George Washington

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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Charles Willson Peale’s Portrait of George Washington at Princeton. View the interactive portrait.

• Born 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia
• Father died when he was a boy
• Strongly influenced by older brother
• Military career began in Virginia militia
• Married a widow with two children
• Man of character all his life
• First president of the United States of America
• Died 1799 at Mount Vernon

Albert Einstein - Biographical

Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was unable to find a teaching post, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. In 1905 he obtained his doctor's degree.