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February 18, 2005

Strange But True!

Q. What did the great Albert Einstein, not always with his "head in the clouds" over relativity theory (100 years old in 2005), know about rivers?

A. He was the first to suggest why so many of them pursue a winding and eventually looping course, such as Cleveland's 100-mile horseshoe Cuyahoga River (American Indian for "crooked"), says Simon Singh in "Fermat's Enigma."


 
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