Walker, go and tell Sparta that her children lie here to fulfill her laws . That splendid phrase of Simonides that, in its multiple translations, constitutes the epigraph of the monument to Leonidas at Thermopylae, is too juicy not to take advantage of it in other war memorials with the correspondi
On June 22, 1944, the largest Soviet attack on the Eastern Front took place (Operation Bagration). The following day the 1st Belorussian Front (formation equivalent to Army Group in the Western armies), under Rokosovsky, began its attack against the German 9th Army, which covered the front of Army G
Raphus cucullatus, or dodo. Wax and plaster model, mid-19th century, National Museum of Natural History, Paris • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Located in the Indian Ocean, 900 km east of Madagascar, Mauritius remained uninhabited until 1598, when the Dutch settled there and named it after Maurice de Nassau,
The Savorgnan-de-Brazza is a French colonial aviso of the Bougainville commissioned in 1932 and decommissioned on March 20, 1957. She was built in the AC Maritime du Sud-Ouest and launched on June 18, 1931. He was part of the Far East naval forces until February 1940. Having participated in the eva