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Albert Einstein was once a baby.Before he formulated relativity, unraveled light’s secrets, and became the shorthand for “genius,” Einstein spit up on his caregivers, failed to stop wobbling when they tried to sit him...

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Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was a groundbreaking American author, renowned for her astute observations of the social elite and her critical examination of American society’s moral codes. Born into a prominent family in ...

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