📜 September 25: On This Day in History |  | Motor-hola |  Image: Motorola/Galvin Manufacturing Corporation | Each of the following events happened on September 25. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, the first company to mass-produce car radios, is incorporated. Its first product is a car radio called the Motorola: “motor” evoked cars and motion, while “ola” came from “Victrola” and was supposed to make people think of music. The company later rebranded, stopped making car radios, and is now mostly known for making cell phones that millennials used to go crazy over (just say the word “Razr” in their presence and wait for nostalgic squeals).
- B) The first Congress of the United States approves 12 amendments to the Constitution—known as the Bill of Rights—and sends them to the states for ratification. The Bill of Rights were designed to protect the basic rights of US citizens, guaranteeing the freedom of speech, press, assembly, and exercise of religion; the right to fair legal procedure and to bear arms; and that powers not delegated to the federal gov’t were reserved for the states and the people.
- C) Nine Black students enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, under escort from the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division (the “Little Rock Nine”). Three weeks earlier, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had surrounded the school with National Guard troops to prevent its federal court-ordered racial integration. After a tense standoff, President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent 1,000 army paratroopers to Little Rock to enforce the court order.
- D) Spanish conquistador and explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, standing “silent, upon a peak in Darién,” on the Isthmus of Panama, becomes the first European to sight the Pacific Ocean.
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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game | | Feel it coming? | The feeling of completing today’s Conjoiner sequence has been compared to perfectly nailing that one part in Phill Collins' "In the Air Tonight" on the air-drums. It’s that satisfying. The first clue of today’s sequence is: “This person provides the percussion in a band”... |
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🧩 Puzzle Corner | | MiniSolve today’s crossword in under a minute and “You get a car!”, “You ge”.... (Wait, we didn’t clear this w our CEO). So maybe not, but we will be really impressed! SudokuToday’s sudoku is so iconic, Taylor Swift asks it for advice. |
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🐐 GOATWars: A Data-Driven Process to Determine the Best | | Click to play any (or all) of the three challenges below, then pick the GOAT through a series of head-to-head matchups. This data-driven process was developed to create definitive best-of-all-time lists using a more objective approach than random bloggers just publishing controversial opinions for clicks. |
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🏆 Tuesday's GOATWars Results: The Data Is Now In | | 😋 THE GREATEST FAST-CASUAL CHAINS OF ALL TIME - Chipotle Mexican Grill
- Five Guys Burgers and Fries
- Culver’s (sliiightly ahead of Jersey Mike’s)
Explore the full list. 🍿 THE GREATEST BILL MURRAY MOVIES OF ALL TIME - Ghostbusters (1984)
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- Caddyshack (1980)
Explore the full list. 🧟 RANKING CHARACTERS FROM ‘THE LAST OF US,’ GREATEST TO LEAST - Ellie Williams
- Joel Miller
…and in a distant third: 3 (T). Sarah 3 (T). Tess Explore the full list. Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change. |
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📜 Answers | | D, B, A, C - D) 1513: Spanish conquistador and explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa becomes the first European to sight the Pacific Ocean.
- B) 1789: The first Congress of the United States approves 12 amendments to the Constitution—known as the Bill of Rights—and sends them to the states for ratification.
- A) 1928: Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, the first company to mass-produce car radios, is incorporated.
- C) 1957: Nine Black students enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, under escort from the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division (the “Little Rock Nine”).
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