Larry Belling's collection of tools to enhance writers' and students' creativity, spark ideas and fight writer's block. They include Historical Events by Day and Decade, Collection of Lists, Clichés and Catch Phrases, Slang Thesaurus, Humorous Quotations, and classic Internet humor. en-gb 21/01/2009 12:01:13 http://www.writersdreamtools.com <br> In 1790, Joseph Guillotine proposed his humane method of execution - a machine to cut off a condemned person's head. Three years later on the same day King Louis XVI got the chop. Vladimir Lenin, Lytton Strachey, George Orwell, Cecil B. deMille, Col. Tom Parker and Peggy Lee also died today. The oldest army in the world, the Swiss Guard in Vatican City, was founded today in 1506. Britain's first taxicabs got rolling. The first Monte Carlo car rally began. Women were not permitted to smoke cigarettes in public in New York. The first atomic powered submarine was launched. Jimmy Carter declared amnesty for all Vietnam draft evaders. The first medical textbook in America was published. Born: Billionaire Paul Allen and Ethan Allen. http://www.writersdreamtools.com/view/events/