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The invincible warriors met their match
At Leuctra in Boeotia, the Theban general Epaminondas deployed his revolutionary oblique formation against the supposedly invincible Spartan phalanx. The result was devastating. Sparta's elite warriors were crushed, shattering centuries of military prestige in a single afternoon. The balance of power in Greece shifted overnight, and the age of Spartan dominance came to an abrupt end.
A voice from cinema's silent beginnings
Frederica Sagor Maas, the youngest daughter of Jewish Russian immigrants, was born in New York. She would become a screenwriter in early Hollywood's silent era, surviving to the extraordinary age of 111. Her tell-all memoir offered a rare, unvarnished glimpse into the ruthless glamour of Tinseltown's earliest days, preserving stories that might otherwise have been lost to time.
World War I: Arabian troops led by T.
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Major areas of conflict included Europe and the Middle East, as well as parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific. The war saw important developments in weaponry including tanks, aircraft, artillery, machine guns, and chemical weapons.