Who would you bring back from history?

[Flying Pig]

I meant the bit about the fast-unto-death - he convinced the ordinary people to stop fighting (not for the first time) and made India pay money to her rival country simply because everybody in both countries respected him

 

[Annex]

John "Hannibal" Smith

Serious answer:
William Van Alen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Van_Alen

 

[Virote_Considon]

Ananda Shankar, so he could make more of his awesome music.

 

[W|M]

Ghandi, so we could sort out Israel (and other wars...), or Saladin so Israel would be conquered and the conflict would be over and done with.

 

[Sharwood]

Ghandi, so we could sort out Israel (and other wars...), or Saladin so Israel would be conquered and the conflict would be over and done with.

WTH? Gandhi sort out Israel? He couldn't fix India and Pakistan. And Saladin was victorious largely because the Arab world was united behind him. When they began to fracture, he began to lose.

 

[Masada]

Wouldn't Gandhi say something along the lines of "All the Palestinians jump of cliffs and eventually the Israeli's will give your land back"? Didn't he suggest something along those lines for the Jews?

 

[Dachs]

Wouldn't Gandhi say something along the lines of "All the Palestinians jump of cliffs and eventually the Israeli's will give your land back"? Didn't he suggest something along those lines for the Jews?

I thought it was the Czechs. One of those, anyway.

 

[Godwynn]

Wouldn't Gandhi say something along the lines of "All the Palestinians jump of cliffs and eventually the Israeli's will give your land back"? Didn't he suggest something along those lines for the Jews?

"The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs." - Gandhi

 

[Agent327]

Nobody. I think dead people are fine where they are now.

For instance, if you brought back Jesus, he might be labelled either a lunatic, a religious fanatic or even a terrorist (if he reappeared in Israel). Previous post a case in point.

 

[BananaLee]

I'd bring my grandmother back. She was awesome.

 

[Sharwood]

Wouldn't Gandhi say something along the lines of "All the Palestinians jump of cliffs and eventually the Israeli's will give your land back"? Didn't he suggest something along those lines for the Jews?

He was also more than a bit racist in his youth, and a borderline paedophile (though to be fair, I'm not much better). Extremely popular, had a cult of personality around him that accompished Hindu unity against the British, but not really that great a guy all-told.

 

[Tee Kay]

Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, and have them fight to the death in the Red Square surrounded by corporate sponsers ad while the Presidents of Israel, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania watch.

 

[Dachs]

Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, and have them fight to the death in the Red Square surrounded by corporate sponsers ad while the Presidents of Israel, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania watch from Lenin's Mausoleum.

Stalin gets home turf advantage and two extra audience members? Well, duh, everybody knows who's going to win that. Make it more exciting - let the Jews come, but hold it at Nuremberg, or on the Unter den Linden.

 

[Sharwood]

Stalin gets home turf advantage and two extra audience members? Well, duh, everybody knows who's going to win that. Make it more exciting - let the Jews come, but hold it at Nuremberg, or on the Unter den Linden.

And make Poland referee. America is also invited to watch, but they'll show up late.

 

[JonathanStrange]

Socrates -- I think his philosphical insights are timeless; he may offer some valuable advice on how to live a worthy human life in a world of rapid technological change, economic uncertainty, environmental degradation, etc.

 

[Tee Kay]

Stalin gets home turf advantage and two extra audience members? Well, duh, everybody knows who's going to win that. Make it more exciting - let the Jews come, but hold it at Nuremberg, or on the Unter den Linden.

Hitler gets home ground advantage then. Prague, perhaps?

 

[Dachs]

Socrates -- I think his philosphical insights are timeless; he may offer some valuable advice on how to live a worthy human life in a world of rapid technological change, economic uncertainty, environmental degradation, etc.

He's even got experience with rapid political change and the fallout associated with partisan politics! And, he doesn't wear shoes!

 

[aronnax]

I would like to bring back Nicholas II of Russia from 1905 to the 21st Century, tour Russia and Ukraine with him, showing his ex-home and various places in his life. Bring him to a couple of history museums and tell him about how Russia became Communist and Hitler and the Cold War. But I'll keep his and his families death a secret until I bring him to the this Church.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_All_Saints,_Yekaterinburg

Then Ill tell him his family was bloody shot to death.

Then I shall see if how history changes.

 

[Sharwood]

I would like to bring back Nicholas II of Russia from 1905 to the 21st Century, tour Russia and Ukraine with him, showing his ex-home and various places in his life. Bring him to a couple of history museums and tell him about how Russia became Communist and Hitler and the Cold War. But I'll keep his and his families death a secret until I bring him to the this Church.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_All_Saints,_Yekaterinburg

Then Ill tell him his family was bloody shot to death.

Then I shall see if how history changes.

We're just bringing them back here, not sending them back to before they died after telling them what happens.

 

[aronnax]

We're just bringing them back here, not sending them back to before they died after telling them what happens.

Oh...

Well.

Ill bring back Elizabeth I, Mary I, Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scots and do an Oprah.

Im sorry I ordered for your death! I really did try to stop them... Sniff....
And Im sorry I kept trying to overthrow you in a Catholic Revolution!