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General Sherman and John Brown

bring back Henry Kissinger

kill Henry Kissinger

bring back Henry Kissinger

kill Henry Kissinger

bring back Lenin

explain Lenin what's going on

explain Lenin who's Henry Kissinger

bring back Henry Kissinger

Lenin kills Henry Kissinger

Add Aaron Swartz to the list.

my dad :(

As many verified genocide victims in Palestine as possible

How are they brought back? Are they fully-formed and youthful again? Because I have enough skeletons angry at me already.

The founder/main figure of every single religion all coming back to life simultaneously would be very funny

In all seriousness I'd start with recent wars and disasters like Palestine (and all victims, Jewish and otherwise, of the holocaust.) and then cut a deal with the Mormons for their database.

Jimmy Carter so he can run against Drumpf in 2028

My mom

My cat

Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Marx, Engels

In that order.

Man I would need a team of researchers, pen bearers, poopers, pissers and feeders because I'm making the most of this. While I'm furiously writing they gotta tell me the names of as many slaves, victims of Massacres, anyone who died because of the evil of others. I'm trying to get 100,000 names at minimum in this motherfuckah.

the single most progressive president in my lifetime, joseph robinette biden

No one has said Michael Brooks yet and he deserves to be brought back for sure

Lenin

Bring back Epstein to testify and then bring him back again every time he commits suicide by two bullets to the back of the head.

Any dead anti capitalist I can get the name and picture of.

Stalin Lenin Castro, Ho chi Minh, free Hampton, mlk, Einstein, Malcolm x ect...Anybody who had some sense and could help the cause with their influence.

If I could print names on torn out pages to speed up my revive rate Id try to go for victims of the Holocaust too, Palestinians, whoever but I kind of doubt I'd be able to pull it off even with 24 hours with the magic book.

Do they come back as the age they died, or what they would currently be if they never died?

The dogs from homeward bound.

The simple answer is "as many people as possible", but I kinda want to say that my foremost priority would be my own relatives. Five names off the top of my head and a family tree is plenty to start with: I get curious about how I'd feel about my deceased relatives if they were alive today, and I wonder about which of my memories of deceased relatives have been completely garbled over the years; and I wonder what the relatives I never met were really like, or what my family history truly is "in its own words".

I'm also definitely bringing back Benjamin Lay, Bugonaygeshig (from the Battle of Sugar Point), Ozaawindib, Mons Somby and Aslak Hætta, all the Dakota 38, and basically everyone else mentioned in this thread, plus any other famous socialists, folk heroes, genocide victims, ancient historical figures etc I can think of (I certainly could go all day, but I'd like to give others a chance to mention some of the other people I'm thinking of)

Maybe the dead children at the local cemetery, too, if it can be guaranteed that they won't die again until they reach old age. I'd like to revive Vincent van Gogh just to reenact that one scene in that one Doctor Who episode, too.

NED LUDD

https://data.techforpalestine.org/api/v2/killed-in-gaza.csv Malcom X, Huey Newton, MLK, et al. I would need some time to dig into other historical archives to make a good list composed on the greatest liberation fighters in history,

Dodo bird.

Fred Rogers

Vygotsky would be interesting. Died prematurely but had plenty of students continue his work. Wonder how he'd respond to their work and the current state of psychology in general.

Find the coolest monarch in the royal histories of England and bring him back just for the controversy of it. Then I would bring back Che and tell him he now has an infinite life hack, and with his guerilla expertise that would make him unstoppable

Kurt Vonnegut

I wanna get weird it, see if I can't bring back a t-rex. Also all the popes. A bunch of dead emperors too, I wanna see the tomb kings IRL. I guess the way to do that might be to ressurect people like Walt Disney and Edison so you can fuck with estates and copyright and IP. FDR and have him run for another term.

As for artists I'd say Bob Dylan. He might not be dead, but he's dead to me.

Honorable mentions for and Ned Kelly.

Oh and anastasia romanov so we can finally shut up all those people who claim to be her grandchild. I'm petty like that.

::: spoiler more real answer
Assuming lifenote works like the death note I'd resurrect some apparatchiks with the condition they help me write names (They're gonna put the names on stamps so I can just stamp the book for peak efficiency). Is it indentured servitude? I suppose, but only for 24 hours, so cry about it.

Then I'd stamp the names of as many communist revolutionaries I can think of. Gonna highlight Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, but just assume all of them, even the ones we kinda dislike like Trotsky.
Then I'd go for people who died "too soon" or "before their time" - As many murdered palestinians as I can find the names of. People like Emmet Till. Friends who took their own lives, people who committed suicide in general I suppose. The mother of a good friend who died of alzheimers in her 50's. A lot of my parents friends died in their 40's from cancer due to where they grew up and I don't like it when my mom is sad, so all of them. My dad never got over the loss of his girlfriend, so her.

Then there's the people it would be nice or cool to have chat with. Get some answers from. Even just be confirmed they existed and what they were actually doing. People like Jesus Christ, Kǒng Fūzǐ, Siddhartha Gautama, Muhammed (PBUH), some medieval peasants to feed doritos, some mercenaries to ask if they really did hit each other with sticks and how that didn't mess them up mentally. Riemann so I can get that little shit to prove the hypothesis. Think of all the questions we have today that we can never get a definite answer to. Well bring me a name related to it and you got it. All the pre-colonial history of south america that just died out. I'll resurrect Moctezuma and have him name names of people who can name names of people who can and so on and so forth.
I've got some linguist friends and they would squeal with joy at the possibility of possibly hearing dead languages spoken out loud by native speakers. Not to mention all the texts we can't translate or struggle to translate. People think that assyrian joke about a dog walking into a bar is odd, wait till they hear a tight five from Sargon of Akkad. I'd bring back Pompey Magnus to have him tell me where his ship went down so I can have all his gold too, I love treasure hunting.
Gonna revive all the guys who had part in writing the canonical bible so I can ask them how they really knew jebus.
Whoever is the oldest human being with a name I guess. Or I could just go the Moctezuma route again until we are back at cavemen.
Anyone who is a named ghost so we can ask them if they were actually ghosting about.

That leads me to another tangent - All the conspiracies and mysteries. I'll bring back Marilyn Monroe and ask her if she really did take her own life. Lee Harvey Oswald of course. Jim Jones maybe? There's some conspiracies about him. The 9/11 hijackers lol.

If I've got more time? Maybe artists and celebrities who either died too soon, would be good for the time or who I'd just like to get back because I miss their voices - some on the condition I can also cure them. Robin Williams, Anton Yelchin, Tupac, Kurt Cobain, Biggie, George Harrison, Ian Curtis, Kentaro Miuta, Akira Toriyama, Phil Hartman, David Bowie, Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, Vincent van Gogh (basic I know, but after I watched Loving Vincent I couldn't get the guy out of my head), Janis Joplin, Francisco Goya, Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee (I like Kung Fu movies), Alan Rickman (conditional on him at the very least giving me a pat on the head and a kiss on the cheek), Steve Irwin. Classical composers too, I wanna see what they'd do with modern stuff. Great athletes, Muhammad Ali in a world where he could perform in his peak. Mary Shelley, just because I like her stuff, same goes for a lot of authors really. Terry Pratchett (GNU), Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Edgar Allan Poe, Sylvia Plaith, Franz Kafka, Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, and fuck it lets get some philosophers too - Diogenes and Hypatia seems like some good ones. Nietzche so he can be mad at incels.

Still got more time? You know, lets just go for a wide swathe of famous historical figures while we're at it, what could go wrong? All the romans and persians and greeks. All the chinese emperors, all their conqubines, all their eunuchs and Cao Cao who is so nice I'll bring him back twice.

After that? Oh wow I thought I'd run out of time, okay lets get wacky with it. Some dinosaurs maybe? If they don't use names there must be some other way to do it. That big white whale that the ancient greeks beefed with for a couple decades. Abraham Lincoln I guess, he's good enough I suppose. Then I'd write my own name in 30 different times with a scheduled date for each of the next 30 days (death note rules) and I'd go do crazy reckless stuff. I could be useful for science for a little while maybe. Or I could be the most daring assassin the world has seen for about 30 days (no need to be afraid of getting shot).

And of course the two turtles I had as a child, who died because I didn't know how to care for them and my dad just bought them for me because he's that kind of shitty dad.