(1) That rarest of creatures.
(2) Ie theft of, from, or their use, however peripheral, in carrying out crimes.
(3) “Aaron the Jew...held us in his debt, coming to the House of St. Alban in great pride and boasting, with threats kept on boasting that it was he who had made the window for our St. Alban...”, [Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume 1, page 6, (ibid)].
(4) The Times, February 25, 1997, page 12. According to a recent survey – cited therein – John D. Rockefeller was worth $1.4 billion at his death (in 1937), which was one sixty-fifth of the American Gross National Product. By the same measure, Microsoft supremo Bill Gates was only the 31st wealthiest American in history, though of course the real wealth owned and controlled by Bill Gates is vastly greater than that owned by John D.
(5) The potato was introduced into Europe in the late 16th Century; the pineapple has been known only since about the time of Columbus.
(6) Eighty years have not tamed Verdun killing fields, by Ben Macintyre, published in the Times, March 22, 1997, page 19.
(7) Alistair Horne, quoted in the Times, March 22, 1997, page 19, (ibid).
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