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Onesicritus, the historian whom Alexander the Great sent to learn the secrets of the yogis

One of Onesicritus’ controversial stories, the visit of the Queen of the Amazons to Alexander / photo public domain on Wikimedia Commons

Astypalaia is a small island in the Greek Dodecanese, possibly a colony of Megara, where around 360 B.C. Onesicritus, a historian and cynic philosopher who followed Diogenes of Sinope ( the one who lived like a beggar in a jar), was born. In 334 BC, when he was 26 years old, he crossed the Hellespont…Continue readingOnesicritus, the historian whom Alexander the Great sent to learn the secrets of the yogis

Kohima, the fiery battle that prevented the Japanese from invading India.

The battleground / photo public domain on Wikimedia Commons

“Walker, go and tell Sparta that their children lie here for obeying their laws.” That splendid phrase of Simonides, which, in its multiple translations, constitutes the epigraph of the monument to Leonidas in the Thermopylae, is too juicy not to take advantage of it in other war memorials with the corresponding changes. It is what…Continue readingKohima, the fiery battle that prevented the Japanese from invading India.