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181: The Kohima Epitaph, supposed to have been inspired by the one written for the Greeks who fell at the Battle of Thermopylae. The Battle of Kohima (the “Stalingrad of the East”) was the turning point of the Japanese U Go offensive into India in 1944 in World War II.

182: Locals continue to insist that theirs is the biggest. In reality, theirs would be the sixth or seventh largest and the two other structures, would vie for the largest. What?

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  1. Uh. Largest Mosque? The second and third are the Sultan Qaboos and Grand Mosques in Oman and Abu Dhabi respectively. I am assuming the first one is the Mecca mosque.

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