Klarinet Archive - Posting 000499.txt from 1997/06

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: Einstein info
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 23:45:02 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.51
> Subj: Einstein info

> One of my cyber friends Mel, who is also a member of this list, is
> experiencing problems with e-mail, so she requested I send you the
> following data on the Einsteins, etc:
>
> "Edison did say that 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration thing.
> Albert Einstein was a physicist who played the violin.
> Alfred Einstein was a musicologist who wrote about Mozart.
> The Einsteins were cousins."

Not according to Einstein's daughter. While the two men were
born in the same town (Buchau am Federsee), went to the same
schools, and even sang in the same chorus, the assertions that
they were cousins has never been documented. There was a
reference to that alleged relationship in Grover's Dictionary
which will change it in the next edition as a result of my
letter to them. While it is, of course, possible that they
were cousins, the issue is one of proof. You know what they
say: everyone on the earth is related to everyone else by a
maximum of five degrees of separation. The problem is proving
it!!

>
>
> ----------------
> Craig Countryman
> cegc@-----.net
> http://users.sunline.net/cegc/ <-------Check this one out, it's just
> http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1711 been revised
>
> Quote of the Day
>
> "How much money did you make last year? Mail it in."
> -Simplified tax form suggested by Stanton Delaplane
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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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