Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Parliamentary elections were held in The Gambia on 6 April 2017. They were first parliamentary elections since the inauguration of Adama Barrow as President and resulted in a landslide victory for the United Democratic Party, which won 31 of the 53 seats.

Electoral system
The 53 members of the National Assembly were elected from single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting.

Conduct
The European Union (EU) sent a European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to The Gambia in preparation for the parliamentary election on 13 March, at the invitation of the Independent Electoral Commission. The mission was formally launched on 22 March 2017 and it is led by the Chief Observer, Miroslav Poche, who is a Czech Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Initially, the mission consisted of six international election experts based in Banjul, and 14 long-term observers (LTOs) deployed across The Gambia. Closer to election day, the mission will deploy short-term observers and also a delegation of seven MEPs. In total, the EU EOM will comprise some 50 observers from the EU member states, as well as from Canada, Norway and Switzerland. On 3 April, the EU EOM deployed 14 short-term observers across The Gambia.

The African Union (AU) commended the smooth conduct of the election, especially considering the instability suffered by the country in the months before the election, with the difficult transfer of power from Yahya Jammeh to Adama Barrow, and various time constraints.

The EU in their report noted the calm and peaceful manner that the elections were conducted, and noted their optimism for the future, where there was hope for further improvement. Jean Lambert, the head of the European Parliament delegation said "The Gambia has been through a historical moment with many things changing almost overnight. A few shortcomings have been identified in the election conduct. However, given the circumstances, I would like to express my great respect to the IEC as well as to the Gambian citizens for the peaceful atmosphere of the election day."

Results

See also
List of NAMs elected in the 2017 Gambian parliamentary election
2016–2017 Gambian constitutional crisis
ECOWAS military intervention in the Gambia
2016 Gambian presidential election

References

Gambia
Parliamentary election
Gambia
Parliamentary elections in the Gambia
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results
Discovery Passage () is a strait that forms part of the Inside Passage between Vancouver Island and the Discovery Islands of British Columbia. The strait is considered the most important natural passage for vessels' entering or leaving the Salish Sea from the north.

Etymology
The strait was named by Captain Vancouver in 1792 after his ship, . Other sources say that the passage was named by Captain Kellett because Vancouver's Discovery had sailed through the passage earlier.

Geography
The strait has a length of  and an average width of , narrowing to only  at Seymour Narrows. Most of the eastern shoreline of the passage is Quadra Island, with Sonora Island forming the shoreline at the northern end where Discovery Passage meets Johnstone Strait. The southern end of Discovery Passage enters the Strait of Georgia, the northern arm of the Salish Sea.

The strait is frequently transited by cruise ships, cargo ships, fishing boats, and ships of the Alaska Marine Highway and BC Ferries systems.

See also
 Cordero Channel
 Sutil Channel
 Campbell River, British Columbia

References

External links

Straits of British Columbia
South Coast of British Columbia
Landforms of the Discovery Islands
Salish Sea
Cornerstone Schools is a group of private schools in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States, near Cumming. Established in 1999, the school group is located on a 30-acre wooded campus near Lake Lanier and Georgia Highway 400.

The preschool building opened in 2000. In 2001 a competition outdoor swimming pool and cabana opened. In March 2003 the first elementary school building opened. In 2005 the second elementary and middle school building opened.  In 2009 two athletic fields opened. In 2010 a new gym was built, which houses the school’s band and basketball team. As of 2010, the ground work for the new middle and high school building had been completed, however that site remains empty today.

References

External links

 Cornerstone Schools

Private high schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
Schools in Forsyth County, Georgia
Educational institutions established in 1999
Private middle schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
Private elementary schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
1999 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Delay composition, also called delay charge or delay train, is a pyrotechnic composition, a sort of pyrotechnic initiator, a mixture of oxidizer and fuel that burns in a slow, constant rate that should not be significantly dependent on temperature and pressure. Delay compositions are used to introduce a  delay into the firing train, e.g. to properly sequence firing of fireworks, to delay firing of ejection charges in e.g. model rockets, or to introduce a few seconds of time between triggering a hand grenade and its explosion. Typical delay times range between several milliseconds and several seconds.

A popular delay charge is a tube of pressed black powder. The mechanical assembly prevents the outright detonation of the charge.

While delay compositions are principally similar to other fuel-oxidizer compositions, larger grain sizes and less aggressively reacting chemicals are used. Many of the compositions generate little or no gas during burning. Typical materials used are:
 Fuels: silicon, boron, manganese, tungsten, antimony, antimony trisulfide, zirconium, zirconium–nickel alloy, zinc, magnesium, etc.
 Oxidizers: lead dioxide, iron oxides, barium chromate, lead chromate, tin(IV) oxide, bismuth(III) oxide, barium sulfate (for high-temperature compositions), potassium perchlorate (usually used in small amount together with other oxidizers), etc.
 Additives to cool down the flame and slow down the reaction can be employed; inert materials or coolants like titanium dioxide, ground glass, chalk, sodium bicarbonate, etc. are common.

The burn rates are dependent on: 
 nature of fuel - fuels that release more heat burn faster
 nature of oxidizer - oxidizers that require less heat to decompose burn faster
 the composition ratio - stoichiometric mixtures burn the fastest, also slight excess of metallic fuel also increases burn rate, probably due to heat transfer
 particle sizes - smaller particles burn faster, but too small particles may lead to incomplete or interrupted burn due to too narrow heating zone
 mechanical assembly and housing - charge diameter and thermal conductivity of housing influence lateral heat losses
 ambient temperature - ideally this dependence is very low but extremely low or extremely high temperatures may have influence

Examples of some compositions are: 
 black powder with addition of inert material, e.g. chalk or sodium bicarbonate
 lead(II) oxide with silicon, burning at 1.5–2 cm/s
 red lead with silicon, burning at intermediate rate
 lead(IV) oxide with silicon, burning at 5–6 cm/s
 potassium permanganate with antimony, very slow
 Manganese Delay Composition: manganese with lead chromate and barium chromate (lead chromate is the principal oxidizer, barium chromate acts as burning rate modifier, the more of it the slower the reaction) 
 Tungsten Delay Composition: tungsten with barium chromate and potassium perchlorate 
Zirconium Nickel Alloy Delay Composition: zirconium-nickel alloy with barium chromate and potassium perchlorate.
 boron with barium chromate

References

Pyrotechnic compositions
Pyrotechnic initiators
Guduru mandal is one of the 25 mandals in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Its headquarters are located at Guduru. The mandal is bordered by Gudlavalleru mandal to the north, Pedana mandal to the east, Machilipatnam mandal to the south and Ghantasala mandal and Movva mandal to the west.

Demographics 
 census, the mandal had a population of 49,229 living in 14,310 households. The total population constituted 24,823 males and 24,405 females, for a sex ratio of 983 females per 1000 males. There were 4,115 children aged 6 years or below,  of which 2,176 were boys and 1,939 were girls, for a sex ratio of 891females per 1000 males. The average literacy rate stood at 72.09% with 32,523 literates, of which 17,302 were males and 15,221 were females. There were 6,946 members of Scheduled Castes and 698 members of Scheduled Tribes.

Labor Statistics
As per the report published by Census of India in 2011, 26,601 people had a job, including 15,921 males and 10,680 females. As of the census, 21,802 workers described their job as main job, 3,503 worked  as cultivators, 11,205 as agricultural labourers, 3,767 in household industry and 3,f327 were involved in some other kind of work. Of these, only 4,799 were marginal workers.

Administration 
Guduru mandal is administered under the Pedana Assembly constituency of the Machilipatnam Lok Sabha constituency. It is one of the twelve mandals those administration falls under Machilipatnam revenue division.

Towns and villages 
 census, there are a total of 25 settlements in the mandal. Guduru is the largest and Gandram is the smallest in terms of population.

The settlements in the mandal are:

Education 
The mandal plays a major role in education for the rural students of nearby villages. The primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aided by private schools, under the School Education Department of the state. As per the school information report for the academic year 2015–16, the mandal has more than 4,077 students enrolled in over 67 schools.

See also 
 List of mandals in Andhra Pradesh
 Vijayawada

References

Mandals in Krishna district
Mario Veit (born 22 December 1973) is a German former professional boxer. He is a former European super middleweight champion and multiple time world title challenger.

Professional career
Veit went undefeated in his first 30 fights, until losing to Joe Calzaghe via first-round stoppage in 2001, in a bid for the WBO super middleweight title. A fifteen-fight win streak followed, during which Veit won the European super middleweight title in 2003. Veit was granted a second chance at Calzaghe and his title in 2005, but was again stopped in six rounds. In 2006, Veit became the first to defeat Jürgen Brähmer. However, in the same year, a third loss for Veit came against Denis Inkin, who stopped him in seven rounds. Veit's final professional fight was a rematch against Brähmer in 2007, which ended in a fourth-round knockout victory for Bräehmer.

External links

 http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=Human:16148

1973 births
Living people
People from Lauchhammer
People from Bezirk Cottbus
German male boxers
Sportspeople from Brandenburg
Super-middleweight boxers
The Colchester earthquake, also known as the Great English earthquake, occurred on the morning of 22 April 1884 at 09:18. It caused considerable damage in Colchester and the surrounding villages in Essex. In terms of overall destruction caused it is certainly the most destructive earthquake to have hit the United Kingdom in at least the last 400 years, since the Dover Straits earthquake of 1580.

Earthquake
At 9:18 am the earthquake struck, centred mainly in the villages of Wivenhoe, Abberton, Langenhoe, and Peldon causing the surrounding area to rise and fall violently as the waves spread, lasting for around 20 seconds.  Measuring 4.6 on the Richter magnitude scale, the effects were felt across England, as well as in northern France and Belgium.

It is believed that the earthquake resulted from movement along a fault in the ancient Palaeozoic rocks that underpin most of Essex, causing waves to propagate through the overlying Cretaceous and Tertiary layers.

The British Geological Survey estimates that the 1884 earthquake's magnitude was only around 4.6 on the Richter magnitude scale, compared with 6.1 for the 1931 Dogger Bank earthquake.

Damage
The earthquake damaged about 1,250 buildings, including almost every building in Wivenhoe and Abberton, and in settlements all the way to Ipswich. The medieval church in Langenhoe was significantly damaged, as were those in the villages of Layer-de-la-Haye, Layer Marney, Layer Breton, and Peldon. In Peldon, the local newspapers claimed that every building had been damaged in some way.  The Guardian reported that the earthquake was greeted with terror by the people near Colchester.

There are some reports that between three and five people were killed by the earthquake, but this has been disputed by other contemporary accounts and later analysis, which suggest that there were no fatalities directly caused by this event. The Times reported damage "in the many villages in the neighbourhood from Colchester to the sea coast", with many poor people made homeless, and estimated the cost of the disaster at £10,000. It did, however, mention the death of a child at Rowhedge, attributed to the earthquake. Mary Saunders, of Manningtree, drowned herself in the River Stour some days later. The large waves caused by the earthquake destroyed many small craft.

Langenhoe Church was badly damaged. Masonry tumbled off the tower, crashing into the roof of the nave and chancel. The nearby rectory was also damaged.

See also
 List of earthquakes in the British Isles
 List of historical earthquakes

References

Notes

Bibliography

Further reading

External links
 The Great Colchester Earthquake
 The effects of the earthquake on the area of Eastern Essex south of the River Blackwater 
 

1884 Colchester
Colchester earthquake
Colchester
1884 Colchester
Colchester
1880s in Essex
April 1884 events
Veltrusy Mansion (Czech: Zámek Veltrusy) is a baroque château in Veltrusy, Bohemia, located in the Mělník District of the Czech Republic. The mansion is situated near the banks of the Vltava River, about 25 km north of Prague. The mansion is open to the public for visits.

The mansion was initially built in 1716 by architect František Maxmilián Kaňka for Count Václav Antonín Chotek of Chotkov and Vojnín. The original mansion was extended in 1764 by architect Giovanni Battista Alliprandi on the orders of Count Rudolf Chotek of Chotkov and Vojnín, who also commissioned the interior decoration. Further extensions and the annexes of the mansion were constructed in 1804.

References
 Veltrusy

External links 
 
 Veltrusy Mansion website (in Czech)
 Zámek Veltrusy website (in Czech)

Veltrusy
Veltrusy
Veltrusy
Mělník District
Buildings and structures in the Central Bohemian Region
National Cultural Monuments of the Czech Republic
1716 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
San Chaopho Suea (, ) is a khwaeng (subdistrict) of Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok.

History
It is named after San Chaopho Suea, an ancient Chinese joss house of Xuanwu or "Chaopho Suea" (Tiger God) in Thai. It has been built since the King Nangklao (Rama III)'s reign in early Rattanakosin era. Originally it was situated on Bamrung Mueang Road, later in the King Chulalongkorn (Rama V)'s reign, it has moved to Tanao Road like today. The building of the joss house was built in the southern Chinese architectural style. Today, it is regarded as one of the most well-known and respected Chinese joss houses.

Geography
Neighbouring subdistricts are, clockwise from north: Bowon Niwet (Khlong Lot Wat Ratchanadda is a divider line), Sao Chingcha (Tanao Road is a divider line), Wat Ratchabophit (Bamrung Mueang Road is a divider line), Phra Borom Maha Ratchawang (Khlong Khu Mueang Doem is a divider line). All in Phra Nakhon District.

Places
San Chaopho Suea
Sam Phraeng: a historic neighbourhood consists of Phraeng Phuthon, Phraeng Nara, and Phraeng Sanphasat. It is old town is lined with street stalls, shops and picturesque historic buildings with Sino-Portuguese architecture.
Wat Buranasiri Mattayaram: an ancient third class royal Thai temple on Atsadang Road.
Phranakorn Commercial Technological College: the first commercial school in Thailand.

References

Phra Nakhon district
Subdistricts of Bangkok
Sinus Iridum  (Latin sinus īridum "Bay of Rainbows") is a plain of basaltic lava that forms a northwestern extension to the Mare Imbrium on Earth's moon. It is surrounded from the northeast to the southwest by the Montes Jura range. The protruding part of the range at the southwest end is named Promontorium Heraclides, while that at the northeast end is called Promontorium Laplace. This bay and the surrounding mountains is considered one of the most beautiful features on the Moon, and is a favorite among lunar observers.

Sinus Iridum is formed from the remains of a large impact crater, which was subsequently flooded with basaltic lava, inundating the "sea" wall. The bay itself does not contain any notable impact craters, but does include the satellite crater Heraclides E in the south, Laplace A along the eastern edge, and Bianchini G in the north. The surface is level, but is marked by a number of wrinkle ridges (dorsa).

Sinus Iridum is one of the largest craters of Upper (Late) Imbrian age.

The selenographic coordinates of the bay's center are 45.01° N, 31.67° W, and the diameter is 249 km. It was the planned landing site of Chang'e 3, China's 2013 lunar exploration mission, which instead landed nearby in Mare Imbrium.

When 10 to 11 days after new moon the Sinus Iridum is still in shadow, the Montes Jura can already be visible at the lunar terminator. This geometry is also called Golden Handle.

Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Promontorium Heraclides.

The following satellite craters are associated with the Promontorium Laplace.

See also
Volcanism on the Moon

References

External links

 , excellent earth-based image of Sinus Iridum and vicinity

 On the Shore of the Bay of Rainbows - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter page with images
 High resolution video by Seán Doran of an overflight of Sinus Iridum, based on LRO data; this video also passes over Sinus Iridum about halfway through (see album for more)

Maria on the Moon
Mare Imbrium
Mammillaria rettigiana is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitat is hot deserts. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

rettigiana
Cacti of Mexico
Endemic flora of Mexico
North American desert flora
Vulnerable plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Jianying Zha or Zha Jianying (; born 1959) is a Chinese American journalist and non-fiction writer. She writes and publishes in both English and Chinese.

Born in Beijing, Jianying Zha was educated in the United States. She is a contributor to The New Yorker.

Works
 Dao Meiguo qu, dao meiguo qu [Going to America, Going to America]. Bei jing: Zuo jia chu ban she, 1991.
 China pop: how soap operas, tabloids, and bestsellers are transforming a culture. New York: New Press, 1995.
 Liu Mei gu shi = Liumei Gushi. Shijiazhuang Shi: Hua shan wen yi chu ban she, 2003.
 Ba shi nian dai fang tan lu. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2006.
 Tide players: the movers and shakers of a rising China. New York: New Press, 2011.

References

1959 births
Living people
Chinese women journalists
Chinese non-fiction writers
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Writers from Beijing
Tun Sambanthan Monorail station, is a Malaysian elevated monorail station that forms a part of the Kuala Lumpur Monorail (KL Monorail) line located in Kuala Lumpur and opened alongside the rest of the line and other adjoining monorail stations on August 31, 2003.

Situated at the south side of the Jalan Tun Sambanthan 4-Jalan Tebing (Malay; English: Tun Sambanthan Road 4-River Bank Road) intersection in the Brickfields district of Kuala Lumpur, the station resides at the western bank of the Klang River (or the left bank of the river), just beside Methodist College Kuala Lumpur (MCKL), and the Malaysian Association of the Blind (MAB) opposite Jalan Tun Sambanthan 4. The station is situated close to a pedestrian bridge that crosses the Klang River, connecting the area to Jalan Syed Putra (Syed Putra Road) that adjoins the Federal Highway and the Kuen Cheng High School just opposite the river. The station has only one exit which connects to the west side of Jalan Tebing.

The station is named after V. T. Sambanthan, a notable figure in the Malaysian Indian Congress. Jalan Tun Sambanthan (Tun Sambanthan Road), a main road in Brickfields, is also named after V. T. Sambanthan and is the location of the preceding KL Sentral monorail terminus.

Layout

Exits and Entrances
The station has only one exit.

See also
 List of rail transit stations in Klang Valley

References 

Kuala Lumpur Monorail stations
Railway stations opened in 2003
Diana Sigei Chepkemoi (born 14 October 1987) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in marathons and half marathons.

Chepkemoi was born in Kenya in 1987. Her husband Henry and his brother, Salim Kipsang, are both runners. She and her husband have a son and they live at Eldoret. Her coach is the retired Kenyan runner Patrick Sang and she is the only woman who trains in a group at Kaptagat near the Great Rift Valley in Kenya.

Career
In 2010, she took three first places at various distances in Austria, France and the Netherlands.
Chepkemoi came to further notice when she won sixth place at the Dubai Marathon and fourth place in the Toronto Marathon in 2011. She took second place in Amsterdam over ten miles in a time of 52:46, and second in Berlin over 25 kilometres.

In 2012, she was the runner up in both the Lisbon and Lille Half Marathons. She finished fourth in the Amsterdam Marathon and fifth in the Boston Marathon on a very hot day. In 2013, she was runner up in the Jakarta Marathon and she won the Lille half marathon.

References

1987 births
Living people
People from Uasin Gishu County
Sportspeople from Rift Valley Province
Kenyan female long-distance runners
Kenyan female marathon runners
Shirreff Base (original name Cape Shirreff Field Station) is a seasonal field station in the Southern Ocean operated by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and opened in 1996. It is situated on the east side of Cape Shirreff on Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands off the Antarctic peninsula.

In January 2023 as the station was being rebuilt, it was renamed the Holt Watters Field Camp recognizing directors Rennie Holt and George Watters of NOAA's Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division (AERD).

It is adjacent to the Chilean base called Doctor Guillermo Mann.

Location
The base is located 1.58 km southeast of Cape Shirreff and 3.32 km west-northwest of Black Point (detailed Chilean mapping in 2004. Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

Maps
 L.L. Ivanov et al., Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution), 1:100000 scale topographic map, Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005.
 L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010.  (First edition 2009. )
 Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

See also
 List of research stations in Antarctica
 Antarctic field camps

Notes

References
 Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 149 Cape Shirreff and San Telmo Island. Measure 2 (2005), Annex H, ATCM XXVIII Final Report. Stockholm, 2005
 Photo of Shirreff Base with Black Point and Mount Friesland in the background. NOAA Fisheries Service's Southwest Fisheries Science Center.
 Ivanov, L. General Geography and History of Livingston Island. In: Bulgarian Antarctic Research: A Synthesis. Eds. C. Pimpirev and N. Chipev. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp. 17–28. 

Geography of Livingston Island
Outposts of the South Shetland Islands
1996 establishments in Antarctica