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In History Who Would You Most Like To Meet.
Simple question really. If you could meet anyone in history and ask them one question, who would it be and what would be the question?
For myself, it would Alexander the Great. I would ask if he ever regretted burning the Palace of Persepolis to the ground?
Thanks in advance.
For myself, it would Alexander the Great. I would ask if he ever regretted burning the Palace of Persepolis to the ground?
Thanks in advance.
Answers
I'd like to go back and ask Jesus how he turned water into wine. It's save me a friggin fortune!
02:40 Thu 23rd May 2013
Boring answer -- At least one famous Scientist. Richard Feynman perhaps, he was apparently pretty cool. Also he could help with the exam this week...
More interesting answer -- great-grandfather who was apparently a whiz at maths and won a scholarship to Oxford but never made it as he had to stay and help his mum. Would have liked to have talked with him about that, and maybe even covered for him as he went off to University!
More interesting answer -- great-grandfather who was apparently a whiz at maths and won a scholarship to Oxford but never made it as he had to stay and help his mum. Would have liked to have talked with him about that, and maybe even covered for him as he went off to University!
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similar answer to Jeza but I would like to meet my great great grandfather William Trafford and ask him what happened with his first wife, why did he run off and leave her with 2 babies and then live as man and wife with my great great grandmother for 40 years and father 12 more kids? Or even better, ask my great great grandfather and his 2 brothers why they all eloped to get married and lied about their family (though the fact that all their wives were under 18 and their dad a lay preacher in the baptist church may be the answer) or even go back and ask my great grandfather how much he got in compensation from the people that bought his land to build manchester airport.
Ask the Archduke Ferdinand's chauffeur whether he felt any blame for starting the Great War! He took the wrong route by mistake. The assassin, Princep, had found he could not get to the route because he was unfamiliar with the streets and there were crowds in the way. Imagine his surprise when he found the errant chauffeur was driving the car down the very street he was standing on. A J P Taylor, the historian, said that the chauffeur's mistake was the single biggest mistake in history.
Fred, The first world war would,I believe, have happened with or without the assassination, but what AJPT. may not have been aware of, was that Adolf Hitler applied for admission to the Munich Art Academy (Akademie der Bildenden Künste München) and was rejected, which infuriated him. Had he been accepted he would have continued to become probably a not a very good artist, but WW2 would have been averted.
He was so ashamed of the rejection, and having told his landlady of his application he pretended to her that he had been accepted and went out each morning with a portfolio under his arm.
I haven't researched the staff 'admissions tutors' of the day, but it is likely that some would have been Jewish. Certainly his mother was treated by a Jewish doctor and died, and he blamed her death on him. Possibly this sort of event had its repercussions.
I haven't researched the staff 'admissions tutors' of the day, but it is likely that some would have been Jewish. Certainly his mother was treated by a Jewish doctor and died, and he blamed her death on him. Possibly this sort of event had its repercussions.
