What single historical event would you most like to have witnessed?

In My Humble Opinion
101

I’d only go if I was allowed to participate; I’d like to go back and be apprentice to Leonardo Da Vinci.

102

I would like to have been present at the funeral of Alexander the Great. It’s one of the genuine remaining mysteries of archaeology. Well, ok, so I could find the burial spot. Hey, its a wish, right?

103

This is a very Eurocentric bunch, isn’t it?

I’d like to be under the Bodhi tree when Buddha reached Enlightenment. Then maybe I could figure out how…

104

I’d like to witness the childhood of Mark and Carol Thatcher (children of former PM Margaret Thatcher) so that I’d have an easier time writing this damned essay.

105

The meeting between Atilla the Hun and the Pope. And what really happened then.

106

I’d like to see what happened when Flight 19 disappeared on practice maneuvers near the Bermuda Triangle.

107

I do hope you’re including language lessons in this deal, since otherwise a lot of these people wanting to see Greek plays are going to be awfully disappointed.

I’m another one who’s skeptical about Jesus’s ressurection, and so would like to see that. Also Buddha’s enlightenment, Joseph Smith’s first vision, Mohammed’s first vision, and whatever was the pivotal event in Zoroaster’s life.

Battles I can do without. Blood, brutality, and confusion. Ugh. The mysteries of life are more important, or at least more worth looking at, than the pagents of death.

108

The election defeat of G. W. Bush as President of the US.

109

Hmmm… In no particular order:

  1. The invention of the big con game called religion, by whatever cave man thought it up first.

  2. The end of the Anasazi civilization.

  3. The fall of the Alamo

  4. The gunfight at the O. K. Corral

  5. What happened to Judge Crater.

  6. and Kasper Hauser

  7. In addition to Titanic, I’d also like to see the sinking of the Empress of Ireland and the Lusitania.

  8. The Battle of Hastings

  9. the day I lost my virginity…

110

I would have liked to watch the Salem Witch trials,not the excutions, just the trials, I would have liked to see what those “Fits” that the kids had looked like and how gullible the puritans were to them.

111

Did you sneeze? :slight_smile:

112

Jerrybear stole my thunder. I’d want to be in Lambeau Field for the Ice Bowl

I just don’t understand why people want to see ships sinking

Also, how about any parade when we won WWII

113

This all feels a lot like Robert Silverberg’s Up The Line.

Were I in a position to step into history instead of dispassionately viewing it, the list is endless…

I’d be driving a cart in 1913 Germany that runs over a snotfaced boy named Adolf Hitler.

I’d have made a big stink about the “O” Rings in the Shuttle Program.

I’d have pushed John Lennon out of the darned way…

I’d have hobbled John Willkes Booth three days before he took the stage and altered history.

Ahh, history. I wouldn’t mind being across the roadway the first time I kissed Sarah on the lips. Autumn, 1977… Just so I could remember what a blazingly pure moment that first kiss truly is.

History embitters the purest of memories, I think.

114

If I can’t intervene:
London, England, Abbey Road Studios, February 11, 1963
to witness the all-or-nothing rendition of “Twist & Shout.”

If I get to intervene:
New York City, U.S., the Dakota, December 8th, 1980
to tackle a deranged lunatic with a gun.