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gollumcat

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Lets limit this to any 48 hour period.

I'll start.

Off the top of my head:

April 18-19, 1775. Boston-Lexington-Concord. See the intrigue around Boston early in the day. Sit in the Green Dragon tavern and hear the Sons Of Liberty plotting. See the lanterns in the Old North Church. watch Revere and Dawes ride out from Boston and alert the countryside and villages and hear the church bells ring. See the standoff on Lexington Green and see who really fired the "shot heard round the world". See the engagement at Concord and the Minutemen mercilessly harass the British army on its retreat back to Boston.

July 2-3, 1863. Gettysburg. Little Round Top. Devils Den. Seminary Ridge. Picketts Charge.

June 5-6, 1944. Normandy. See the gliders drop the Airborne units behind German lines and sort out the confusion and regroup. Watch the assault on the invasion beaches, especially Bloody Omaha. Experience the chaos and incredible bravery that saved the day, and the war.
 
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gollumcat said:
well done Gassy, my friend.. I would've expected something a little baser from you.
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I’m practical

 
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Mine isn’t an event, just a time period. Looking at old downtown pictures of Lexington in the early 1900s looks really cool. Just bustling like crazy, everybody dressed up all the time, they finally stopped selling slaves, all kinds of stores, some brand new automobiles on the street along with horses. Just would be fun to get dressed up and walk around for a while.
 
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gollumcat said:
Lets limit this to any 48 hour period.

I'll start.

Off the top of my head:

April 18-19, 1775. Boston-Lexington-Concord. See the intrigue around Boston early in the day. Sit in the Green Dragon tavern and hear the Sons Of Liberty plotting. See the lanterns in the Old North Church. watch Revere and Dawes ride out from Boston and alert the countryside and villages and hear the church bells ring. See the standoff on Lexington Green and see who really fired the "shot heard round the world". See the engagement at Concord and the Minutemen mercilessly harass the British army on its retreat back to Boston.

July 2-3, 1863. Gettysburg. Little Round Top. Devils Den. Seminary Ridge. Picketts Charge.

June 5-6, 1944. Normandy. See the gliders drop the Airborne units behind German lines and sort out the confusion and regroup. Watch the assault on the invasion beaches, especially Bloody Omaha. Experience the chaos and incredible bravery that saved the day, and the war.
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11/22/63 in Dallas

But relative to yours points of time, I much rather see:

Boston Tea Party
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
To be in Times Square on V-J day dressed in a sailor uniform.
 
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gollumcat said:
Lets limit this to any 48 hour period.

I'll start.

Off the top of my head:

April 18-19, 1775. Boston-Lexington-Concord. See the intrigue around Boston early in the day. Sit in the Green Dragon tavern and hear the Sons Of Liberty plotting. See the lanterns in the Old North Church. watch Revere and Dawes ride out from Boston and alert the countryside and villages and hear the church bells ring. See the standoff on Lexington Green and see who really fired the "shot heard round the world". See the engagement at Concord and the Minutemen mercilessly harass the British army on its retreat back to Boston.

July 2-3, 1863. Gettysburg. Little Round Top. Devils Den. Seminary Ridge. Picketts Charge.

June 5-6, 1944. Normandy. See the gliders drop the Airborne units behind German lines and sort out the confusion and regroup. Watch the assault on the invasion beaches, especially Bloody Omaha. Experience the chaos and incredible bravery that saved the day, and the war.
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I really like these three but, even knowing the outcome, d-day would be hard to watch.

One I think would be interesting is the fall of Berlin and Hitler's death.

Gassy's extinction event would be cool but I'd want to see it from space, not here.
 
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funKYcat75 said:
Mine isn’t an event, just a time period. Looking at old downtown pictures of Lexington in the early 1900s looks really cool. Just bustling like crazy, everybody dressed up all the time, they finally stopped selling slaves, all kinds of stores, some brand new automobiles on the street along with horses. Just would be fun to get dressed up and walk around for a while.
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I agree. Crazy to think people in Cincinnati talk about how Over The Rhine has “come back” and is bustling today, and it is, but still only about 7000 live there Im not mistaken.

Let’s go back to pre - prohibition when 50,000 lived there, and German was as prevalent as English, even more so.

“A wienerwurst with every beer!”
 
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October 26 1881

Nov 22 1963 Dallas (actually had a professor in college who was in the Texas School Book Depository on the 2nd floor.His account was very interesting)

1836 Texas for 13 days

Honorable mention- London to know who Jack the Ripper really was
 
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funKYcat75 said:
Mine isn’t an event, just a time period. Looking at old downtown pictures of Lexington in the early 1900s looks really cool. Just bustling like crazy, everybody dressed up all the time, they finally stopped selling slaves, all kinds of stores, some brand new automobiles on the street along with horses. Just would be fun to get dressed up and walk around for a while.
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I agree. Crazy to think people in Cincinnati talk about how Over The Rhine has “come back” and is bustling today, and it is, but still only about 7000 live there Im not mistaken.

Let’s go back to pre - prohibition when
docholiday51 said:
October 26 1881

Nov 22 1963 Dallas (actually had a professor in college who was in the Texas School Book Depository on the 2nd floor.His account was very interesting)

1836 Texas for 13 days

Honorable mention- London to know who Jack the Ripper really was
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yours are all fantastic. And I hate to be that person. But remember....only 48 hours.
 
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gollumcat said:
I agree. Crazy to think people in Cincinnati talk about how Over The Rhine has “come back” and is bustling today, and it is, but still only about 7000 live there Im not mistaken.

Let’s go back to pre - prohibition when



yours are all fantastic. And I hate to be that person. But remember....only 48 hours.
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Sorry about that chief(in my best Max Smart typing voice) I guess my honorable mention replaces the Alamo(or I could limit it to the time Crockett goes down.
 
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Soooooooo much to choose from..............................I can’t.



Apollo 13 returning safely or an early Jerry Lee Lewis gig. Ooh, ZZTOPP at Texas Stadium? Allman Bro’s. at Fillmore East? V-day parade, P.O.W’s returning, 1978 NCAA Championship.

One of those jam sessions with my brother at the farm. I miss him.
 
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The burial of King Tut in 1325 BC. His body was wrapped in cloth, placed in a tomb, which was then sealed off with a large slab of stone. And legend has it that he was later resurrected and went up into the sky to live with the sun god, Ra. That would have been awesome!

Would also have loved to have been at Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Kick started the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Otis Redding.
 
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WildcatfaninOhio said:
The burial of King Tut in 1325 BC. His body was wrapped in cloth, placed in a tomb, which was then sealed off with a large slab of stone. And legend has it that he was later resurrected and went up into the sky to live with the sun god, Ra. That would have been awesome!

Would also have loved to have been at Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Kick started the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Otis Redding.
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and to see Townshend and Hendrix argue about who had to follow who.
 
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Lewis and Clark Expedition reaching the Pacific, Siberian meteor explosion, Mt. St. Helen eruption, Miracle on the Hudson, ...........
 
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Spend a day with Nikola Tesla in his lab during the Colorado Springs incidents

spend a day with same as he was building wardencliff tower (sp?)

Revisit myself right before I posted this - see if I can talk my past/present self out of it

on site for a couple of CERN experiments before it temporarily closed down

Tunguska (safe / aerial view)

bill gates departing from Microsoft- so I could take him out - .308

the meetings/discussions that took place when members of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin decided to fund the Monty python movie (holy grail I think )

Go sleigh riding and shoot bottle rockets with my older brothers when they were kids

visit Babylon and prove my theory about their access to “technology “ and higher spiritual powers

Get back on their field when middlesboro lost to Corbin/ somerset or pineville and pack a small switchblade

that time I stood outside the Iranian embassy in Paris “protesting “....alone ...I’d have a talk with myself about caking the fk down and getting a little more professional polish on me sooner in life ..::then hurl a heneiken bottle over the fence anyway

redo all the sexuals that we’re exceptionally great
....and the ones that we’re ALMOST great and put them over the top

go see Black Sabbath reunited in England when billy hirschfield invited me

9/11 at 30th space wing - find a way to replicate and prove what I know about that day

Avoid all the times I puked

be at the Kentucky Virginia tech bowl game

kill Marx Stalin Engles and blowup an entire meeting of the SDS and weathermen - drown Bill Ayers

watch an old school episode of bob Ross with dad

Steal some. Dynamite and detonate that time I had some outside of Frakes

watch Jesus call the high and mighty religious out as satanic minions

See a black hole born assuming they’re real

Show up at an old school nfl game

show up at a rush concert - pull a Michael schenker and invite myself into their band

Watch the “baker ivy” nuclear test shots

find out if the cloning rumors I’m hearing are true

go through the Bermuda Triangle with Vincent price ....I’m sure he probably did at some point
 
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WildcatfaninOhio said:
The burial of King Tut in 1325 BC. His body was wrapped in cloth, placed in a tomb, which was then sealed off with a large slab of stone. And legend has it that he was later resurrected and went up into the sky to live with the sun god, Ra. That would have been awesome!

Would also have loved to have been at Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Kick started the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Otis Redding.
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Otis Redding - backed by booker t and the MG’s — was the best band that day
 
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