Have you ever wanted to make a pilgrimage to a place that has churned out some of the smartest white guys in white-guy history? ("White-guy history" is, in America, regular history.)
Well, if wanting to pay your respects to a mecca of pale-skinned-yet-great-functioning-gray-matter-guys look no further than Edinburgh, Scotland. Sean Connery is form there, but doesn't make my list of Smarty McSmarts.
Edinburgh gave the world Alexander Graham Bell, David Hume, Adam Smith, and Charles Darwin.
Leipzig, in Deutuschland, can claim Leibniz (co-founder of calculus) and almost Nietzsche, who was from a village called Roecken, which was absorbed by Luetzen, which is about twelve miles from Leipzig (is Davis part of Sacramento?). Even so, it's still just two. (Apologies for the "oe" and "ue"...no umlauts.)
In a similar, yet somehow bizarrely different vein, if you had to choose the best left-handed outfielder born on November 21st from the city of Donora, Pennsylvania, and you picked Ken Griffey Jr, a future Hall of Famer and one of the game's best, you'd be wrong. Forty-eight years to the day prior, Stan Musial was born in Donora.
I learn something new every time I see a new post. Thanks, for making me just that much smarter.
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