2007-04-13 17:50:35 · 16 answers · asked by babes_mate 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I would take my invisible cloak ( stands to reason if i have a time machine I could also have one of those) and go to a town called Sharnbrook in the UK in the year of 1851.
I would then listen to the conversation between my great great grandfather and his first wife ( who passed away in the 1860's , my great great grandmother was his second wife) about their decision and plans to migrate to australia ( which they did in 1852)...
I would love to hear them when the idea first came to them and the following conversations ... their dreams, their fears, their plans.
Apart from that I would do nothing as I wouldn't want to alter the events of history.
I found out which cemetry he was burried in , and went to pay *homage* to *thank* him for making this decision. Unfortunately the cemetry records were lost in the Black Friday Bush fires of 1939 :(
his name is on this plaque though.
http://www.ozgenonline.com/aust_cemeteries/vic/manningham/andersoncrkburial.jpg
2007-04-14 00:09:04 · answer #1 · answered by ll_jenny_ll here AND I'M BAC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd want to go to the year 2500. Surely things would have to be a major improvement over the present (or any time in the past). Still, if the time machine only worked in reverse, I guess I'd like to go to the early 50s when life was idyllic in these United States.
2007-04-14 00:56:31 · answer #2 · answered by miri-miri-off-the-wall 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Third choice: 1593. I'd go to England, save Christopher Marlowe from being murdered, and let the world have a lifetime of his plays and poetry.
Second choice: I'd go to Greece the year Alcibiades' second was tricked into losing the fleet and reverse the course of the Peloponnesian War.
First choice: I visit Alexandria and remove all the great lost books of the ancient world before the fire that started when Caesar was besieged there could consume them.
2007-04-14 01:44:00 · answer #3 · answered by Robert David M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would go back to say around 7,000 B.C. to try to observe some of the earliest permanent settlements like Catal Huyuk in the central plains of Turkey. Being able to observe human kind no longer just a hunter gathering society, but agriculture and the domestication of animals.
2007-04-14 02:24:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
April 14, 1865 to prevent Lincoln's assassination by having an emergency at the White House which prevents Lincoln to be able to get to Ford's Theatre and in the melee the conspiracy becomes known and the conspirators flee or are captured or killed.
2007-04-14 01:45:49 · answer #5 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd go back to The Bowery, NYC, 1896. I'd listen to the music, meet Stephen Crane and Jacob Riis, check out what was left of Five Points, buy textiles and return.
2007-04-14 02:24:48 · answer #6 · answered by Keselyű 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1:30 PM, Friday. July 3rd, 1863 near a small country crossroads in southern PA...
2007-04-14 03:46:09 · answer #7 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would go back to the year 1992
I would save my son from dying.
At the same time choosing love over career.
2007-04-14 00:56:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I would go to 1983 and buy $1000 worth of Microsoft stock.
2007-04-14 00:54:00 · answer #9 · answered by Pancakes 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i would go back to the year they made the movie 300...and try to get a job as the person who picks up the towels in that locker room after they are done filming...
i love spartans!
2007-04-14 11:20:26 · answer #10 · answered by la21unica 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋