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The 6th Canadian Infantry Division was raised in 1942 and disbanded in 1945 without having taken part in any World War II fighting. 
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| The Chengziya Archaeological Site in China is thought to be the largest prehistoric settlement found to date. |
| E. Roger Muir, creator and producer of The Howdy Doody Show, suggested that the title puppet run for "President of the Boys and Girls" in the 1948 U.S. presidential election. |
| punch bowls were occasionally used as baptismal fonts in dissenting families. |
| Three roads in Guide Board Corners, New York were damaged and closed by Hurricane Agnes. |
| The Lazarus syndrome is named after Lazarus of Bethany (pictured), who the Bible says was raised from the dead by Jesus. |
| soprano Meagan Miller, accustomed to wearing US$10,000 gowns on stage in her opera performances, chose to wear her mother's simple gown for her summer 2008 wedding. |
| The French navigation authority Voies navigables de France manages 3,800-kilometre (2,400 mi) of canals and 2,900-kilometre (1,800 mi) rivers on the largest network of waterways in Europe. |
| conviction politics have been criticized as being a "hard ideology". |
| Kirk DeMicco, writer-director of the 2008 animated film Space Chimps, conceived of the film after hearing a line from Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. |
| Nazi Germany used thousands of Polish laborers to build infrastructure for their invasion of the Soviet Union. |
| When Adobe Systems acquired the company Scene7 in May 2007, its CEO, Doug Mack, became vice president of the Creative Solutions Services division at Adobe. |
| The Guatemalan Black Howler and Mantled Howler monkeys are sympatric over parts of Mexico and Guatemala. |
| Spectacle Reef Light (pictured), a lighthouse on Lake Huron, Michigan, has been described as "one of the greatest engineering feats on the Great Lakes". |
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