Ten For Today: Einstein's Birthday
Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Larry Norman, Kansas, Landscape, Mission of Burma, The Three O’Clock, Big Audio Dynamite, Johhny Flynn, Guided By Voices
Albert Einstein, a refugee who fled the Nazis in his native Germany and settled in the United States, was born this day in 1879. He sought and was given asylum here in 1933, and became a citizen in 1940. To be called an Einstein is to be called a genius. And he was a genius. But he was also – more importantly -- a mensch, a committed humanitarian who de…
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