Great moments in history you wish you had witnessed.

I would have liked to have been there when the first writ of habeus corpus was issued to a court. This writ is as important as the Magna Carta in our legal inheritance ("our" given that the NZ system is English based).

Britney's coming out party ? Just an idea.

Sermon on the Mount
Agincourt
Capture of Pegasus Bridge

Old Trafford
April 27th 1974.

Oh hang on - I was there!

last time I ever went.

Ah, Bob - you've reminded me... Nou Camp, may 26, 1999...

Watching the pyramids being built.
Battle of Waterloo.
First flight of the Spitfire

The trial of Socrates.

Being with the US forces when they caputred an Egnima machine from U-571.

[QUOTE Being with the US forces when they caputred an Egnima machine from U-571. [/QUOTE]

That would have been in HollyWoodLand then?

Or the factual capture here

The OK Corral gunfight to check out how it really happened. Where "the Cowboys" the bad guys? Where Wyatt the good one? Doc Holliday where most certainly a bad guy.

JohanR

1) Mankind's second, and this time succesful, exodus from Africa across the Red Sea circa 70,000 ago

2) Jesus rising from the dead in the tomb, or witnessing the clandestine removal of the body, whichever.

3) Columbus arriving in the West Indies/Americas (and presumably scratching his head!)

Cheers

Don

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Originally posted by BigH47:

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Being with the US forces when they caputred an Egnima machine from U-571.

That would have been in HollyWoodLand then?

Or the factual capture here

The first example that came to mind of history that is not the real history, so many more examples to checkout and so little time.

Also

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1) Mankind's second, and this time succesful, exodus from Africa across the Red Sea circa 70,000 ago

I'd choose crossing the land bridge into the New World. I found the description from James A Michener's Alaska a good read so a few days watching the real thing and then returning to today with a warm bath and a cold beer should keep mem going for a few months at the very least.

In no particular order:

1. The exploding of the first atomic bomb....the release of unimaginable amounts of energy, in a microsecond.Awesome! (albeit terrible)
2. Marconi`s first Atlantic radio transmission
3. The Wright Brothers` first powered flight
4. Magerate Thatcher holding back tears just after she was ousted ...I saw it on TV, but I would have liked to have seen it close up. That footage,a real gem, for me summed her up.......utterly egocentric....she was after all only losing the premiership....against the backdrop of all the genuine hardship and misery being endured by millions of ordinary folk in the population , largely as a result of her dogged misguided monetararist policies

laurie

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I think the greatest moments would be the explorers, ie Columbus/Drake/De Gama etc etc. Sailing 'off the map' and meeting utterly alien people in unimagined lands.

Impossible to imagine that sense of awe. When Man travelled to the Moon we had a pretty good idea what was there but these people just headed into the total unknown.

Bruce

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I'd choose crossing the land bridge into the New World.

It was either that or Columbus. But then I would have had to include first mankind into UK, and whether Modern Man or Neandethal?

Compromises.

Cheers

Don

The Big Bang...

Mike,

In another life I would happily have joined you at Agincourt but lets not forget the Battle of Crécy in 1346

wiki:

The losses were enormous:

French and Genoese casualties were around 10,000 - 30,000. Given the large mass of cavalry the most reliable estimate is around 18,000.
English losses were trifling, suggesting few of the French knights reached the English lines. Losses were around 150 - 300.

That is a hell of a kicking by any standards.

By way of contrast I would also love to have been present the day the Buddha taught 'The Heart Sutra' (or any other sutra for that matter).

I would like to be a witness to how the hell Stone Henge was built.

Jesus’ preaching and healing the sick.

Jesus’ crucifixion.

Genghis Khan and his mate’s racing across the desert to pillage a bottle of milk.

The Boston Tea party.

I would have liked to have been at the trial of Galileo, too hear if he really did say…”Tuttavia, si muove” at the closing of his trial.

And one for the future — First Contact!

Beano

I thought he said 'eppur si muove' now I will have to join you Beano and get to the truth of this matter.

"It Moves", sounds even more evocative in Italian.

Beano

eppur si muove either way it was a brave (or perhaps foolish thing?) to have said.

I would have liked to have seen Abraham chipping out the ten commandments with a hammer and chisel.

I would have liked to have been in the Dallas book depository or on the grassy knoll.

I would have liked to have seen Leonardo put the finishing touches to the Last Supper or Michalangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine chappel.

I enjoyed reading that link Acad, and whether or not it was a foolish thing to say his quote sums it up for me.

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642, Italian astronomer, mathematician)


Beano

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Originally posted by acad tsunami:

I would have liked to have seen Leonardo put the finishing touches to the Last Supper or Michalangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine chappel.

Me too, Acad.