Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.
Agha Hasan Abedi, Businessman (1922) |
Hall Caine, Novelist (1853) |
Bobby Darin, Musician (1936) |
Kurt Eisner, Politician (1867) |
Julian Eltinge, Actor (1881) |
William Emerson, Mathematician (1701) |
B. C. Forbes, Journalist (1880) |
Thomas Gainsborough, Artist (1727) |
Lou Harrison, Composer (1917) |
Robert Jarvik, Inventor (1946) |
Lyle Alzado, Athlete (1992) |
Henri La Fontaine, Lawyer (1943) |
H. Rider Haggard, Writer (1925) |
Georgia Douglas Johnson, Poet (1966) |
Bill Lear, Inventor (1978) |
Anna Lee, Actress (2004) |