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In a cruel twist of <u>fate</u>, the great Beethoven became deaf.
True, post WW2 Japans economy boomed and especially in that time they became a world economic power and today they are still one of the strongest economies in Asia.
The following year, the Directory, the five-person group that had governed France since 1795, offered to let Napoleon lead an invasion of England. Napoleon determined that France's naval forces were not yet ready to go up against the superior British Royal Navy.