the delphic expanse

Here's a new game. If you could travel back in time and meet/interview five different people, who would they be?

And I'm assuming that if I can time travel, I can make them answer my questions honestly!

In no particular order:


Elizabeth I
Abraham Lincoln
Jane Austen
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Virginia Dare

Nikola Tesla
Napoleon Bonaparte (Yes, the little guy)
George Washington
A Pharoah (not a porticular one maybe Ptolemej I. Soter)
Jurij Gagarin

There are others, but I consider that the first two people would never change.

Akhenaten and Nefertiti. I love the controversy that surrounds them.

And Hatshepsut. It would be empowering to talk to the first female pharaoh. Again with the controversy.

I think it would be awesome to spend the afternoon with both Nikola Tesla and Mark Twain, who often hung out at his lab!

Ancient Egypt would also be a cool stop, Aquarius.

I want to meet them all, darn it!

I kept coming up with more names, and I couldn't stop at five! I'm just going to stop, put a handful down and back away slowly.

Genghis Khan
Benjamin Franklin
Leonardo Da Vinci
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
Winston Churchill
Barbara Jordan
Kamehameha I

and
My grandfather (He died in WWII at age 24, so I never met him.)

Oh, and I'm cheating and adding one more: Marie Antoinette - because I have questions for my history fic!

Ben Franklin would be a must for me - but if you ever come to Philadelphia, you can meet Ralph Archbald, who had been impersonating him at Independence Hall for 30 years.

I'd just like to tell Elizabeth Cady Stanton I've voted in every Presidential election since I turned 18!

DaVinci would be cool, especially to debunk some of that DaVinci Code stuff!

Benjamin Franklin, well did you know that he invented bifocals and lightning rod. I would sure like to meet him.

Nikola Tesla was born in my country, and we take great pride in that. Did you know that Tesla is considerd by some people the pioneer of macrobiotics. He was a strange man, who never got sick until he died of pneumonia, that he got after he was hit by a carriage.

These would all be wonderful interviews to read.....ahhhh the possibilities!

For family reasons, I want to interview the forefather who was orphaned and adopted, later married into the Chickasaw tribe, from whom our Native American heritage is born.
I also would LOVE to interview (or just hang out with) my four grandparents when they were young adults, meeting and falling in love. We do have some epic love stories in our family!

Now for non family.....Mercy Otis Warren, early American patriot. I have always admired her strong belief in independence, liberty, and in the power of the written word. She is an amazing role model for women, then and now.

And Archimedes....I would love to pick his brain!

tishkajaku wrote:I also would LOVE to interview (or just hang out with) my four grandparents when they were young adults, meeting and falling in love. We do have some epic love stories in our family!

This kind of stuff would be really interesting, I love it when there are epic stories in your family you'd love to have been able to witness. For my own example, I'd like to meet my great-grandmother. She took the true identity of my grandfather's real father to her grave (and in fact my grandfather later took his stepdad's surname which is the surname I have today), so I'd love to be able to be around when that was happening, to at least get some clues about that part of my ancestry. My mother heard from someone in my father's side of the family that my great-grandmother, Iatha, had an affair with a doctor she worked with and he's the most likely candidate, but no one knows his name.

For that matter, I also would love to spend some time with my grandfathers from both sides as they both died before I was born, especially my maternal grandfather, who never married my grandmother, and had a daughter (my mother's half-sister) from a previous relationship that my mother only discovered a few years ago and has never met.

Wow, it seems family history is infinitely more interesting than the world at large, but on that note I'm fairly predictable with regular historical figures, foremost would be historical Jesus because that would answer a lot of questions, but other religious and philosophical figures too, definitely Mohammed and Siddhārtha Gautama. Otherwise I'd happily sit down with so many historical artists, most pressingly Shakespeare, of course, and Michelangelo just to witness their talent in real time. I'd also love to meet Khalil Gibran, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy... loads.

But I talk too much. My top five list would be (at this point in time):

Jesus
Shakespeare
Khalil Gibran
Siddhārtha Gautama
George Orwell

This is such hard question to limit to just five people.

Jesus
Mohammed
Lincoln
FDR
Brannon Braga (during the writing of This Ain't The Valentine; I still really really want to know what the hell he was thinking)