To me, though, it was new and astonishing, a sort of revelation.
The recent revelation that in 2003 Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was the original leaker of the name of a CIA agent has led to an astonishing climax in a case that clearly should never have seen the light of day.
"To score 38 goals in a season - so far - is an astonishing feat for a winger, " said FWA chairman Paul Hetherington.
Yet just last week came news that Amazon deforestation had increased almost six-fold in just a year - an astonishing rise, and a trend large enough, if it continues, to guarantee the emissions target won't be met.
It was, for example, able to record the wandering of a wren from Cumbria in the north of England to Devon in the south a distance of 400km (250 miles), and an astonishing hop for a bird so small.
It is an astonishing windfall for a country with fewer than three million people.
"It's an astonishing performance for a documentary on Britain's youngest channel, " a spokesman for the five-year-old station said.
The new Nokia 808 PureView seems to be an astonishing beast, a cameraphone with a 41 megapixel lens.
In Italy, Juventus maintained their astonishing unbeaten Serie A record, which now stands at 29, after a 2-0 victory over Inter Milan.
The passion being put into these events is astonishing and proves a global interest in this new way of sharing knowledge and reawakening wonder.
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It completed an astonishing turnaround from a spell when the Championship side looked poised to spring a real shock on their Premier League opponents.
Losh left little of herself beyond the stone, wood and glass of her astonishing church and a few other local structures a mausoleum, a cross, the schoolhouse, some cottages.
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Just as the Tigers sensed a truly astonishing comeback, Boro raced up the other end and Viduka rammed a shot across Myhill and into the far corner from 15 yards.
Instead, he writes about his astonishing experiences as a front-line surgeon (and, for many years, as a medical trainee) in a country on the border between first and third world medicine.
It was only many years later in 1989, Mr Beyeler says, when an exhibition from his now astonishing collection made a hit in Madrid, that he first realised that his paintings really ought to be on permanent exhibition somewhere.
And I believe that where we are today in the global playing field and how the United States is held in the esteem of the rest of the world is an accomplishment that I frankly find astonishing in such a short period of time.
The latter proved a somewhat astonishing reminder of forgotten lessons about nuclear power risks, unique to that technology: A failure of one power plant in an isolated location can create a contagion in countries far away, and even where somewhat different variants of that technology are in use.
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The study found that participants burned an astonishing 272 calories during a 20-minute workout.
At first glance, it's an astonishing upset, against a home-country favorite no less, but Baker looked like he'd been there before.
That is astonishing to think that a company the width and size of Apple can make such large gains, even when taking into account that they are trading at such high numbers.
Marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie can run a mile in an astonishing four minutes, 45 seconds, and repeat the performance 26 times in a row.
Many of these are held through partly owned private-equity partnerships, creating a web of astonishing complexity.
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The hero of the novel, Dean Moriarty, is based on their friend Neal Cassady, an ex-convict and a Casanova of astonishing energy.
Mr Karzai is staying his hand only because the IEC balked at accepting the astonishing results from Ghazni, a Pushtun-majority constituency where preliminary counts gave all 11 seats to the Hazara ethnic minority.
The public sector expanded only in the 1950s, after a century of astonishing economic growth driven by free trade and free markets (from 1850 to 1950, average incomes multiplied eightfold, as a poor peasant society was transformed into one of the world's richest countries).
It was a frantic end to an astonishing match, but Chelsea saw it out to send the home fans into raptures and put themselves in with a chance of becoming the first London club to lift Europe's most sought-after prize.
The Mach3 is covered by 35 patents, astonishing for something as commonplace as a razor.
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