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Rabbi Stephen Wise founded New York City's Free Synagogue in 1907 after turning down a position at Temple Emanu-El because its trustees would review his sermons. 
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| Dick King, who played in the early days of the NFL, was called "one of the greatest backs who ever wore moleskins". |
| The developers of the simulation game PHM Pegasus consulted with the hydrofoil manufacturer Boeing Marine Systems to increase the realism of hydrofoils in their game. |
| According to rumour, an Englishman was murdered and a fire ruined Metcalfe's testimonials during a Christmas Eve party in 1895 at the Metcalfe House in Delhi, India. |
| Villy Christensen is a core developer of the ecosystem modelling software system Ecopath, which NOAA named as one of the ten biggest scientific breakthroughs in its history. |
| The Keane Wonder Mine in Death Valley was mined so intensely in the early 1900s that it has begun to collapse. |
| Following the 1995 Dayton Accords, it was suggested that Bosnian mujahideen commander Abdelkader Mokhtari had secured a cache of SA-7 missiles through his influence with the President. |
| Of the 68 track sprinters who have broken the 10-second barrier in the 100 metres, only Patrick Johnson is not of West African descent. |
| Penalties for possessing or supplying cannabis (dried flower pictured), one of the many drugs illegal in the UK, were reduced in 2004, only to be increased in 2009. |
| During the American Civil War, the Third Tennessee regiment was sent to Camp Trousdale to help relieve disease, but its soldiers still suffered from epidemics. |
| Socrates Hotchkiss Tryon's land claim was logged for firewood to be used in a foundry by the Oregon Iron Company, but is now the Tryon Creek State Natural Area. |
| It has been argued that privity in English law is simply an element of consideration. |
| Virginia Cavaliers halfback Eugene "Buck" Mayer became the first consensus first-team All-American from a Southern school in 1915. |
| Polish philosopher Józef Kalasanty Szaniawski began as an advocate for restoring Poland's independence but ended as a high government official in Russian Poland—and an enemy of philosophy. |
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