📜 October 8: On This Day in History |  | It’s a hot topic |  Image: Gemini (prompting by Peter Nowak)/Canva/Various clothing brands (logos) | Each of the following events happened on October 8. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Southdale Mall, the nation’s first enclosed shopping mall, opens in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina. The concept’s creators, Donald Dayton—head of Dayton’s department store—and Austrian-born architect Victor Gruen, hope the climate-controlled design will lure more shoppers to stores during frigid winters (it does).
- B) 37 fires break out across the Great Lakes region—three of which are massive (and deadly). The Great Chicago Fire kills 300, the Great Michigan Fire 300-500, and the Wisconsin Peshtigo Fire, history's deadliest, kills least 1,200.
- C) Raytheon Manufacturing Company files a patent for what becomes a staple kitchen appliance: the microwave oven. Invented by Raytheon employee Percy Spencer by accident after he found a melted Payday candy bar in his pocket while fiddling with a microwave radiation-emitting magnetron, it now sits in over 90% of US homes.
- D) The Office of Homeland Security is founded, less than one month after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Now a cabinet department, Homeland Security is now one of the largest organs of the federal government, charged with preventing terror attacks, border security, immigrations and customs, disaster relief and prevention, and other related tasks, the History Channel reports.
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🧩 Puzzle Corner | | MiniDon’t let today’s Mini crossword tie you in a knot. Solving it will make you quite fashionable. SudokuA count to nine, a logic climb—finish the puzzle, you’ll feel sublime. |
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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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🏆 Monday's GOATWars Results: The Data Is Now In | | 🇺🇸 THE GREATEST AMERICAN FOODS OF ALL TIME - Cheeseburger
- Macaroni and Cheese
- Fried Chicken (basically tied w Mac & Cheese)
Explore the full list. 🇲🇽 THE GREATEST MEXICAN FOODS OF ALL TIME - Tacos
- Enchiladas
- Fajitas
Explore the full list. 😋 WHERE TO FIND THE BEST BBQ IN AUSTIN, TX - TIE: Rudy’s Country Store & BBQ and Terry Black's Barbecue
- Franklin Barbecue
Explore the full list. Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change. |
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📜 Answers | | B, C, A, D - B) 1871: 37 fires break out across the Great Lakes region—three of which, the Great Chicago Fire, the Great Michigan Fire, and the Wisconsin Peshtigo Fire, are massive (and deadly).
- C) 1945: Raytheon Manufacturing Company files a patent for what becomes a staple kitchen appliance: the microwave oven.
- A) 1956: Southdale Mall, the nation’s first enclosed shopping mall, opens in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina.
- D) 2001: The Office of Homeland Security is founded, less than one month after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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