if you could see one point in history (1 Viewer)

[narrator]

if you could be best friends...

i wouldn't even have to think - i put him up first for a reason and as tempting as Hitler is, i have to say Alexander the Great.

Not only have i studied him in ancient, but my english ext2 major work was based on him.

 

[MiuMiu]

they all suck!! I wouldn't want to be friends with any of them!!

 

[narrator]

c'mon YEAR12, one of em has to be better than the rest?

anyway, pick whoever u want, there must be someone that you'd like to have known.

 

[MiuMiu]

if I had known them then I wouldn't be interested in history would I? There would be nothing for me to learn. And besides, out of that list, there is no one exciting.

 

[Johnny G]

Go ATG??
I was tempted 2 vote Hitler, but then i realised i was black,
I was tempted 2 vote J. Caeser but you know, he's Roman
I was tempted 2 vote Martin Luther King but then i realised HE was black
I was tempted 2 vote Shakespeare sux
I was tempted 2 vote Cleopatra but shes a B!tch
Yes thats it

 

[d1ngo]

I have to ask narrator... do u want to be best friends with Alexander by todays standards? Or by the ancient greek standards? Thus making you his bitch???

 

[narrator]

Originally posted by d1ngo
I have to ask narrator... do u want to be best friends with Alexander by todays standards? Or by the ancient greek standards? Thus making you his bitch???

but d1ngo, don't you think that by ancient standards it would be so much more interesting?

 

[pranks85]

I'm going with Hitler, mainly 'cause there's so much propaganda about him over the place, I'm really, really curious to know how much of it is true.

And let's face it - no dictator runs around killing people for the fun of it, if it's using up resources that could be used in keeping him in power....so it'd be interesting to see exactly why he did it, and how that compares to our modern day "he was the reincarnation of satan" explanation.

 

[malayz_angel]

Shakespeare so I could ask what he was thinking when he wrote King Lear~

 

[narrator]

Originally posted by malayz_angel
Shakespeare so I could ask what he was thinking when he wrote King Lear~

would you try and get him to change his works?

as Blackadder remarks, it would save school children for hundreds of years...

 

[malayz_angel]

Not change them as such...just try to make them more understandable. Or maybe I'd just be there while he wrote so I would know what he was going on about and there would be no need for changes

 

[Generator]

Napoleon... How could he not be in that list?

 

[meanz]

i have to go with cleopatra
she is Egyptain and i like egyptains(mabey cause i am on my self.)

 

[meh]

hitler

so i could point out the gazzilions of inaccuracies and idiosyncracies in his book/mind/life/anything

oh yeah and so i could get to see his downfall

 

[trekkie]

Horatio Nelson beats all of them hands down-he's the one id like to meet

 

[Benno]

yeah, Nelson would be cool to meet

what about Captain Cook? or some famous Philospers

off the list i voted Julius Ceaser

 

[Bolkonski]

Hrmm... So.. If everyone is so interested in Hitler, why not Churchill? Just a point.
Wheres all the others? Jesus, Socrates, A whole bunch of Caesars, Cicero, another whole bunch of British kings, the Tsars.... Writers? James Joyce, Tolstoy, Wilde, Eliot, Conrad, Austen... and on and on.

blah.. Shakespeare is over rated. He's good, but over rated as the essential artist's artist.