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Albert Einstein, There are lots of house hold names in history but in a "sound bite society" most people don't know more than the names. I learned a lot brushing up on the work of Albert Einstein. He challenged the modern scientific Euro-centric scholarly thought of the time and with his "new ideas" forced parts of history as it was known to the European Powers to be rewritten.
I always dug the way he stood up to the White American power structure of the time by calling racism "A Disease of White People" - 1946. His thoughts on nationalism and blind patriotism are also interesting and can be seen in his opinions on WW1. And way before Penelope Cruz wrote a letter criticizing Israel's military actions he wrote an open letter doing the same, in the New York Times. Interesting Humanitarian. What do you think about the HiSTORY?
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