1st
For me I would love to visit colonial Rhodesia. Some time in the 30's.
2nd
Ancient Egypt to witness the construction of the pyramids.
3rd
I would stay in England but I would go back to 8/5/1945 to see the reaction to the radio announcement from Winston Churchill and the street parties which followed. What a special time to be alive - that must have been but a gruelling time in the process. I feel so strongly towards it because my living grandparents were almost evacuated and had to carry gas masks with them. A German aircraft was shot down and landed on my grandad's school ! (Stroke of luck eh)
His dad served in the merchant navy throughout the war too and sailed from Newcastle, England to as far as Australia, Fiji & the Americas taking supplies to and from the colonies. My other grandad who has been deceased for most of my life was a lot older, and served as a sub-mariner at the start of the war and ended doing bomb-disposals in Italy; in the end he actually lowered the swastika from the city he was in and kept the flag. It's still in the family somewhere but is mothbitten.
1. Gettysburg, PA. July 1st 1863. I'd persuade the great and noble Robert E Lee to listen to the advice of his most capable General, Longstreet and instead of attacking the Yankees cowering in fear of the legendary Southern fighting men, march towards Washington. Meade would be either forced to make a hasty attack and lose yet another army or the tyrant Lincoln would be forced to flee the Capital. The world would be a safer and better place today.
2. Kenya circa 1963. I'd give the useless slut Stanley Ann Dunham a condom and a smack in the mouth.
3. Senlac Hill, Hastings. 14th October 1066. "Harold, you might want to duck and cover your eye in about ten seconds."
If we have any spare time I'd swing by Lancaster House in 1980 and tell Ian Smith he was being lied to, Dallas Texas, 1963 and give JFK a heads-up about Dealey Plaza and get Marilyn Monroe's phone number.
Oh, and I'd be picking up all the coins I could carry.
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
Make Numismatics Great Again!
1. Austria, June 6th, 1792. Witness the coronation of Francis II... and get some thalers + gold. Maybe even talk to him afterwards.
2. Britain, 1740. See what it was like and get coins.
3. Stone age, europe, ~15,000 BC.
I'm gonna change mine...
3. Go right before I get my 3 wishes to get 2 more, and then a third to do this again.
1 (of round 2). 3. Stone age, europe, ~15,000 BC.
Verweis : Mark240590Yeah it would be canny to pop back to Victorian times taking some solid gold with you to trade for UNC gothic crowns and florins ££££!
Even better, using modern copiers and printers you could probably create stacks of paper notes that the Victorians wouldn't be able to distinguish from the real thing. Why waste a whole lot of gold?
It would be better to kill Gavrilo Princip instead. He killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria which was the trigger that led to WOI. If you can prevent that then Hitler wouldn't have fought for the Germans, so he wouldn't have had a reason to become so patriotic and WOII would've never started. Preventing two world wars with just one bullet.
Mine is:
1. Go back millions of years to see the dinosaurs
2. Go a few hundred years (maybe more, maybe less) into the future to be able to visit other planets
3. 480 B.C. in ancient Greece, to witness the Battle of Thermopylae
Verweis : EddievBIt would be better to kill Gavrilo Princip instead. He killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria which was the trigger that led to WOI.
Or just stop him.
Then Habsburg-Lothringen would still be a ruling house!
