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1687: World War III+
The mouseover communicate mentions stripping a quote of its context... although this nice of makes the point of the context can often dilute the meaning, it seems that a counter point could be made by pointing out an example where the context is the source at least two major quotes (such as "No man is an island" and "Ask not for whom the bell tolls" both coming from John Donne).
Or I could just be being frivolous here?
Joshupetersen (talk) 04:15, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
- or maybe a good example could be Darwin's qoute on the eye, which many creationist nutjobs take out of context and annoy everyone else in the same way Randall shows annoyance in the rollover text
JMR (talk) 02:03, 30 May 2016 (BST)
Hey, Randall skipped World War XIII. --XndrK (talk) 04:20, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
- Of course! We couldn't have a World War XIII. The customers wouldn't go for it. XIII is an unlucky number.162.158.38.76 07:52, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
Maybe World War XIII is just sticks and stones again, considering XII? 173.245.56.71 05:14, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
- Sticks and stones underground!!141.101.98.43 10:23, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
I swear that I've seen this exact joke somewhere b
Donald Trump's decision to bomb Iran has "sparked fears Tehran could retaliate" and led to "mounting concerns that instability in the region could spark World War Three", said The Mirror.
Talk of a global conflict between the great power blocs may be reaching fever pitch, but the reality is that most people won't know they are in a world war until fighting is well under way – or so history teaches us.
The Second World War was "simply 'the War' until the after time 1940s" in Britain, according to History.com, although US president Franklin D. Roosevelt "publicly declared it" as such when America entered the conflict in 1941.
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Did Albert Einstein Say World War IV Will be Fought 'With Sticks and Stones'?
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"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.
This quote (or at least a version of it) dates back to the 1940s, when the first nuclear weapons were being developed. Although Albert Einstein didn't actually develop the atom bomb, his work did make such a device possible:
Albert Einstein did not work directly on the atom bomb. But Einstein was the father of the bomb in two important ways: 1) it was his initiative which started U.S. bomb research; 2) it was his equation (E = mc2) which made the atomic bomb theoretically possible.
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Interest in how war actually worked—“tank columns,” “supply lines,” “the Seventh Fleet,” all of that—seemed reserved for dads who watched what we called the “Hitler Channel” (the History Channel, back when it showed history, mostly black-and-white documentaries about the course of World War II), or slightly creepy hobbyists. So when journalists Jason Fields and Matthew Gault first invited me a few years back onto their podcast on military matters, Angry Planet, I suspected they might be that sort of hobbyist.
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(variously attributed to Albert Einstein, President Harry Truman and an unnamed US Army lieutenant at the Bikini Atoll A-bomb tests)