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Christopher Columbus's letter recounting his first voyage, the first written description of America, was so popular it went through nine printed editions. 
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| Saturn Award winning costume designer Marilyn Vance once produced films with E! Entertainment founder Alan Mruvka. |
| Although Balao halfbeaks are mainly used as baitfish for sailfishes and marlins, they are also utilized as a food source in the West Indies. |
| Howard Reiter has been credited by some with developing the overhand spiral forward pass while playing for the Philadelphia Athletics of the original National Football League (1902). |
| After the destructive Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347, the treasury of the Byzantine Empire contained "nothing but the atoms of Epicurus". |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's only novel, Hyperion, was partly based on his attempts to woo Frances Appleton (pictured) who later became his wife despite disapproving of her depiction in the book. |
| The glamorous American actress Mary Castle was once dubbed more like Rita Hayworth than Hayworth herself. |
| A priest refused quarter and perished in his burning church during the 1759 St. Francis Raid by Rogers' Rangers. |
| The pump station built to supply Hudson River water to Albany, New York, is now home to a brewpub, planetarium and the city's visitor center. |
| During the early 20th century, the depopulated Palestinian village Sarafand al-Amar was the site of the largest British Army base in the Middle East. |
| Albert Sharpe participated in football, basketball, baseball, gymnastics, rowing, and track and field, and was called "the greatest living all round athlete" in 1915. |
| In 1901, Emir of Kuwait Mubarak Al-Sabah asked the Russian Empire for protection, only two years after his country became a British protectorate. |
| The spread of red palm mite (pictured) is the biggest mite explosion ever observed in the Americas. |
| Harvard All-American Bert Waters was accused of jabbing a finger into a Yale player's eye in the 1893 football game that became known as "The Bloodbath in Hampden Park"?. |
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