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Contest: ENTER Misc. Avatar Contest: Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit

Kai "the spy"

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October 3rd is the German national holiday, Tag der Deutschen Einheit (Day of German Unity), celebrating the reunification of West and East Germany in 1990. Because of this, I thought, we could celebrate the Land of Poets and Thinkers (as it is sometimes called - mostly by older semi-intellectual Germans, to be honest) with some of history's best known Germans. History meaning they have to have been dead for at least twenty years, no living or recently dead people allowed.

And before anybody gets any ideas, no, Austrians don't count, you can't enter Hitler. Or Mozart, for that matter.

This time, use of dramatized media like films and TV shows are allowed, as there obviously aren't a lot of photos of people like Martin Luther or Immanuel Kant around.
Otherwise, the rules are the usual, size may not exceed 200x200 pixels and/or 1 Mb data, and the image used has to be safe for work.

Each user may enter up to three times.
 
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Johannes Gutenberg

ETA: And happy German Unity Day, Kai!
 
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^Would you like to enter the contest? If you want, I can edit the image to the necessary size for you.

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Erich Kästner; writer best known for his children's books like "Emil and the Detectives", "The Flying Classroom" or "The Parent Trap".
He is also famous for being a pacifist and an opponent of the Nazi regime, but wouldn't go into exile, in part because he did not want to leave his mother behind. He was forced to write apolitical stories during that time in order to get published, but was still interrogated by the Gestapo. His auto-biography "When I was a Little Boy" received the Hans Christian Andersen Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
 
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My grandpa used to call it Tag der deutschen Einfalt (day of German naivity) - the older I get the more I see his point.
 
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, as envisioned by famous sculptor Ernst Rietschel

Schiller, in particular, has a famous work that almost everybody knows without knowing it, as he wrote the poem "An die Freude" (Ode to Joy) which inspired Beethoven to turn it into music for his 9th symphony, which in turn became the European anthem.
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We need more females! I offer Melitta Bentz who invented the coffee filter.
(Pic to follow tomorrow. Can't resize it on my cell phone).
 
We need more females! I offer Melitta Bentz who invented the coffee filter.
(Pic to follow tomorrow. Can't resize it on my cell phone).
We could use more entries in general, but yes, more females would be very welcome.

And I've made a mental note to not close this contest for new entries until after you've posted your Melitta Bentz entry. Though you can also add two more entries, if you want.
 
I picked three ladies who are not very famous though we deal on a daily basis with their inventions and discoveries:

#1 Melitta Benz, the inventor of the coffee filter. Thanks to her we can drink coffee (and tea) without the morsels sticking in our teeth.
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#2 Caroline Lucrezia Herschel: astronomer who discovered lots of comets and several galaxies and made the first catalogue of astronomical objects. A comet, a moon crater and an asteroid were named after her and as first woman ever she was honorary member and full member of several astronomical societies. Without her, Mr Sulu couldn't navigate.
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#3 is very little known: HRH princess Therese of Bavaria. She was not only an excellent ethnologist and biologist who discovered many old cultures and new species all over the Caribbean and South America but also a social reformer who energically supported the idea that education must be free for everyone and open to any gender.
Without her, as a female I wouldn't have been permitted to attend college and study biology =)
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imho Einstein ist not really a good role model. He was so bad at maths that his GF Mileva Maric had to do all calculations for him. She was an exceptionally talented mathematician, gave up her career for him, bore him 3 children and when he became famous he dropped her and the kids to marry his rich cousin. Fortunately, she was good at maths, too, so that he wasn't deprived of a human computer.
He might have been a good physicist, but as a person he was a complete failure.
 
Some suspect he may have had Autism - several signs of it in his habits and life.

Same for Issac Newton - seemed to always have issues with family and money.
 
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Hmmm, I always considered it a form of egotism (human leech that sucks out everyone who gets close), but an unusual talent for one single thing can be a symptom for autism, I understand.
But on the whole, nowadays people tend to excuse plain bad manners with psychological problems. Maybe, if Mileva had whacked him over the head with the frying pan, he'd have respected her and invented the pocket calculator.
 
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