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The Unknown Citizen" is a poem written by W. H. Auden in 1939, shortly after he moved from England to the United States. The poem was first published on January 6, 1940 in The New Yorker , and first appeared in book form in Auden's collection Another Time ( Random House , 1940).
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus in what is now the Oldmasters Museum, Brussels.It is now usually regarded as an early copy of a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder "Musée des Beaux Arts" (French for "Museum of Fine Arts") is a 21-line poem written by W. H. Auden in December 1938 while he was staying in Brussels, Belgium, with Christopher Isherwood. [1]
Several reviews of The Unknown Known compared it to Morris's Academy Award-winning predecessor The Fog of War (2003), with the follow-up being described as a "spiritual sequel". [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The earlier documentary is about Robert McNamara , the longest-serving U.S. Secretary of Defense (Rumsfeld is the second-longest serving).
A lingua ignota (Latin for "unknown language") was described by the 12th-century abbess Hildegard of Bingen, who apparently used it for mystical purposes.It consists of vocabulary with no known grammar; the only known text is individual words embedded in Latin.
"Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu" (English: "The Unknown Masterpiece") is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was first published in the newspaper L'Artiste with the title "Maître Frenhofer" (English: "Master Frenhofer") in August 1831. It appeared again later in the same year under the title "Catherine Lescault, conte fantastique".
Man, the Unknown (L'Homme, cet inconnu) is a best-selling [1] 1935 book by Alexis Carrel in which he endeavours to outline a comprehensive account what is known and, more importantly, unknown of the human body and human life. The book elucidates problems of the modern world and possible routes to a better life for human beings.
Every month, thousands of Eritreans attempt to flee repression, torture and indefinite forced conscriptions by embarking on a dangerous journey to Europe.
The Unknown Soldier (Finnish: Tuntematon sotilas) is a Finnish film from 1985 directed by Rauni Mollberg. It is based on the 1954 best selling Finnish novel of the same name written by Väinö Linna. It is the second film adaptation of Linna's novel, the first one being the 1955 film of the same title, directed by Edvin Laine.