In another first, since there were so many good talking points coming out of the mouths of Democrats in the past day or so, this column will run to an unprecedented eight items this week, instead of the usual lucky seven.
Above and below Xan's story run two extravagantly funny satires, on the royal family and the yellow press, which is just getting its hands on a royal item of unprecedented invasiveness - a film of the teenaged Princess Victoria in the bath.
When food prices spiked in 2008, the international price of basic items peaked at unprecedented levels, bringing a wave of food riots in low-income countries.
"The SNP plans to co-operate with Labour enough to keep it in power but meddle in unprecedented ways with individual budget items", says the Times's editorial.
Photographs had both the cachet of a novelty item and the unprecedented, seemingly impossible ability to mirror reality.
Ranch Ham and Eggs Any Style and Crab Louis announced their merger with other unnamed items to form an unprecedented daytime meal.
Xenophobic incidents are hardly new; but the scale of the anti-foreigner violence is unprecedented, and it is compounded by criminals after loot.Related items South Africa: Skin-deepMar 6th 2008Broader questions need asking about South Africa's handling of immigration.
But the genuinely challenging politics of advancing big-ticket items like immigration in the face of unprecedented partisan polarization should not obscure more troubling and personal, rather than institutional facts.
Such ancient artifacts are becoming accessible at an unprecedented rate, but they are disintegrating just as quickly; wood items might last for a few years, but ancient leather will dry out and blow away in a week.
Unlike traditional member items, those expenditures are financed by borrowed money, part of an almost unprecedented spree of state borrowing totaling $8 billion for this fiscal year.
