Timebox - Navigate To Your Favourite Historical Event

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    Cimorene

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    Hello,

    At E&PG we are notorious for trying our hand at all the wondrous experiences of life.

    Why not a time machine this time? Dr Who has Tardis, Marty has DeLorean, Hawking has Tipler, but at E&PG we've designed a biodegradable and energy efficient Time Machine made with modest household goods. Crawl into the box and if you press the right keys you will emerge unto your favourite historical event. So where will you take off with this time-travelling appliance?

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    Do's

    (1) Would be nice if the responses are structured as

    Date/Year: dd-mmm-YYYY/YYYY
    Event: Any fanciful title to describe the event or location
    Comment: Why you want to teleport to this time line? What do you want to do?

    To the hipsters carrying selfie-sticks ensure that you upload a visual.

    (2) Though we would love you to relive your experiences with endearing gramps and other beloved kith and kin, mind this is a historical time machine which means it will only take you to places listed in Britannica Encyclopedia. So please only travel to places and events that are real and documented.

    (3) I will leave it to the discretion of members whether they want to post any rejoinder in this thread or in our more befitting thread here meant for chit-chat

    Don'ts

    We all agree that we are a feisty bunch so if you get into an argument, please refrain from calling anyone disrespectfully as "you foul-mouthed, uncouth, obnoxious fiend" instead stun them very politely as "you furfuraceous and thewless pantagruel" and please move on.

    Let's go!
     
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    Cimorene

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    Year: 1863
    Event: The Day Americans stood still

    One of the best known speeches in American history is Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address delivered on November 19, 1863 at Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Rumour has it that exhausted from Edward Everett's just ended two-hour speech, the restless were shaking their limbs and shutterbugs were adjusting their lens only to find Lincoln walking down the podium having delivered his speech in less than two minutes. Those who listened broke into a rapture and we still hear that applause reverberating in our schools, libraries and political campaigns. I would like to tunnel in time and hear those words from the man himself who chartered the American as we know today and also smirk at the agitated ones who missed the real McCoy of a speech because of loo break.

    "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

    But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

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    Aah what a lovely thread idea!
    I would like to use the time machine to go back to the banks of the Daya river, in modern day Odisha, to the time when Ashoka fought the Battle of Kalinga, and stood there contemplating the carnage. I would like to be a little mouse or other harmless critter, climb up to the footstep of Ashoka's chariot/carriage/horse, and have a little conversation with him.

    will try to respond in requested format with date, visual...

    We had the best history teacher in that grade, and so, the material from that history textbook is beautifully engraved in the mind.
     
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    Great thread idea ! @Cimorene - please modify the thread name to state "HISTORICAL event".

     
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    Date: 11/15/1961

    Event: John Houbolt, an engineer at the Langley Research Center, wrote a nine-page letter to Robert Seamans, associate administrator of NASA.

    NASA was working on different mission profiles for the lunar landings. Houbolt proposed the lunar orbit rendezvous mode for the Apollo missions. The LOR mode had been suggested and found too risky, due to its unprecedented nature. It was the underdog mission profile. NASA engineers and bigwigs favored a direct ascent to the moon.

    Excerpts from a popular science article:

    Houbolt was publicly and openly accused of lying about the advantages of his proposed mission profile. Unfortunately for Houbolt, the advantages of his mission were purely theoretical at the time. It was viewed as an intellectually interesting but impossible idea. Houbolt became an outcast along with his rendezvous mission. No one was taking him or his idea seriously.

    He took matters into his own hands, and, on November 15, 1961, made a foolhardy move that might have cost him his job: he wrote a second letter directly to Seamans, once again passing over all official channels. This letter pled Lunar Orbit Rendezvous’ case. “Somewhat as a voice in the wilderness," the letter famously began, "I would like to pass on a few thoughts that have been of deep concern to me over recent months.” He then spent the remaining nine pages of the missive outlining the challenges facing Apollo to highlight the ease, simplicity, and most importantly the timeliness of a lunar rendezvous mission.

    NASA bigwigs decided to give LOR another chance. They couldn’t ignore what the numbers said: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous was the the only way Apollo would get to the Moon within the decade. In the months that followed, further studies continued to highlight the benefits of Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. Eventually all NASA centers and personnel were on board. NASA announced Apollo would be doing a rendezvous around the Moon on July 11, 1962.

    Why? --

    I want to be there at that moment when a man with unshakable belief in his knowledge and training, risks it all for what he believes to be right. This was not any ordinary decision. This was the first human landing on the Moon. A president's directive, a nation's pride, hundreds of millions of dollars, and the lives of three men were at stake! An engineer who had confidence in his skills and his craft, stood against all the scientists and great minds at NASA and told them he knew with certainty that he was right. I am in awe of this man. I aspire to have that confidence in my craft. Today he is revered as the man who gave us the moon landings.

    Here's the full article - Remembering John Houbolt, NASA's Voice in the Wilderness
     
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    Done.
     
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    @kaniths You are being summoned here to contribute. Lay off the chatter threads for a while!
     
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    Still waiting, so put this thread on hold (that is how you shift the blame)
    Eeeeesh, I've OCD with aesthetics.
     
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    Aila! We give you so much training confident that you will swoop like a dragon in the battleground and you chose to be a mouse. A what?! Have to admit that you selected one of the most iconic moments in warfare. Stay away from the artillery. Take cover when needed because we want you back at the E & PG adda for coverage reporting.
     
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