📜 February 19: On This Day in History |  | The road less traveled |  Image: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring/Canva | Each of the following events happened on February 19. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) The first rescuers reach surviving members of the Donner Party, a group of California-bound emigrants stranded by snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. After taking a newly blazed trail called “Hastings Cutoff,” the party endured great hardships and became stuck in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Of 89 original members, only 45 survive.
- B) The Chicago Seven are found guilty of inciting a riot at the August Democratic National Convention in Chicago, but acquitted of riot conspiracy charges.
- C) Operation Detachment, the US Marines’ invasion of Iwo Jima, is launched. For the US, Iwo Jima represents prime real estate on which to build airfields to launch bombing raids against Japan.
- D) Thomas Edison is awarded a US patent for his new invention, the phonograph, which is the first device to both record sound and play it back. The phonograph captures (or “embosses”) sounds on tin-foil-covered cylinders, which can be played back later.
Hint: The Donner Party were one of the first to take a “new” shortcut |
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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game | | That peaceful feeling | Today’s conjoiner will have you wishing you were standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona. Take a deep breath, relax, and solve the sequence. The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Advice to someone who’s overworking themselves, or a popular Eagles tune”... |
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🧩 Puzzle Corner | | MiniLather, rinse, repeat is the theme of today’s mini. Wash away all doubts and complete the puzzle below: SudokuTake a breath, reset your mood; fill in the grid to feel renewed. |
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🐐 GOATWars: A Data-Driven Process to Determine the Best | | What’s the GOAT comfort movie? | 
| Every vote builds your personal GOAT List, ranking the movies you can watch anytime, anywhere, no matter how many times you’ve seen them. Some comfort movies feel like childhood. Others feel like escape. Some are pure joy. Others are cozy emotional resets. Now, they’re battling on GoatWars to decide which film truly never gets old. Showdowns include: ...and much more. |
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🏆 Tuesday's GOATWars Results: The Data Is Now In | | 📺 THE GREATEST ‘80S SITCOMS OF ALL TIME - Seinfeld
- M*A*S*H*
- Cheers
- The Golden Girls
- Family Ties
Explore the full list. Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change. |
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📜 Answers | | A, D, C, B - A) 1847 – Rescuers reach surviving members of the Donner Party. The lake where the surviving members of the party were rescued was named Donner Lake in honor of the incident.
- D) 1878 – Thomas Edison is awarded a patent for the phonograph.
- C) 1945 – Operation Detachment, the US Marines’ invasion of Iwo Jima, is launched. When the American flag is finally raised on the island, the memorable image is captured in a famous image that later wins the Pulitzer Prize.
- B) 1970 – The Chicago Seven are found guilty of inciting a riot, but cleared of riot conspiracy charges. The trial was a circus to that point, as the defendants and their attorneys used it as a platform to attack Nixon, the Vietnam War, racism and oppression, racking up 175 guilty contempt of court charges.
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