Albert Einstein was born on March 14,1879 in Ulm, Wurttemberg,Germany. He died April 18 1955 in Princeton,NJ. When Einstein was five years old his father showed him a compass.He was very impressed by the behavior of the needle of the compass,which kept pointing in the same direction no matter which way the compass was turned. He later said he felt that "Something deeply hidden had to be behind things".
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