“... was a scapegoat,’ another says. ‘It shouldn’t have happened.’ These men believe she may have been disappeared because the IRA knew that the killing of a widowed mother of ten would have been seen as unacceptable even by republicans. Helen McKendry believes her mother was set up by IRA women in Divis to protect one of their own who actually was ...”

“... devoted much of his late autobiography to complaining about the critics who had slandered him. He may have been a little paranoid, but he had real enemies. More would spring up after his death, including the 18th-century Dutch and German scholars who told stories late at night, as pipes were smoked and liqueurs drunk, of the jokers who had fooled Kircher by ...”

“... shameful tale has been too often and too loudly told in recent times to need reiterating here. It may be that we have learned something from the error of our ways. We have faced up to our post-crash debts and are repaying them as best we can; our role in United Nations peacekeeping campaigns is too seldom remarked but is a matter for justified pride; and the ...”

“... oldest perfumery house in the Arabian Gulf’.) For all we know, Dzhokhar’s jealousy may already have cooled. If so, ample grounds for appeal exist. There is the venue issue. Then too, US District Judge George O’Toole Jr refused to give the standard jury instruction, which says that a single holdout juror can avert a death sentence permanently ...”

“... have decreased a little in size. There was neither excitement nor disappointment in his manner. It may be that he has the same air of studied neutrality in his everyday life, when eating a delicious meal or going over the top on a rollercoaster. Or, more likely, it is for work purposes alone, in order to prevent over-excitement or crashing disappointment in ...”

“... operation. The great days of office buildings dictating where and how individuals work within them may have gone. There are new architects and designers who collaborate with the workers themselves to produce interiors that suit their needs and desires. ‘Co-design’ – allowing the users of a space to have an equal say in how it is organised – is a first ...”

“... diagnoses of insanity up to and including the ‘bloody week’ of suppression from 21 to 28 May 1871. Its records provide Murat with a climax of hallucinatory clarity and intensity. Men became battle-crazed and frenzied, while women were swallowed up by the capacious diagnosis of melancholia: a large number believed themselves to be Joan of Arc, whose ...”

“... Screams in Favour of Sade (1952), to the slogan that spread around the walls of Paris during May 1968: ‘Sadists of all nations, popularise the struggle of the divine Marquis!’ But this has not been the only note sounded. As news of Nazi atrocities began to filter through to them in their Californian exile, Adorno and Horkheimer dedicated the second ...”

“... number, and both men’s subsequent deaths in hails of bullets. Marley’s death from cancer, in May 1981, chimes neatly with Seaga’s election victory seven months earlier, but takes place far out on the periphery of the main action. By the time the plot reaches 1985, about two-thirds of the way through the book, however, James has reoriented the story and ...”

“... Alma’s number (although his widow later told a researcher that he never got over her). In late May 1901, he wrote to complain that his pride was hurt by the stream of childish insults she hurled at him. He pointed out that there had been ‘many girls’ before Alma who had never said a word to him about his physical defects. ‘My dear, you keep on ...”

“... protesters who were driven into an Odessa trade union building by pro-Maidan demonstrators on 2 May 2014, then burned to death. The most contentious element of the Maidan was the role of two far-right groups in the protests, and their connection with groups who collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War. Both Svoboda (a political party, its ...”

“... was accepted (‘It was very short for I had to send him down to dinner’). They were married in May 1885, and Laura’s account of their subsequent lovemaking does little to dispel the sense of a charmed existence: ‘Oh! The bliss of his arms around me and the touch of his curls and the seal of his kisses on my hair and eyes and throat and the strong swift ...”

“... worship me but that’s a far cry from love, motherfucker,’ she wrote to him. Stroud may have been guilty of putting Simone on a pedestal; he was certainly guilty of knocking her off it. On the night of their engagement, liquored up and jealous of a fan’s attention, he started hitting her in the taxi, and continued in the street and up to his ...”

“... who was subsequently murdered. He is currently in a Pakistani prison facing a death sentence which may never be carried out because of the protection he enjoys from the Pakistani state. In the twenty years that have passed since Azhar’s UK tour, some British Deobandi clerics have issued fatwas condemning terrorism, but there is evidence that the attitudes of ...”

“... the Syrian army when it came under threat from IS. When IS forces laid siege to Palmyra last May and drove Assad’s army out after a week-long battle, not a single American plane was seen. Similar selectiveness was exercised in Hasakah a month later, as I was told by a local YPG commander. The city is divided between a largely Arab district, where the ...”