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tree-ring dating has linked the building of the Bishop's Palace at Hereford to 1179, during the episcopate of Robert Foliot. 
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| Luv Ya Blue was the term given to a 1970s movement by fans of the Houston Oilers that featured fight songs, pom-pons and other gimmicks more reminiscent of college football than the NFL. |
| The Tierpark Hagenbeck zoo of Hamburg, Germany (pictured) was the first to use moats instead of cages to separate the animals from the public. |
| There is currently significant controversy on college and university rankings like those used for business school rankings because some of the methodologies are deemed misleading. |
| After serving as a border guard, Saint Claudius of Besançon became, successively, a priest, monk, abbot, bishop, and then an abbot again, in the 7th century. |
| The SAPPHIRE information network helped prevent epidemics in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, using Semantic Web technologies. |
| Soma Cruz, the protagonist of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, the third installment of the Castlevania video game series on the Game Boy Advance, is the reincarnation of the series' premier villain, Dracula. |
| cricketer Barry Fisher had a metal pin surgically inserted into his shoulder to prevent injury while bowling, although he still suffered from persistent shoulder problems. |
| The British shipping company Ellerman Lines lost 60 out of its 105 strong fleet of merchant vessels during the Second World War. |
| The world's most extensive deposits of eolianite (example pictured), rocks formed by the lithification of sediments deposited by wind, are located on the southern and western coasts of Australia. |
| Viktor Pynzenyk, Ukraine's Minister of Finance, is also a professor of economics at Lviv University. |
| Ron DeGregorio was elected in 2003 as the fourth president of USA Hockey since 1937. |
| Before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Jackson v. Indiana, an incompetent criminal defendant could be involuntarily confined indefinitely (as if given a life sentence) without a trial or a conviction. |
| The Zoological Garden of Hamburg built the world's largest primate house in 1915, only to see most of the monkeys starve to death during World War I and the zoo go bankrupt in 1920. |
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