 Richard Williams (animator) March 19, 1933 – August 16, 2019 Richard Edmund Williams was a Canadian-British animator, voice actor, and painter. A three-time Academy Award winner, he is best known as the animation director on Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- for which he won two Academy Awards—and as the director of his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler... more in | |
 Benjamin Franklin January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790 Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher... more in | |
 Ralph Waldo Emerson May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century... more in | |
 Henry David Thoreau July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument in favor of citizen disobedience against an unjust state... more in | |
 Charles Fort August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932 Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena. The terms "Fortean" and "Forteana" are sometimes used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold well and are still in print... more in | |
 George Orwell June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950 Eric Arthur Blair was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place, the River Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism... more in | |
 Terry Pratchett April 28, 1948 – March 12, 2015 Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens, which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman... more in | |
 Jason Rohrer Wrote the Monolith program... site | |
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