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A study at Berijam Lake by the Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History indicates that the near threatened Grey-breasted Laughingthrush has suffered from habitat degradation. 
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| Aaron Spelling's 56,500-square-foot mansion, known as The Manor, is the largest house in Los Angeles County. |
| Norwegian geochemist Knut S. Heier was a member of the Apollo Project. |
| The 2007 dedication of the 1872-built Confederate Monument in Crab Orchard, Kentucky, included Kentucky governor Ernie Fletcher and the United States Army. |
| The painting (pictured) of Robert Hollond, Monck Mason and Charles Green planning their record-making balloon trip also includes the artist, John Hollins. |
| One of Germany's Kaiser-class battleships, SMS Prinzregent Luitpold, never received a planned diesel engine to supplement her turbines, so her range was much less than her sister ships. |
| According to the Golden Legend, Saint Genebald left his wife around AD 499 to become Bishop of Laon, and was later imprisoned by her uncle, Saint Remigius, for sleeping with her when she visited. |
| Despite nearly throwing a perfect game in 1993, American baseball pitcher Tom Kramer never pitched at the highest professional level again after that year. |
| In the late 18th century, the Gotha Observatory became an international center for astronomy, and the most modern astronomical institute specifically for its instruments. |
| The Wire actress Felicia "Snoop" Pearson wrote an autobiography, Grace After Midnight, chronicling her drug-dealing days in Baltimore, imprisonment on murder charges and rehabilitation. |
| The rock band Goes Cube obtained its name from a poor back-translation of the phrase "Go Die" between English and German. |
| According to Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, there are more than 100 million women "missing" in Asia. |
| The Sea Cloud (pictured), the first fully racially integrated United States warship in World War II, later served as a private yacht to racist dictator Rafael Trujillo. |
| In Ayapango, Mexico, older homes have names that are displayed on plaques. |
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