- The Indianapolis Racers first signed Wayne Gretzky. The team was owned at the time by Nelson Skalbania.
- Kublai Khan was a Mongol. When he conquered China, he became the first emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
- Epistemology is the theory or science of the limits, nature and method of knowledge.
- A cochlea is another term for a spiral staircase. It is the Greek for ‘snail shell’.
- Salsa verde is the Italian sauce.