Albert Einstein was born on 14 March 1879 in the German city of Ulm. Without any prediction or recognition of his future endeavors, his mother thought that Einstein was a freak. She found Albert’s head too large. Einstein still was not talking when he reached the age of two-and-a-half years. But…
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