Menopause Matters Forum
General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: CLKD on May 10, 2014, 06:07:59 PM
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I would love to bring Leonardo di Vinci 'back' - so that he can see how close to the truth he was with his designs i.e. helicopter
The Curies - so that they can glean an idea as to how their work progressed health care and survival rates
Beethoven and other classical composers - so that he/they can learn how much pleasure music has given
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Would have to be my dad. Would have loved him to see how we all turned out. I was only 7 when he died.
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My Dad because he has missed my 3 children growing up into wonderful adults and because I miss him.
As for celebs Elvis & Roy Orbison for their music
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My mum as she died when I was 17 and she was only 40....so although she had met my husband missed my wedding and my two children.
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I opened this thinking of people dead from way back but:
on a personal basis I would love to talk to my late Dad - once my Mum has died, to find out what really happened :-\ ….. so much has emerged since his passing in 2006 and a lot of issues that I blamed him for, might have been different had Mum not been the controlling factor :'(
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My sister, so she see what amazing children she has. From history? Florence Nightingale. What would she have made of medical advances and the NHS?
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Would Florence have read the books by Jennifer Worth?
I wonder what the man who made the telephone would make of our www etc.? (Alexander Graham Bell?)
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I would bring back an American singer/songwriter called Elliott Smith (he might not be that pleased though as he committed suicide) just so that my son could meet him and have a chat about music.
On a personal level I would bring back my mate who died from pancreatic cancer last year - still miss him so much - so many laughs we didn't get to share.
Taz x
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I would like to say to:
- Tchaikovsky - Whilst I played in orchestras, I liked doing your orchestral pieces, Wow.
- Mum - What were you thinking of? not talking about me, but Dad.
- Dad - Sorry
Mum and Dad separated a long time ago (1970).
I never really spoke to them properly.
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Johann Sebastian Bach, who put Western classical music on the map. What a genius - absolutely everything he wrote works! It's impossible to get tired of his music. Anyone see John Elliot Gardiner's documentary on the great man?? Fascinating. :)
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For me it would be Antonio Vivaldi, I think he would be pleased that his music has endured. He also suffered from asthmatic bronchitis all his life and I think if he was brought back he would wonder at our modern medicine and how it would have made his life so much better and easier, also how many red heads there are today :)
Of all the Composers he is my favourite.
http://www.baroquemusic.org/bqxvivaldi.html
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Mmm! Food for thought indeed, Silverlady! I think there are some gorgeous melodies in Vivaldi's slow movements. We're doing his Gloria in November, using a combined choir from the churches in the area (yours truly on the organ) - looking forward to that v. much.
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Still Leonardo at the top of my list .........
Enstein?
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That's a different thread, I began this as a homage to people in history who 'were ahead of their time'.
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There are several forum members I'd like to invite back who seem to have been bullied off.
What an excellent thought, Stellajane - such a wealth of knowledge and willingness to help others has been lost.
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I totally agree, Stellajane.
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Robin Williams,not very historic but he made people smile,always a plus in my book
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There are several forum members I'd like to invite back who seem to have been bullied off.
Thanks Stellajane. When I saw this thread title, I though it would refer to past forum members who had left for whatever reason. :)
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Not what it was intended for ...........
Round my table I would sit:
Leonardo
Einstein
Marco Polo
Christopher Columbus
Marconi
and my 8 records would be :D
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Eleanor Roosevelt.
An amazing women.
Though widely respected in her later years, Roosevelt was a controversial First Lady at the time for her outspokenness, particularly on civil rights for African-Americans. She was the first presidential spouse to hold regular press conferences, write a daily newspaper column, write a monthly magazine column, host a weekly radio show, and speak at a national party convention. On a few occasions, she publicly disagreed with her husband's policies. She launched an experimental community at Arthurdale, West Virginia, for the families of unemployed miners, later widely regarded as a failure. She advocated for expanded roles for women in the workplace, the civil rights of African Americans and Asian Americans, and the rights of World War II refugees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt
All this at a time when First Ladies were supposed to be invisible. And she had to put up with her husbands mistress.
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Who would you sit her between round my table?
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Who would you sit her between round my table?
Would have to be Einstein and Marconi.
Both super intelligent innovators and 20th century figures.
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What would we feed them with :-\ ............ scones, jam, cream? Cups of tea and introduce them to coffee?
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What would we feed them with :-\ ............ scones, jam, cream? Cups of tea and introduce them to coffee?
Fish. Good for the brain.
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But smelly ;D