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“... kingdom of Strathclyde reached intermittently down into Cumbria. Their language (now virtually unknown) is sometimes called Cumbric. The Scottish kingdom of Dál Riata, by contrast, was founded by incomers from Ireland who spoke the Q-Celtic language of Irish Gaelic, which would eventually differentiate itself from its parent language. And then there were ...”

“... phase of the struggle. That’s the context in which his reflections on an ‘attractiveness’ unknown to the manuals of rhetoric are worth revisiting. Of course, it’s hard to imagine him running a Moscow troll factory. Still, he did describe montage as a chain or ‘schema’ of attractions ‘mathematically calculated’ to produce specific ...”

“... purpose of San Pedro’s most famous alkaloid, the psychoactive compound mescaline, is unknown, but humans have been aware of its effects for thousands of years. When boiled down into a brew and ingested, it activates an alternative experience of consciousness.‘No mind-altering substance has been described more thoroughly and from such a variety ...”

“... exploited. When such an institution, financed out of public money, chooses to exhibit a previously unknown work with an unqualified attribution to Leonardo, the public is entitled to know the evidence on which that attribution was based. Otherwise, it is more a marketing ploy than a contribution to knowledge. But the evidence that was provided included ...”

“... a mysterious legacy from her estranged husband which suddenly doubles on the death of its other, unknown, beneficiary; but – in notable contrast to Pip in Great Expectations – Eliza gives the money to the mixed-race children whom she discovers, via a dirty version of Dickens’s lawyer, Jaggers, her husband had with his mistress.That act of Eliza’s ...”

“... have pounded the territory seized in eastern Myanmar, 50,000 civilians have been displaced and unknown numbers have died. The pattern of heavy losses spurring extreme violence is a familiar one. Efforts by Western powers to undermine the junta have been sluggish: last month the US followed the European Union in imposing a ban on financial transactions with ...”

“... permits the destruction of the Jewish people.’ Deutscher and others like him remain virtually unknown in Poland. The existence of a certain degree of Polish antisemitism during the war and in the army in exile is now admitted, but the revolutionary tradition to which Deutscher belonged has been written out of Poland’s historical memory. It was ...”

“... that, while American pupils learn about the battle at school, in this country it is almost unknown. Below us lay the bay in which the convoy of 41 ships had taken refuge. Viewed in the distance through the drizzle, the cliffs looked like one long headland, but the map showed two: first Filey Brigg and then, on the far side of Filey Bay, Flamborough ...”

“... into the fog of senescence, the endpoint is known. With rising seas, the endpoint remains unknown. Three feet? Eight feet? Grief is stalled by uncertainty. For what eventuality should you and your community prepare? Of what do you need to let go in order to move forward? The incentive to wait and see is powerful. But hoping for a rise in sea levels of ...”

“... show that she was an anchoress for at least twenty years, if not more. The date of her death is unknown. Alongside Julian’s work there is an anonymous 15th-century text called A Revelation of Purgatory, which some scholars think may have been written by an anchoress, though the attribution isn’t secure. It is a description of purgatory that reads like a ...”

“... of pages of recently released FBI intercepts, more than two hundred interviews, and previously unknown audio tapes recorded by King’s wife, Coretta, after his death. Does all this produce a strikingly new portrait of King? Not really: the trajectory of his life is, in the end, familiar. But Eig offers affecting accounts of the Montgomery bus ...”

“... hope to Europe’s Jews that the days of intense persecution, mass round-ups and deportation to unknown destinations in the East would soon end. A week before her fifteenth birthday, after hearing about the D-Day attacks, Anne Frank wrote in her diary that ‘hope is revived within us; it gives us fresh courage, and makes us strong again.’ But as spring ...”

“... a side hustle as a poet, moving in a literary world where he is neither a celebrity nor entirely unknown. Brief references to his activity as a writer, alongside a scattering of erudite quotations, imply that he has a more cultivated sensibility than most fictional detectives – but they hardly qualify him as a poetic soul. He never really wavers from his ...”

“... before Richard Greener’s sudden departure on a consular appointment to Vladivostok in 1898 is unknown. But by 1900, Genevieve had dropped the final ‘r’ of her surname and taken on a new middle name, Van Vliet (evoking the old Dutch names of New York’s white upper classes), while Belle and her brother, who had darker complexions than their ...”

“... him when he took off into the fields to paint. Degas expressed the desire to be ‘illustrious yet unknown’, but Monet probably achieved this better than Degas. Wullschläger’s biography describes him excellently and makes shrewd deductions, while leaving a hard centre of unknowability (of which Monet would doubtless have approved). His early life, of ...”