Sol Invictus ("Invincible Sun") was the official sun god of the later Roman Empire. In 274 the Roman emperor Aurelian made it an official cult alongside the traditional Roman cults. Scholars disagree whether the new deity was a refoundation of the ancient Latin cult of Sol, a revival of the cult of Elagabalus or completely new. The god was favored by emperors after Aurelian and appeared on their coins until Constantine. The last inscription referring to Sol Invictus dates to 387 AD and there were enough devotees in the 5th century that Augustine found it necessary to preach against them.

It is commonly claimed that the date of December 25th for Christmas was selected in order to correspond with the Roman festival of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, or "Birthday of Sol Invictus" but Pope Benedict XVI has argued that the December 25 date was determined simply by calculating nine months after March 25, regarded as the day of Jesus’ conception (the Feast of the Annunciation). This claim was mainly based on a passage of the Commentary on the prophet Daniel by Hippolytus of Rome, which was written around year 204.

"Mr. Cruel" is the name given to an Australian murderer and rapist who attacked girls in suburban Melbourne in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His identity is unknown.

He was originally known as The Hampton Rapist^{[citation needed]}, and was later given his infamous Mr. Cruel moniker by newspaper sub-editors. Melbourne Police believe that he is responsible for a series of child rapes and abductions dating back to 1985.

Mr. Cruel is believed to have videotaped or perhaps taken still photographs of his attacks. Detectives believe that if he is still alive, he will have kept the tapes and/or photos and will still collect, and possibly swap, child pornography. They say he almost certainly continues to collect pornography through the internet and may communicate with children using chat lines. He plans his crimes - for example, in one case he abducted a girl and told her he would release her in exactly 50 hours, and indeed he did^{[citation needed]}. He bathed his victims carefully, with one victim describing the act as "like a mother washing a baby", and wiped benchtops etc. for fingerprints^{[citation needed]}. Shortly before releasing one victim, he thoroughly cleaned the bathroom and then laid down a sheet on the lino-covered floor to avoid leaving footprints^{[citation needed]}. In one case, he took a second set of clothes from the girl's home to dress her before she was freed. In another, he dumped the girl in garbage bags so police could not test her original clothes. The modus operandi is so similar in these cases that police believe it is the same perpetrator.

Ivan Turina (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [iːʋan turina]; born 3 October 1980 in Zagreb) is a Croatian football goalkeeper who is currently playing for AIK.

Turina started his professional career with Dinamo Zagreb in the summer of 1998, initially serving as the club's fourth-choice goalkeeper behind Dražen Ladić, Tomislav Butina and Vladimir Vasilj. He did not make any competitive appearances for Dinamo until 2003 and also spent three seasons on loan to Croatia Sesvete, Kamen Ingrad and Osijek.

Turina became the first-choice goalkeeper at Dinamo Zagreb during the 2003-04 season, making 22 appearances in the Croatian First League. He also made his first two UEFA Cup appearances for the club in the autumn of 2003. The 2004-05 season saw him making 12 domestic league appearances for Dinamo as their second-choice goalkeeper, but then he went on to regain his place as the first-choice goalkeeper at the club for the 2005-06 season and appeared in all of their 32 domestic league matches during a title-winning season.