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Beethoven high on 60 bean coffee at age 48 1818
HAPPY 235TH BIRTHDAY LUDWIG My favorite portrait of Beethoven at age 48 1818 The glazed look in his eyes was from the strong coffee he was drinking using 60 beans to make one cup Painted by Ferdinand Schimon it s in the Beethovenhaus in Bonn Full ferame view <a href= http www flickr com photos guano 226846228 in set 1396869 > here< a> Beethoven in the news Beethoven s bones SAN JOSE STATE SCHOLAR UNRAVELS THE STORY OF A FASCINATING DISCOVERY IN THE EAST BAY By Richard Scheinin Mercury News <a href= http www centredaily com mld centredaily news nation 13374005 htm >www centredaily com mld centredaily news nation 13374005 htm< a> Dec 11 2005 Joan Kaufmann is thumbing through neatly cataloged volumes of family letters and documents in her Danville home when she comes across a page of scribblings of particular interest Casually jotted on a piece of paper are the contents of an aluminum lunchbox that once belonged to a relative named Tom Desmines in the south of France ``11 silver spoons 1 gold chain 36 grams Chinese lock and key box Beethoven skullbones Kaufmann who is 70 chuckles ``I never assumed that I married into a family like this She did 47 years ago But it s only recently that the family history has come sailing out of the mists In 1990 she and her husband Paul a business executive visited Desmines an old bohemian who was badly ailing and brought home the bones that Paul had been hearing about since he was a boy and which his Uncle Tom had stashed in the lunch box In Danville they locked them in their bank s safety deposit box and figured they would look into their authenticity Beethoven s bones once Paul whose career was going great guns retired Paul Kaufmann now 69 and not yet close to being retired couldn t quite wrap his head around just what might be lying there in the bank vault until a Beethoven scholar named William Meredith entered the pictu
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