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• 🌎 Around the world in 80 days
• 🧩 New puzzles
• 📜 Best US legislation of all time

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Each of the following events happened on November 14. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) Famed journalist Nellie Bly begins her bid to circle the globe faster than the fictional Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days. Bly, who travels via ships, trains, horses, rickshaws, and burros, eventually returns back home in just over 72 days.
• B) A chartered jet carrying most of Marshall University’s football team crashes into a hillside, killing everyone onboard. 37 Marshall football players are on the plane, along with the team’s coach, doctors, 25 boosters, and the university athletic director.
• C) Ruby Bridges, 6, one of six children to pass the test for entry into an all-white school, walks into William Frantz Elementary School after a court order mandating the desegregation of schools takes effect in New Orleans. She’s accompanied by federal marshals, and taunted by angry crowds.
• D) The gunslinger Frank “Buckskin” Leslie shoots Billy “The Kid” Claiborne dead in the streets of Tombstone, Arizona. Billy the Kid had unwisely decided to publicly challenge Leslie.

Hint: First shot in a duel usually wins

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Today’s mini starts as most would expect: in a hole in the ground. Set off on your own adventure to complete the puzzle:

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Sudoku

Last puzzle before the weekend party. Keep it sharp, and solve it smarty.

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📜 THE GREATEST US LAWS OF ALL TIME

1. US Constitution (1787; the clear favorite)
2. Bill of Rights (1791)
3. Civil Rights Act (1964)
4. Thirteenth Amendment (1865)
5. Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

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Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change.

D, A, C, B

• D) 1882 – Frank “Buckskin” Leslie shoots Billy “The Kid” Claiborne dead in Tombstone.
• A) 1889 – Nellie Bly begins her bid to circle the globe faster than Phileas Fogg. Her paper organized a "Nellie Bly Guessing Match" in which readers were asked to estimate Bly's arrival time to the second, with the Grand Prize consisting at first of a trip to Europe.
• C) 1960 – Ruby Bridges walks into William Frantz Elementary School. Bridges's father was initially reluctant, but her mother felt strongly that the move was needed not only to give her own daughter a better education, but to "take this step forward ... for all African-American children".
• B) 1970 – Plane carrying the majority of Marshall’s football team crashes. The NCAA gives the Thundering Herd special permission to let freshmen play on the varsity squad after the crash, allowing Marshall’s team to continue next season.