If you could spend a day with any historical figure, who would it be?

Question

And why?
What would you do/ talk about?
Where d'ya wanna spend your day at?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The figure I would spend a day with is Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) since he's the great British poet, essayist, dramatist and pioneering lexicographer. He studied only a year at Oxford but left due to his poverty, however, he taught at a school in Lichfield (his home town) for a while then he left for London to be a writer, a founder of the famous Literary Club with many like-minded friends and among those, James Boswell who met him to become his friend and wrote his definitive biography, "Life of Johnson" as a literary masterpiece out of his love, reverence and respect to Dr Johnson after he passed away.

I would visit him and pay my respect to this great man of letters even though he never graduated with a degree, Trinity College, Dublin created him Doctor of Laws in 1765 and Oxford University followed suit in 1775.

The place where I'd spend the day with him is at 17 Gough Square, Fleet Street in London where he spent some 6 years compiling the dictionary with some assistants and I did visit this three-story house in 1997. It'll be my greatest honor to meet and know him in person.

Answer 2

Hmmm....so many ppl but I would spend a day with Vincent Van Gogh.

I've had a fascination with him since I was young. I must have read everything there is to read about his life.

We'd talk about art and life and philosophy...and ears.
I'd try and get into his head about how he saw life. His drive to paint and his drive to capture the things he saw onto canvas. We'd talk about colors and nature and politics and human nature.

We'd spend the day and night at Saint-Remy, where he painted The Starry Night. Actually it would be on the night he painted it. I'd sit and be quiet and watch him paint lest he yell at me and try and cut my ear off.

Great question.

Answer 3

I would meet Hitler....We would go to Disneyland....Maybe the Mouse would make him be a better person....No one can Hate when they are at the Happiest place on earth!!

Or

Jesus....I would walk with him and we would talk about Life... I would ask him if he did really have a child with Mary M.

Answer 4

Ellen Degeneres. i understand, this isn't any longer that unique, yet i might like to speak to a nicely-enjoyed guy or woman who's making it in this existence and is in love with a captivating female of her own. She looks available and rambunctious. She appears like she has exciting with existence. i p.c. that.

Answer 5

Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. We'll just toast to our ideas.

Answer 6

Albert Einstein. I'd really like to see what kind of a person he was. I guess I'd make him sit at a coffee shop with me.

Answer 7

i would spend the day with lucille ball because she is pretty much the funniest person in the entire world and i absolutely love love love love to laugh...it is the best medicine

Answer 8

you, Lola. We would talk about life maybe giggle at fat people and we would prob do this at a mall or something in-case you turn out to be a weirdo there would be allot of people around.

Answer 9

Archimedes.

Answer 10

Marin Luther King or Ghandi and i would just listen to what they had to say about current events and what we should do....then i'd run for president