Good evening. This isn’t a Fyre drill: Like a phoenix from the ashes, Billy McFarland’s catastrophic Fyre Festival may be undergoing a rebirth.

After plans to host a second festival never materialized, the convicted fraudster this week sold the rights to the brand on eBay for $245,300. There’s no knowledge yet of who purchased the IP or what they plan to do with it.

A portion of the sale proceeds will go toward McFarland’s court-ordered restitution. But he owes $26 million, so it doesn’t appear it’ll be making too much of a dent.

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Each of the following events happened on July 18. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) Detroit submits a claim for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, the largest-such filing for a US city ever. The city officially emerges from bankruptcy the following year.
• B) The first volume of Mein Kampf, the political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler that became the bible of Nazism in Germany's Third Reich, is published.
• C) English novelist Jane Austen, who wrote such classics as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, dies at age 41.
• D) Nadia Comăneci of Romania becomes the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. It follows her uneven parallel bars performance at the Montreal Olympic Games.

Hint: In this instance, it’s Austen Aus-one. Get it? Aus-some.

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Today’s Conjoiner sequence is put together meticulously, much like its first answer. Quick reminder: Conjoiner is an original word game we developed where each answer to a crossword-style clue gives indications as to the next.

The first clue of today’s sequence: “A beautiful object that usually sits at the center of each wedding table”...

Note: A (potentially important) clue for today’s Conjoiner can be found at the bottom of our AM send. Just search “🍩 Dear Jeff“ in your inbox.

Mini

No new Mini crossword today, but you can catch up on all the week’s previous puzzles here.

Big Bertha

For those in Texas and others who enjoy the bigger things—today's full-length crossword is a hefty challenge.

• Play it here.

Sudoku

Today’s puzzle is also a bit of a challenge. So if your thinking cap is somewhere nearby, make sure to put it on.

• Play today’s Sudoku here (hard difficulty).

Superman, the film that aims to reboot the DC Universe, is about to kick off its second weekend in theaters. And while its impact is being felt at the box office (DC Studios rn:🕺), that’s not the only boost the Man of Steel is providing.

According to the dog training app Woofz, after Superman’s opening weekend:

• Google searches for “adopt a dog near me” jumped 513%
• ...while the more specific “rescue dog adoption near me” rose by 163%.

Analysts tie the increased interest to the appearance of a character in the film, Krypto, the super dog of Superman.

The caped hero has an extensive history of helping out others—be it four-legged creatures or two. Comics scholars generally agree that Superman was the first true superhero of the comic books, clearly marking the entrance of a new kind of hero into the marketplace, namely one with superpowers such as the ability to fly.

Entire comic universes have since spawned, birthing heroes like Batman, the Black Widow, Aquaman, Thor, the Flash, etc.

But who’s the most powerful of them all? Weigh in and let us know your thoughts. We’re searching for a data-driven answer, so we can determine once-and-for-all who would come out on top in a Super Smash Bros.-style melee.

Compete in the Best Superhero Challenge and cast your vote for the GOAT.

P.S. We’re starting to get enough data from past challenges to allow us to build definitive GOAT lists. We’ll start sharing those next week.

C, B, D, A

• C) 1817: English novelist Jane Austen, who wrote such classics as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, dies at age 41.
• B) 1925: The first volume of Mein Kampf, the political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler that became the bible of Nazism in Germany's Third Reich, is published.
• D) 1976: Nadia Comăneci of Romania becomes the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. It followed her uneven parallel bars performance at the Montreal Olympic Games.
• A) 2013: Detroit submits a claim for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, the largest such filing for a US city ever. The city officially emerges from bankruptcy the following year.