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“... have anything to do with the Panthéon after its arch enemy, Zola, was reburied there in 1908. The Unknown Soldier would go instead to the Arc de Triomphe, on the same day that the heart of Gambetta was reburied in the Panthéon and less than two weeks before the assassinated Socialist Prime Minister Jean Jaurès was transferred there too. Not ...”

“... the research they were based on was published in greatly expanded form in a book by the previously unknown Fritz Tobias, entitled The Reichstag Fire: Legend and Reality. In well over seven hundred pages it presented meticulously detailed analyses of the evidence backed by an enormous quantity of careful research in support of the thesis that van der Lubbe had ...”

“... that the case is tried by somebody else without waiting for an objection. But it has not been unknown in modern times for a judge, typically in the chancery division, to mention to the parties that he or she holds shares in one of them and to have the objection summarily waived, as often as not with a polite expression of hope that ‘your Lordship’s ...”

“... The plunge is what the showman takes. There’s a brink and the audience – the great unknown – lies beyond it: get up there, throw in all you’ve got, court disaster if you must, but whatever you do, make something happen! Rosa, more than any painter before him, came to live for the exhibition. ‘I have risked everything to achieve ...”

“... nerves. It often surprises people that there is no attested contemporary portrait. Just because an unknown hand has written ‘Anne Boleyn’ on a picture, it doesn’t mean it’s an image from the life or even an image of Anne at all. The most familiar image, in which she wears a letter ‘B’ hanging from a pearl necklace, exists in many forms and variants ...”

“... do with Islam. Fired up by the promises of perestroika, the students felt the parachuting in of an unknown Russian was an affront to their national pride as well as a blow to their own ambitions. The car taking Nazarbayev to work the next morning was surrounded by hundreds of young protesters. He tried to calm them, but without success. Gennady Kolbin, the new ...”

“... of Guantánamo. It is entirely by accident that we have come to see what probably remains unknown to most Americans. One young American citizen, Syed Fahad Hashmi, was due to stand trial this month in Manhattan. He has been subjected to every coercive and unconstitutional practice at issue in the still outstanding extraditions in the three years since ...”

“... nothing like factory work to make a soul appreciate the outdoors, even in its humblest forms. Unknown to me, the Zealous Chargehand – I forget his name, but he lives on as a type, like the Prodigal Son, or the Unfaithful Servant – had secretly cut his own copies of all the keys, including the key to the fan, so when he came along and found the fan ...”

“... often inconclusive: it was cloth, or paper fibres bound with egg-white – or it was a substance unknown. In its most detectable form it consisted of yards of fine muslin packed within the medium’s capacious undergarments, or possibly within the medium’s capacious body cavities. It was often suggested that the muslin was regurgitated, and it was ...”

“... of other people and was used to being heard. Yet in this other life my voice had been literally unknown.’ She concludes by asking us to believe that ‘as we drove down the Mall’ on the way to Buckingham Palace, she decided to write Speaking for Myself. I can’t help feeling, after reading 400-odd pages of her memoir, that I still haven’t heard her ...”

“... The aerial travelling shots associate the flying balloon with the movie camera, two machines unknown in the medieval world, as if to announce at the outset that this picture of a historical moment, as Tarkovsky said while at work on the script, is to be watched with the eyes of today. The peasant inventor who defies received ideas and takes off in his ...”

“... her, ‘do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more but rests, satisfied.’ In an epilogue, Lucy writes Paul’s deathbed story, worthy of a Victorian novel in its clinical detail and its poignant sentimentality. I can imagine ...”

“... and an exciting one. Cryptic posts displaying a strange design and a message in an unknown script have appeared on the internet, resisting all the efforts of the government lexicology lab (I really want there to be such a thing) to decode it. The design and the message are even reproduced on the back of the title page – the image resembles a ...”

“... earlier.To read Penman doing this in what feels like another moment of passage into something unknown and frightening is rather eerie. He himself has an eye for the media-uncanny. The autobiography flits between his itinerant childhood (his parents bought the family’s first colour TV just in time to watch the spectacle of the Black September atrocity at ...”

“... Park won him the part of Michael Corleone, despite Paramount’s jitteriness about casting an unknown. The studio, which was also reluctant to cast Robert Duvall and Brando, wanted many actors more than they wanted Pacino. ‘They wanted Jack Nicholson. They wanted Robert Redford. They wanted Warren Beatty or Ryan O’Neal.’ Imagine The Godfather with ...”