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...You will often find certain varieties in the ground of a château that you do not find elsewhere in the village — the peasants wouldn’t have dared to grow the same varieties as the gentry.”...
...A little over 20 years ago, director Guy Ritchie made his debut with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, a faux-gangster froth of dubious East End London accents and a cast of cheeky unknowns....
...Gentry retired from the stage in 1981 without explanation and has not uttered a word in public since. Now 76 and living in an unknown location, she has become something of a fantasy figure herself....
...Shop interiors had to be elegant, commodious and well-furnished (“a modern custom wholly unknown to our ancestors”, wrote Defoe) and of paramount importance was the shop window....
...While the term is well known in the US, denoting a meal enjoyed in a a farmyard to the accompaniment of “country” music, it was unknown in Britain until this summer....
...Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist By Thomas Levenson Fabe5 £15.99, 299 pages FT Bookshop price: £12.79 Thomas Chaloner had a way with coinage....
...And yet the first discordant note would be struck by the menu, which featured dishes (chicken tikka masala and balti) almost wholly unknown in India....
...“Every article in these islands,” he wrote, “has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.”...
...Mike Golding actually sold a French Renaissance table on the net to a previously unknown American collector who subsequently acquired five more pieces....
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