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If you could possess one historical and one mythical /fictional artifact

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  • #32
    Greybottle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 966 ✭✭✭Greybottle


    Hitler's Diaries would be a nice coffee table book.

    Along with the Voynich manuscript


  • #33
    Fourier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,558 ✭✭✭✭Fourier


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Historical: The Bible, first ever tablet/written form.
    That would most likely be Ezra's personal copy produce at the rebuilt temple in the mid 450s BC with other members of the priestly cast. He had been order by Cyrus the Great of Persia to create a standard form of the Israelite religion.


  • #34
    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,519 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    Any, or all, of the Amber Room. Looted at the end of WW2, no trace since.

    Moderator: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender, Vegan & Vegetarian

    Category Moderator: Social & Fun



  • #35
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    A tie fighter for going to town
    &
    A tiger tank.

    For going to town


  • #36
    JustAThought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Historical : I'd like the private luxury steam train the Tzar and Tzarina of Russia used travel in complete with gold cutlery and Fabarge knicknacks. Woukd be lovely in the garden as a retreat. If things got bad and I had to sell the house I just could just endlessly travel around the country in it and want for nothing.

    Fictional. The salmon of knowledge. Then I would posess all knowledge could get a job as anything (QC, neurosurgeon,stockbroker, actuary) and make a fortune with no training,skill or effort.


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  • #37
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    JustAThought wrote: »
    Historical : I'd like the private luxury steam train the Tzar and Tzarina of Russia used travel in complete with gold cutlery and Fabarge knicknacks. Woukd be lovely in the garden as a retreat. If things got bad and I had to sell the house I just could just endlessly travel around the country in it and want for nothing.

    Fictional. The salmon of knowledge. Then I would posess all knowledge could get a job as anything (QC, neurosurgeon,stockbroker, actuary) and make a fortune with no training,skill or effort.

    To be honest you could get the baps out and go into "reality" TV and do that - but I would stick with the fish!!!


  • #38
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,344 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The One Ring


  • #39
    Steve F
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭Steve F


    tricky D wrote: »
    Any clock John Harrison made/designed.



    " And the bid is at 3 and a half MILLION pounds"

    (Rodney faints) :D


  • #40
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,211 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    Real (picked for conversation value and love of subject):
    Miamioto Mushashi's sword (greatest swordman ever)
    Steve McQueen's bike from The Great Escape (stil think he might make it over the wire)
    Jesus Christ's foreskin (He went bodily to heaven, but His fs is surely around somewhere as it was cut off years before)
    Lee Harvey Oswolds rifle (cause, y'know...JFK is cool)
    The Irish flag from GPO 1916

    Fantasy -
    The One Ring (drat - beaten to it!)
    Light Saber from Star Wars
    My own hour-glass from Deaths great library
    The time tunnel from the tv show The Time Tunnel
    A knife-missile (from Ian M Banks "Culture" novels)


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