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Maria Yakunchikova (pictured) was a Russian painter who lived in Paris and was active primarily in western Europe. 
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| According to legend, the masons who built Corcomroe Abbey (pictured) in Ireland were killed to stop them from building another masterpiece elsewhere. |
| Soviet sniper Roza Shanina's declaration "I shall return after the battle" would be paraphrased in a book title. |
| Josquin des Prez's Miserere, a motet of Psalm 51, was hugely influential not only as a psalm setting, but as an example of how to approach the text of Infelix ego. |
| Uli is a traditional type of design long practiced by the Igbo people of Nigeria. |
| "Bitaqat Khub" is the first and only Eurovision Song Contest to have been performed in Arabic, and also the first and only entry to have represented an African country. |
| The New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm simultaneously set new daily, weekly, and monthly snowfall records for Huntsville, Alabama. |
| The science and technology magazine Food Technology was originally a scientific journal. |
| The three universal Hindu icons are the Aum, the swastika (pictured), and the Sri Chakra Yantra. |
| The Brush Creek confluence with Santa Rosa Creek was the site of a Pomo village, the antecedent of modern Santa Rosa, California. |
| At 1,500,000 square feet, Willowbrook Mall is the second largest shopping mall in New Jersey. |
| Singapore's Museum Planning Area contains ten national monuments. |
| American attorney Nicole Seligman represented both Lt. Colonel Oliver North during the Iran-Contra hearings and President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial. |
| Nathaniel Butler introduced the first potato grown by Europeans in North America to Jamestown, Virginia. |
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