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Off-Topic => Off-Topic: Talk about anything you want. => Topic started by: kitkatz on April 08, 2008, 03:49:15 PM
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When and where would you like to go in the World's history?
I would like to be around to have seen the aliens build those pyramids in Ancient Egypt.
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Go along for the ride with Lewis and Clark...Boxman
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I'm all for the Lewis and Clark expedition. :thumbup;
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All the history I know is from Mel Brooks History of the World Part 1 :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
As much as I would like to see a dinasour, I don't want to go back and then be squashed or eaten by one. So I would like to meet either Albert Einstein, the Wright Brothers, Henry Ford, or Ben Franklin. Tough Call really
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I'd like to meet my grandparents as teenagers when they first were married.
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I'd want to be a gunslinger Clint Eastwood cowboy type in the Old West.
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I have a lot.
I would love to experience America before Europeans arriving.
I would love to sit (or stand) in the Globe and watch a Shakespeare play on opening night.
I would love to see Jane Austen era-England, Heck, if I am going to be there, I want to have dinner with Jane, her mother and Cassandra.
I would love to have been there on the opening night of RENT when it was off-broadway. yeah, I know. strange.
I would love to be living in Monmartre, Paris preferrably with Gertruide Stein around 1890-1910ish - because if I am around her, I am around everyone.
I would love to have been around to see my Grandmother's Community Camp that I have heard all kinds of stories about...
Yeah - I am a dreamer.
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I would love to have been around during the Renaissance Era.
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I would of loved to have been with Christopher Columbus.
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I would like to have been around the Egyptian period, the Greek period, the Renaissance period and the 1800s. I love history!
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past history has often been a very uncomfortable place for women....I would have liked to been an Amazon woman.... or a 1950's teenager with sock-hops,and drive-ins.
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pre Civil War
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I agree glitter, 1950's for me. Life seemed so simple than.
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I would like to live when my grandmother lived...1902 - 2005. Yes, she lived 103 years and was active up to 3 weeks before she died at my aunt's home. She saw the introduction of so many modern conveniences that we take for granted.
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Quite a coincidence, my grandmother also lived to be 103. She lived alone until she was well into her 90's and still cooked with lard. She didn't have indoor plumbing until the 1960's and still cooked on a woodburning stove until the 1970's.
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I would have loved to live during the old west and fought the Indians.
:mysty:
Mimi-
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I'm not giving up any modern conveniences! Thank you anyway!!!
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I'm not giving up any modern conveniences! Thank you anyway!!!
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:yahoo;
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I am fine in this era, thanks! In the 19th century and before, my ancestors were slaves, deprived of any rights and robbed of their ancient cultures and languages. This is the era in which it is okay to be black, so I'm staying right here! (Plus the modern conveniences, right, Rerun?)
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We prefer to be called Native Americans now.
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Thank you flip, you beat me to posting that. I appreciate you speaking out.
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past history has often been a very uncomfortable place for women...
I find AlohaBeth's answer intriguing... how did women fare in America before Europeans arrived?
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She was referring to "indians" vs "native Americans" We have large communities od Native Americans in North Carolina with a long history of displacment and unfair treatment. Right now the Lumbee tribe is fighting to get federal status as a recognized tribe. They were here long before any explorers "discovered" America.
You quoted glitter, so maybe the two posts were mixed up. Beth was responding to Mimi's post about fighting the indians. Don't get the girl started on anything to do with human rights! She will stand up for anyone she sees being wronged. She is a very strong, passionate, compassionate person. Guess I could let her talk for herself :rofl; Hope that clears that up. :thumbup;
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Sorry, but I am part Cherokee. My college alma mater recently changed the name from Indians to Patriots. I do appreciate what North Carolina has done for the Cherokee. I visit the casino every time I go to Gatlinburg.
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Well it never fails. Someone always resents what I post. Guess I better quit posting on this board.
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Nah, get a grip Mimi. People are just being people. Ya know!
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Hey, if someone doesn't resent something you say, you aren't really a member here! It happens to everyone. Remember, we're grouchy, tired people! ;)
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past history has often been a very uncomfortable place for women...
I find AlohaBeth's answer intriguing... how did women fare in America before Europeans arrived?
Sorry if my post was not clear, Paris. I was trying to offer another path (a path to peace, perhaps) instead of the path I knew the thread would take.
Maybe this will help:
I find AlohaBeth's answer (the one dated 4/8/08 - "I would love to experience America before Europeans arriving") intriguing (especially in light of glitter's response quoted above)... how did women fare in America before Europeans arrived?
I am drawn to the tragedy of this country and how it came to pass. I get lost in looking for maps showing the progressive loss of territory and displacement of Native American people. I find it mind boggling that we drove the buffalo into extinction just to destroy another culture's way of life. And ultimately, tragedy is not the word. It is an abomination, a crime against humanity -The near total destruction of (Native American) people and culture because of greed. Our legacy.
While I would not like to go back in time (because I am not willing to give up the progress that women have made), I would like to have a "super spyglass" that could peer back in time so that I could come to understand particular histories.
Back to my post... So, AlohaBeth (or anyone else who cares to comment), how did women fare in America before the arrival of Europeans?
Alene
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I only mean that when the Europeans arrived in America, the land and people were changed forever. I would love to see what the culture was like for Native American's before we arrived, I would like to see what forrests and oceans and mountains looked like before they were changed forever.
I am sure it would be tough for a woman, but I'm up for a challenge ;)
But I also look at the other times in history I posted and none of those were great times for women either, Victorian, Rennaisance - none of these were easy for women, but I would still like to see what life was like -- their lives and hardships paved the way for us and our journey.
But I am also with Rerun, Maybe if I can bring my laptop and iPod ;)
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Working at the cruiseship dock yesterday, I met a gentleman visiting from Chicago. He is german and has this website - www.coldwarhistory.us.
Well I don't know how the conversation came around, but he started talking about how the Europeans totally wiped out the blacks and natives from Argentina as they 'cleansed' the country. It made me very sad.
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I believe this has happened with other countries, as well.
re: Native American women...I know the Cherokee tribe was and still is a matriarchal system. Women are honored in ways not found in a patriarchal system.
I, too, would love to go back to pre-European North Carolina/Tennessee.
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Women in history were generally treated poorly, that's why I would also change my gender.
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Well it never fails. Someone always resents what I post. Guess I better quit posting on this board.
This forum is loaded with opinion. That's what makes it so great. Lighten up.
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Can we go forward? I'd like to see 2063 when I blow out 100 candles, before dying in a flying car accident on my way home from the casino on the moon.
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Thanks for bringing this back to the topic, Bill
Boxman,Moderator
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Can we go forward? I'd like to see 2063 when I blow out 100 candles, before dying in a flying car accident on my way home from the casino on the moon.
:banghead;:rofl; :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
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yes, i too think i would rather go forward. i want to see my great and great great grandchildren.
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yes, i too think i would rather go forward. i want to see my great and great great grandchildren.
...and a time where the planet was respected and all of its people were treated right.
...and a time when kidney function could be restored!
But, going back, I would like to see the plains dark with herds of buffalo as far as the eye could see.
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It would be interesting to time travel and see what it was like when women were admired for their Rubenesque figures.
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I would like to hang out with Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Adams and Mr. Franklin and see how they got the Declaration of Independence passed.
:usaflag; Mikey
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It would be interesting to time travel and see what it was like when women were admired for their Rubenesque figures.
Says the lady who lost twenty pounds in the past year.... I found those pounds...Want them back?
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It would be interesting to time travel and see what it was like when women were admired for their Rubenesque figures.
Says the lady who lost twenty pounds in the past year.... I found those pounds...Want them back?
No, thanks!
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I'd like to go back to a time when "ladies" got dressed up with gloves and little handbags. I wouldn't want to stay long. I like wearing my jeans and sweatshirts when I'm cold.