History Challenge & Journal

[pdm3547]

In the back of mind somewhere, I have Neitzche and Thus Spake Zarathustra. But I can't make the connection fully.

Am I close?

[dtaai-maai]

So close that you're spot on!

Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra. A Book for All and None"

The character Zarathustra was another form of Zoroaster, the founder of Zoroastrianism.

[pdm3547]

So close that you're spot on!

Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra. A Book for All and None"

The character Zarathustra was another form of Zoroaster, the founder of Zoroastrianism.

Ah! I don't know who is in my head, because I can't remember reading Neitzche. Like ever!

[pdm3547]

Next one:

Who reportedly killed Bob Marley?

[Jimbob]

Not the sheriff. Wasn't it Charley Cancer to blame stemming from a football injury?

[pdm3547]

Correct. But who specifically in that football match?

[Jimbob]

Danny Baker stood on Marley's foot causing an injury, but conspiracy theorists of course point to many other possible causes. Unfortunately Bob contributed to his own death by neglect and mistrust of Western medicine. Incidentally a friend had a cancer under a fingernail which had to be removed. his doctor thought this was similar to Bob's toenail problem.

[pdm3547]

Jimbob's right. They hold the Danny Baker theory to be true at Nine Mile in Jamaica, but I can see why it would be in Baker's interest to have it turned into a "conspiracy".

[dtaai-maai]

A quickie for you. Easily Googled, so DON'T!

Who coined the phrase "The Cold War"?



EDIT: Supplementary question - What is the origin of the term "Fifth column"?

[STEVE G]

What is the origin of the term "Fifth column"?

I have a vague memory of reading about this originating from the Spanish civil war but I can't remember the exact details. They were underground forces.

[dtaai-maai]

Mucho correctamundo, amigo! I wasn't expecting the details.

Emilio Mola, a Nationalist General during the Spanish Civil War, told a journalist in 1936 that as his four columns of troops approached Madrid, a "fifth column" of supporters inside the city would support him and undermine the Republican government from within. The term was then widely used in Spain. Ernest Hemingway used it as the title of his only play, which he wrote in Madrid while the city was being bombarded, and published in 1938 in his book The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories.

[richard]

Is a cold war where powers to be have matching arsenals and therefore are at a stalemate?

Like a Mexican stand off in the movies?

[dtaai-maai]

As far as I know there was only the one Cold War, though I dare say the term has since been used elsewhere.

The person who first used it (again, as far as I know) was famously concerned by the threat of the totalitarian Soviet system and wrote these words in a British newspaper shortly after the end of World War II:

"For forty or fifty years past, Mr. H. G. Wells and others have been warning us that man is in danger of destroying himself with his own weapons, leaving the ants or some other gregarious species to take over. Anyone who has seen the ruined cities of Germany will find this notion at least thinkable. Nevertheless, looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity. James Burnham's theory has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its ideological implications—that is, the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of "cold war" with its neighbours."

[dtaai-maai]

While we're waiting for someone to get the above, can anyone tell me the name and fate of this UK Royal Navy vessel?

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[richard]

Orson Wells. 1984. I hazard a guess