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
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.
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?
The Battle of Edington,878. That was the start of a united England. Which lasted until the two invasions of 1066.
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.
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.
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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.