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• 🚀 Togas of mass destruction
• 🧩 New puzzles
• 🗿 GOAT travel icons

…and much more.

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In Tuesday’s edition, we said the plane crash that killed three musicians including Buddy Holly occurred in 1957—when it actually took place in 1959. Apologies for any confusion!

Each of the following events happened on February 5. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) The Punic Wars end, with the Roman Republic finally triumphing over its nemesis Carthage after more than a century of fighting. The victory and subsequent destruction of Carthage marked the ascension of Rome as the dominant power in the Western Mediterranean, a position it would hold for several centuries.
• B) US Secretary of State Colin Powell appears before the UN Security Council to present evidence that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction and poses an immediate danger.
• C) American forces are recalled from Mexico after nearly 11 months of fruitless searching for Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, who is accused of leading a bloody raid against Columbus, New Mexico.
• D) Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Evers after escaping prosecution 30 years earlier. Beckwith would later receive a life sentence.

Hint: Beckwith didn’t get convicted until his third trial.

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Unlike today’s Conjoiner hint, you can't just stick a place holder in and come back to it. Solve the sequence and show you don’t need a break to finish.

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “A page holder for a novel”...

Mini

Opposing forces are colliding in today’s mini, so expect resistance. Today’s puzzle will be a battle, but you can push through and emerge victorious.

• Play today’s mini crossword here.

Sudoku

A calm little task to guide you through; logic first, and the numbers fall true.

• Play today's puzzle here.

Every vote builds your personal GOAT List — ranking the comedies you never skip past, no matter how many times you’ve already seen them.

Some comedies hit once. Others somehow get better on the fifth, tenth, or twentieth watch. These are the movies you stumble into halfway through and still stay until the end. Now they’re going head-to-head on GoatWars in the Most Rewatchable Comedies league — and this one is ruthless.

Showdowns include:

• Airplane! 🆚 Anchorman
• Dumb and Dumber 🆚 Step Brothers
• The Big Lebowski 🆚 Mean Girls

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🗿 THE GREATEST TRAVEL ICON OF ALL TIME

1. Great Wall of China
2. Pyramids of Giza
3. Statue of Liberty
4. Eiffel Tower
5. Roman Colosseum

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

A, C, D, B

• A) 146 BCE – The Punic Wars end. Rome and Carthage fought three wars across more than a century, involving 43 combined years of active warfare on land and sea.
• C) 1917 – American forces end the search for Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
• D) 1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
• B) 2003 – Colin Powell appears before the UN Security Council to present evidence that Iraq possessed proscribed weapons of mass destruction.

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