If you could visit any time in History where would you go and why?

[Maisie]

Date: 3/1/2009 5:13:51 PM
Author: B.H.S
Between the 1920''s and 1940''s, preferably in Los Angeles. I''m obsessed with the Art Deco period and old Hollywood glamour.

My other choice would be ancient Egypt.

I just got some fab photographs of Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Norma Shearer from Ebay. They are really great copies. I am going to frame them and put them on my bedroom wall.

 

[Gypsy]

I'd like to visit Christ. Seriously. I'd want to go sit on the mountain and eat the loaves of bread and the fish.

Then I'd like to meet Noah and see his Ark.

I'm a slightly religious, and have faith about some things, but I view the bible as a historical/ mythological text in many ways. So I'd like to go back and witness the events, and see what was really going on.


After that I'd like to visit Helen of Troy and have a chat with her.

And then Louis the 14th, the Sun King. and explain to him how his brilliant idea of pulling all of his nobles away from their estates to serve in an elaborate court DOES keep them loyal... but completely screws over the rest of the people in his kingdom. Basically I'd like to his ghost of Christmas future and introduce him to the "rights of man."

I think Henry the 8th was a lost cause. But I've always felt great sympathy for Mary Queen of Scotts and would love to help her.


Yes, I've given this some thought.

 

[ksinger]

Gosh, where to start. The two that come most quickly to mind...

To be a serious historian versed in ancient languages, with a list of fabled lost works, a tiny camera, and to be dropped into Alexandria in the decade before the burning of the Great Library.

To be able to watch the design and execution of the Chi Rho page of the Book of Kells.

ETA - Oh, and to be there on that fateful day, and waylay Hypatia, and suggest that this was probably NOT the day for her to go to work, but rather to sneak out for a loooong vacation. Here honey, let me help you pack.

 

[vespergirl]

What a great question! History is my favorite subject, and there are so many time periods I would be interested in visiting, for various reasons. They would be:

The court of Louis XV in France, 1700s.
The court of Henry VIII, England, 1500s, and of his daughter, Queen Elizabeth I.
Ancient Ireland - matriarchal society.
Ancient India.

 

[trillionaire]

I''m not religious, but I hear the Garden of Eden was the jump off. That''s where I''m headed.

But, apparently, I can''t go anywhere before 1980... according to Louis CK... (language warning!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY

 

[Deelight]

I am not sure I would want to because I would be to tempted to change things/people that cause terrible things in the world and thus screwing up the space time continum.

 

[gemgirl]

This is an easy one for me. No matter how many times I''ve been asked this question, I''ve always have the same answer. I would give anything to have been there for the last three year''s of Jesus''s life to hear Him speak and teach.

 

[MichelleCarmen]

History scares me. Everything was so primative. There's many times/places I'd love to visit, such as the Mayan civilization, but they were violent. . .might not be safe! They might drink my blood. Other possible fatalities which may occur from visiting other cultures would include being beheaded, accused of being a witch/burned at the stake, becoming a vicim of the black plague. . .The list goes on and on. THAT ASIDE. . . My choice would be Atlantis. It's a complete mystery and it would be fun to go there without having any preconcieved notions.

 

[Fleur_de_Lis]

Date: 3/1/2009 5:17:05 PM
Author: Maisie

Date: 3/1/2009 5:13:51 PM

Author: B.H.S

Between the 1920's and 1940's, preferably in Los Angeles. I'm obsessed with the Art Deco period and old Hollywood glamour.

My other choice would be ancient Egypt.

I just got some fab photographs of Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Norma Shearer from Ebay. They are really great copies. I am going to frame them and put them on my bedroom wall.

They sound beautiful, and that sounds like a great plan for them.

Grace Kelly has always been my idol. She was so beautiful and elegant. In many ways I aspire to be like her.

Enjoy your beautiful pictures.

 

[Clairitek]

I would love to go back in time to visit DaVinci and Newton.

 

[HollyS]

Date: 3/1/2009 5:13:51 PM
Author: B.H.S
Between the 1920''s and 1940''s, preferably in Los Angeles. I''m obsessed with the Art Deco period and old Hollywood glamour.

My other choice would be ancient Egypt.

Ditto. That would be my second choice for an era -- in either LA or NYC. Love the Art Deco and Moderne periods.

Third runner-up would be the 1960''s as an adult, instead of as a kid like I was.

 

[iheartscience]

Call me an unimaginative, humorless feminist, but I don''t want to be anywhere but now. Or maybe a few years into the future.

I definitely don''t want to be anywhere where women had to be in the home and the men were men.

 

[HollyS]

Date: 3/2/2009 1:29:32 PM
Author: thing2of2
Call me an unimaginative, humorless feminist, but I don''t want to be anywhere but now. Or maybe a few years into the future.

I definitely don''t want to be anywhere where women had to be in the home and the men were men.

My grandmother and her five sisters were all career women; from the 1920s through to their retirements in the ''60s. No one told them they had to stay at home. One aunt owned a car dealership with her husband, and another owned a grocery store with her husband. So they were also entrepreneurs, as well as teachers with Master''s Degrees, and insurance company executives. You''ve been reading too much feminist propoganda.

What''s wrong with men being men? Isn''t the whole metrosexual male thing getting a little old?

 

[musey]

Can I go to the future instead, please?

 

[MichelleCarmen]

Date: 3/2/2009 3:59:31 PM
Author: musey
Can I go to the future instead, please?

Nope, there is no future. The world is ending December 21, 2012!

 

[WishfulThinking]

Here and now is just fine for me, thanks. I''m barely tolerated as it is, no need to hang out in time periods where it was by all accounts a great deal worse.

 

[tlh]

I''d want to go back in time and boink Yul Brenner.

 

[HollyS]

Date: 3/2/2009 5:07:48 PM
Author: tlh
I''d want to go back in time and boink Yul Brenner.

He was quite fine.

 

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

There are quite a few historically past places I''d want to go to -
Ancient Rome...esp. during the time of Julius Caesar...Ancient Greece...I''d love to meet Plato...medieval England...want to meet Chaucer...Shakespearean England (to meet Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, and also around that time to meet my all-time favorite poet, John Donne)...

But aside from the historical times, I''d honestly love to take a peek at the future - 5,000, 10,000 and 20,000 years from now.

 

[Deelight]

Date: 3/2/2009 3:59:31 PM
Author: musey
Can I go to the future instead, please?

If we are going to the future I want a hover board YEEAH YEAHHH

 

[ksinger]

Ah! To watch Van Gogh paint! To see The Great Pyramid near completion or watch the hand and mind of Phidias as work as he designed the Parthenon. To watch the goldsmith who made the Tara Brooch...

So many fabulous events to witness...sigh.

 

[IloveAsschers13]

Date: 3/1/2009 4:17:54 PM
Author: kittybean
I want to go party in the Roarin'' Twenties and have a chat with F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love the style, music, and literature of that era.

I totally agree- I wanna be a flapper girl, or a person in high society.. sign me up! Although, I have curved, wouldn''t look good in boy-shaped clothes, but they are beautiful! And the jewelry!!!!

 

[JulieN]

I have to say...I'd go back to the time of some famous mathematician: Lipschitz, Poisson, Cauchy, Euler, or something, and then prove something JUST before they do it. And name the result after myself, of course.

 

[musey]

Date: 3/2/2009 4:08:31 PM
Author: MC

Date: 3/2/2009 3:59:31 PM
Author: musey
Can I go to the future instead, please?

Nope, there is no future. The world is ending December 21, 2012!

I plan to be sipping a piña colada on a Hawaiian beach on that day

I''ve watched a few of the history channel documentaries on this (nostradamus, mayan calendar, etc.) and it''s fascinating!

 

[musey]

Date: 3/2/2009 9:43:10 PM
Author: Deelight

Date: 3/2/2009 3:59:31 PM
Author: musey
Can I go to the future instead, please?

If we are going to the future I want a hover board YEEAH YEAHHH

WOOT! We can meet up and ''skate'' together

 

[Deelight]

Date: 3/3/2009 5:03:44 PM
Author: musey

Date: 3/2/2009 9:43:10 PM

Author: Deelight

Date: 3/2/2009 3:59:31 PM

Author: musey

Can I go to the future instead, please?

If we are going to the future I want a hover board YEEAH YEAHHH

WOOT! We can meet up and ''skate'' together

Tubular

 

[dragonfly411]

I can say with 100% honesty that I would go to the victorian ages. Who wouldn''t want to experience the furniture and the dresses and teh horses!?!?!?!

 

[scarleta]

I would love to meet all my family members that were lost in a war.My grandmother was always telling us about all of them.Also both of my grandfathers that I never met and other family members like my Great Grandparents etc.
It would be a real pleasure and fun for me.