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November 10

The Cold War

Was the Cold War a bipolar conflict that was fought out in Europe, or was it a multipolar struggle that predominantly affected the Global South. ? Randyson Hauslon (talk) 13:25, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Having read and digested the article "Cold War", what do you think? -- Hoary (talk) 13:30, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure which pole(s) you think could bring it past bipolar to multipolar (Polish Poles?), but the war of words and wealth predominantly affected the North, while the war of war was mainly fought in the South. That's not to say quite a few Southerners didn't get filthy rich or quite a few Northerners didn't get killed. But, like usual, the South was low on the totem pole. InedibleHulk (talk) 07:46, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Lest we forget. Not all of those are related to the capital vs community thing, but most of them. Many more in the seven years since, still mostly down South. InedibleHulk (talk) 07:59, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Cold War itself was not a conflict, historians label it a 'war' because of the intense hostility between the two major groups of world politics: communist and democratic. However, many proxy wars spread from the Cold War, such as Vietnam, Afghanistan, Korea and insurrection in Eastern Europe. To answer your question, Randyson Hauslon, the Cold War did involve 'multi-polar' struggles in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Uhlan ^talk 23:54, 12 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The UK and Commonwealth also successfully fought communist insurgency in Malaysia, Borneo and Oman. Alansplodge (talk) 13:25, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Did Proust say this? It is from the movie Little Miss Sunshine.

"Dwayne: I wish I could just sleep until I was eighteen and skip all this crap-high school and everything-just skip it.

Frank: Do you know who Marcel Proust is?

Dwayne: He's the guy you teach.

Frank: Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he uh... he gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, Those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing. So, if you sleep until you're 18... Ah, think of the suffering you're gonna miss. I mean high school? High school-those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that. "--Senteni (talk) 17:57, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Proust wrote a lot about suffering. He said something to the effect of "We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full." --Jayron32 18:29, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

He also said "When a man is asleep, he has in a circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years, the order of the heavenly host. Instinctively, when he awakes, he looks to these, and in an instant reads off his own position on the earth's surface and the time that has elapsed during his slumbers; but this ordered procession is apt to grow confused, and to break its ranks": [1] --Jayron32 18:32, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Another possibility can be found here, in Finding Time Again aka Time Regained aka The Past Recaptured:

"The happy years are the lost, the wasted years, one must wait for suffering before one can work. And then the idea of the preliminary suffering becomes associated with the idea of work and one is afraid of each new literary undertaking because one thinks of the pain one will first have to endure in order to imagine it. And once on understands that suffering is the best thing that one can hope to encounter in life, one thinks without terror, and almost as of a deliverance, of death."

As translated by Andreas Mayor and Terence Kilmartin [2]. ---Sluzzelin talk 18:53, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

who painted this

I mean the actual painting in this image macro (example) I tried looking up here (Wikimedia Commons), and even reverse-image-searched for the image (I even cropped it to remove the "funny" captions so as to not upset Google's algorithms), but to no avail... Asmrulz (talk) 19:48, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Per http://www.artecreha.com/El_Arte_y_su_mundo/martes-santo.html, machine translated: In this case (G.Tipolo: The Cleansing of the Temple .. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, 1753) the work is carried out by Giandomenico Tiepolo, Giambattista eldest son, who nonetheless besides being firstborn was also his best disciple. So the work is part of the scope of the late Baroque, Venetian color and huge sense of shaking and movement. Dwpaul ^Talk 20:07, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

cool, thanks! never heard of Tiepolo.... here's the painting on the museum's website Asmrulz (talk) 20:11, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]