Who, in history, would you like to have a conversation with

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G'day Bobby, fine and dry here, too damn dry…….. There's a fat Bronze wing pigeon looking in my widow hoping for some bird seed….

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Sun Tzu, Confucius, and one of our Aboriginal freedom fighters, Barrak. for historical figures, Family I have already covered.

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Dutchpp, # 15325
I agree with your sentiments, Marshall Plan included but the 'special operation' continues, the war crimes continue, Putin and...

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Well I already met Uffa Fox, but at 13 my conversation was limited, but about sailing 14ft dinghies, the sea scouts and Bluebottle. During the 1956 Olympics,...

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"Media is 100% responsible for creating the hate that made that happen."
not the first time or the last Decourcy. Some media today have...

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Years ago whilst doing a survey of old gold town cemeteries in an area due for flooding under a new dam I found a collapsed house deep on the bush and...

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For real historic persons Thucydidies, (history of the Peloponesian Wars)

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I think I'd start with an ancestor, Amelia. My at least 6 times great grandmother.

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leeaaun Jan 21
Fossils
you never visited me
while
waiting
for you
i became part of the earth
as a fossils...

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DavidG,#10
A good post, especially this….. "Plus, I'm old, he's thinking, and nobody lives forever. What the heck."

And...

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"Which side are you on boys, which side are you on……………………."*

*Florence reece

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Why he said…………….....

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Bear in mind that Russia may loose battles, but cannot be defeated. It's too big and unlikely to change it's ways of the last few hundred years.

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Happy Birthday Joe.

Nil carborundum est

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I don't think that humans have evolved far enough to deal with 'social media', or fake news for want of a more apt description.
G'day Heimlaga…….I'll...

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I am building a fold up workshop in our eventual new residence on a narrow rolling bench that can be extended and wheeled into the light, or outside,...

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America via that 'patriotic' organisation the CIA has had it's fingers in many OS pies a lot longer than since WW2, and then there's your treatment of...

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Well the premium Aussi anti-spy agency was 'advised' at it's start by a Brit. double agent…………………….

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Pilot mate of mine went to Oskosh and stayed to do his floatplane endorsement. Was offered a job and he's still somewhere north in Canada.

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This place, being several acres of regrowth bush on what was originally coastal rainforest land takes a bit of work to maintain, and a suite of equipment...