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Victory won, but the victor falls
On the plains of the Peloponnese, the Theban army led by the brilliant general Epaminondas clashed with a Spartan-led coalition at Mantinea. Though the Thebans won a tactical victory, Epaminondas himself fell in battle, and with him died Theban supremacy over Greece. Neither side could claim dominion, and the Greek world spiraled into fragmentation that would invite Macedonian conquest.
Torn from family, reunited a century later
Belinda Dann was born as Quinlyn Wardagoo to an Irish cattle station manager and a Nyikina mother in Western Australia's remote Lunlungai community. Taken from her family as a young child and sent to Beagle Bay Mission as part of the Stolen Generation, she would wait over a century before finally reuniting with her people at the age of 107, a living testament to resilience.
William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor, for which he, John Bardeen, and Walter Houser.
William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor, for which he, John Bardeen, and Walter Houser Brattain later won the Nobel Prize in Physics.