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There was once an estuarine valley with a rich abundance of New Zealand flounders near Waipatiki, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, but it became a stream system after an earthquake in 1931. 
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| Upper Pine Bottom Run in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, was home to an iron furnace and sawmills in the 19th century, but today is home to state forest land and the 5-acre (2.0 ha) Upper Pine Bottom State Park. |
| During the offseason, Canadian football linebacker, Raymond Fontaine, works as a roughneck in the Alberta oil fields. |
| The Manning–Kamna Farm near Hillsboro, Oregon, has ten buildings that were included in the National Register of Historic Places, including a privy. |
| Tautiška giesmė, a poem by Vincas Kudirka written to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Varpas newspaper, became the Lithuanian national anthem. |
| Otto Nielsen played an important role behind the Norwegian cultural scene, as a program editor of the radio magazine Søndagsposten for more than twenty years. |
| Mike Reid was a linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals before becoming a country music singer and releasing the single "Walk on Faith". |
| Ken Foster (pictured) worked at Devonport Dockyard for 35 years before becoming the Lord Mayor of Plymouth. |
| Vegard Sletten, editor of Verdens Gang in his later life, saw his liberation from Berg concentration camp on his birthday?. |
| Rafael Palmeiro won the Gold Glove Award at first base in 1999 despite appearing in only 28 games at the position. |
| Sir William Fortescue was prompted to become a barrister by the death of his wife. |
| The Anna Kournikova computer virus was created by Jan de Wit using a generic Visual Basic Worm Generator program. |
| American journalist Andrea Elliott received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for a series of articles on an Egyptian-born imam living in Brooklyn. |
| Thrill the World is an international event in which participants (example pictured) simultaneously emulate the zombie dance from the music video of Michael Jackson's "Thriller". |
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