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Car hits Philly crowd, killing 3 kids, woman

Jun. 11, 2009
A woman has died after being hit by a car that crashed into a crowd during a Philadelphia police chase and killed three young children, at least one of them hers. Albert Einstein Medical Center spokeswoman Judy Horwitz says 22-year-old Latoya Smith died...
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Scientists confrirm Einstein's e=mc2

Scientists confrirm Einstein's e=mc2

PARIS, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- European researchers say they've confirmed Albert Einstein's e=mc2, more than a century after the famous physicist first unveiled the hypothesis.

Einstein letters up for sale

LONDON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Five letters from Albert Einstein, four of them discussing Russia's position in the post-World War II world, are going on the auction block in London.

Sports writer Charles Einstein dies

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., March 16 (UPI) -- Baseball writer Charles Einstein, who wrote the well regarded "Willie's Time" about Willie Mays, died in a Michigan City, Ind., hospital at the age of 80.

Einstein papers to go on sale in London

LONDON, May 22 (UPI) -- A collection of Albert Einstein's papers are to go on sale next month in London, reportedly expected to garner at least $1.5 million.

Newton beats Einstein in British poll

LONDON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Polls of British scientists and the public finds that Isaac Newton is more highly esteemed than Albert Einstein as a scientist and human benefactor.

Einstein's dark energy newly supported

OXFORD, England, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The genius of Albert Einstein, who added a "cosmological constant" to his expansion of the university equation, but later retracted it, may be vindicated.

Albert Einstein picked up cigarette butts

BRUSSELS, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A letter by the grandson of Albert Einstein says the famous physicist used to pick up cigarette butts off U.S. streets to smoke in his pipe.

Family wants to donate Einstein letters

TOKYO, June 7 (UPI) -- The Tokyo family of a Japanese philosopher who received six letters from Albert Einstein in the 1950s is searching for a place to which to donate them. Correspondence between Einstein and the philosopher Seiei Shinohara, who studied in Germany before Worl

Majority in poll identify Einstein

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Albert Einstein is far better known than actor Russell Crowe or Jebb Bush, according to an informal poll taken at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Einstein display pulled over censorship

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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler