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“... rhythms. While this could be waved away as the language of shock, trauma, being prised apart by unknown hands, it isn’t quite – and anyway we can’t know, since we don’t hear the voice of the Girl before she has been kidnapped. It is more the language of first encounter. If the Girl’s interior is a forest, neither do the trees there have ...”

“... that toured between 2011 and 2014. In 2017 a cache of sixty thousand negatives, deposited by an unknown intermediary, was released to his nephew Leslie Matlaisane by a Swedish bank; some dated from Cole’s days in South Africa, others from his tentative field trips in the US before his Ford Foundation venture bombed. The negatives were shared by Magnum ...”

“... residents who use it as a field on which to test all-terrain vehicles. Other historical sites are unknown and unmarked. Namibia’s economy depends on European tourism, and commemorating a European genocide makes visitors uncomfortable. In the tourist camp at the Waterberg National Park, a restaurant serving German dishes – ‘game Schnitzel’ was on the ...”

“... more than a thousand Palestinians, including the hospital staff, trucking about seventy to an unknown location. The World Health Organisation has recorded 240 attacks on medical facilities.At first Israeli forces blocked all aid from entering Gaza, while also cutting off supplies of fuel, water, electricity and food. The UN assessment is that a quarter of ...”

“... recent, ‘early modern’, and, before the age of Western imperial expansion, rare or unknown anywhere else. The cosmology of his Amazon companions is much more widely distributed, and what we crudely call ‘animism’, attributing it to people whom we take for primitive, becomes a strikingly viable cosmology. Viveiros de Castro is less committed ...”

“... title of ‘High priestess (en), who is the ornament (hedu) of heaven (ana)’. (Her birth name is unknown.) Her husband, Nanna, was thought to herd the stars like cattle; his horns were the crescent moon. As a deity’s wife, she was forbidden from marrying a human male or giving birth to children. In ritually impersonating Ningal, Enheduana became ‘a kind ...”

“... with another bit of Catullus. This is a rough translation of a recently discovered and hitherto unknown fragment of text. It appears to take the form of an interview between the Roman poet and John D. Pepper:John D. Pepper: Death.Catullus: Death made me grow up.John D. Pepper (henceforth Pepper): Love.Catullus: Love made me ...”

“... was remanded till Monday for stealing a quantity of nails, ‘the property of some person unknown’. The only man who had not committed a property crime of any kind was John Cooper, who was charged with playing ‘pitch and toss’ with pennies and ha’pennies in the public highway in Camberwell, which was a new offence under the recent Highways ...”

“... as a writer, producing a Latin comedy that he put into circulation as if it were a previously unknown classical text. He also began to study mathematics, as a form of relaxation. Alberti would pursue the study of both the classics and technical subjects, often together, throughout his life.He started out as a cleric in minor orders, working in the papal ...”

“... as the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. In part because Richer’s record of Hugh’s election was unknown in France, other versions of the Capetian takeover were invented by chroniclers. The fate of Richer’s account, which described a legitimate election rather than the usurpation portrayed in so many subsequent chronicles, serves as a salutary reminder of ...”

“... societies and there are many exceptions – brother-sister and even parent-child marriage are not unknown in the historical record – almost all societies start with some sort of prohibition on sex with immediate kin. Frequently the degree of prohibition goes much further than that and covers lots of other people too. Despite this, incest still ...”

“... be given another nut, which might hide a miniature spinning wheel that could save you in some unknown future peril when you need to spin a thread or identify yourself. A horse or a fox or a donkey or even a wolf if handled correctly might take you from the low world to the high. Throw a toad against a wall and it becomes a prince; kiss it and it becomes a ...”

“... as natural philosophy, as well as the higher studies of law, medicine and theology. Previously unknown texts, translated into Latin from Arabic or Greek, arrived in the West and had to be evaluated and made available. Scholars split into schools, writing polemics against their rivals as well as textbooks on their subjects. Students and staff needed access ...”

“... Bathurst’ so opaque – the pointilliste descriptions of locality, the allusions to persons unknown, the baffling stories of lost directions. These are some of the ways in which ordinary movement of plot is counteracted in ‘Mrs Bathurst’ by Kipling’s high, studied yet natural brilliancy of form and style. There are a good many different dimensions ...”

“... us to believe that they could be effectually subdued. But the cholera was something outlandish, unknown, monstrous; its tremendous ravages, so long foreseen and feared, so little to be explained, its insidious march over whole continents, its apparent defiance of all the known and conventional precautions against the spread of epidemic disease, invested it ...”