I don't know how much of an"historical event" it is now, but if I showed up to Steven Hawking's "Time Traveller party" I imagine it would become one.
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I guess I might say King John signing the Magna Carta at Runnymede, because it was the foundation for the rule of law in the West. But it was just a bunch of smelly dudes in a marsh. A lot of historical events are important, but not that spectacular to see.
So if I'm honest, it'd be Queen at Live Aid.
Queen at Live Aid.
That's a great call.
aaaaayyyyyyyy ooohhhhhhhhhhh!
Seeing the first person to spell subtle with a b
It didn't use to, the b was added back in cause the Latin word has one and making words look like Latin was all the rage at one point.
At least "subtle" is ultimately from Latin, and the Latin word (subtilis) does have a /b/.
There are worse cases - like the "s" in "island". It was never pronounced.
Captain, I think we've hit a reef!
No....is land!
the "s" in "island". It was never pronounced.
I think I can confidently say there is someone out there somewhere that pronounces it.
"Hey, Willum, come over here and look at this misspelling of 'Suttel'. It's just better isn't it?"
English got fucked... hard... because so many of the spellings came from people that had weird goals.
Consider phial. Why do we spell it that way? Because some jackass decided that english needed to be more latiny and ph is more latiny than v. (or maybe it was greek? I don't remember the exact etymology)
Anglish is an attempt to reverse that, and remove Latin, Greek, and French words from English.
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If I can experience it without dying, I’d say the asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs.
I also vote for the asteroid but with zero caveats.
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Lol. You at least want to survive long enough to see the explosion.
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Jesus throwing the conmen out of the church.
I don't care for the religion, but if this actually happened, it would be so satisfying to see. So-called "christians" act more like the ones he kicked out than their supposed "lord" himself.
Matthew 23 is Jesus absolutely bitching out the religious leaders "Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger."
As you say, the so-called 'Christians' really act like the Pharisees in the Bible that is called out against. If the bible they claim to believe in is true, then a loooooooooooooooooot are probably going to be in for a rude awakening because they were warned in the same book, Chapter 7 verse 23 when the person they claim to follow says "I never knew you."
There's a quote attributed to Ghandi but it's not verified to actually be by him. But is a very appropriate one in my day to day "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
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Jan 6, so i can blast benny hill music.
i wanna visit that one Christmas in world war one where they all got over their shit for a day and had snowball fights and stuff. play in the snow with some of the most damaged and traumatized people in history.
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i already have experienced a few in my lifetime. i can't say that they were generally positive experiences.
May you live in interesting times!
Apparently this saying is a curse and not a blessing
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My great grandfather was aboard the USS Missouri when the Japanese came aboard to surrender. He always said that it was one of the biggest moments of his life, and he always regretted that he didn't have a camera during that visit. I think that I would like to go back in time to that event, and bring a camera with me.
When hitler killed himself in the bunker. I would have been fascinated to witness how a guy responsible for millions of deaths somehow considered himself the victim and was forced to commit suicide. He was an evil bastard and a coward unwilling to face the consequences of his actions.
The surrender at Appomattox, so I could tell the Union generals to keep burning until every plantation and its owners were ash
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The problem with most major historical events is that they're not fun. I would choose Field of the Cloth of Gold because it was just a big festival for weeks.
Julius Caesar declaring himself an emperor, the celebration and seeing the man that essentially turned rome from a powerful republic to the most powerful empire with a military that dominated majority of europe.
Apollo moon landing
(Putting aside if the Bible's stories are real or not for a moment...)
Moses talking to God (aka 'The Burning Bush').
I'm not religious, but I'd love to witness God actually speaking to somebody.
The Battle of Agincourt. It would be interesting to confirm how effective the English longbows really were compared to the theory that the mud was really the deciding factor against the French.
Also the battle of Hastings. To see how a shield wall worked.
I'd love to be in the room when George Lucas first screens Star Wars to Spielberg and pals. The version before Marcia Lucas saved it with her editing prowess.
Mine would be witnessing the first nuclear explosion at the trinity test site.
I'd cross the Alps with Hannibal. I can't imagine, living right now right where he went straight through, what it looked like at he time.
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the KT impact
The big bang, to see how it all started.
Spoiler: It was banging.
Gettysburg Address
1893's World's Columbian Exposition.
Hmm. I want to say something mysterious, like what happened to some sailing ship that disappeared, or something like that to know what happened.
Or there's some guy that buried a treasure in Missouri and left the location in a cryptogram that hasn't been solved to this day.
But I think it would be most fun to witness Apollo 11's first space walk. Niel be talking about "one small step for man" and I just walk up applauding. And then ask for a lift home.
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I honestly can’t think of any historically significant event that doesn’t involve or depend upon major suffering of some sort -even the happy moments are only happy because of an end of horrible things- so I’ll just pass entirely. History sucks because humans suck.
But If we assume that time can flow in both ways, I’ll choose to go somewhere in the future-past. Maybe the day we put boots on ground in another solar system, or put an end to scarcity, if either of those ever even happen..
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