If you could meet a historical person who would it be?

Say you have a time machine and a universal translator so you can talk to them no matter what the language? Who would you pick? I have a Long List

• Mae West,

• Thais,
• Albert Einstein,
• Robert Ingersoll,
• Victoria Woodhull,
• Albert Einstien,
• Martin Luther King Jr,
• Epicurus,
• Bertrand Russel,
• Marie Curie,
• Sir Edmond Hillary

edited 4th Sep '17 9:33:28 PM by Bootlebat

Does Jim Henson count?

Yes anyone who is no longer alive.

Even Jerry Lewis?

yes

Hmm, it'll take me a while to compile a list, knowing my reputation in the forums.

But I'll be back~

Oi, Gustavus II Adolphus, King of Sweden, me and my friends need a word with you. Something something here's a surgeon to remove that musket ball you've got stuck in you that stops you wearing proper armor something something here's some sports goggles in your prescription that my optometrist has just made up for you after your eye test so you can wear them to see what you're doing in battle something something stop being too much of a blithering idiot and avoid that daft cavalry charge at Lutzen that got you killed far too early, or at least wear the armor now that that musket ball's been removed something something along that lines.

I love the 1632 series, and that character in particular, and since he was real, and his early death caused basically the last three hundred years of fucked up European history, it would be nice if I could fix that.

It's a tie between J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.

Louisa May Alcott. I'd give her a high-five for trolling the Jo/Laurie shippers.

All of them?

Girolamo Savonarola.

The ruler of Florence who had certain ideals I can agree with, and his ideals are ones I would myself have written of, if I lived in that period.

Of course, I'd never be as popular in my writings as a certain other person, who I would also desire to speak with.

Sid Vicious, to try to make him less fucked up (no I am NOT a fangirl, I just wish he hadn't turned out so badly),

edited 24th Sep '17 3:41:54 PM by YasminPerry

After careful thought, I have come up with a proper list of people from history that I would like to meet.

• Wu Zetian
• Empress Cixi
• J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis
• Elizabeth I
• Victoria
• Abraham Lincoln
• Benjamin Franklin

The people I want to meet include, but are not limited to...

• Albert Einstein
• Sigmund Freud
• Louis Armstrong
• Cab Calloway
• Pinto Colvig
• And, if it can be anyone who is deceased, June Foray and Christine Cavanaugh.

The top three I can think of are (in no particular order, because screw that): Isabella Bird, Cuauhtemoc and Leonardo da Vinci.

edited 25th Sep '17 1:07:56 PM by ArilouLaLeeLay

A sample of ten chosen randomly by me. It's an incomplete list likely to have additions in the future.

1. John Moses Browning (quite possibly THE most innovative and effective firearms designer ever)
2. Tenzing Norgay (he was alongside Sir Edmund Hillary the whole way and without his efforts, Hillary likely wouldn't have made it.)
3. George Washington (self-explanatory)
4. George S. Patton (self-explanatory, maybe with a warning to not go tooling around in a jeep on a certain day...)
5. Yuri Gagarin (world's first cosmonaut)
6. Mikhail Kalashnikov (designer of the best, most effective assault rifle on Earth, the AK-47)
7. Alexander The Great (self-explanatory)
8. Chuichi Nagumo (Worthy Opponent)
9. Isoroku Yamamoto (Worthy Opponent)
10. Andrew Jackson (self-explanatory)