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1. World-Changing Inventions, Daring Voyages & More

   Wherio #13 · July 25th, 2026

   Five-event puzzle: A new constitution replaces a charter that had lasted more than a century · A central African territory becomes an independent republic · An army orders folding knives with a can-opener for every soldier · Prince Henry founds a school of navigation at Sagres · Two heavyweight rivals meet for a third, brutal time

2. Catastrophes, Wars and Uprisings & More

   Wherio #12 · July 24th, 2026

   Five-event puzzle: The Chernobyl nuclear reactor explodes · Red Guards launch the Cultural Revolution · The Klondike's gateway ports boom: Skagway and the Chilkoot Trail · An Olympic flame relay tradition is invented · A code-breaking manor shortens a war in secret

3. Catastrophes, Food and Drink & More

   Wherio #11 · July 23rd, 2026

   Five-event puzzle: A magnitude-8 earthquake devastates a capital built on an ancient lakebed · A village woman is credited with creating a famous soft cheese · Nelson's fleet destroys a combined enemy force off Cape Trafalgar · A nation bans its own favorite drink · Africa's longest war of independence ends after 30 years

4. Days of Destruction, Ingenious Creations & More

   Wherio #10 · July 22nd, 2026

   Five-event puzzle: A tsunami triggers the Fukushima nuclear disaster · Commercial bungee jumping launches off a river bridge · The deepest hole ever drilled reaches over 12km deep · A poet, painter, and printer of visions dies unsung · A treaty at Karlowitz marks an empire's first great retreat

5. Championship Drama, Power and Politics & More

   Wherio #9 · July 21st, 2026

   Five-event puzzle: Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky duel in the Match of the Century · Madame Tussaud opens her permanent wax museum in a great island capital · Europe's powers divide Africa at a conference table · Two giant pandas arrive as diplomatic gifts · A ruined Swahili town with a great mosque is swallowed by forest

6. Political Turning Points, Architectural Wonders & More

   Wherio #8 · July 20th, 2026

   Five-event puzzle: Mandela is elected president in the first all-race elections · A museum built from a physician's 71,000 curiosities opens free to all · A federation breaks up into three African nations, this one was formerly known as Northern Rhodesia. · Communities of escaped slaves force a colonial treaty · A great mosque rises on a site sacred to three faiths in Damascus

7. Lost Civilizations, Engineering Marvels & More

   Wherio #7 · July 19th, 2026

   Five-event puzzle: Erbil claims the title of oldest continuously inhabited city · The metro in this chaotic megacity becomes the first in the world to be certified by the UN for reducing carbon emissions. · A doctor removes a pump handle and stops a cholera outbreak · A young Liverpool band sharpens its act in a port city's clubs · Saladin destroys a crusader army near an extinct volcano

8. Art and Culture, Food and Drink & More

   Wherio #6 · July 18th, 2026

   Five-event puzzle: Lincoln delivers a two-minute address at Gettysburg · A monk named Dom Pérignon made important contributions to the production of champagne wine · A silver mountain funds a global empire · A jazz-composing king begins a seven-decade reign · A revolution's poet-priest becomes a culture minister in fatigues

9. Political Turning Points, Epic Journeys & More

   Wherio #5 · July 17th, 2026

   Five-event puzzle: A leader once jailed by the British becomes founding father of a new East African nation · Lindbergh lands outside a major capital city after 33 hours alone over the Atlantic · A city is flattened by history's largest pre-atomic explosion · The world's oldest active alliance is sealed between two seafaring realms · A university is founded that will call itself the West's oldest

10. Discoveries, Famous Flavors & More

    Wherio #4 · July 16th, 2026

    Five-event puzzle: The CERN laboratory is established near Geneva · A strong flavored dark brown spread goes on sale and divides the world · A civil war ends with a woman elected head of state, a first for the continent · An accidental voyage descends the world's greatest river · The first old-age state pension system is enacted

11. Power and Politics, Wild Places & More

    Wherio #3 · July 15th, 2026

    Five-event puzzle: The British Raj is partitioned into two new nations at midnight · The terraced turquoise lakes of Plitvice become a national park · The Rumble in the Jungle stuns the boxing world · A physicist lifts off from Bavaria into the stratosphere in a sealed sphere · Two men climb a white mountain and win a scientific prize

12. Historical Discoveries, Crowns and Empires & More

    Wherio #2 · July 14th, 2026

    Five-event puzzle: Giant desert figures, visible only from the air, get their first serious study · A 640-year dynasty relinquishes power · A dingo takes a baby, and a mother is wrongly convicted · The world's prime meridian is chosen at a conference · Astronomers, among them a famed poet, reform the calendar at an imperial observatory

13. Military Turning Points, Mysteries Revealed & More

    Wherio #1 · July 13th, 2026

    Five-event puzzle: An outnumbered army wins at Puebla, inspiring Cinco de Mayo · A farm-boy astronomer's blink comparator reveals Pluto · A Southeast Asian kingdom renames itself, choosing a name meaning 'land of the free' · Vincent van Gogh dies in a village inn · Rome abandons an island province after 350 years

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