History Game #2

[smee]

Back to History - or something like it....


Pick one of the people off your list you'd like to meet.

You get only one question to ask the subject.

this is an obvious exercise. Since we are now talking about crows on the other topic - I thought I'd start anew.

jeremy - asking God, why? isn't going to count.

linda
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Did you hear about the blonde that shot an arrow in the air?
She missed.

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[Hobbit]

Linda....

Okay, now you're making it hard!!:) If I could only ask one question....not walk with, converse with, study or watch, I will probably have to pick someone other than the ones on my list.

Thinking....pondering....

[John Bridge]

I'll be pondering that one for the next couple years. ;)

[smee]

with one question.

Since everyone last time started with breaking the "5" rule - I figured we'd all do the same with this.

it's a toughy, I agree.

I just read the article on Ben Franklin in forgive me, I think it's TIME mag. Interesting, now there's someone to talk with.
Course, he had a think for the ladies - but still, I bet it would be so beyond belief to sit and chat with him.

Reading a bio on William the C - now, no less intriguing - but frightening. I don't think it would be quite as comfortable to talk with ole Billy boy.


Have a great day fella's.

[John Bridge]

I've done a bit of reading on Franklin, who is indeed a complex character if there ever was one. Old Ben is one of the few who was a signer of both the Declaration and the Constitution. He's the guy who when supposedly asked what form of government had been created, answered, "A republic, if you can keep it."

He abandoned his son William (a Tory) and replaced him with his grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache (the son of his daughter). He was a militiaman who went to war, although that is not well known to non-historians, and he himself never made much of it. He was a Deist (I think) who professed himself on occasion to be a Christian, but when asked about his religion not long before his death he announced that he was about to find out about it one way or the other. :)

I suppose my one question to him would be: "What did you find out?" :)

The first account I read of William the C. was in French, in which language he is called Guillaume le Conquerant. In French history, William is more of a hero than in many English accounts. Wonder why? ;)

I would have to ask him what possessed him to take over England, a pretty backward place when compared to the homeland the Normans had established on the Continent.

[jjwq8]

Easy John,
1066 was the last time the Frogs beat us at anything politically significant. Since then they have steadfastly refused to forgive us for repeatedly, some might say constantly, pulling their collective fat out of the many fires into which they manage willy-nilly (pun perhaps?) to plunge themselves. :shades:

[jjwq8]

Linda,
If I can't ask why may I ask How?
Or perhaps why not? :p

[John Bridge]

Oh, I think there have been a couple other minor "Frog" triumphs since 1066. One that comes to mind is when the French fleet whacked the British fleet at Chesapeake Bay in significant events that led to the English defeat at Yorktown in 1781. ;)

[jjwq8]

John,
We are talking one-on-one. Away games when the it's two-on-one don't count. :D

and besides, I specifically said politically significant!:nya: