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In 1933, while Einstein was visiting England and the United
States, the Nazi government of Germany took his property and
deprived him of his positions and his citizenship. Before this Einstein
had been inveted to become a member of the staff of the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Einstein accepted this position for
life and settled down in Princeton. In 1940, he became an American
citizen.
Einstein lived a quiet personal life. He was fond of classical
music, and played the violin. He supported pacifism.
Einstein was married twice. He was separated from his first
wife, a physicist named Mileva Maric, after his arrival in Berlin.
After World War II, he married his first cousin, Elsa. He had two
sons and a daughter by his first wife. He gained two stepdaughters in
his second marriage.
He died on April 18, 1955.
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B: BILL CLINTON
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After E.C. Dumas
Bill Clinton was elected President of the United States in 1992.
Before that he had served five terms as governor of Arkansas.
Clinton took office when he was 46. He was the youngest
president.
Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Ark. His given
and family name was William Jefferson Blythe IV. Clinton's parents
were Virginia Cassidy Blythe and William Jefferson Blythe III. His
father, a travelling heavy-equipment salesman and former automobile
dealer, was killed in a car accident before Bill was born.
During the first years of his life Billy lived with his mother and
her parents in Hope. When he was two, his mother left him in the care
of his grandparents for a year while she studied in New Orleans to
become a nurse-anesthetist. When Billy was four, his mother married
Roger Clinton, a car dealer. In 1953, the family moved to Hot
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Друкується за виданням The World Book Encyclopedia. London: World
Book Inc., 1994. Vol.4, pp.682- 682e. Abridged and adapted.
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