Ingenpedia:Did you know/January 26, 2021

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 * ... that in Islamic art, the shamsa is found in places as diverse as on carpets, inside domes (example pictured), and forming the frontispiece of books?
 * ... that American local car dealer Sigmund Strochlitz was a confidant of Elie Wiesel and a leader in the Holocaust remembrance movement?
 * ... that the yawara is a Japanese weapon that is used for martial arts and was used by American police?
 * ... that Walt Whitman called one of his lectures on Abraham Lincoln "the culminating hour" of his life?
 * ... that places of worship in Elmbridge, Surrey, include the "ferocious" Weybridge United Reformed Church?
 * ... that former New York City Ballet principal dancer Janie Taylor appeared in the film Center Stage as a background dancer, and served as a motion caption dancer for Barbie of Swan Lake?
 * ... that Ipswich Town won the Football League First Division in their 1961–62 season having been promoted from the Second Division the previous season?
 * ... that Bob Wells created a Burning Man for retirees?
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