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• 📺 GOAT sitcom characters

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Each of the following events happened on January 29. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven”—beginning “Once upon a midnight dreary”—is published in the New York Evening Mirror.
• B) The Baseball Hall of Fame elects its first members in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson, and Walter Johnson.
• C) Stanley Kubrick’s black comic masterpiece, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, opens in theaters to both critical and popular acclaim. The movie’s popularity stands as evidence of changing attitudes toward atomic weapons and the concept of nuclear deterrence.
• D) German mechanical engineer Karl Benz patents the first practical automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine. The Benz company later merges with Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft to form Daimler-Benz, maker of Mercedes-Benz automobiles.

Hint: Mercedes-Benz is the product of two different companies

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Something about this feels… familiar. Piece together today’s Conjoiner to see where the loop closes.

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Eerie feeling that you’ve experienced a moment before”...

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Every vote builds your personal GOAT List, ranking the vehicles that didn’t just transport characters…they were the story.

Some vehicles symbolize adventure. Others represent power. A few became bigger than the movies or shows they came from. Now they’re going head-to-head on GoatWars in the Greatest Fictional Vehicles of All Time league.

Showdowns include:

• Batmobile 🆚 DeLorean Time Machine
• Millennium Falcon 🆚 USS Enterprise
• Ecto-1 🆚 Mystery Machine

📺 THE GREATEST SITCOM CHARACTER OF ALL TIME

1. Lucy Ricardo (I Love Lucy)
2. Archie Bunker (All in the Family)
3. Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)
4. Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
5. Elaine Benes (Seinfeld)

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

A, D, B, C

• A) 1845 – Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” is published.
• D) 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first practical automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine.
• B) 1936 – The Baseball Hall of Fame elects its first members to Cooperstown.
• C) 1964 – Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb opens in theaters.