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# Sogdian Daēnās

Sogdian Daēnās, also known as Sogdian Deities (French: Deux divinités féminines; Chinese: 粟特神祇白畫) is a line drawing discovered by the French Orientalist Paul Pelliot at the Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, dated to the 10th-century Guiyi period. It is probably associated with the Zoroastrian cult of the Sogdian people. The historian Zhang Guangda [zh], a member of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan, recognised this "paper image" as one of the "pieces of paper depicting Mazdean deities for the saixian celebration". This piece is part of the Pelliot chinois collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

## Description

This sketch, painted on paper in black ink with light colouring, depicts two ladies sitting opposite each another, their heads being encircled by nimbi. Both are represented holding various attributes: the lady on the left, who sits on a rectangular throne supported by a row of lotus petals, holds a foliated cup and a tray with a dog seated on it. The one on the right is seated on a dog or wolf, and has four arms, the upper two supporting the sun and moon discs, the lower two arms holding a scorpion and a snake. They wear a characteristic hairstyle, surmounted by a water-drop-shaped or peach-shaped headdresses that are probably made of metal.

## Analysis

The drawing had been published in Jao Tsung-I's The Line Drawing of Dunhuang in 1978, but has only attracted the interest of researchers since it was displayed in the Sérinde exhibition in 1995.
The peach-shaped headdress resembles the hairstyle of the Uyghur princess. The dress of the lady on the left, at least, does not seem to correspond to the Chinese fashion at the time, and both representing the expression of foreign beliefs. According to Lilla Russell-Smith, the painting was most likely "commissioned by a Buddhist Uyghur donor who was still very much influenced by Manichaean thought" or possibly "a Manichaean Uyghur who was already deeply influenced by Buddhist ideas of rebirth."
According to Jiang Boqin (姜伯勤)—a professor at Sun Yat-sen University—it is a piece of Zoroastrian art, and the four-armed deity is a Sogdian goddess worshipped in their Zoroastrian cult, whose name is Nanâ, or Nanaia, the goddess originated from Mesopotamia. Frantz Grenet—a French specialist on Sogdiana and Zoroastrianism—and the historian Zhang Guangda argue that the lady on the left representing Daēnā, the good according to Zoroastrian vision; the other one represents Daēva, the bad. Jiang Boqin agrees with Grenet and Zhang that the deity on the left being Daēnā, but he determined the one on the right is the goddess Nanâ.
# Hans Riesel

Hans Ivar Riesel (May 28, 1929 in Stockholm – December 21, 2014) was a Swedish mathematician who discovered the 18th Mersenne prime in 1957 using the computer BESK: 2$^{3217}$-1, comprising 969 digits. He held the record for the largest known prime from 1957 to 1961, when Alexander Hurwitz discovered a larger one. Riesel also discovered the Riesel numbers as well as developing the Lucas–Lehmer–Riesel test. After having worked at the Swedish Board for Computing Machinery, he was awarded his Ph.D. from Stockholm University in 1969 for his thesis Contributions to numerical number theory, and in the same year joined the Royal Institute of Technology as a senior lecturer and associate professor.

## Selected publications

* Riesel, Hans (1994). Prime Numbers and Computer Methods for factorization. Progress in Mathematics. Vol. 126 (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Birkhäuser. ISBN 0-8176-3743-5. Zbl 0821.11001.
# John Aggleton

John Aggleton FRS FMedSci FLSW (born 14 June 1955 in Cardiff) is a British behavioural neuroscientist.

## Education and career

Aggleton obtained his B.A. in natural sciences in 1976 at Cambridge University and his Ph.D. with his thesis entitled Anatomical and Functional Subdivisions of the Amygdala in 1980 from the University of Oxford. From 1983 he was first lecturer and then from 1992 senior lecturer in the department of psychology at the University of Durham. Since 1994, he has been professor of cognitive neuroscience at Cardiff University, where he studies the architecture of the brain and how various brain structures work together to provide different forms of memory.

## Honours and community service

Aggleton was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2011, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012. He was president of the European Brain and Behaviour Society from 2005 to 2006 and of the British Neuroscience Association from 2015 to 2017. He is a member of the editorial boards of Behavioral Neuroscience, Behavioural Brain Research, Neuropsychologia, and Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
# Hammudid dynasty

The Hammudid dynasty (Arabic: بنو حمود, romanized: Banū Ḥammūd) was an Arab Muslim family that briefly ruled the Caliphate of Córdoba and the taifas of Málaga and Algeciras and nominal control in Ceuta.

## The dynasty

The dynasty is named after their ancestor, Hammud, a descendant of Idris ibn Abdallah, founder of the Idrisid dynasty and great-grandchild of Hasan, son of Fatimah and Ali and grandson of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. When Sulayman ibn al-Hakam carved out Andalusian land for his Berber allies, two members of the Hammudid family were given the governorship of Algeciras, Ceuta and Tangier. The Hammudids thus gained control of the traffic across the Straits of Gibraltar, suddenly becoming a powerful force. Claiming to act on behalf of the dethroned Hisham II, the Hammudid governor of Ceuta Ali ibn Hammud al-Nasir marched upon Córdoba in the year 1016, where he was crowned Caliph.
In 1056, the last Hammudid Caliph was dethroned, losing Málaga to the Zirids of Granada, who had previously been the Hammudids' most important supporters. The Hammudi family was then forced to settle in Ceuta.
# List of Carlton SC seasons

Carlton Soccer Club was an Australian semi-professional association football club based in Joimont, Melbourne. The club was formed in 1997 and joined the National Soccer League in the 1997–98 season until they were disbanded from the 2000–01 National Soccer League and became defunct. The club's first team spent four seasons in the National Soccer League. The table details the club's achievements in major competitions, and the top scorers for each season.

## History

Carlton's inaugural season in 1997–98 saw the club finish regular season runners-up against South Melbourne and qualify for their first Grand Final losing 2–1 against South Melbourne with Carlton claiming the two runners-up medals. The next season in 1998–99 had the team miss out on the Finals series finishing 11th out of 15. Carlton had qualified for the Finals series the next season in 1999–2000 finished 3rd but being eliminated in the Preliminary Final by Wollongong Wolves. This was to be the club's last completed season, as the 2000–01 season saw the club become defunct after playing just eight rounds in the 2000–01 National Soccer League season and effectively forfeiting all results in the league being awarded 3–0 losses.

## Key

Key to league competitions:

## Seasons

Results of league and cup competitions by season :
| Season | Division | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | Pos | Finals | Name(s) | Goals |
| Season | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | Finals | Top goalscorer(s) | Top goalscorer(s) |
| 1997–98 | NSL | 26 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 44 | 24 | 45 | 2nd | RU | Andrew Vlahos | 11 |
| 1998–99 | NSL | 28 | 9 | 4 | 15 | 47 | 47 | 31 | 11th | DNQ | Alex Moreira | 12 |
| 1999–2000 | NSL | 34 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 55 | 39 | 58 | 3rd | PF | Alex Moreira | 15 |
| 2000–01 | NSL | 30 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 16th | DNQ | Archie Thompson | 6 |

## Footnotes

* ↑ When Carlton became defunct, the club forfeited all results in the 2000–01 National Soccer League with all matches being awarded 3–0 losses.
# Brandon Boudreaux

Brandon Alan Boudreaux (born June 26, 1989) is an American former professional football defensive end who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was signed by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats as a free agent in 2012. He played high school football for the Auburn High School Tigers and college football for the Troy Trojans.

## Early life

Boudreaux went to Auburn High School. At Auburn High, Boudreaux was a three-year letter-winner under coaches Robert Maddox and Tim Carter.

## College career

Boudreaux played for four seasons at Troy. In 2011, Boudreaux was rated as one of the 10 strongest players in college football.

## Professional career

Boudreaux signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats as a free agent on May 29, 2012. In his first five games with the Tiger-Cats, he recorded seven tackles and three sacks. He was traded to the Saskatchewan Roughriders on September 24, 2014.
Upon entering free agency, Boudreaux signed with the Calgary Stampeders on February 11, 2015.
# A. Hays Town

A. Hays Town (June 17, 1903 – January 6, 2005) was an American architect whose career spanned over sixty-five years. While Town designed commercial and governmental buildings in the style of modern architecture for the first forty years of his career, he became best known for his residential architecture, which was heavily influenced by the Spanish, French, and Creole history of Louisiana. His work was featured in several publications during his lifetime, including Time, Life, Southern Living, and Southern Accents. Today, there are an estimated 1,000 homes remaining that were designed and built by Town, and his distinct style continues to exert an influence on modern southern architecture.

## Works

* Capitol High School in Baton Rouge
* Tri Delta Sorority House in Baton Rouge
* LaSalle Elementary School in Baton Rouge
# Pat Schmatz

Pat Schmatz (born ca. 1960) is an American author of young adult fiction and middle grade fiction, best known for their James Tiptree Jr. Award winning novel Lizard Radio. Other of their well-known and award-winning works include Bluefish and The Key to Every Thing.

## Personal life

Schmatz grew up in rural Wisconsin. They read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton in sixth grade, which made them decide that they wanted to start writing for children.

## Selected works

Their second novel and first young adult book, Mousetraps, tells the story of a teen dealing with homophobia and bullying after her childhood best friend who suddenly disappeared turns up again. It was published in 2008 by Carolrhoda and a nominee for the Lambda Literary Award in Children's/Young Adult in 2008.
Bluefish, their fourth novel, is about a boy moving to a new town where he lives with his alcoholic grandpa. He is befriended by a difficult and hilarious classmate who helps him see things in a new way. It was published by Candlewick in 2011 and received several starred reviews. Bluefish was a nominee for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award in 2013 and the California Young Reader Medal for Middle School/Junior High in 2015. It won the Crystal Kite Award in 2012 and the Josette Frank Award in 2015.
Schmatz's fifth novel, Lizard Radio, is set in a world just slightly tilted from our own, where teens have to commit to a gender and "benders" are dealt with harshly. In the novel, a fifteen-year-old bender teen struggles in a culture that tries to define everyone by strict binaries. It was published by Candlewick in 2015. Lizard Radio won the James Tiptree Jr. Award in 2015.
# Clayton Rawson

Clayton Rawson (August 15, 1906 – March 1, 1971) was an American mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician. His four novels frequently invoke his great knowledge of stage magic and feature as their fictional detective The Great Merlini, a professional magician who runs a shop selling magic supplies. He also wrote four short stories in 1940 about a stage magician named Don Diavolo, who appears as a minor character in one of the novels featuring The Great Merlini. "Don Diavolo is a magician who perfects his tricks in a Greenwich Village basement where he is frequently visited by the harried Inspector Church of Homicide, either to arrest the Don for an impossible crime or to ask him to solve it."

## Life and career

Rawson was born in Elyria, Ohio, the son of Clarence D. and Clara (Smith) Rawson. He became a magician when he was 8 years old. He married Catherine Stone in 1929, the same year he graduated from Ohio State University, and they had four children. He moved to Chicago and worked there as an illustrator.
His first novel, Death from a Top Hat, appeared in 1938.
He was one of the four founding members of the Mystery Writers of America, which presents the annual Edgar Awards in various categories of mystery writing. All of his novels were written before the founding of this group, but in 1949 and 1967 Rawson received Special Edgar Awards for his various contributions to mystery writing and the MWA, including the founding of the organization's first newsletter, "The Third Degree". Rawson is also credited with writing the organization's first slogan: "Crime Does Not Pay—Enough".
Rawson was widely admired by his mystery-writing colleagues, and John Dickson Carr, master of "impossible crime" stories, dedicated the 1965 novel "The House at Satan's Elbow" to him. Rawson was managing editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine between 1963 and his death in the United Hospital, Port Chester, N.Y., in 1971.
Rawson's burial was apparently in New York. Sometime between 2006 and 2011, his name was inscribed on his parents' double gravestone at a cemetery in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, noting the family connection and honoring a hometown boy who achieved fame. However, he is not buried there. The date of his death in this added inscription is incorrectly listed as 1970.

## Works on the screen

At least two movies were made based on the Merlini books. One of them, Miracles for Sale (1939), was based on Death from a Top Hat but had no character named Merlini. Instead, Robert Young played the character as "The Great Morgan". The movie The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942), starring Lloyd Nolan, was based on No Coffin for the Corpse, but the Merlini character was replaced by Michael Shayne, a popular fictional private eye at the time, created by the writer Brett Halliday.
A 30-minute pilot for a television series was created in 1951, but no further episodes were made. The Transparent Man, written by Rawson, starred Jerome Thor as The Great Merlini — who in this incarnation was a stage magician — with Barbara Cook as his assistant Julie, and featuring E. G. Marshall as a criminal.
# 2020 United States Shadow Senator election in the District of Columbia

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The 2020 United States Shadow Senator election in the District of Columbia took place on November 3, 2020, to elect a shadow member to the United States Senate to represent the District of Columbia. The member was only recognized by the District of Columbia and not officially sworn or seated by the United States Senate. Paul Strauss won election to a fifth term with the largest percentage and number of votes in his career.

## Primary elections

The party primaries took place on June 2, 2020. Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic voting by mail was encouraged. Democrat Paul Strauss, the incumbent shadow senator, and D.C. Statehood Green candidate Eleanor Ory were unopposed in their party primaries. Cornelia Weiss won a write-in campaign in the Republican primary.

## General election

The general election took place on November 3, 2020.

### Candidates

* Eleanor Ory (D.C. Statehood Green)
* Paul Strauss (Democratic), incumbent
* Cornelia Weiss (Republican)

### Results

General election results :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Paul Strauss (Incumbent) | 251,991 | 81.17% |
| | DC Statehood Green | Eleanor Ory | 31,151 | 10.03% |
| | Republican | Cornelia Weiss | 24,168 | 7.78% |
| | Write-in | Write-in | 3,154 | 1.02% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 310,464 | 100.0% |
| | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold |
# Peter Prescott (musician)

Peter Glen Prescott is a musician from Boston, Massachusetts.
He is best known as the drummer for Mission of Burma. After Burma disbanded in 1983, Prescott remained active in the Boston music scene, forming Volcano Suns and later Kustomized, Peer Group, and Minibeast. Since Burma's reformation, beginning with 2004's ONoffON, Prescott has resumed his original duties alongside bandmates Roger Miller and Clint Conley.
# Robert Carranza

Robert Carranza is an American Audio engineer, mixer and record producer.

## Selected discography

* 2024 – One Assassination Under God - Chapter 1 – Marilyn Manson
* 2017 – Heaven Upside Down – Marilyn Manson
* 2016 – Dont Go She Gone – Mangchi
* 2015 – The Pale Emperor – Marilyn Manson
* 2014 – Convoque Seu Buda – Criolo
* 2010 – Keyboard City – Salvador Santana
* 2009 – Zee Avi – Zee Avi
* 2009 – Jack Johnson En Concert – Jack Johnson
* 2009 – Arte De La Elegancia De – LFC Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
* 2009 – 1 Up! – IllScarlett
* 2008 – SSB – Salvador Santana Band
* 2008 – Sleep Through the Static – Jack Johnson
* 2008 – Sirenas – División Minúscula
* 2008 – One Day as a Lion – One Day as a Lion
* 2008 – Maestro – Taj Mahal
* 2008 – Luz del Ritmo – Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
* 2008 – In the Ever – Mason Jennings
* 2008 – The Secret War – Shadow Jaguar
* 2008 – The Bedlam in Goliath – The Mars Volta
* 2008 – 10,000 Steps – Biomusique
* 2007 – Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo – Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group
* 2007 – Roses & Clover – Animal Liberation Orchestra
* 2007 – Eternamiente – Molotov
* 2007 – Don't Mess with the Dragon – Ozomatli

## Film credits

* Sucker Punch
* Super
* 300
* The Devil's Rejects
* Slither
* Dawn of the Dead
* What's the Worst That Could Happen?
* Rated X
* Trouble Bound
* The Last Time I Committed Suicide
* Fall Time
* Baadasssss!
* Kingdom Come
* Born Bad
* Denial
* Alien Avengers
* The Crow: City of Angels
# Vitis (disambiguation)

Vitis is a genus of about 60 species of plants in the flowering plant family Vitaceae
Vitis can also refer to:
* vine staff, the centurion's rod used for discipline in the Roman army
* Vitis, Austria
* Vitis, Peru and Vitis District, a town and a district of the province Yauyos
* VITIS, or the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, in Sofia, Bulgaria
* Vitis, the Latin name for the Montone
* AMD Vitis, formerly known as Xilinx Vitis, an IDE for developing designs with Xilinx's FPGAs.
# Chen Pei-jer

Chen Pei-jer (Chinese: 陳培哲; pinyin: Chén Péizhé; born 1955) is a Taiwanese hepatologist and an academician of Academia Sinica.

## Early life and education

Chen Pei-jer was raised by his grandparents in Shalu, Taichung, while his parents worked in northern Taiwan. He and his three siblings had a strict routine, awakening at 6:00 am daily to exercise and do chores alongside their grandfather, followed by Chinese calligraphy practice. Chen earned a medical degree from National Taiwan University in 1981, and he completed a doctorate at University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1987.

## Career

Upon completing his doctorate, Chen returned to National Taiwan University as a postdoctoral researcher, later joining the faculty in 1987. He was elected a member of Academia Sinica in 2006, and into The World Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Chen specializes in hepatitis research. He helped treat patients during the 2003 SARS outbreak, and was invited to a SARS-related seminar hosted by the World Health Organization, but did not attend because he was unable to isolate sufficiently after treating SARS patients, per the regulations in force for that meeting. Chen was invited to the 2009 World Health Assembly as part of the Chinese Taipei delegation. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan, Chen served on the vaccine review committee until late May 2021. Upon announcing his resignation from the body in June, Chen stated that the committee would struggle to remain neutral when reviewing Taiwanese-made vaccines.
# The Mountain Plaza

The Mountain Plaza Ceramic Amphitheater Art Center (山の広場) is a ceramic installation and open-air theater located in Mihama, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

## Planning

The foundation of The Mountain Plaza was laid in 2000 by two artists, Ximena Elgueda from Latin America and Steven Ward from the United States. Both artists migrated to Japan in the 1990s to study ceramics. They met in Shiga Prefecture in 1996 and later delved into the collaboration of ceramic sculptures and language teaching in Japan. In 1999, Ximena Elgueda and Steven Ward were both honored with the Tokoname Honours of Cultural Merit awards. Between 2005 and 2006, they served as chief editors for a Cultural Guide to the city of Tokoname.
Two notable experiences influenced Elgueda and Ward's approach to public art. In January 2000, they visited the stone amphitheater at Parque la Llovizna in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela. The following month, they observed a hollowed-out old-growth tree in Phoenix Lake, Marin County, California. From these visits, they considered the idea of creating public spaces using ceramics, aiming to transcend traditional ceramic boundaries. In 2000, they attended an open-air concert in Mihama's mountains. Observing the event, Elgueda and Ward considered developing a community space using ceramics. Consequently, in 2000, they proposed The Mountain Plaza project to Tsuyoshi Sugiura, an organic rice farmer near Tokoname, who graciously allowed them to construct a 60-tonne ceramic acoustic wall on his land.

## Construction

Though the construction was initially estimated to span three years, it faced multiple challenges. The creation of the acoustic shell, measuring 3.5m x 7.4m x 6m, took 2½ years. During its development, approximately 2,000 local volunteers offered intermittent assistance. Bricks sourced from a pipe company in Taketoyo were used to encase the shell, a task complicated by the bricks' 28 kg weight.
In 2012, Elgueda and Ward moved from Tokoname to Mihama to focus on the project.
By August 2014, a kiln consisting of 200 tons of bricks was built around the shell and fired for 40 days, reaching a temperature of 1200 C. The kiln was dismantled by 2015, and the bricks were used to create the seating for the amphitheater.
In October 2016, The Mountain Plaza was officially completed. Since its completion, the space has hosted various international events, including those related to music, art, nature, and design. The venue operates on a non-profit basis.

## Finished layout

The Mountain Plaza consists of two main parts: the stage and the audience seating. The stage's soundboard is made from approximately 60 tons of fired clay. Its dimensions are 3.6m high, 7.5m wide, 13m long, and 4.8m deep.