Reply With QuoteWith all due respect,,,,screw Winston Churchill!!! I'd want to meet the King!
Winston Churchill is the historical figure people would most like to travel back in time to meet, a poll suggests.
Elvis Presley is second behind Britain's World War II leader.
Physicist Albert Einstein is the third favourite, the poll for the magazine Doctor Who Adventures found. Screen legend Marilyn Monroe is fourth.
The poll of 1,000 people also finds the Swinging Sixties, the era of The Beatles and the sexual revolution, is the period people most want to visit.
Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi came sixth in the list, followed by the late Princess Diana.
Former South African president and human rights activist Nelson Mandela takes eighth place - despite still being alive.
Isaac Newton, the British scientist who first formulated the laws of gravity, is joint ninth with Elizabeth I and Beatle John Lennon.
The year 2006 was the second-most popular period people wanted to experience, with the Victorian era third and 1966, the year of England's victory at the World Cup, fourth.
MOST POPULAR FIGURES.
1 Winston Churchill
2 Elvis Presley
3 Albert Einstein
4 Marilyn Monroe
5 Martin Luther King
Source: Doctor Who Adventures magazine
2008/04/23 http://news.bbc.co.uk / www.epgold.com
With all due respect,,,,screw Winston Churchill!!! I'd want to meet the King!
"It ain't funny how time slips away."
(June 19, 1977- Omaha, Nb.)
Originally Posted by The Phoenix
You took the words right out of my mouth!!!!!!!!!!!!
"More people today should see him not simply as a performer, but as an artist with a great soul."
John Bakke, professor emeritus
University of Memphis
LOLI agree with you!!!
I met Elvis, but sure hope I get to meet him again someday.
I will never forget you Rosanne.
R.I.P. 4-27-59~7-22-09
What??? People want to time travel back to 18 MONTHS ago????
1. Jesus
2. Elvis
A bit more respect for sir Churchill please, without him we all might be talking in German right now
"Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!".
Groucho Marx
But still I'll vote for Elvis.
And wouldn't have minded meeting Marilyn in her prime either
Rick
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