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14 May 2010, 5:50 pm

This is a thread about what historical figures we would like to meet if we coud travel to any time period.

Here is my list:
Aesop
Archimedes
William Wallace
William Shakespere
Leonardo da Vinci
Thomas Jefferson
Freidrich Nietzsche
Hans Christian Anderson
Lewis Carroll
Emily Dickinson
Mary Shelly
Charles Darwin
Theodore Roosevelt
Mary Anning
George Orwell
John Wyndham
Herman Melville
Dr Seuss

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14 May 2010, 6:00 pm

Hey Einstein! Look, quantum entanglement is real!! ! We have lab experiments to prove it. Your cosmological constant was not a mistake after all, it just isn't what you thought it was. Oh yeah, black holes are absolutely real. Look there's a picture of one right here. Uncertainty principle is not god playing dice. Look we can demonstrate it right here.

Now. About that dark energy Mr Einstein....

Man... I wonder what he'd say to all this.

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14 May 2010, 6:05 pm

Leonardo da Vinci
Confucius
Aristotle
Jimi Hendrix
Bertrand Russell
Xenophanes
Descartes
J. S. Bach
F. Lloyd Wright
Ray Mears
David Attenborough
Um, lots more....

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15 May 2010, 1:25 am

Mother Teresa
James Barry
Lewis Carroll
Ed Wood
Bela Lugosi

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15 May 2010, 7:44 am

Otto Bismarck
Catherine The Great
Queen Elisabeth I
Joseph Goebbels
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
Nikola Tesla

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15 May 2010, 10:05 am

Albert Einstein
J Robert Oppenheimer
Alan Turing
Steven Hawking
Bob Ballard
John Nash
Charles Babbage
Nikola Tesla
Leonard Nimoy
H G Wells
Sherlock Holmes (do fictional characters count?)
Steve Wozniak
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
Cesare Borgia

And finally..............................

I'd like to meet Sigmund Freud just so that I could punch him on the nose!

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15 May 2010, 10:46 am

I don't know if all of these historical characters are well-known everywhere.

Akhenaton
Homer
Socrates
Xenophon
Alexander the Great
Gaius Julius Caesar
King Arthur (if he really existed)
Richard Lion-Heart
Henry V of England
La Hire
Lope de Aguirre
Henri IV of France
Voltaire
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Maximilien Robespierre
Napoleon I
Charles Darwin
Charles Nicolle
Winston Churchill
George Patton
Charles de Gaulle
H. P. Lovecraft
Erwin Rommel
Nikolai Yezhov
George Orwell

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15 May 2010, 11:42 am

I think it could be interesting to meet Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger

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15 May 2010, 12:48 pm

Jesus
Albert Einstein
Carl Gustav Jung
Leonardo da Vinci
H.G. Wells
Confucius
Alexander The Great
Aristotle
George Orwell

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15 May 2010, 1:55 pm

Thomas the Rhymer

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15 May 2010, 2:45 pm

Zhuge Liang
Han Fei
Cao Zhi
Sun Zi
Lu Buwei
An Lushan
Zheng Chenggong
Gan Ning
Duke Wen
Sun Jian
Zhu Yuanzhang
Wu Zetian
Toyotomi Hideyoshi

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16 May 2010, 3:51 am

Alexander the Great
Archimedes
Sir Issac Newton
Darwin
Voltaire
Che Guevara
Eisenhower
George Orwell
Kafka
Cervantes

With a master translator at hand, of course.

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16 May 2010, 5:53 am

I'd fight Gandhi.

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16 May 2010, 7:08 am

Vanilla_Slice wrote:

Sherlock Holmes is not an historical character. He is a fictional character. With the exception of Cesare Borgia, I like your taste historical characters. BTW, Steve Wozniak is still in the land of the living so he is not an historical character yet.

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16 May 2010, 3:11 pm

Moog wrote:

I'd fight Gandhi.

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16 May 2010, 3:53 pm

Batman

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Jesus

Good call.

It blows my mind that today we can look at the pyramids of Egypt and say "Man, those are thousands of years old."

And back then, Jesus could also look at them and say the same thing. Kind of makes it feel like Jesus wasn't really that long ago at all.

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