If you could choose 5 events from history in which to participate and/or observe, which would you choose?

Question

For instance, in no particular order, I would want to participate in the Great Salt March of M. Gandhi in India, as well as see Frida Kahlo work on one of her self-portraits. I would also like to witness an original Shakespeare production of "A Midsummer's Night Dream," and act to save wise women from persecution during the Salem Witch Trials. Last but far from least, I would like to have heard Sojourner Truth give her "Ain't I A Woman" speech.

Answer 1

1. Watch Abraham Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
2. Walk in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s March on Washington in 1963.
3. Watch Leonardo Da Vinci do ANYTHING!
4. Watch people somehow survive the concentration camps during World War II just to see how to survive the absolute worst.
5. Watch the court of Louis XIV in France to see how to live in absolute power and luxury.

Answer 2

Great question...hmmm..

1. Being a black teammate of Jesse Owens in the Berlin Olympics and watching him win four gold medals in front of Hitler.

2. Being a seaman based in Amsterdam between 1470-1525, and EXPLORING THE WORLD and telling stories of foreign lands.

3. Working with Benjamin Franklin as he penned the Constitution and Declaration of Indepence.

4. Playing percussion's at a Bob Marley concert in Kingstown, Jamaica 1978.

5. Being Ron Jeremy from 1982-1990 -- ah, what the hell.

^. BONUS! -- Being the strongest element on Earth, yes...Keith Richard's liver.

Answer 3

1. Caesar crossing the Rubicon
2. Cross of gold speech
3. Sessions of the Continental Congress
4. Inside the Oval Office during Cuban missile crisis
5. Woodstock

Answer 4

The Scottish Rising of 45
talk with John Dee
'' Sir Walter Scott
the Surrender of the Civil War
I'd like to waulk wool once

odd, I know

Answer 5

I would wish to be present at the signing of the Declaration of Independence and at the Gettysburg Address. I would like to have heard the first presentation of "The Rite of Spring" and see how bad the ensuing riots actually were. I would love to spend time with Da Vinci and Ben Franklin and just observe their work.

Answer 6

1. March on Washington with Martin Luther king(hear the i have a dream speech)
2.to be with Lucy Burns and other women picketting for their rights outside the white house in 1916
3. be part of the underground railroad on Harriett Tubman's "route"
4. be in England during the first years of world war II reporting the news of the blitz's and seeing first hand the struggle and spirit of the Brits.
5.being part of the WASPS in world war II.

Answer 7

1- I'd go see the Tournament of the Cloth of Gold.
2- I'd witness the burning of Girolamo Savonarola one of the greatest mistakes of the catholic inquisition.
3- I'd witness the duel by lamplight where Tycho Brahe lost his nose (but won the argument)
4- I'd watch Michelangelo finish the satue of David.
5- I'd trot down to the Plains of Abraham to watch Wolfe soundly defeat Montcalm.

Answer 8

I would have liked to have like watching the great pyramids being built ! I would love to have seen the first flight of the wright brothers! The parading of the statue of David passing through Florence The first walk on the moon ! The signing of the constitution .

Answer 9

The D-Day invasion, the invention of computers, when Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address, the entire Revolutionary War, and the reign of Elizabeth I, i know i'm weird.

Answer 10

I had done this list yesterday and froze up before posting. In one day it's changed but here goes (in no order - observing all since you can't change history):
1)Philadelphia Experiment - real or not? : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philadelphia_Experiment

2 ) Grassy Knoll - Kennedy assassination - who and how many did it?

3) Jimmy Hoffa - what happened to him?

4) Ameilia Earhart - what happened to her?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart

5) Was there a holy grail and if so where is it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Grail