Great moments in history you wish you had witnessed.

The year 2100. The year 3000. The years 10.000, 100.000, 1.000.000, 10.000.000,10.000.000 and 1.000.000.000.

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Originally posted by Beano:
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

Beano,

Yes, ain't that truth. Good quote. I will try to remember it.

Doug Graham buying a round at the 1993 penta show!

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Originally posted by andrew tooley:
Doug Graham buying a round at the 1993 penta show!

Brilliant

I notice that several of these events are quite violent - is this symptomatic of Naim owners!!!!!



How about some more peacful moments

In Monet's garden while he painted the Water Lily's

or with Leonardo when he was supposed to have drawn a perfect circle freehand.

Lastly last night when Palace lost, as a Blades fan the look on Warnock's face must nave been priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bilbo,s eleventy first birthday party.

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Originally posted by acad tsunami:
I would have liked to have seen Abraham chipping out the ten commandments with a hammer and chisel.

That would be Moses presumably, Eric?

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Originally posted by 7V:

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Originally posted by acad tsunami:
I would have liked to have seen Abraham chipping out the ten commandments with a hammer and chisel.

That would be Moses presumably, Eric?

OOps Yes, quite right LOL. Moses chipping away it is/was (he looked like Charlton Heston with a cotton wool beard).

Witnessing how life really did start on this planet.
Simon

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Originally posted by Simon Douglass:
Witnessing how life really did start on this planet.
Simon

Me too.

I also would liked to of met Adam and, Eve . . or was it Steve? . . .

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Originally posted by Simon Douglass:
Witnessing how life really did start on this planet.

Australopithecines - The earliest hominids, appeared about two million years ago.

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Originally posted by Right Wing:
I also would liked to of met Adam and, Eve . . or was it Steve? . . .

It certainly wasn't me. Extremely unlikely to have been Adam & Eve either. I mean, what are the chances of the first Australopithecines calling themselves that?

I really hope Moses doesn't look like Charlton Heston To be honest, I'd rather he looked like Michael Moore even

'Adam' and 'Eve' are in fact generic descriptions rather than particular individual names.

I used to think Adam meant 'man', but I now understand that it means 'of the (red) earth'. Eve is more straightforward, meaning 'woman' or 'mother'.

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Originally posted by Stephen Tate:

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Originally posted by Simon Douglass:
Witnessing how life really did start on this planet.

Australopithecines - The earliest hominids, appeared about two million years ago.

Between 4.8 and 5.2 miilion ago methinks.

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Originally posted by acad tsunami:
Between 4.8 and 5.2 miilion ago methinks.

Would you Adam and Eve it!

I would like to of seen the Qin Dynasty (Shi Huangdi ) begin the lengthy construction of the great wall of China 'Amazing!' concidering it was 221-206BC.

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Originally posted by Stephen Tate:
I would like to of seen the Qin Dynasty (Shi Huangdi ) begin the lengthy construction of the great wall of China 'Amazing!' concidering it was 221-206BC.

Yes, and how about seeing inside that tomb thingy with the terracotta army etc. and rivers of mercury...

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Originally posted by Stephen Tate:

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Originally posted by Simon Douglass:
Witnessing how life really did start on this planet.

Australopithecines - The earliest hominids, appeared about two million years ago.

Did it really all start with Australopithecus? Boy, the guy who taught my paleontology class was way off with all that "large mesozoic reptiles" nonsense.

Oh yeah; Big Bang...

Erik

Shamelessly lifted from elsewhere...


Happy Agincourt Day!

France, 25th.October 1415.

When 6,000 British Archers destroyed the flower and pride of the French Nobility.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,

For he today that sheds his blood with me,

Shall be my brother, be he ne're so vile

This day shall gentle his condition,

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed

Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,

And hold their manhood cheap while any speaks

That fought with us upon St. Crispin's Day.



And for the Donkey Wallopers, Balaklava. October 25th. 1845.





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1854

At the recording of 'Frampton Comes Alive' Winterland, San Francisco 1975.

Mike,

Yes, good dates to remember. When did the French beat us at anything? (1066 doesn't count in my view as Normandy was a second generation viking settlement). Yep, the history of england is the history of beating the french. C'est la vie.

Did you know that the charge of the Light Brigade was, far from being a great military disaster, a stunning success, against all odds? Where it all went wrong was in the direct follow up to the charge (which achieved it's goal of taking the Russian guns)where poor leadership left the British open to a counter attack (how times have we seen that?)

Hell Riders: The True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade, Terry Brighton, Henry Holt and Co - blooming good book.