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Let's say that hypothetically you could bring back to life 5 deceased historical figures for a week. They'd can be from absolutely any field, but they have to be someone you find influential or interesting rather than the cliche "I'd bring back Hitler so I can punch him in the face" thing. Who would you pick?

I'd pick:

1. Mohandas Gandhi
2. Anne Frank
3. Albert Einstein
4. Jimi Hendrix (tough call, I can think of quite a few musicians)
5. Emmeline Pankhurst

Winston Churchill. I'd hack off my arm to meet that great man...even if I'd only have a few seconds to say anything before dying...

1. Jesus
2. Mohandas Gandhi
3. Karl Marx
4. Erwin Rommel
5. Charlemagne

Napoleon


...always wanted to have a dwarf tossing match with him.

1:Winston Churchill
2:Admiral Nelson
3:Ghengis Khan
4:Lenin
5:Shakespeare

Jesus
John Steinbeck
Sophie Scholl
Albert Einstein
Douglas Adams

1) Thomas Jefferson
2) Einstein
3) Thomas Paine
4) Cicero
5) Gen. Patton

Jesus, Teddy Roosevelt, Howard Hughes Jr.

1: Jesus
2: Anne Frank
3: Thomas Moore
4: Teddy Roosevelt (WOOT FOR LONG ISLAND!)
5: Nellie Bly

1. Lenin
2. Hitler
3. Hannibal
4. Ptahhotep
5. Gaius Julius

Edit: A couple of points... Hitler isn't there for me to punch him or anything, I'd just really like to meet him, experience this charisma and intensity he had and try to figure him out a bit. And Hannibal as in the Carthaginian general, not the movie cannibal :rolleyes:

Assuming the language barrier wasn't an obstacle, I'd pick a few people.


1: Hannibal Barca
2: Caius Julius Caesar
3 Charles Darwin
4: Babbage
5: Alexander the Great

1. Jesus
2. George Washington
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. W.A. Mozart
5. Paul of Tarsus (Apostle Paul AKA Saint Paul)
6. Robert Frost
7. Alfred the Great
8. Charlemagne
9. Julius Caesar
10. Hengest the Saxon
11. Ulysses S. Grant
12. Eleanor of Aquitaine
13. Clovis
14. William I
15. Hugh Capet
16. St. Margaret "The Exile" Atheling
17. Rolf the Ganger
18. Matilda of Scotland
19. Unuisticc of the Picts
20. Henry II

1. Jesus
2. George Washington
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. W.A. Mozart
5. Paul of Tarsus (Apostle Paul AKA Saint Paul)
6. Robert Frost
7. Alfred the Great
8. Charlemagne
9. Julius Caesar
10. Hengest the Saxon
11. Charles "The Hammer" Martel
12. Eleanor of Aquitaine
13. Clovis
14. William I
15. Hugh Capet
16. St. Margaret "The Exile" Atheling
17. Rolf the Ganger
18. Matilda of Scotland
19. Unuisticc of the Picts
20. Henry II

I said 5! 5, goddamn it! :p

Interesting list, though.

I said 5! 5, goddamn it! :p

Interesting list, though.

hehe

1. Hitler
2. Machiavelli
3. Jesus (duh?)
4. Churchill
5. Octavian

Benjamin Franklin.. he's so damn sexy!
The man who invented beer
Bleenie
The man who invented vodka
The man who invented the man who invented vodka.

1. Abraham Lincoln-one of the greatest world leaders who ever lived.
2. Einstein-y not?
3-5. ???

who I would not bring back:
Jesus-he is only supposed to come back on doomsday. Would you want to bring about the destruction of mankind?
Hitler-for obvious reasons. Neo-nazis are bad enough. don't bring their god back.
Nero Ceaser-one of the worst world leaders who ever lived.

Napoleon...Napoleon Bonabarte I. Patton. Jefferson. NicMach.

Adolf Hitler, Julius Caesar, Elizabeth I, Ben Franklin, Odoacer

Such a hard choice.

Leonardo DaVinci
Thomas Edison
Archimedes
Albert Einstein
And the top most person ---> Isaac Newton


Honorable Mentions:

Alexander Grahm Bell
Socrates
Plato
Descartes
Dante
Pascal
Hubble
Euclid
Michaelangelo
Marie Curie
Benjamin Franklin

1. Karl Marx
2. Albert Einstein
3. Salvador Allende
4. Louise Michel (or another one from Paris' Commune, not 100% sure which one)
5. Maximilien de Robespierre (or maybe Saint-Juste, or another one from the 1793 team)

Well, it's hard to chose. But I think those would do it.

1. Jean-Paul Sartre
2. Karl Marx
3. George Orwell
4. William Shakespeare
5. Friedrich Nieztsche

Let's say that hypothetically you could bring back to life 5 deceased historical figures for a week. They'd can be from absolutely any field, but they have to be someone you find influential or interesting rather than the cliche "I'd bring back Hitler so I can punch him in the face" thing. Who would you pick?

I'd pick:

1. Mohandas Gandhi
2. Anne Frank
3. Albert Einstein
4. Jimi Hendrix (tough call, I can think of quite a few musicians)
5. Emmeline Pankhurst

Byron and Shelley. Opium, poetry, sexual depravity, madness, club feet and red wine drunk out of the skull of a dead bear. Sounds like my kind of party.

I had trouble deciding, and am probably not going to like my choices 10 minutes from now.........

1 Jesus
2 Eleanore Roosevelt
3 Douglas Adams
4 Lewis Carroll
5 Ben Franklin

Why do people want to meet these historical people on the whole? Is it to ask them a pressing question? to discuss their opinions on the issue of the day? Or just to put a face to the name of a favourite hero/etc.?
Me personally, the only reason I could think for meeting historical figures is to give them a kick in the shins or call them a rude name and run away. Socrates would be high up on that list. Man i hate that guy.

my list

1. Robert Grosseteste (Scientist, theologian, logician, Mathematician and Bishop of Lincoln)

2. John Wesley

3. Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

4. Jan Christian Smuts

5. A L "Bert" Lloyd (one of the most influencial British Musicians)

Off the top of my head...

Joan of Arc
Alexander the Great
Henry David Thoreau
Agatha Christie
Pierre Proudhon

01. Romy Schneider
02. Jean d´Arc
03. Marlene Dietrich
04. Jim Morrison
05. Jimi Hendrix
06. Pontius Pilate
07. The 3rd living human on the world ( i really don´t know who it is...)
08. Abraham Lincoln
09. Ayrton Senna
10. Freddy Mercury

Let's say that hypothetically you could bring back to life 5 deceased historical figures for a week. They'd can be from absolutely any field, but they have to be someone you find influential or interesting rather than the cliche "I'd bring back Hitler so I can punch him in the face" thing. Who would you pick?

I'd pick:

1. Mohandas Gandhi
2. Anne Frank
3. Albert Einstein
4. Jimi Hendrix (tough call, I can think of quite a few musicians)
5. Emmeline Pankhurst
Haha, something about that list says bourgeois leftie to me. I think it's the Gandhi... :p And of course the Pankhurst... <.<

But anyway (sorry if I was mean...) I'd pick:
1. Steve Biko
2. Emma Goldman (she seems like she'd be good fun to talk to, lost of vigorous discussion!)
3. Freddie Mercury
4. Michel Foucault
5. Antonio Gramsci (to pick his brain)

Bismarck. I wanna tell him what happened and see his reaction.

And Leonardo DaVinci. I'll take him on a trip around the world, in a plane.

Abraham Lincoln

1. Mahavira
2. Eugene V. Debs
3. Carl Jung
4. John Steinbeck
5. Lao Tse

Adolf Hitler, Julius Caesar, Elizabeth I, Ben Franklin, Odoacer
Odoacer would be interesting...
I wonder if he knew Latin, or if all he knew was some obscure barbarian language.

1. Karl Marx
2. Buenaventura Durruti
3. Emiliano Zapata
4. Ernesto "Che" Guevara
5. Spartacus

After learning something from these guys, I'd get the ASWR (Anarcho-Syndicalist World Revolution) going.

Bob Peck (Muldoon from Jurassic Park)
Jesus H. Christ
Mark Twain
Bill Shakespeare
Ben Franklin

Don't crush my dreams! Muldoon is a historical figure!

Odoacer would be interesting...
I wonder if he knew Latin, or if all he knew was some obscure barbarian language.
That's definitely one of the things to find out.

Meeting him would certaintly help you give a very good opinion on whether 476 was a huge change or a continuity.

1.William Shakespeare
2.Gandhi
3.Mother Theresa
4.Freddie Mercury
5.Anne Frank

Bob Denver
Alan Hale Jr.
All of the more famous members of The Three stooges (They only count as one)
The horse that played Mr. Ed
Christopher Hewett


We would all put together a show and I would make a million dollars :)

1. Hitler.
2. Queen Elisabeth
3. Nietzsche
4. Napoleon
5. Charlemagne

Anyone of them would make a fascinating encounter.

Alexander the Great.

But not because I want to ask him anything, I'd just like to go to a party where people get so drunk burning down babylon seems like a good idea.

Alexander the Great.

But not because I want to ask him anything, I'd just like to go to a party where people get so drunk burning down babylon seems like a good idea.
He almost made it on my list :p What if he decided he wanted to bed you though?

Wilhelm II, so I could punch him out for dismissing Bismarck. Stooge.

For a list, in no particular order:

Jesus
Barbarossa
Frederick II of Prussia
Bismarck
Rommel

Wilhelm II, so I could punch him out for dismissing Bismarck. Stooge.
And change history in the process. :) 'Twas extremely idiotic of him.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm?

In no order and pulling out of my but.

Ben Franklin
Angus McDonald (my Greatx7 grandfather)
Myrna Loy (hell anybody that challenges HUAC and makes Hitlers black list is worth meeting)
Eric the Red
Archimedes

He almost made it on my list :p What if he decided he wanted to bed you though?

If that party lived up to its reputation, I am sure I'd be to drunk to care.

If that party lived up to its reputation, I am sure I'd be to drunk to care.
lol too true :p I'd have no objection either way. :x

You said only five: so here are five women.

1. Hatshepsut
2. The Empress Dowager of China
3. Abigail Adams
4. St. Theresa of Avila
5. Pope Joan

and five men

1. Lao Tzu
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Sir Thomas More
4. Richard III
5. William Wallace

5. Pope Joan

I don't think she really existed.

I don't think she really existed.
Yeah, it sounds like a bit of a myth. She could have though. Noone really knows.

I don't think she really existed.

There is some indication that there was a female Pope very early on, whether Joan or another name. But the Church being what it is, they've tried very hard to expunge every reference to her. Much like the Egyptians tried to do to Hatshepsut. The problem with that is that they couldn't get rid of every reference, so she lives on in legend.

1. Jesus
2. Mohammad the prophet, not the boxer
3.Gandhi
4. Sigmond Freud (sp?)
5.JRR Tolkien

1) Jesus
2) Ronald Reagan
3) Adam Smith
4) Wilfred Laurier
5) George Washington
6) Pope John Paul II
7) Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr
8) Charles Darwin
9) Albert Einstien
10) Gene Rodenberry

Sorry, couldn't limit it to five.

1. Mark Twain
2. Napoleon Bonaparte (Mainly just to see what was the motivation for invading Russia in the winter.)

In No Particular Order:

1. Bismarck (Perhaps the greatest politician in history)
2. Jesus (What can I say, I want to know)
3. Julius Caesar (Almost as great a general as Alexander and probably a better guy to deal with)
4. Albert Einstein
5. Shakespeare (Give him a crash course and send him off to Hollywood!)

Using every ounce of charisma, I shall ...
Use Bismarck's political skills and Caesar's military skills to conquer the world. And then Shakespeare can make brilliant propaganda for me that will last 400 years like the work he did for the Tudors. Jesus can start me up a religion that will assist in binding my empire. And Einstein can figure a way out of the Relativity trap and we'll get FTL to spread the empire throughout the galaxy.

There is some indication that there was a female Pope very early on, whether Joan or another name. But the Church being what it is, they've tried very hard to expunge every reference to her. Much like the Egyptians tried to do to Hatshepsut. The problem with that is that they couldn't get rid of every reference, so she lives on in legend.

Even if there was a female Pope, it wouldn't be THE Pope Joan.

Even if there was a female Pope, it wouldn't be THE Pope Joan.

to add to that, not too long ago they tried to clear all evidence of black popes, there quite a few a while back...

as for the five people,
1. Buddha (yeah thats right i said it)
2. Haille Sellasse (some dictator that the rastafarian religion was based on)
3. Che Guevara
4. Sigmund Freud
5. drummer from Leftover Crack

Well, I would probably bring back people who I want to unleash on the world.

George Washington, Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Mohammed, Maimonides. Einstein, Sagan, and Maimonides so I could meet them, Washington and Mohammed to set loose.

As for 5 women:
Golda Meir (unleash in Israel)
Devorah the Prophetess (unleash in Israel)
Anne Frank
Hypatia
Joan of Arc (unleash on France)

Their ultimate fates:
George Washington: President of the United States
Albert Einstein: Continues doing physics
Carl Sagan: Making Cosmos II and raising cash for SETI
Mohammed: Destroying the blasphemous group of Al-Qaeda (Using the Koran to justify slaughter? Blasphemy! JIHAAAAD!)
Maimonides: Kicking theological butt
Golda Meir: Prime Minister of Israel
Devorah: After losing to Golda in the elections, Devorah becomes Minister of Defense
Anne Frank: Goes to Hollywood and fulfills her dreams
Hypatia: Kicking mathematical butt
Joan of Arc: French Minister of Defense. Whips the French army into shape. No more wimpy French jokes after this lady turns the French military into the meanest army in Europe. Then she becomes President of France.

1. Hitler
2. Jesus
3. Karl Marx
4. FDR
5. Musilinni( I know I spelled that wrong, but you get the idea)

1. Jesus
2. Ronald Reagan
3. George Washington
4. Ike
5. Alfred Tennyson

I would choose to bring back Jesus and Muhammad. Sacrilegeous maybe, but if those two got along together and made a joint statement, it would lop the balls off of the fruitcake extremists on all sides, especially Bin Ladin, (The president of Iran), Robertson, Falwell, and Phelps. Who else could tell them to Shut The Fuck Up like the founding fathers of the biggest religions in the world?

Who I would not bring back? Raul Julia. He'd be spending the whole week kicking my ass for all the "Street Fighter was so shitty it killed him" jokes I made in my life.

Who I would not bring back? Raul Julia. He'd be spending the whole week kicking my ass for all the "Street Fighter was so shitty it killed him" jokes I made in my life.

Poor Raul. He was a very good actor... That wasn't a good way to go down.

I'd bring back Jesus to show everyone how much soullllllllllllllll he has
http://images.art.com/images/products/regular/10055000/10055775.jpg

and to see what he was really doin with that hooker :D

Poor Raul. He was a very good actor... That wasn't a good way to go down.

also sad that such a great actor has the street fighter movie as one of his last efforts.....if Raul only knew..

also sad that such a great actor has the street fighter movie as one of his last efforts.....if Raul only knew..

Oh yeah, that was "icing on the cake"... *shudder*

Oh yeah, that was "icing on the cake"... *shudder*


more like the nail in the coffin

more like the nail in the coffin

Daaaaaaaaaamn... :D

Daaaaaaaaaamn... :D


sorry...with all due respect to raul julia, i couldn't help it.

sorry...with all due respect to raul julia, i couldn't help it.

Yeah, I don't blame you. Street Fighter was just that bad.

Yeah, I don't blame you. Street Fighter was just that bad.


It really was it was on level with double dragon, oh and fist of the north star (live action film of course, the anime is legend)

sorry...with all due respect to raul julia, i couldn't help it.

The ass-kickings would be replaced by repeated stabbities with a rapier. And I wouldn't be the only recepient.

:D

fist of the north star (live action film of course, the anime is legend)

They made a live action version? Oh god.

They made a live action version? Oh god.

Fist of the North Star (1995/I) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113074/)


with malcom mcdowell, downtown julie brown, and mario van peebles, and of course the legendary clint howard, and unfortunately another actor who went too soon, Chris Penn.

Fist of the North Star (1995/I) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113074/)


with malcom mcdowell, downtown julie brown, and mario van peebles, and of course the legendary clint howard, and unfortunately another actor who went too soon, Chris Penn.

Eh, it sucks when a good cast gets a shitty production.

in no particular order

Mikael Bakunin - to ask him to confirm once and for all what his opinions on violence were
Emma Goldman - one of the awesomest people ever
- and/or her beau William Godwin
Douglas Adams - a fucking tragedy he died, he had so much more to give
John Peel - what a hero, as with D.A., and i was just getting into what both of what they were doing just months before they died, bugger.
Richard Burns - could have been the best rally driver to have ever come from britain and an immesurably nicer bloke than colin 'mardy bugger' mcrae. just cuz i was so shocked that he died - so young and so much talent.

it would be interesting to get old JC back just to get him to confirm for us that he was only a man - although perhaps quite an extraordinary one. and ghengis khan to work out what made him tick. okay okay, no more :p .

Eh, it sucks when a good cast gets a shitty production.

and it had the director of Hellraiser II...what can go wrong?

and it had the director of Hellraiser II...what can go wrong?

The Wrong Medium Curse. Anime rarely if ever translates well to live action.

Mahler.....so he could finish that symphony
Bill Hicks....why not?
Jesus....reaction on modern Christianity (good/bad)
Socrates.......if i could get an answer out of him
Lucy....to explain how Eve died about 3 million years after her

Haha, something about that list says bourgeois leftie to me. I think it's the Gandhi... :p And of course the Pankhurst... <.<

But anyway (sorry if I was mean...) I'd pick:
1. Steve Biko
2. Emma Goldman (she seems like she'd be good fun to talk to, lost of vigorous discussion!)
3. Freddie Mercury
4. Michel Foucault
5. Antonio Gramsci (to pick his brain)

Heh, but that's the thing. I want people I find interesting, not necessarily idolise. I'd like to truly judge their characters for myself. Was Gandhi a hero or not? Pankhurst was just thrown in as the last one because she was the first to spring to mind, and the left is pretty divided on her. Actually, I thought about the woman who jumped upon the horsetrack in protest and got killed first, but couldn't remember her name. So there.

And you squealing "bourgeois leftie" and then mentioning Foucault? Oh, the irony. ;)

1. Karl Marx
2. Albert Einstein
3. Salvador Allende
4. Louise Michel (or another one from Paris' Commune, not 100% sure which one)
5. Maximilien de Robespierre (or maybe Saint-Juste, or another one from the 1793 team)

Well, it's hard to chose. But I think those would do it.

That's a good list. Robespierre...eh, though.

Rousseau or Voltaire would be interesting.

1)Trotsky
2)George Orwell
3)Malcolm X
4)Lester B Pearson
5)Albert Einstien
6)Stalin so I can kick him in the nuts. :)

Michel Foucault
Gilles Deluze
Jean Paul Sartre
Walter Benjamin
Marx

To find out what they 'realy' meant when they said...

Buddha
Ghandi
Douglas Adams
King Arthur
Darwin

Buddha
Cleopatra
Gallileo
Pope Peter I
Queen Victoria

Lincoln
Churchill
Alexander Hamilton
Joan of Arc
Nelson

Heh, but that's the thing. I want people I find interesting, not necessarily idolise. I'd like to truly judge their characters for myself. Was Gandhi a hero or not? Pankhurst was just thrown in as the last one because she was the first to spring to mind, and the left is pretty divided on her. Actually, I thought about the woman who jumped upon the horsetrack in protest and got killed first, but couldn't remember her name. So there.

And you squealing "bourgeois leftie" and then mentioning Foucault? Oh, the irony. ;)
I accept your reasoning (oh my, don't you feel validated? :p ), which is very similar to why I chose Foucault actually. I want to find out how his brain worked I guess, since his perspectives often seem contradictory, and how he jumped from genius to nonsense...

Someone else metioned Douglas Adams. That would be cool too. I'd bring him back and get him to finish The Salmon of Doubt!

I'm also having a mental blank on the horsewoman... :p

1. Winston Churchill
2. Robert E. Lee
3. C.S. Lewis
4. Hannibal Barca
5. Mitch Hedberg

The Wrong Medium Curse. Anime rarely if ever translates well to live action.


yeah im shuddering at the fact theyre making a live action akira.

In no particular order:

Joseph McCarthy
Ludwig von Mises
Jonas Savimbi (before he went batshit)
Claus von Stauffenberg
Donald Woods