In the spirit of dukemomLA's survey questions, let me throw out the following, since it's a matter of some curiosity to me. If you could go back in history, and assuming you could understand the language being spoken, what would be your top five choices? My candidates, in order of preference:

(1) Follow Jesus of Nazareth around. Catch the sermon on the mount.

(2) Watch the Buddha training his monks.

(3) Catch Ralph Waldo Emerson on the lecture circuit.

(4) Go to New York in 1927. Watch Lindbergh take off, catch a few Yankees games, Cotton Club in the evening (was it open then?).

(5) Catch the Beatles in Hamburg or Liverpool in the early '60s before they hit it big.