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   > >  > So Einstein missed at least a year in school. But why didn't he go to   
   > >  > school, if he spoke already Italian?   
   > >  >   
   > >  > 4) He then went alone to Aarau in Switzerland and went to the Gymnasium   
   > >  > there. But since when was it allowed (for unattended teenagers) to go to   
   > >  > Gymnasium there, if they were stateless?   
   > >   
   > > Four is easy.  Back then there were no computers denying everyone   
   > > all sorts of things and tracking everything they did.   
   > >   
   > > The population of the world had not increased to over 8 billion   
   > > people with a lot of increase done in poor countries, and they   
   > > gave few government handouts to persons who were called citizens.   
   > >   
   > > Consider a place called the 'US'.  In 1895 Al Jennings had already   
   > > had his brother killed in a gunfight with Temple Lea Houston and   
   > > he may have still been robbing trains.  People from Mexico until   
   > > the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s could still easily cross the   
   > > border if they wanted to with no interference at all.  And ride   
   > > back if they wanted to.  This is because they were considered to   
   > > be better than the Native Americans because they did not shoot   
   > > at the settlers like they did.  If they found work and someone   
   > > was willing to pay, that worked. and if they wanted to ride   
   > > back to Mexico afterward that worked also.  Because people did   
   > > not get vast amounts of payments specifically for being a citizen,   
   > > they generally did not care around the entire world because the   
   > > nature of economic migration was different.   
   > >   
   > > If you add 16 to 1879 it might have been something like that.   
   > >   
   > >  > 5) He then went to university in Zurich in one of the most prestiguos   
   > >  > universities of the world (still alone). But how could he afford   
   > >  > university fees and cost of living in Zurich?   
   > >  >   
   > >  > 6) Then he became a patent clerk in Bern. But patent offices are run by   
   > >  > what in German is called 'Beamte', who are state officials. And only   
   > >  > born citizens are (usually) allowed in such offices.   
   > >  >   
   > >  >   
   > >  > So: what if Einstein WAS actually a born Swiss citizen, and therefor a   
   > >  > few of his stations in his CV were faked?   
   > >  >   
   > >  > And if so: how could we know, whether or not his name was actually   
   > >  > 'Einstein'?   
   > >   
   > > Maybe 'Steinmeier', the current President of Germany, was able   
   > > to get some time travel technology and went back to the later 1800s,   
   > > and then found someone.  And said, 'You can think up any name you   
   > > want, and then use me as a reference ... this is because of something   
   > > you will think up later ... .'?   
   >   
   > Well possibly the Swiss have something like time travel.   
      
   No doubt about it, and it explains a whole lot,   
   if not all and everything.   
   But the real problem is:   
   "What did Miss Bright do on the previous night"?   
      
   Jan   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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