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Ray Edwin Powell was the president of Alcan, a Canadian aluminum company, before becoming the 10th Chancellor of McGill University in 1957. 
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| The General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument and the Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset were built due to a young girl decorating a white oak tree each Memorial Day. |
| American theatre director Jonathan Alper directed the New York premieres of works by Brian Friel, Terrence McNally and Beth Henley. |
| An Anglo-Moroccan alliance, developed between Elizabeth I of England and the Moroccan Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur, had an influence on at least two of Shakespeare's plays. |
| A "think piece" written by Graham Fuller was instrumental in leading to the Iran-contra affair. |
| The ancient Yogmaya Temple, Mehrauli is believed to be one of five surviving temples from the Mahabharat period in Delhi. |
| American football coach Wayne Howard retired from the University of Utah for "no real reason" after his team nearly won a conference title. |
| Lance Corporal William Windsor (pictured, on left) of The Royal Welsh, who retired on 20 May 2009, is a Cashmere goat. |
| 19th-century actor Lionel Brough played the character Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer 7,777 times. |
| The third season of USA Network's Burn Notice will focus on the backgrounds of the main characters. |
| Despite his pronounced nationalism, Czech composer Bedřich Smetana was distrusted by his country's conservatives due to his close ties with Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. |
| The French Boirault machine built in early 1915 during WWI is considered as an ancestor of the tank, but was ultimately abandoned and nicknamed Diplodocus militaris. |
| Dwaine Carpenter's first interception in the CFL came in a semifinal game. |
| A population bottleneck among Finns about 4,000 years ago may be the origin of the Finnish disease heritage that affects 1 in 500 children born in Finland today. |
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