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to go back to and see it happen right in front of you, to warn someone or try and prevent the event from occurring, or to investigate further details behind it, or to go and see if it happened the way it was portrayed..... what would it be and why?
Im thinking more along the lines of historical events (dont want to get people feeling maudlin about their own personal events they wish they could go back and change....god knows I'd have a list as long as my arm!!
I think I'd like to go back and see if Jack the Ripper was a mad member of the royal family or not
We want to know how a) Moses parted the red sea and where .... and b) how did Noah paint the bottom of the Ark?
You'd have to have seen the archaelogical programme we watched earlier and the insane conversation that followed to understand!
We're not religious nuts honest wink :twisted:
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We want to know how a) Moses parted the red sea and where .... and b) how did Noah paint the bottom of the Ark?
You'd have to have seen the archaelogical programme we watched earlier and the insane conversation that followed to understand!
We're not religious nuts honest wink :twisted:

just watch the film Evan Almighty and you will see lol :lol:
Dallas,1 pm I'd stand on the grassy knoll with a camera.
And just because I'm a radio ham, I'd be with Marconi when he made the first transatlantic radio transmission.
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Dallas,1 pm I'd stand on the grassy knoll with a camera.
And just because I'm a radio ham, I'd be with Marconi when he made the first transatlantic radio transmission.

oooohhh Ian, Mr B is a Kennedy assassination freak....he picked the same place too.....in fact he's obsessed with the whole shenanigins, and could wax lyrical about it for hours!!
Back to the moment I realised my Dad was probably having an affair and my friends had noticed it too.. shame I trusted him too much to have taken it further....
bastard.
On a lighter note... back to the time when my daughter was born by C Section, I would have accepted the offer of being awake rather than being knocked out and missing it all sad
The Council of Nicaea 325AD.
Really like to have seen how they rewrote the Bible and created the established Church. I think they were cheating.
Without it - the world would be a different (and maybe better) place.
I think I'd have liked to be there to put off his aim the guy who shot the Arch Duke Ferdinand of Austria before the First World War.
I'll think of some more interesting ones later.
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If its just one moment in time then it would have to be the first one to see how everything came about.
I would like to go back to ancient Egypt to watch the construction of the pyramids.
Something way ahead of it time was going there, the question I would like to know is what?
I know I couldn't do anything to prevent my best friend from dying very suddenly last month but I'd like to go back to the day before it happened and tell him how I valued his friendship and how much he means to me as I never got the chance to tell him properly :cry:
It's made me realise that things like this could happen at any time ( he was only 45 after all ) so repair broken bridges with estranged friends, tell your family and friends how much you love them and cherish the time you have with them while you can kiss
The Battle of Edington,878. That was the start of a united England. Which lasted until the two invasions of 1066.
I would go back 6 years and answer 1 question very very carefully indeed
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Oooh I would also like to go back in time to the 17th Century... ish, just for the day, to see what life was like then and come back and realise just how cushty we have things now.
I'd love to go back to the fifties to see if I really would enjoy living the whole housewife thing or if im just too selfish.
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Roswell, New Mexico, July 7th 1947.
I'd love to know whether we are truly alone in the universe.
Tuesday 30 January 1649
King Charles I was a ruler who dabbled in foreign wars, deprived his people of their freedoms and was a closet Catholic. (Not that I have anything against Catholics, it is just that he hid it for political reasons.) He then lied to parliament and the people.
Tuesday 30 January 1649 was the day he lost his head, such simple days back then.
I'd like to tell Oscar Wilde he should have stayed with Robbie Ross. He seemed a much nicer person than Alfred Douglas.
byzantium 11th may 330ACE, when constantine dedicated the city to himself and renamed it thusly. I think that would've been a pretty interesting and exciting time to live in a city I find beautiful anyway.
do you know I have loved reading the answers to this thread, so many diferent times and so many different reasons.
Its been really enjoyable....keep them coming...if only to entertain me lol
Not that it means much to those who live in far away counties but it maybe of interest to those who play and know Salford Quays that the the "Manchester Shit Canal" was opened this day in ?1894.
The "village" may never have been born.
medic_1
opps typo at "shit" should read "ship"
New Orleans in the early 1800s. I'd have liked to have been one of Jean Lafitte's pirate wenches - I've been to some of his properties and to have seen them in their original state would be ace.
New York - May 2nd 1977... Studio 54 at the party Halston threw for Bianca Jagger
Aug 28, 1963 - the March on Washington. Oh to have stood and heard in person the now famous "I have a dream" speech that Martin Luther King gave.
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New Orleans in the early 1800s. I'd have liked to have been one of Jean Lafitte's pirate wenches - I've been to some of his properties and to have seen them in their original state would be ace.
New York - May 2nd 1977... Studio 54 at the party Halston threw for Bianca Jagger
Aug 28, 1963 - the March on Washington. Oh to have stood and heard in person the now famous "I have a dream" speech that Martin Luther King gave.

One of the greatest, if not the best, speachers ever made.
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to go back to and to warn someone and prevent the event from occurring

I'd go back to meaty's conception....... rolleyes