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The Grand Chartophylax was considered the right arm of the Patriarch of Constantinople. 
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| Taras Fedorovych, a 16th century Cossack hetman, led an unsuccesfull uprising over the issue of the Cossack register. |
| Clontarf Aboriginal College in Australia has at various points in its history served as an orphanage, a convent, an RAAF training facility, a boarding school and a day school. |
| The vestry of Makaravank Monastery (pictured) in Armenia served two adjacent churches. |
| Together with the Treaty of Mendota, the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux ceded nearly 24 million acres of Sioux land to the United States in exchange for cash and annuities. |
| Thoroughbred racehorse Gallant Man lost the 1957 Kentucky Derby by a nose after his jockey stood up to celebrate. |
| In 1057, Saint Anthony of Pechersk singled-handedly dug out the Near Caves in Kiev, Ukraine which is part of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. |
| In the United Kingdom alone, over £60 million is spent annually on dealing with the effects of leaves on railroad tracks. |
| Although scholars have studied revolutions (depiction) for over a century, there are still many competing theories explaining those key events in human history. |
| The publisher of Mirror Buzz, a Mumbai Mirror supplementary magazine, was arrested in 2005 after the magazine featured images of nude women on its front cover. |
| The Thoroughbred racehorse Sarazen won the United States Horse of the Year Award for two consecutive years in the 1920s. |
| Excavations at the village of Timerevo near Yaroslavl-on-the-Volga revealed a huge number of African dirhams and a chess piece, all of them with Runic graffiti. |
| Tsar Alexander II of Russia signed the Ems Ukaz, a decree banning official use of the "non-existent" Ukrainian language, whilst enjoying a spa at Bad Ems, Germany. |
| The soldier in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy reunited with his family after six years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp. |
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