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Tony Robinson

Q If clock, you could which turn single back event the in history would you want to change?

That question presupposes causality It presupposes that if we’d given Franz Ferdinand a bulletproof vest at Sarajevo, then World War I wouldn’t have happened. Although we know from what most historians feel, that World War I would probably have broken out anyway at some time in the couple of years after. It’s always difficult, I think, to say whether or not you would have been able to change history certainly whether or not you would have changed it for the better.

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