Who would you choose to meet

Today's musical recommendation – I am the Walrus by The Beatles

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October 29/11

So I was once asked this question and it stuck with me as something to think about so I thought I'd pose it you as well as give my own answer.

If you could meet one person from history who would you choose and why?

I like this question because it is really open-ended and makes you have to stop and think, given the historical figures to choose from the options are literally endless......

For me the answer has been and shall remain Napoleon Bonaparte. Not just because I'm a total history geek, which btw I am, but also because his actions influenced how the world was divided up between the great powers of the time and gave rise, or at least an additional push to the eventual growth of Germany in the form of Prussia and her influence in central Europe.

I've always been fascinated by this man who grew up on Corsica when the people of that island were restless to be independent of France and yet to secure his own future he went to the mainland and joined the very institution being used to keep them at bay. Once he was established he continued to expand the French empire and never thought once of his former homeland.

Along the way he envisioned a community of states that was eventually to become the European Common Market and the Euro currency.....the overhaul of the legal system to one still used today in most French based nations...and the mindset of the English that they were the bulwark against his expansion plans.

So if you could meet one person who would you choose?

Some answers I've received have included Mother Theresa, Ghandi, Churchill, and even Hitler.......