“... fallen: recently it has been claimed by big fashion designers. (The difference in status between unknown artisans and international designers is rarely parsed in the show.) Bògòlanfini is made by the people of Mali and Burkina Faso. Single strips of cloth are woven on treadle looms and then sewn together to form a larger textile. Its dramatic appearance is ...”

“... in sculpture. Such are the qualities most apparent in the V&A’s Lamentation, a bronze relief of unknown origin which is completely antipathetic to the ideals of the goldsmith.If there was one type of sculpture in which Donatello sometimes failed to excel it was the free-standing, full-length marble figure. The great gloomy prophet Habbakuk made for the ...”

“... and Egyptian officials go between them carrying messages. In Cairo, they are whisked off to an unknown location, probably in one of the many compounds owned by the Egyptian armed forces. At the end of May, Joe Biden announced a framework for an agreement on what he described as an ‘Israeli ceasefire proposal’, which was immediately rejected by ...”

“... 1600 and 1900 are likely to encounter in Newham’s book many monuments that were previously unknown to them. The character and quality of the monuments Newham selects differ only in their relative obscurity from those in the great cathedrals, college chapels and town churches. Among the latter, Bath Abbey, exceptional for the quantity and variety of its ...”

“... how many people are smiling in the images on display. In a picture from 1949-50, taken by an unknown photographer, sharply dressed men and women beam at the camera. It could be a wedding or a birthday party (and perhaps it is) but the subjects are members of the anti-fascist 43 Group, a network of Jewish ex-servicemen and others who campaigned against ...”

“... and over, and each time the results were the same. Finally, Medawar had to concede that, for some unknown reason, cattle twins were an exception to the general rule, which stated that skin grafted between two genetically dissimilar animals would be rejected. Acceptance of what nature demonstrated has to be followed by explanation, and Medawar has always ...”

“... his art should read the second half of the book first, even though, as a more or less complete unknown, it was a little too soon for him to have had any ‘initiates’. The format of these two books is that of the circus or the music-hall. Turn follows fast on turn, in a frantic accumulation of wonders. For a specimen performance, I take that of ...”

“... a similar pattern at the polytechnics, where from the start single-subject honours degrees were unknown, and where modular courses moved towards a Post-Modernist ‘pick and mix’. Sociology was a dominant influence on the ‘new wave’ history of the time. In the new cottage industry of urban history, monographs, when they began to appear, typically ...”

“... on the Ashkenazi civilisation, history, language and frame of mind, all of which are virtually unknown in Italy, except by some sophisticated readers of Joseph Roth, Bellow, Singer, Malamud, Potok, and of course yourself. Levi’s explained intention does not mean that there is no autobiography in the book. The wish to evoke a Jewish resistance to Nazism ...”

“... that the Scots Guards turned their machine-guns on them. This is not confirmed in The Unknown Army, an admirably thorough, concise and well-written study of First World War mutinies by the late Gloden Dallas and Douglas Gill, though they do observe that the Guards, and the Scottish units, retained a reputation for reliability while the efficiency ...”

“... fiefs, the two principal Kims can count on levels of support – over 70 percent – virtually unknown outside dictatorial systems. In no country does the gap between what one might call the pays passionnel and the pays électoral appear so great. The tension between them can be seen in the courtroom drama in Seoul, where Generals Chun Doo-Hwan and Roh Tae ...”

“... This pilgrim’s progress is a familiar one for card-carrying Cockneys, a way out, a trip into the unknown. Musician and long-distance pedestrian Jan Wobble recalls his sabbatical as a minicabber, ferrying striped faces south of the river for regular bits of business, cash drops. These heavy suits would sit, white-knuckled, fingers digging into the scarlet ...”

“... their subtitle proclaims, in virtually every chapter Chang and Halliday have turned up ‘unknown stories’ of Mao. Some, if true, will be big news for historians. Mao amassed a private fortune during the Jiangxi Soviet period; his troops fought only one real battle during the Long March; their break-out from Nationalist military encirclement was ...”

“... rapidly, however, often in the form of Heilkunde, a combination of psychiatry and pedagogy almost unknown in the West. Leo Kanner was a Galician Jew (hence Austrian) who trained in Berlin. During the early and turbulent days of the Weimar Republic he went out to practise in rural South Dakota. He later went east and found his home at Johns Hopkins ...”

“... it, Our free German Rhine, Until its flood has buried The limbs of our last man! Composed by an unknown magistrate’s clerk, the rather trite lines struck the chord of aspiring liberal nationalism in the German Confederation, and before long Schumann and others were setting it to music, hoping to turn it into ‘a German Marseillaise’. ‘Metternich ...”