If You Could Live In Any Era Of History That You Want To, What Era Would You Choose?

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  1. Ina I. Wonder

    Ina I. Wonder Supreme Member
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    But dreaming about such different times is still fun. While I'm dreaming, I might as well go for broke. I'll have to dream that I'm a male as well, because women didn't fair too well in the past. :eek: :rolleyes: :p
     
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    Women had their moments like the Borgia's and the 'Royals' of many countries. You just have to be specific.;)
     
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    Hell no....lolol not me:p
     
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    I have to admit the time I've lived has been pretty interesting. Depression, a world at war, Economic recovery, my own personal war (korea) which was both frightening and educational, the fifties, sixties, and Viet Nam, and right on up till now. Here we are. As someone has said,"everywhere you go, there you are."

    So I guess if I had to pick only one time period, I'd pick the same one one, this one. It might give me a chance to right some wrongs.
     
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    Hi @Bill Boggs , I like your present avatar, you have a bit of a rouge look going on there. :)

    You have some valid points there. But as long as we're dreaming here, I'd like to be a time traveler. I'd be popping in and out of different eras. Better yet, I'd like to be able to view the past remotely, instead of participating in just one. :cool:

    Plus I really don't think I'd get very far without having to learn the ins and outs of how to survive in an earlier period. :rolleyes:
     
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    I'd like to live about 1000 years from now. Maybe then people will be sane and all these horrible things that happen now a days will stop for good!
     
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    I hate to bust your bubble , @Jeanee Burke ,but people haven't changed in the last 2017 years and likely won't change in the next 1000. Still, it would be interesting to see what we have become. So, I'll go with you to 3017.
     
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    I've already lived in the best era of US history, and although brief, it was the happiest time for America.

    It was during the Eisenhower administration, from Jan. 1953 to Jan. 1961, sometimes known as the Era of Good Feeling.

    Hal
     
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    No question about it, I'd chose 2540 B.C. ancient Egypt, just as they were about to start building Khufu's pyramid. The one thing I want to know more than anything else is exactly how it was accomplished.

    There are an estimated 2,300,000 stone blocks, each weighing 2 tons. If it took 20 years to build, that means they would have had to set 315 of those stones every single day.

    There is an old Egyptian saying, "Man fears time. Time fears the pyramids"
     
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  10. Bobby Cole

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    Or 1 block every 4 or 5 minutes. I would perhaps like to be an onlooker but the chances of watching and not being conscripted to carry the heavy things would be slim indeed. I learned at an early age that watching always provoked someone to volunteer my services.

    I have often wondered though, through all of the ancient manuscripts that have been found, why some engineering information isn't at least partially available? But then, even the Coral Castle is a mystery and was built in comparatively recent history.
     
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    Ed claimed he knew the secret of how the pyramids were built when asked about Coral Castle. I think it was documented that he lifted and loaded a 1-ton stone block and loaded on a truck by himself in a few minutes.
     
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    Yes, indeed. That is another mystery of ancient Egypt in a country filled with mysteries. I have spent many hours just sitting and starring at various Egyptian monuments/statues/obelisks etc and wondered how it was done. Some of the granite stones weigh 1,200 tons. And they were FLOATED down the Nile from Aswan. That's the weight of 200 fully grown African elephants. Just imagine the chore that was.
     
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