Daily Almanac for
Nov 19, 2008
Search White Pages
Info search tips
Bio search tips

Unknown

The Great Unknown. Sir Walter Scott. So called because the Waverley Novels were at first published anonymously. It was James Ballantyne who first applied the term to the unknown novelist.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

More on Unknown from Infoplease:

  • unknown: meaning and definitions - unknown: Definition and Pronunciation
  • Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Unknown Soldier, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Tomb of the, form of memorial to a nation's war ...
  • Unknown - Starring Jim Caviezel, Greg Kinnear, Joe Pantoliano, Bridget Moynahan, Jeremy Sisto
  • Columbus's Unknown Legacy - Columbus's Unknown Legacy How food from the Americas revolutionized Europe by David Johnson ...
  • Code Unknown - Starring Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler, Alexandre Hamidi, Maimouna Hélène Diarra

See a map of "" in the Visual Thesaurus

    • Cite
    • Print
    • Bookmark

Related Content