Top 3 people in history you'd like to have dinner with

[KinkyNEguy]

Mark Twain

Adolph Hilter (not a fan...but want to ask questions)

Abraham Lincoln

[+ Avalon]

Mark Twain

Adolph Hilter (not a fan...but want to ask questions)

Abraham Lincoln

 

I like many thought that Hitler was a vegetarian but to my surprise I discovered that he wasn't

 

https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2017/12/13/why-hitler-wasnt-vegetarian-and-aryan-vegan-diet-isnt-what-it-seems

[+ Topseed]

I’ll go with 3 gay men in the arts:

 

Ned Rorem

John Waters

Tennessee Williams

[N13]

Oscar Wilde

Cleopatra

Leonor Fini

[Gvtire]

Golda Meir

Jesus

Joan Rivers

[+ Avalon]

Oscar Wilde

Cleopatra

Leonor Fini

 

Ask Cleo to do the pearl trick

 

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/6868!

 

https://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/secret-drinking-club-started-cleopatra-yes-cleopatra

[+ sam.fitzpatrick]

James Monroe

John Glenn

Benjamin Franklin

[s1conrad]

DaVinci

Mozart

Einstein

[N13]

To make sure the conversation is interesting to me

 

Isaac Asimov/QUOTE]

 

Asimov was a despicable person. I had a very high opinion of him until I met him. At a function I was standing next to him when a newlywed couple was introduced to him. His response? He pinched the girls nipple. There went any respect or liking I could ever have for him. To physically assault a young (she looked to be about 18 or 19) girl and thinking he had the right to do so was disgusting. I not only would not have dinner with him, I wouldn't even invite him into my home.

[+ FreshFluff]

Adolph Hilter (not a fan...but want to ask questions)

 

According to his entourage, he could be incredibly boring. During dinner, he's go off on multi-hour monologues on whatever he was obsessed with at the moment, and no one dared get a word in edgewise. He would often keep talking until the wee hours so people made excuses to avoid coming at all.

[Walker1]

Aristotle

Mahatma Gandhi

Joan of Arc

[marylander1940]

I think the OP is asking for real historic characters, not made up ones.

 

He existed.

 

Gandhi

Abraham Lincoln

Joan Rivers. I miss her so much!

[marylander1940]

According to his entourage, he could be incredibly boring. During dinner, he's go off on multi-hour monologues on whatever he was obsessed with at the moment, and no one dared get a word in edgewise. He would often keep talking until the wee hours so people made excuses to avoid coming at all.

 

He had that in common with Fidel Castro.

[+ purplekow]

Male

 

Saint Francis Assisi

Lee Harvey Oswald

Rasputin

 

The Good The Bad and The Ugly Topic: Which is the more dfficult: Being considered All Good or All Evil?

 

Female

 

Elizabeth I

Mae West

Madonna

 

A Virgin A Slut and a Material Girl. Topic: How they have managed to succeed in a Man's World. On the throne On the mattress and On the record.

[oldhat]

1. My ancestor, daghaa’ łichííʼ or Red Hair

2. Boudicca or Boudicea

3. Frantz Fanon

 

I’m not sure if my ancestor actually had red hair or it was simply a metaphor. There are also a few family stories I’d like to ask him about.

 

As for Boudicca, I’d like to meet the woman. The living being that is not tied to the romance or distortion of historical memory.

 

I must have read Wretched of the Earth several times and I find new insights each time.

[+ Hoover42]

I'll pick three of the many, many people I would be happy to have dinner with:

 

Ghandi, Umberto Eco, and Richard Feynman

[Epigonos]

Thutmose III

Catherine the Great

Abraham Lincoln

 

Somehow I'd love to squeeze in the Byzantine Empress Theodora

[+ E.T.Bass]

I think the OP is asking for real historic characters, not made up ones.

Jesus was a real philosopher. How he ended up being marketed to the sheeple is a different story. So yeah, he was the first name that came to mind. Everyone else on here that mentioned the Lord, I've got dibs!!

[maninsoma]

I feel compelled to post this video of a song written by the talented Brenda Russell, though I prefer Donna Summer's version so that's what I am sharing here.

 

[+ Avalon]

If I were to choose three women it would be

 

Cleopatra. She and Antony threw some amazing parties!

 

Livia the wife of the Emperor Augustus. Did she really have all those people killed like Robert Graves said so her son Tiberius could ultimately be his heir?

 

Diane de Poitiers the mistress of Henri II.

[Chad Constantine]

I was unfamiliar with Oda Nobunaga

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oda_Nobunaga

 

I was somewhat familiar with Sejong. He created the Korean alphabet. It's been said that it is the best in the world for a language.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejong_the_Great

 

Wow that is surprising and amazing that you have heard of King Sejong the Great. When/How did you hear about him?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxtxQTiQRZQ

[+ Avalon]

http://www.omniglot.com/

 

That is one of my favorite sites on the internet. I like to study other countries and cultures and languages. I look forward to Sundays when he adds something new.

 

Years ago (last century) the library got a magazine from North Korea I liked to read. And when I was in college back in the days of the USSR I subscribed to "Soviet Life".

 

And of course with what has been going on with Korea in the last few years I've been reading alot on online plus watching YouTube videos about life in North Korea.

[Chad Constantine]

http://www.omniglot.com/

 

That is one of my favorite sites on the internet. I like to study other countries and cultures and languages. I look forward to Sundays when he adds something new.

 

Years ago (last century) the library got a magazine from North Korea I liked to read. And when I was in college back in the days of the USSR I subscribed to "Soviet Life".

 

And of course with what has been going on with Korea in the last few years I've been reading alot on online plus watching YouTube videos about life in North Korea.

 

Oh wow me too but The only language I have an interest in so far have been Asian ones. When I was younger I loved reading about the myths of the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians but eventually the Japanese myths and religions stole all my attention.

[N13]

This thread puts me in mind of a wonderful Noel Coward song.