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EXCALIBUR ET477 Einstein Touch Backgammon User Manual

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BOUT

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LBERT

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INSTEIN

Born: March 14, 1879

Ulm, Württemberg, Germany

Died: April 18, 1955 (aged 76)

Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Residence: Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA

Citizenship: German (1879-1896, 1914-1933)

Swiss (1901-1955)

American (1940-1955)

Notable Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)

Copley Medal (1925)

R.A.S Gold Medal (1925)

Max Planck Medal (1929)

Benjamin Franklin Medal (1935)

Honorary Doctorates: Princeton (1921)

Oxford (1931)

Harvard (1935)

“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from

mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does

not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly

and courageously uses his intelligence.”

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