Question of the Day - Thursday, June 19th, 2025

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Anyone, really. They wouldn't even necessarily need to be famous; I'd just need them to speak English. Any folks who existed between 1500 and 1950, and I'd want a  lot of them. I'd line them up from earliest to latest and observe their speech, mapping out the evolution of English language from the horse's mouth.
 
casportpony said:
Today's question is from @BoundlessLove:

William Dorrance, Tom Dorrance, and Ray Hunt. I would like to learn horsemanship techniques from them.
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I have a list. Here's a few from it.

* Brian Boru, first king of united Ireland.
* Ramses II, New Kingdom Pharaoh of Egypt
* Boudicca, Icini queen in the first century.
* The first person to take a slab of meat, poke it on a stick, and toss that bad boy over a fire.
* Nikola Tesla
* Einstein
* Washington
* Lincoln
* Wm. Tecumseh Sherman
* Carl Sagan
 
azurbanclucker said:
I have a list. Here's a few from it.

* Brian Boru, first king of united Ireland.
* Ramses II, New Kingdom Pharaoh of Egypt
* Boudicca, Icini queen in the first century.
* The first person to take a slab of meat, poke it on a stick, and toss that bad boy over a fire.
* Nikola Tesla
* Einstein
* Washington
* Lincoln
* Wm. Tecumseh Sherman
* Carl Sagan
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I thought Boudicca was proven to be more myth based on a few different people and/or symbolism of people groups at that time?
 
nuthatched said:
I thought Boudicca was proven to be more myth based on a few different people and/or symbolism of people groups at that time?
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It's a tough one. Most of the info we have about her is drawn from contemporary accounts of Roman historians, but no physical evidence has been found (not uncommon for the first century). Most historians believe she was a real person based on what info we DO have.

I could name a number of other people who are accepted as having existed from that era that we've never seen any physical evidence for, either, but it will make people very angry if I do.
 
azurbanclucker said:
It's a tough one. Most of the info we have about her is drawn from contemporary accounts of Roman historians, but no physical evidence has been found (not uncommon for the first century). Most historians believe she was a real person based on what info we DO have.

I could name a number of other people who are accepted as having existed from that era that we've never seen any physical evidence for, either, but it will make people very angry if I do.
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Generally, unless you were fabulously wealthy or a political figure, most people existed without evidence. History is often lost to History.
 

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