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Nissa 06-18-2009 04:24 PM

If you could interview anyone in history
 
If you could go back in time and have an in depth interview with one person, who would you choose and why? Assuming no language barriers existed of course. As for me, I think I would want to know more about Amelia Earheart. The woman has fascinated me since elementary school and I'd love to know every last detail about her. I think I would go right before her last flight and get her thoughts on that last flight before she disappeared.

Rolling Box 06-18-2009 04:49 PM

Alexander the Great o.o
Then I'd make sweet, sweet love it him <3

Goblin Maiden 06-18-2009 05:28 PM

Madeline L'engle. She's my writing role-model. It was a hope of mine that when I published my first book, she'd review it. Unfortunately, as she is now deceased, that's never going to happen. Same with Lloyd Alexander.

Dagnabbit, SOME of my fave authors had better still be alive by the time I'm published! O___O;; Please, Lord, please.

antinous 06-18-2009 05:39 PM

Jane Austin, and Marry Shelly. I love the works of these two authors, but I also love their lives.

Jane was almost notoriously shy when she first began to write, but she was also fiercely independent. She turned down marrying a man who was undoubtedly richer then she and her family because she just didn't love him. Though it is true that she died a spinster, she lived doing what she loved and made no apologies for it. Not only that but her works were considered highly fashionable even though she was a woman! (At the time female authors usually were published under male aliases)

Mary Shelly of course wrote Frankenstein, and it would be amazing to get into that woman's head-space for an hour. Her imagination could probably give Hitchcock a thrill!

Nissa 06-18-2009 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Rolling Box (Post 1764550936)
Alexander the Great o.o
Then I'd make sweet, sweet love it him <3

He's a favorite of mine too. My son got the middle name Alexander after him. I wanted him to inherit some of that strength. :)

Rolling Box 06-18-2009 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Nissa (Post 1764551069)
He's a favorite of mine too. My son got the middle name Alexander after him. I wanted him to inherit some of that strength. :)


I'm tempted to give my son (when I have him in the far future) the middle name Julius.

DariaMorgendorfer 06-18-2009 06:17 PM

Ok, so I am one effed up girl, I'd want to interview Lizzie Borden. How could any young girl axe to death her parents? Seriously, she's one sick puppy (assuming that she actually did kill them) There are so many rumors around her...Did she or did she not kill her folks, some say she was a lesbian, etc.etc.etc. So yeah, I'd want to interview the really screwed up lady...That is assuming that all axes were removed from the interview room BEFORE the interview took place;)

Rolling Box 06-18-2009 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by DariaMorgendorfer (Post 1764551124)
Ok, so I am one effed up girl, I'd want to interview Lizzie Borden. How could any young girl axe to death her parents? Seriously, she's one sick puppy (assuming that she actually did kill them) There are so many rumors around her...Did she or did she not kill her folks, some say she was a lesbian, etc.etc.etc. So yeah, I'd want to interview the really screwed up lady...That is assuming that all axes were removed from the interview room BEFORE the interview took place;)


Not that long ago; a guy attacked his parents in their room with an axe.
Father died but mother lived with no memory of the attack so she's convinced it wasn't her son.
They're fighting for his innocence but all the evidence points to him that he did it.

Tilly 06-18-2009 10:14 PM

OHMYGOD, YOU'RE ASKING THE WRONG PERSON.

Okay, first of all, I have this weird obsession with Peter the Great. He was AMAZING. Soo, him first, but second of all I'd like to interview Tadeusz Kościuszko because he was the coolest motherfucker to ever wave the flag of liberty. I mean like, common. Jefferson might have started the shit, but Kosciuszko lived and breathed it. Third, Lenin. Just cause, I mean, it's LENIN!

God, I have a huge list, but that's my top three.

To antinous

Mary Shelley was boring for like a couple of years after she lost her kid, so make sure it you don't catch her during then, cause she was dull and shit.

Cora 06-18-2009 10:21 PM

Queen Elizabeth- she has always held a great fasination to me.....A woman of great power....

hmmm....anatasia would be kind of interesting....after her family died...to see if she really lived xP

Tilly 06-18-2009 10:26 PM

@ Cora Lorington

She didn't. She died on the spot, so did every other member of the royal Romanov family. It's a rumor. Her grandmother did escape to France or whatever, but every one of them died in that room. Alexei was the last to die, but they bashed his skull in with a bayonet. The rumour is only still alive because all the girls had diamonds sewn into their corsets, but they were shot by a firing squad. No survival, even if some bullets ricocheted a little bit.

iSpam~ 06-18-2009 11:01 PM

If I were able to go back into time, and interview anyone it would be Nostradamus.
I'd really like to know how he came up with his 'prophecies', what kind of person he was, and learn about his background.
My first question would probably be if he was certain what he said was true, or if they were just random scriblings that somehow got in his head.
Though this wouldnt be usefull, because there would be no way to prove similar happenings to that what he wrote would someday exist.

Amara Physhor 06-19-2009 12:29 AM

I've always wanted to talk to the emperor of Japan in the 17th century when Edo just formed. I want to hear his words and his Ideas of what he hopes the future would be. I would love to just sit and listen to him talk about day to day issues with the country. That would be exciting.

dianakitsune 06-19-2009 01:26 PM

Anastasia! lol
Russian history really fascinated me so I always wanted to know what it would've been like to live in that time period. I also would like to know if she really lived or if she died along with her family since there was much speculation about her.

Cemetery 06-19-2009 02:22 PM

Jack The Ripper.
I'm just curious as to how he could kill those women and remain uncaught. he certainly gave sherlocks a run for his money.

I also kinda wanna interview my past life. o.o According to someone, I'm a guy from wales from the late 1500's. I was either a poet, musician or something else.
I wanna know why in this life i need to over come jealousy and a few other things in myself and in others... that and I wanna know who he was.

Anaromantic 06-21-2009 05:45 PM

I would have to say Walt Disney. I am a big disney freak, which is godd considering that I am working at Disneyland at the moment and worked at Disney World for nine months. I just would like more than anything to ask and pick the brain of the man that made so many things that were deemed impossible into dreams come true.:O

Kris 06-21-2009 11:11 PM

Gandhi, MLK Jr, or Mary Wollstonecraft.

Gandhi was such an amazing man, who had such a strong impact on the world through nothing but his thoughts and words, which is something that we should all look up to, I think. Just how strongly he lived by his beliefs, and that willpower that he had.

Martin Luther King Jr. because he was also a man of peace. His wife, who is still alive, would also be a great person to talk to. Did ya know she's not only a strong minority rights supporter, but also gay rights? :D I thought that was great to learn.

Mary Wollstonecraft...I don't expect most people to know who she is, but she was a very early feminist - she lived during the time of the French Revolution, and was an Englishwoman, and wrote The Vindication of the Rights of Women. She pretty much set off the entire feminist movement, and is the reason Britain was one of the first places involved in it. I am very much a feminist, so I look up to her so much. She had so much bravery, to write about her rights in a time where she was considered property.

Beetle 06-22-2009 12:39 AM

Noah. You know the one that built the Ark. I would love to interview him. Or Jack the Ripper.

Death Dogz 06-22-2009 12:50 AM

will smith. he is one of my favourite actors and i want to know if hes in any movies coming up.

ZeroUltimate 08-10-2009 04:50 AM

Zachary Taylor

Saeuri 08-10-2009 04:57 AM

Hitler.

reddeath26 08-10-2009 07:45 AM

There are so many interesting people to choose from. Two which come to mind are Jesus and Franz Boas. There is a rumour that just before Franz Boas died, at a dinner party he exclaimed he had a new idea about the concept of 'race'. I want to know what that idea is!

melusinia 08-10-2009 11:24 PM

Probably Hitler. & the question will always be "why?"

Saira Bellus 08-11-2009 12:14 AM

I might want to hear from Jesus.
You know, to ask him if he appreciates all this bible bullshit and whether or not he enjoys his name being slandered. ^^ I bet he would love to hear how he is worshipped now lol.

I also would love to have tea and crumpets with Mary queen of Scots. She had amazing passion and courage and a deep love for her country. She seems like my kind of gal.

Oscar the Wild 08-11-2009 02:47 AM

Abraham Lincoln. I want to know what being president was like for him, how did he deal with the Civil War, and all that fun stuff. I also want to interview Theodore Roosevelt. That would be fun. :3


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