What historical figure dead or alive would you like to meet or would like to have met and why?

Question

I woul love to have met Janis Joplin and Jimmy Hendrix

Answer 1

Captain Blak Bart Roberts, greatest pirates to ever live! He captured 456 ships total in a four year career!

He was captured By Howell Davis while working on a slave ship when he was 37. He was forced to become Howell's navagator. Six weeks later, Davis was killed at the island of Isle of Princes. Roberts, a tall dark man, was elected captain of the Rover.

His first act was to go back to the island and avenge Davis. He then embarked on the most successful pirate run in history, racking up an enormous number of captured or robbed vessels, and evenly splitting the loot among his crew, depending on rank.

He raided off the coasts of Africa, Brazil, and Newfoundland during this period. His catches were so successful that his crew never questioned his leadership, a feat uncommon in pirate circles.

His career as pirate captain ended abruptly in February, 1722 off Cape Lopez, Gabon, when he was killed aboard his flagship the Royal Fortune.

Captain Roberts was killed by grapeshot cannon fire, which struck him in the throat, while he was personally battling Captain Chaloner Ogle's company of HMS Swallow; a man-of-war which was sent to West Africa to capture and arrest pirates. Before his body could be captured by Ogle, Roberts' wish to be buried at sea was fulfilled by his crew, who weighted his body down and threw his body overboard. Fifty-two of his crew of 254 were hanged after the battle. His motto was "A merry life and a short one." It has since been discovered that most of Roberts' crew were drunk when the man-of-war came upon them.

Roberts did have certain traits that stood him apart from many other pirates, as described in the latest History Channel documentary, True Caribbean Pirates, which aired on July 9th, 2006:

He was always well-dressed.
Loathed cruelty, profanity, drunkenness & louts.
Forbade excessive gambling between his crew.
Held Sunday worship service onboard ship.
Had excellent manners.
Treated those he met with the utmost kindness and respect.
Was always clean-shaven.
Being a teetotaler, he did not imbibe alcohol.
Had excellent, beautiful handwriting.
Being a lover of music he had on-board hired musicians.
And had a standing order, that if he were to die in battle he was to be thrown into the sea.

Roberts had 11 shipboard articles, forming a code of conduct, written in 1721:

1. Every man shall have an equal vote in affairs of moment. He shall have an equal title to the fresh provisions or strong liquors at any time seized, and shall use them at pleasure unless a scarcity may make it necessary for the common good that a retrenchment may be voted.
2. Every man shall be called fairly in turn by the list on board of prizes, because over and above their proper share, they are allowed a shift of clothes. But if they defraud the company to the value of even one dollar in plate, jewels or money, they shall be marooned. If any man rob another he shall have his nose and ears slit, and be put ashore where he shall be sure to encounter hardships.
3. None shall game for money either with dice or cards.
4. The lights and candles should be put out at eight at night, and if any of the crew desire to drink after that hour they shall sit upon the open deck without lights.
5. Each man shall keep his piece, cutlass and pistols at all times clean and ready for action.
6. No boy or woman to be allowed amongst them. If any man shall be found seducing any of the latter sex and carrying her to sea in disguise he shall suffer death.
7. He that shall desert the ship or his quarters in time of battle shall be punished by death or marooning.
8. None shall strike another on board the ship, but every man's quarrel shall be ended on shore by sword or pistol in this manner. At the word of command from the quartermaster, each man being previously placed back to back, shall turn and fire immediately. If any man do not, the quartermaster shall knock the piece out of his hand. If both miss their aim they shall take to their cutlasses, and he that draweth first blood shall be declared the victor.
9. No man shall talk of breaking up their way of living till each has a share of 1,000. Every man who shall become a cripple or lose a limb in the service shall have 800 pieces of eight from the common stock and for lesser hurts proportionately.
10. The captain and the quartermaster shall each receive two shares of a prize, the master gunner and boatswain, one and one half shares, all other officers one and one quarter, and private gentlemen of fortune one share each.
11. The musicians shall have rest on the Sabbath Day only by right. On all other days by favor only.

Answer 2

I would like to meet the real person the Arthur legends are based on. I'm sure there's some Dark Age war lord back in the mists of time that started the whole thing, even if he didn't have banners flying and knights in shining armor. I'd like to see how the myth compares to the real thing.

Answer 3

I would liked to have met Mary's ( Jesus's Mother) mother. According to the bible, Mary was also an immaculate Conception. An angel came to her and said that if she bore a male, he would be the son of God, and lead the people to salvation, if the child were female, she should be taught to be pure, and that she would be the vessel for Jesus, the son of man.

Answer 4

Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan inventors of the self contained underwater breathing apparatus without whom we would never be able to discover the "Monde du silence"

Answer 5

Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. Why? Because she held within her the key to the greatest question: "Was her son truly the son of God?"
Also, because she gave birth to the most influent man in all of the History of Mankind.

Answer 6

Abe Lincoln, Douglas Macarthur, FDR. They're my heroes growing up and have made difference in the world.

Answer 7

Aristoteles and one of his pupils - Alexander the Great. I would like to know what Alexander have learned from Aristoteles and how he used from the teaching.
Platon too, as many of his thoughts is repeated by our Salvador Jesus.
Palus(Salus) too as he formed the Christian faith and made it a "world" religion..

Answer 8

Jesus.
I'm going to ask him - "did you mean that":
The Crusades?
The Inquisition?
The Holocaust?
The Gay Bashing?
The Children being molested by church leaders?
Hell to people who don't comply to the exact word of the church?

I'm sure is answer will be - "Nothing of the kind!!!"

Answer 9

di vinci is probably the top of my list right now. he was way way way ahead of his time.

teddy Roosevelt sounds like an interesting character as well. i don't know how he fit in everything he did AND became president.

Answer 10

Albert Einstein was a thinker. He was intelligent and had an open mind.