[OT] Question of the week

[alsih2o]

Can you fill me in on this? I take it nobody's ever been able to duplicate the porcelain made at that time?

no, no, we know darned near everyhtign about the porcelain amde at this time, but it was (imho) the big change that would define my field as an art form rather than a craft for centuries to come.

this is where we (potters) went from"the messy guys who make the water vessels" to "those guys who keep showing up the bronze casters"

we went from shaping what the earth gave us to shaping what we wanted to from the earth.

the period in europe where this happened was absolutely amazing as well. it is right where alchemy turned into real, hard science. i would stringly reccomend "the arcanum". it is a great book about how porcelain was reinvented ineurope, and can usually be foudn for under $5. good stuff! guilds, prisoners, fake gold makers, secret mines and valuable treasures lost in time. like a non-violent d+d campaign

 

[Aeolius]

like a non-violent d+d campaign

King of the Porcelain Throne?

 

[Mark Chance]

Probably Julias Ceasars last speech.

I think that went something like this: "Ouch! Ouch! Stop stabbing me! Ouch!"

 

[WayneLigon]

Wow, the possibilities are so vast and I don't even know that much history.

I'd have to narrow it down to...
Watch the Great Pyramid being built.
Watch the Tunguska Event.
Observe dinosaurs hunting, feeding, moving in herds.
Watch Stonehenge being built and listen in on what it was for.
See what happened at Roanoke.

Argh. Too many to choose from.

 

[Davelozzi]

If I could only go for the length of a single event, it'd be hard to say but maybe the coronation of Napoleon or the storming of the Bastille (but in that case I'd need an invisibility spell too ).

If I could go back longer term, I'd go back to ancient Rome and catch some of the transition from republic to empire and the tail end of the B.C. era.

 

[Wombat]

Hmmm, I'd have to travel back to some time in 1086.

Try to figure out what, precisely, was on William the Conqueror's mind when he decided to conduct the survey for the bloody Domesday Book.

 

[Wikidogre]

Vietnam 1970, to see where my uncle crashed so that my famly can locate his body and bring it home.

 

[ashockney]

Removing the rock from Jesus' tomb, and witnessing his ressurrection.

Second place, the continental congress during the forming and signing of the Declaration of Independence.

 

[Larcen]

For me, the bible would be a good source of stuff I would like to verify firsthand, starting out with the last 3 years of Jesus' life. I would learn shorthand first and bring a pad and pencil with me.

Also, the Old Testament has some pretty amazing events that I would like to record and verify as well. Don't tell me none of you would like to see if Moses really did part the Red Sea with the wave of a staff.

Other than the bible, I guess I would like to be in a time and location to answer all the other big mysteries of history such as the great pyramid, sphynx, Roswell, Oak Island, Bermuda Triangle, or heck, why not....let's take a look at Atlantis, or Mu, or Lemuria.

 

[Theron]

London 1484-85. Witnessing the unraveling of Richard III's reign and perhaps shed some light on the fate of Edward V and his brother.