最佳非音樂劇的熱門人物與創作-

BEST NON-MUSICAL ONE-HIT WONDERS-

最佳非音樂劇的熱門人物與創作-

To Kill a Mockingbird

This hugely successful and inspirational Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is author Harper Lee’s one and only novel. While the highly-controversial sequel, Go Set a Watchman, is in the process of being released (under bizarre circumstances), this novel is technically her only hit. She’s reportedly worth over $35 million now and earns over $9,000 a day in royalties from the only book she’s ever released.

Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney was one of the fathers of the Industrial Revolution, so we’re not saying he’s not important. He’s very important, but it was the lack of successful inventions following the cotton gin that puts him on this list. The only other invention that had Whitney’s name was the milling machine—however, subsequent historians note that others around the same time could have aided Whitney, leaving the Cotton Gin as his only true invention.

Minecraft 

This Swedish game designer’s one and only claim to fame is the 2011 massive first-person game, Minecraft. While Markus “Notch” Persson did manage to spearhead a few follow-up games, each of them failed to make a dent in the gaming community in the same way. Minecraft made more than enough money to keep Persson afloat and he sold his video game company, Mojang, to Microsoft for $2.5 billion dollars. So, he’s got that going for him...which is nice.

James K. Polk

Quick, when did James Polk serve in office? Exactly. While this man is far from the tip of anyone’s tongues, he actually accomplished a lot in his one term in office. He successfully annexed Texas, parts of Oregon, and signed a treaty that added roughly 1.2 million square miles of territory to the U.S. He's the president who made America a coast-to-coast nation, but died from cholera three months after leaving office—leaving him as a footnote in most textbooks. 

Edmund Gettier

The story behind Edmund Gettier is fascinating and perfectly summed up in this comment

.Edmund Gettier wrote a three-page paper in 1963 mainly to satisfy the administration at his college. He thought it was so terrible that he had someone translate it into Spanish and published it in a single obscure South American philosophy journal, and never published anything else.

That paper revolutionised the entire theory of knowledge, which had been largely static for over two millennia.

05/30/2015