Penniless and unemployed, Buckminster Fuller decided against suicide, resolving instead to live out the rest of his life as an experiment to see what one person could do to help humanity.
Alexander the Great conquered almost the entire known world.
Composer, conductor and painter E. T. A. Hoffmann began to write the tales for which he is now primarily remembered.
English artist and poet William Blake wrote Songs of Innocence, illustrated with Blake's water-colors.
Johann Rudolf Wyss wrote The Swiss Family Robinson.
English parson Thomas Robert Malthus wrote his "Essay on the Principles of Population."
depress yourself at the museum of conceptual art
Posted by flambingo at November 10, 2003 12:42 PM