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• 🏛️ Hail, Caesar!
• 🧩 New puzzles
• 5️⃣ GOAT #5s

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Each of the following events happened on August 19. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) 19-year-old Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian, who later assumes the designation Augustus Caesar, ascends to the rank of consul as one of two Roman heads of state. It comes a year after Octavian was adopted by Rome’s dictator Julius Caesar in secret.
• B) The Iranian military, with the support and financial assistance of the US government, overthrows the government of Premier Mohammad Mosaddeq and reinstates the Shah of Iran. Iran remains a solid Cold War ally of the US until a revolution ends the Shah’s rule decades later.
• C) Russia launches Sputnik 5, the first spacecraft to carry animals into space and bring them back alive. Passengers include two dogs, a gray rabbit, 40 mice, two rats and 15 flasks of fruit flies.
• D) Some 90% of German voters elect Adolf Hitler as president, an office he quickly abolishes in favor of the title "Führer and Reich Chancellor." It culminates Hitler’s unprecedented rise to a position of supreme and unlimited power in the German republic’s short history.

Hint: Octavian would later become Rome’s 1st emperor

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Today’s Conjoiner is nature’s little engineer. Connect the clues below and construct your way to victory.

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Dam-building rodent known for its broad, flat tail”...

Mini

Today’s mini has a hole lot of fun baked in. Schmear some brainpower across the grid and solve the puzzle.

• Play today’s mini crossword.

Sudoku

Each row's a riddle, each box a test. Finish them all and you've beaten the best.

• Play today's puzzle.

You've barely opened the menu, but the table already has a decision to make.

Chain restaurants have built entire reputations on the stuff that shows up before the entrée. But which starter actually rules them all?

Showdowns include:

• Bloomin’ Onion (Outback Steakhouse) 🆚 Cheddar Bay Biscuits (Red Robin)
• Olive Garden breadsticks 🆚 Rolls & cinnamon butter (Texas Roadhouse)
• Skillet Queso (Chili’s) 🆚 Traditional wings (Buffalo Wild Wings)

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5️⃣ THE GREATEST #5’S OF ALL TIME

1. Joe DiMaggio
2. Johnny Bench
3. George Brett
4. Albert Pujols
5. Kevin Garnett

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

A, D, B, C

• A) 43 BCE – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian, 19, ascends to the rank of Roman consul.
• D) 1934 – Some 90% of German voters elect Adolf Hitler as president, culminating his unprecedented rise to supreme power.
• B) 1953 – A CIA-assisted coup overthrows the government of Iran and reinstates the Shah.
• C) 1960 – Russia launches Sputnik 5, the first spacecraft to carry animals into space and bring them back alive.

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