For me it is the “fall of the Berlin wall” and the celebrations after the border openings.

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    I don’t know how much of an"historical event" it is now, but if I showed up to Steven Hawking’s “Time Traveller party” I imagine it would become one.

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    I guess I might say King John signing the Magna Carta at Runnymede, because it was the foundation for the rule of law in the West. But it was just a bunch of smelly dudes in a marsh. A lot of historical events are important, but not that spectacular to see.

    So if I’m honest, it’d be Queen at Live Aid.

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      For sure, some events would not be as spectacular to watch. They’re still fascinating to think about though.

      Standing at Runnymede imagining how it might have happened, and then considering the legacy and impact it had in bringing me back to the spot hundreds of years later.

      Hard to say for sure but some things might actually be more fun just to ponder over.

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      It didn’t use to, the b was added back in cause the Latin word has one and making words look like Latin was all the rage at one point.

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        At least “subtle” is ultimately from Latin, and the Latin word (subtilis) does have a /b/.

        There are worse cases - like the “s” in “island”. It was never pronounced.

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          the “s” in “island”. It was never pronounced.

          I think I can confidently say there is someone out there somewhere that pronounces it.

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      English got fucked… hard… because so many of the spellings came from people that had weird goals.

      Consider phial. Why do we spell it that way? Because some jackass decided that english needed to be more latiny and ph is more latiny than v. (or maybe it was greek? I don’t remember the exact etymology)

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    If I can experience it without dying, I’d say the asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs.

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    i wanna visit that one Christmas in world war one where they all got over their shit for a day and had snowball fights and stuff. play in the snow with some of the most damaged and traumatized people in history.

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    My great grandfather was aboard the USS Missouri when the Japanese came aboard to surrender. He always said that it was one of the biggest moments of his life, and he always regretted that he didn’t have a camera during that visit. I think that I would like to go back in time to that event, and bring a camera with me.

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    When hitler killed himself in the bunker. I would have been fascinated to witness how a guy responsible for millions of deaths somehow considered himself the victim and was forced to commit suicide. He was an evil bastard and a coward unwilling to face the consequences of his actions.

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        I’d actually prefer to witness a fair trial. Just because I’d actually like to know how he’d try to defend and explain what he did. It might have given us the chance to study him and what led to him becoming that way.

        I’m pro studying people like psychopaths and sociopaths to better understand what it takes to be or become one to prevent horrible outcomes.

        We should spend way more time on studying and understanding murderers and the source of their actions.

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          For sure but I don’t think there’s anything that he could say that would satisfy curiosity. It just would be repetition of the same dogma, like Saddam and Milosevic.

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    I’ve always wished I could have taken part in the Menlo Park Homebrew Computer Club from 75 to 86.

    The first meeting of the club was held on March 5, 1975, in French’s garage in Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California, on the occasion of the arrival in the area of the first Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) Altair 8800 microcomputer, a unit sent for review by People’s Computer Company. Steve Wozniak credits that first meeting as the inspiration to design the Apple I.

    So I guess I would use the incredible advancement of time travel to go back a few years before I was born to hang out in some dude’s garage.

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    The surrender at Appomattox, so I could tell the Union generals to keep burning until every plantation and its owners were ash

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    The problem with most major historical events is that they’re not fun. I would choose Field of the Cloth of Gold because it was just a big festival for weeks.

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    Julius Caesar declaring himself an emperor, the celebration and seeing the man that essentially turned rome from a powerful republic to the most powerful empire with a military that dominated majority of europe.

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    The Battle of Agincourt. It would be interesting to confirm how effective the English longbows really were compared to the theory that the mud was really the deciding factor against the French.

    Also the battle of Hastings. To see how a shield wall worked.