Ingenpedia:Recent additions

3 January 2021

 * 00:00, 3 January 2021 (UTC)


 * ... that Panchkuta Basadi (pictured), in the Humcha Jain temple complex, houses a golden-coloured idol of Padmavati carrying a lotus, a goad, and a noose?
 * ... that US civil-rights leader John Warren Davis was the longest-serving president of West Virginia State University and helped to establish the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund?
 * ... that U-710 was sunk only ten days after beginning her first patrol?
 * ... that as a Porto Alegre city councillor, Rodrigo Maroni proposed a bill that would have imposed life imprisonment on offenders who commit cruelty to animals?
 * ... that 6,000 ft2 of development rights above the Art Students League Building cost $31.8 million?
 * ... that Enid Szánthó, a leading contralto of the Vienna State Opera, appeared as Erda in Wagner's Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1930, but was no longer invited by 1938?
 * ... that Paper Mario: The Origami King uses office supplies for boss battles to complement its origami theme?
 * ... that climate journalist Kendra Pierre-Louis is a critic of mayonnaise?

2 January 2021

 * 00:00, 2 January 2021 (UTC)


 * ... that a ranking of the greatest double-entendre songs of all time included "Big Long Slidin' Thing" by Dinah Washington (pictured), "Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl" by Bessie Smith, "It Ain't the Meat (It's the Motion)" by the Swallows, "Keep On Churnin' (Till the Butter Comes)" by Wynonie Harris, and "Big Ten Inch Record" by Aerosmith?
 * ... that XO was one of the lowest-selling games in the Super Robot Wars series due to Xbox 360's unwelcoming commercial and critical reception in Japan?
 * ... that Frances Spatz Leighton was called the "Queen of Female Ghosts" for ghostwriting many memoirs?
 * ... that the 1988 Bruges speech by Margaret Thatcher has been described as "setting the UK on the path to Brexit"?
 * ... that after Illinois overhauled its Freedom of Information Act on January 1, 2010, the law became regarded as one of the most liberal public-records statutes in the United States?
 * ... that in 1982, a Magnificat in German composed in 1707 for soprano, traverso, strings, and continuo and attributed to Bach and Telemann, was identified as a composition by Melchior Hoffmann?
 * ... that Spanish physicist Teresa Rodrigo worked on the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN and the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab?
 * ... that Manner, a Macau entertainment company, opened a store that sells almond biscuits with condom-looking wrapping, and gives customers free beef jerky if they show a parking ticket?

1 January 2021

 * 00:00, 1 January 2021 (UTC)


 * ... that volcanic fumaroles deposit more than 240 distinct, rare fumarole minerals (examples pictured)?
 * ... that British Army officer Sir Augustus FitzGeorge served as equerry to his father, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, and accompanied Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on his visit to India?
 * ... that the 1983 memoir Home Before Morning, which details the author's time as a Vietnam War nurse, is dedicated to "all of the unknown women who served forgotten in their wars"?
 * ... that Israeli lawyer Gonen Ben Itzhak, a prominent figure in the protests against Benjamin Netanyahu, is a former Shin Bet handler of Hamas mole "The Green Prince"?
 * ... that the results of the 2021 Uzbek presidential election are expected to mirror those from 2016, which were widely considered illegitimate?
 * ... that LaVon Mercer, who was homeless as a teenager, played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League for 14 years and was its 1980–81 season MVP?
 * ... that Milestone House at the Edinburgh City Hospital was the first custom-built AIDS hospice in the UK?
 * ... that in a three-month period in mid- to late 2020, nearly half of Americans were subject to an SSA impersonation scam robocall?