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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WmRAllen67" data-source="post: 2628513" data-attributes="member: 20456">Interesting question...I'd like to see Ur and Babylon, Rome in the time of Julius Ceasar, Constantinople and the Levant in the time of the first Crusade, Nan Madol and Tartessos (if it existed), Tenochtitlan, Boston and Philadelphia in the 1600's, and Elizabethan London...I'd like to see the dinosaurs, the Ice Age mammals, and the early hominids...I'd like to see George Washington before the battle of Trenton, the arguments in the Continental Congress over the Declaration of Independance, and the Battle of Trafalgar...I'd love to know what really happened to the colonists of Roanoke...And to watch the Battle of Hastings...I'd like to know why my however-many-greats grandfather left England in the 1650's, and if they really did move the barn across a frozen Narragansett Bay on sledges one winter because they were tired of living on an island...I'd like to do all those "If I only knew then what I know now" things, like go back to 1988 and tell myself to "take those two classes and get the minor in English, and in Religious Studies, because you'll need them later, trust me..."</blockquote>