wondering why I wouldn't just build this in Views. Indeed, this might look a bit masochistic if you're used to Views. However, there are a few things to consider:
EntityFieldQuery is core. If you are interested in keeping your installation as lean as possible, this is something to consider. Views is a contributed module, and so it automatically adds size and overhead to your Drupal install.

Taxonomy View mode allows for each Term page to use a Taxonomy view mode instead of the default hard code view.

This allows the term page display to be a list of the fields on the term (much like is done to nodes).

The main difference between this and the "Allowed values" or the "Maximum/Minimum" is that even if the value is outside the accepted limits, it will still pass validation. Also, Accepted Limit allows you to set custom warnings for each field.

The vCard module adds a vCard download link to every users profile. This link makes it easy to add users on your Drupal site to your local address book. Since we love microformats, there is also a theme function (theme_vcard) for displaying user data in the hCard format.

Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing temporal information.

This Drupal module is an integration for a JavaScript timeline widget developed by the SIMILE project.
It works in a similar way as Google Maps but for time-based events. The SIMILE Timeline (and Ajax) libraries can be used from the SIMILE server or can be downloaded and installed into your (local) Drupal installation.