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...free agent’, composed glorious and enduring music, which he marketed to the full, is famous for his deafness and for his elaborate sketchbooks, as well as being a star pianist and teacher, courted by aristocratic women. He has been variously described as eccentric, alienated, imposing, amorous and morose. It is often said that Beethoven’s life and music divide into...

...course of twentieth-century history in the process. The Second World War was a radio war; and deciphering the enemy’s encrypted radio messages was a key goal for the Allies. The British high command recruited thousands of people to join the team here at Bletchley Park. They also set up secret institutions to get the resulting intelligence to commanders. The whole system...

...course it’s very easy to locate a very small organisation, but when one thinks of Shell or the mafia it’s very hard to give them a location as it would be just to point to the lamppost. And that brings up another point. You can’t generally smell them or feel them; they don’t seem to be observable in the way that a table or a lamppost is. You can see individual...

...courses and qualifications [Thomas Coryat] In Renaissance Europe, Jews were seen as a threat to Christianity. Jews had been evicted from England in the 1290s, and were forced out of many other European states in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In those few places where they were tolerated, such as Venice, it was under sufferance, and only because they were useful....