If You Could Visit History.......

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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…but not f*ck with any of it, (a la killing Hitler in the womb or causing Herr Schicklgruber to fire a blank) what or who (m) would you like to see?

Let’s choose our top three, shall we?

For me it would be:

  1. Jesus (I need to know!)
  2. Beethoven
  3. DaVinci
    Thanks

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PS: I inserted an asterisk between the f and the c up there because it has been a while since I posted, and I didn’t know if that word would be accepted, but please feel free to add the hard c and k if you feel it is appropriate! :stuck_out_tongue:

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PS: I inserted an asterisk between the f and the c up there because it has been a while since I posted, and I didn’t know if that word would be accepted, but please feel free to add the hard c and k if you feel it is appropriate! :stuck_out_tongue:
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We’ll consider the u as being “understood”, okay? :rolleyes:

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I’ve been reading Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver, and I’ve been thinking about this. I’d love to spend two months with a stack of highschool science textbooks, and then go back to Europe just at the beginning of the Enlightment, because people would think I was some sort of friggin’ super-genius.

“What? Spontaneous generation of life from dead matter? You idiots, it’s just tiny eggs! Give me that microscope, I’ll show you!”

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Was in der Frigg ist passiert mit der quoting function, Arschlöcher?

Jesus!

Am I gonna have to take a refresher-course here, oder was???

:smack:

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Off the top of my head, probably Salvador Dali, Hieronymus Bosch, and Frank Zappa. As for what, probably the Beatles in Hamburg before they were famous, or their concert on the roof in 1969, or the founding of Dada, or Leif Eiriksson’s landing in Vinland.

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I’d like to visit Benjamin Franklin, Jules Verne and Robert G. Ingersoll. I would tell Franklin that in spite of everything America has done pretty well for a nation that nearly died aborning. I would ask Verne where he got the ideas for atomic submarines (ones in his day were propelled with pedals) and self-contained underwater breathing aparatus (SCUBA). I would tell Ingersoll that, even with libraries in every little hamlet in the country relatively few people in the twenty-first century ever heard of one of the most famous men of the nineteenth, but that something called the SDMB keeps his philosophy alive (at least among the smart ones. :wink: )

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Billy Mitchell, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Euclid.

Changed the world, they did.

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My great, great, great, great, great, great grandparents.

I would love to meet the community who lived around and constructed Stonehenge.

Shakespeare, Marlowe, Keats, Byron, Chaucer, Keller, Orwell and any other famous writer and poet that I can’t think of.

Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and any other famous dead film directors.

Che Guevara, I don’t know why.

Plato, Aristotle and any other great thinkers.

Albert Einstein, before and after relativity.

The common ancestor, known as Eve, who is believed to be the oldest relative of everyone alive today.
Tell me when to stop…

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June 27, 1969.

Or October 14, 1966. :smiley:

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I wish I could go to 18th Century Prague to attend each of the opening nights of Mozart’s operas. Why Prague? According to the books I have read, they appreciated him more there than in Vienna and were much more demonstrative, calling for encore after encore in the middle of the performance. That would be amazing to see.

I have always wished I could have been in the circle of friends of my paternal grandparents. They were were friends with some great musicians, actors and writers in the 50’s and 60’s.

I would have loved to see Michaelangelo or Rembrandt work.

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Hmmmm… Good question.

  1. There’s usually a real person or event at the root of every myth. I’d like to see the individual that Jesus is based on and settle the question once and for all.

  2. I’d like to witness several historic battles: the Alamo, Custer’s Last Stand, Gettysburg, Antietam, etc.

  3. Same for some historic disasters: the sinking of the Titanic, the Lusitania and the Empress of Ireland; the 1900 hurricane in Galveston; the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa; the meteor that zapped the dinosaurs; the other meteor that created the crater in Arizona, etc.

  4. At some point in the evolutionary timeline, the first human being was born. I’d like to see that individual.

  5. The Big Bang. No, not October 1965 when I lost my virginity, but the creation of the universe. Although come to think about it, I might stop off in 1965 on the way back…

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I think I take Dane Cook’s standpoint on this.
"DC: Some people are like “wow, if I could go back in time, I’d go back and witness the crucifixion of Christ”. …I don’t think you’re invited. Could you see that? I’d show up [in a wifebeater and jeans]; “Hey,what’s up? I’m from the future. I’m just passing through. Wow, you guys are really doing it…” ".

This, however, is the same man who said he’d like to go back to the moment of his own conception to smack his father on the ass and scream “I’m from the future! I’m your son! Bwahaha!”

Nah. I like where I am. Although I think it’d be cool to go see Star Wars in theatres the first time around.

bamf

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  1. Lost colony at Roanoke.

  2. Stonehedge.

  3. Hitler’s suicide.

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I was nine, and it was way cool. In fact, I think that being a kid just added to the “wow” factor. Plus, I remember when Han shot first.

I’d like to go back and tell myself “don’t get too excited. Sure, he’s going to make more, but that’s not necessarily a good thing.”

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Me?

  1. Petrograd, latter half of 1917 and first half of 1918.
  2. Sweden, during the reign of Gustavus Adolphus. Taking mad notes about the folk music, or bootlegging on an iPod if I could use one without it being noticed.
  3. Ludlow, MA around 1910-1920. There’s a guy I want to meet.
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America before all the foreigners arrived, just to see what it was like

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I’d want to see any of the flights of the Avro Arrow (A canadian fighter jet that was many many years ahead of it’s time, and was cut due to the idiot in power)

I would also like to see the mayan temples/pyramids in their heyday.

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  1. ~2000 B.C.E.; To see the pyramids being built in Egypt
  2. 1665; To hang out with Isaac Newton when he was inventing calculus- then maybe I could understand it better
  3. 1883; Krakatoa volcanic eruption
  4. July 20, 1969; To see the Moon landing
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I’d like to…

…visit Baltimore during the War of 1812 and hang out with Francis Scott Key (I always had a crush on him anyhow)…

…tag along with Upton Sinclair and Jacob Riis as they raked muck and showed us How the Other Half Lives…

…be a part of some sort of Womens’ Auxiliary group during World War One and get all into knitting socks for soldiers and saving peach pits for gas masks and generally supporting the War Effort like my grandmother did.

Dang, where’d I put that time machine? :smiley:

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I’m mainly interested in seeing famous sights that no longer exist (or are in utter ruins), such as:

  1. Ancient Babylon

  2. Rome in the days of the emperor Hadrian

  3. The Crystal Palace (The Great Exhibition of 1851)

There are too many to choose from, really.