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Using the pseudonym "Tanta", Doris Dungey blogged on Calculated Risk about the U.S. housing bubble, including a 13-article series on the mortgage industry called The Compleat ÜberNerd. 
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| The Last Nightingale was an album recorded to raise money for striking coal miners in the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike. |
| Playwright Larry Kramer called Rodger McFarlane, the first paid executive director of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, someone who "did more for the gay world than any person has ever done". |
| The suffix "-up" in Western Australian place names means "place of" in a dialect of the Noongar language. |
| Sugar Babies, conceived by Ralph G. Allen, was based on his collection of more than 5,000 comedy sketches. |
| The George Inn (pictured) in Norton St Philip, Somerset, was used as an army headquarters during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, and then as a courtroom to try the rebels in the Bloody Assizes. |
| Ty Cobb would hide black Detroit Tigers mascot Li'l Rastus in his room or under his train berth to evade Jim Crow laws. |
| Thelnetham Windmill was completely restored from dereliction to working order by amateur volunteers. |
| HMS Centurion had to be sent back to Britain for repairs in 1804, partly because she was infested with termites. |
| The nominees for the 25th Golden Raspberry Awards were announced by founder John Wilson at a book signing for The Official Razzie Movie Guide. |
| In 1991 the IRA attempted to assassinate John Major and his War Cabinet with a mortar attack on Downing Street. |
| The same month Willamette Falls Hospital in Oregon City, Oregon, announced a plan for the next 20 years, they announced they intended to merge with Providence Health & Services. |
| The Byzantine corps of the Optimatoi originated as an elite Gothic cavalry regiment, but was downgraded to a corps of mule-drivers after participating in the failed revolt of Artabasdos. |
| Tradition says that James Hoban, the architect of the White House, designed the William Seabrook House (pictured) on Edisto Island, South Carolina. |
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