[HPFGU-OTChatter] Question X - Time Travel

[Starling]

SML posed the question:
> > ======================================
> > If you could Time Travel, and be
> > present at any major event in history,
> > which would you choose, and why?
> > ======================================

Vienna during the time of Maria Theresa.  That woman knew how to kick ass.  She was one of the best rulers the Austrian Empire ever had, and still managed to juggle an extremely large family.  Not to mention she got to live in Schönbrunn, only one of the most amazing places I've seen.  I'd just love to watch this woman do what she did.  And play in the sandbox of Viennese court society :)

Barring that, be Laura Ingalls Wilder's shadow while Pa dragged the family across the Midwest.  I once yelled at my mother for having me in 1980 instead of 1880...she laughed.  Go figure <g>.

Abbie, who is in love with history, which is why she watched the BBC Pride and Prejudice 6 times.  Colin Firth had nothing to do with it... <vbg>



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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ebony Elizabeth Thomas 
  To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, 18 April, 2001 1:24 PM
  Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Question X - Time Travel


  SML posed the question:
  > > ======================================
  > > If you could Time Travel, and be
  > > present at any major event in history,
  > > which would you choose, and why?
  > > ======================================


  There are two times I'd like to visit, actually.  One is a very ancient time 
  period; the other is an event I *just* missed by a generation.

  I'd like to visit the ancient Near East in general, Egypt in particular.  
  Can't decide if I want to see the pyramids built or witness the Exodus 
  during the New Kingdom.  I'd also like to lay to rest the dispute of *who* 
  the Egyptians were and *what* they looked like... one of history's nastiest 
  debates IMHO.

  And then I'd want to travel to 1964-1965 and do a smattering of things:
  1)  Travel to Mississippi and participate in Freedom Summer 1964, in which 
  college students helped register blacks in Mississippi to vote.
  2)  Visit Hitsville, U.S.A. on West Grand Boulevard when Motown was topping 
  the charts, American cars were "in", and Detroit was one of the most viable 
  cities in the nation.
  3)  Travel to New York and meet Malcolm X in the last months of his life, 
  after his pilgrimage to Mecca.  He'd realized the farce the Nation of Islam 
  was and was poised to become a great mainstream leader of African Americans. 
    (I was privileged to get to know his older brother Wilfred in the last 
  years of his life... and he told me things about Louis Farrakhan that 
  shocked the socks off me.  It's because of him that I didn't join the NoI 
  during my teenage Africentric phase.)
  4)  Top it all off by participating in the March on Washington and hearing 
  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. give the "I Have a Dream" speech in person.

  Ah.  One can dream, can't she?

  --Ebony

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