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Title: (IF YOU COULD BE AN HISTORICAL FIGURE IN THIS TIME WHO? AND WHY?) Post by: mole on November 20, 2009, 10:11:33 PM I would be Alexander the Great ;D because todays generals have lost their way and don,nt have a clue how to fight a battle ;) take Afghanistan for example >:( and the old adage springs to mind know thy enemy ;) study the battlefield look at the enemies weak points and behavioural patterns human beings are creatures of habit a pattern will soon emerge and victory assured once and for all ;)
Title: Re: (IF YOU COULD BE AN HISTORICAL FIGURE IN THIS TIME WHO? AND WHY?) Post by: TheLoveDoc on November 21, 2009, 08:00:19 PM Well the first one that sprung to mind was Jack The Ripper but thats just soooo wrong !!! so im gonna pick Nostradamus so i could pick a few winners on the horses and i could also sit here saying " I told you so " !!
Title: Re: (IF YOU COULD BE AN HISTORICAL FIGURE IN THIS TIME WHO? AND WHY?) Post by: waltonbasinman on November 21, 2009, 09:36:41 PM Oliver Cromwell. Simply put, could you do what he did. Changed the face of Britain for ever. Maybe not for the best but the guy is a great example of principals and sticking to them.
Title: Re: (IF YOU COULD BE AN HISTORICAL FIGURE IN THIS TIME WHO? AND WHY?) Post by: zorro on November 22, 2009, 06:02:04 PM Isambard kingdom Brunel beyond any doubt. What that man could do with todays technology would be mind boggling.
he constantly had to battle leading "accademics" of his day who said his designs wouldn't work only to prove them wrong. his achievements are too long to list here the Great western railway being just one of them, an every day i drive through Box tunnel i am in awe of his achievements. incidently the entrance to the tunnel is vast but once inside the roof of the tunnel drops sharply, this is because the victorians we quite happy to enter a tunnel that seemed to be many feet above their heads. Little did they know how close to them it came in the dark ;) that same tunnel built for steam trains to run at 30mph (some victorians believed any faster and a person would suffocate) now comfortably handles trains at over 100mph. the tunnels measures just under 3km,and when it was built the two ends met at the middle and they were found to be less than 2 inches out ! Title: Re: (IF YOU COULD BE AN HISTORICAL FIGURE IN THIS TIME WHO? AND WHY?) Post by: Jonola (Jon) on November 22, 2009, 07:09:53 PM The Roman general SULLA.....makes dictators such as Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin look like teddy bears. Like Oliver Cromwell, but not as nice ;)
Take a look at this link. http://www.roman-empire.net/republic/sulla.html (http://www.roman-empire.net/republic/sulla.html) Title: Re: (IF YOU COULD BE AN HISTORICAL FIGURE IN THIS TIME WHO? AND WHY?) Post by: Bob on November 23, 2009, 11:29:46 AM Hitler's dad, I'd be first in the queue for a vasectomy...
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