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If you could go back in time and watch -- but not change or interact with -- one historical event, what would it be? (lemmy.sdf.org)

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For the sake of the argument, you get to arrive up to 24 hours before the event starts and leave up to 24 hours after it ends.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I'd probably choose something for entertainment. Maybe see what a Shakespeare show at the Globe was really like (extremely chaotic from what I've read)

Or see Hendrix play live at Woodstock!

That makes me sound a bit shallow maybe - there's a lot of questions I have about what early Christianity was like before the Catholic church came on the scene, what sort of a ruler Richard III was, similar sorts of dry questions... But given the choice I'd probably want some rowdy entertainment