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Post by koskiewicz on Jun 5, 2017 16:02:18 GMT
...one more:
The battle of Gettysburg, especially Pickett's charge...
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Post by sheevshayhair on Jun 10, 2017 20:10:36 GMT
- Times Square after WW2 ended - Dwight D. Eisenhower's speech right before the D-Day invasion - Witness the signing of the Declaration of Independence - Boston Tea Party - Travel the American-West when it was still open, in the 1800s
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Post by hi224 on Jun 11, 2017 16:25:51 GMT
Fall of the Berlin Wall "Miracle on Ice" medal-round game during the men's ice hockey tournament at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid 'Star Wars' premiere Woodstock Apollo 11 launch and Moon landing "I Have a Dream" speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Battle of Midway Construction of the Hoover Dam Babe Ruth's 60 Home Run Season (1927) Red Baron dog fighting The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln Battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack Continental Congress debates and the signing of Declaration of Independence Building of the Angkor Wat Temple Complex Building of Notre Dame Cathedral Sitting in on- Plato's Academy, the preachings and teaching of Jesus, Muhammad, Gautama Buddha and Lao Tzu Building of the Great Pyramid of Giza (decided to leave out most of battles that would interest me, except those viewed from a discrete distance). It would be fascinating to see ancient philosophers or religious leaders speak, in order to get a better sense of the person and their message, and see how it's changed over countless generations. On a related note, imagine what it would be like to listen to some of the great heads of state from the past discuss the current political/social/economic issues facing the modern world. Sure some of it may be over their heads, but the great ones were quick studies of these things and could weigh in with relevant commentary more often than not, no matter the topic, I suspect. Don't even get me started on battles. Hastings, Actium, Thermopylae, Gaugamela, Gettysburg, Leyte Gulf, the Spanish Armada, Stalingrad, Agincourt, Alesia, Yorktown; hell traveling around the Battle of the Bulge or The Somme would be a grind but I'd find a way to get through it. Having seen many of the famous monuments of the world, it would be amazing to see their construction, firsthand. The further back you go, the more compelling the backstory since it would be filling in a lot of historical blanks in our understanding of history. It's easy to focus on the famous moments, though. I like to think of the moments lost to history that are the very foundation of human society. The look on the person's face when they invented the wheel. Could they possibly have known how significant this was? Ditto to the first person who sat on a horse. How about the first caveman who figured out food tasted better when you applied fire to it? Think about it; somewhere at some point, there was a first human to cook their food. What gave them this idea? How did their tribe react to it? Crazy to think about that stuff. Then we segue into natural history and really fall down the rabbit hole. The meteor that killed the dinosaurs, the first creature that crawled out of the ocean, the list goes on and on. Ending ww2.
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