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One View Behind A Mystery

Advantages: enjoyable,strong characters,easy to visualise things
Disadvantages: not entirely gripping

After reading Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code' I was left wondering about Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus. Was she really his wife or was she his disciple and Jesus a Holy Man? Well 'Mary Called Magdalene' written by Margaret George offers a ...

AimeeLouise18 04.04.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Mary, Called Magdalene - Margaret George

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The relativity of Einstein's daughter

Advantages: Captivating fiction based on a historical fact
Disadvantages: The hypothesis is good but the probability is low

In 1902, Mileva Maric, the girlfriend of Albert Einstein gave birth to a baby girl named Lieserl. Einstein and Mileva married a year later in 1903 and had two sons. They divorced in 1918 when Einstein married his cousin Elsa. Whilst the sons are mentioned ...

MAFARRIMOND 30.01.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Mrs Einstein - Anna McGrail

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Learning Fiction

Advantages: Great way to pass time...
Disadvantages: none

Fact: Albert Einstein had a daughter called Lesereil, but he put her up for adoption. Nobody knows what happened to her... Fiction: [author] had a great idea to re-write history. The book is about Einstein's daughter and her fictional life. Leseriel grew ...

gem2_k 25.01.2001 · Read full review
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ooh mrs einstein

Advantages: great book
Disadvantages: long

In January 1902 Albert Einstein's future wife Mileva Maric, a fellow student at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich, gave birth to a baby girl in her hometown of Novi Sad in southern Hungary. The pregnancy was kept a secret from the couple's closest f ...

harry.tyre 17.02.2006 · Read full review
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