mirabilis, by John Dryden Dryden's poem depicts the Battle of Lowestoft, in which the English fleet managed not to be defeated by the Dutch.

    Ten of the best 2011

  • “‘Annus Mirabilis—Year of Wonders’ … well, it certainly was that, what with the plague and fire and all,” said Buckhurst, leaning his neat blond head back and closing his eyes.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • “‘Annus Mirabilis—Year of Wonders’ … well, it certainly was that, what with the plague and fire and all,” said Buckhurst, leaning his neat blond head back and closing his eyes.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • This Christmas the Irish are feeling somewhat foolish as they survey the wreckage of what Queen Elizabeth would surely call an "Annus Horribilis"

    Niall O'Dowd: Irish relieved they are not paragons of success any more Niall O 2010

  • This Christmas the Irish are feeling somewhat foolish as they survey the wreckage of what Queen Elizabeth would surely call an "Annus Horribilis"

    Niall O'Dowd: Irish relieved they are not paragons of success any more Niall O'Dowd 2010

  • Annus Mirabilis 1989” gives a sense of the difficulties of understanding the persistence of European antisemitism in a report of a cabaret show in Hungary where laughter and applause are engendered by the stage murder of a Jew.

    Elaine Feinstein. 2009

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