Thing I did not know this morning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_K…
The Battle of Kohima was a critical battle of the Burma Campaign in World War II, fought around the town of Kohima in northeast India from April 4 to June 22, 1944. It marked the limit of the Japanese offensive into India in 1944 and was described as the “Stalingrad of the East”…
(Via this meditation on 300 and θερμοπυλαι)
(For the record, I just wrote the greek version to (a) force myself to learn the HTML escapes; (b) to see how much of the introductory instructional book on ancient Greek I read last year I retained (and answer, of course, is “quite little”)).
