Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The 1942 Mid-Canterbury by-election was a by-election held on 27 January 1942 during the 26th New Zealand Parliament in the seat of Mid-Canterbury. The by-election resulted from the death of Arthur Grigg; his wife Mary Grigg was elected unopposed.

Arthur Grigg had held the seat since 1938 for the National Party. He was killed on 29 November 1941 while serving during World War II with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) in Libya. His wife was selected as the candidate for the National party, while Labour decided not to stand a candidate because of the war. Therefore, as no independent candidate stood (Mrs) Grigg was elected unopposed; from 21 January 1942 according to Wilson.

Wood  
notes that in the extreme case of Mid-Canterbury, 1942 the (unopposed) by-election was gazetted without date of election, and four different dates are available from reputable sources: Official Year-book, Parliamentary Record, Journals of the House and J Boston.

Grigg became the first female National Party MP and the fourth overall. She had little impact on parliament, retiring at the 1943 general election (30 August 1943) after marrying William Polson, the National MP for Stratford. Despite this her election is seen as a milestone in women's suffrage in New Zealand.

Byelection date  
In late November 1941 three MPs died (on 28, 29 and 30 November), two while on overseas military service. The date for the by-election(s) was a problem because of the post-Christmas break and because of the arrangements required for voting by servicemen overseas. Two by-elections were held on 7 February 1943 for Hauraki and Temuka where two independent candidates stood, but in Mid-Canterbury the widow of the sitting member was unopposed.

The date of the resultant by-elections had been discussed by Peter Fraser the Prime Minister and Minister in charge of the Electoral Department, the clerk of writs J. W. Heenan, and the speaker Bill Barnard. They were all National seats, and the Labour Party did not contest these wartime elections, but as independent candidates stood in two electorates, two by-elections were required. The speaker could not call them until the death was registered (which took longer for overseas deaths), and the Government Printing Office was closed for the Christmas-New Year holiday from 25 December to 7 January, so gazette notices could not be issued in that period.. The notification of vacancies by the speaker was on 6 December 1941. A full period of 17 days was required between nomination day and polling day; ten days was too short because of the requirement to record soldier’s votes from overseas. Heenan said that an election on Saturday 27 December was not possible although Saturday 31 January was; but Saturday 7 February 1942 was selected, with the last day for nominations 21 January and writs to be returned on 23 February. Warrants were issued on 13 January.

References

Unopposed by-elections in New Zealand
1942 elections in New Zealand
Politics of Canterbury, New Zealand
The London Greek Film Festival is an international film festival focusing on Greek films and Greek filmmakers.

Held every October in London, the festival is open to films either by Greek filmmakers or set in Greece or involving Greek history or mythology. The festival was founded in 2007.

The festival's artistic director is Christos Prosylis.

In 2013, Lizz Njagah won the best actress award for her performance in “The Return of Lazarus”, directed by her husband, Alexandros Konstantaras.

Odysseus awards

Awards fiction feature films

Multiple award winners

 Vassilis Mazomenos (2012, 2013, 2017,2020)

References

External links

 London Greek Film Festival at IMDB.

Film festivals in London
Greek film awards
2007 establishments in the United Kingdom
Xtra Magazine (formerly DailyXtra  and Xtra!) is an LGBTQ-focused digital publication and former print newspaper published by Pink Triangle Press in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The publication is a continuation of the company's former print titles Xtra!, Xtra Ottawa, and Xtra Vancouver, which were all discontinued in 2015.

History 
Xtra was founded in Toronto on February 19, 1984 (with a March cover date) by Pink Triangle Press, a not-for-profit organization. It was introduced as a four-page tabloid, as a way to broaden PTP's Toronto readership. Pink Triangle Press had previously published The Body Politic, which was discontinued in 1987. From 1990 to 2000, Xtra published a quarterly literary supplement, The Church-Wellesley Review, for work by LGBTQ2 fiction and poetry writers.

The company also launched a telephone dating personals service, Cruiseline, which later evolved into the contemporary web-based Squirt.org.

In 1993, Xtra expanded, adding Xtra! West in Vancouver and Capital Xtra! in Ottawa. The three Xtra papers also produced an annual Ultimate Pride Guide and an annual lesbian and gay business directory called Index. Xtra and Xtra! West were published biweekly, while Capital Xtra! was initially published as a monthly, with its publication frequency later expanding to every three weeks.

The Vancouver and Ottawa publications were renamed Xtra Vancouver and Xtra Ottawa in the late 2000s, while the Toronto edition retained the name Xtra.

In 2010, due to the changing business climate for print publications, PTP closed the Ottawa offices, with the Ottawa edition of the publication published out of the Toronto office thereafter.

The final print issues of Xtra Vancouver and Xtra Ottawa appeared on February 12, 2015, while the Toronto edition's final print issue was published on the newspaper's 31st anniversary, February 19, 2015. The publications continued online as a digital publication, initially under the name Daily Xtra before reverting to the Xtra Magazine name.

Contributors
Past contributors to the publications have included Sandra Alland, Richard Burnett, Brenda Cossman, James Dubro, Gerald Hannon, Matthew Hays, Greg Kearney, Todd Klinck, Greg Kramer, R. W. Gray, Raziel Reid, Irshad Manji, Alex Munter, Rachel Giese, Brian Francis, Peter Knegt, and Jeffrey Round.

See also
List of newspapers in Canada

References

External links
 XtraMagazine.com

Biweekly newspapers published in Canada
Newspapers published in Toronto
LGBT-related newspapers published in Canada
Magazines established in 1984
Newspapers established in 1984
LGBT culture in Toronto
1984 establishments in Ontario
Publications disestablished in 2015
Defunct newspapers published in Ontario
Online newspapers with defunct print editions
LGBT-related magazines published in Canada
1980s LGBT literature
1990s LGBT literature
2000s LGBT literature
2010s LGBT literature
LGBT literature in Canada
The Swimming competition of the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships consisted of 40 long course (50m) events, swum July 20–27, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Swimming's 40 events were split evenly between males and females (20 each) and were:
freestyle (free): 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1500;
backstroke (back): 50, 100 and 200;
breaststroke (breast): 50, 100 and 200;
butterfly (fly): 50, 100 and 200;
Individual Medley (IM): 200 and 400; and
relay: 4×100 and 4×200 freestyle, and 4×100 medley.

Participating nations

Event schedule

Results

Men

Legend: WR – World Record; CR – Championship Record

Women

Legend: WR – World Record; CR – Championship Record

Medal standings

References

 
2003 World Aquatics Championships
World Aquatics Championships
Swimming at the World Aquatics Championships
John Henderson (born 1971), better known by his pen name John Wray, is a novelist and regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine. Born in Washington, D.C., of an American father and Austrian mother, he is a citizen of both countries. He grew up in Buffalo, New York, attended the Nichols School for his high school education, and then graduated from Oberlin College, majoring in Biology. He dropped out of graduate school twice: first from New York University's M.F.A. program in poetry, where he won an Academy of American Poets Prize, and then, a few years later, from Columbia University's fiction program. He currently lives in Mexico City.

Work

Wray's first novel, The Right Hand of Sleep, (Knopf, 2001) received positive reviews and was awarded a Whiting Award.

His second novel Canaan's Tongue (2005) is based on the legend of the preacher John Murrell, described by Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi. In connection with his second novel, he did a 600-mile tour by raft on the Mississippi River in 2005. In 2007 Wray was chosen by Granta magazine as one of the "Best of Young American Novelists".

His third novel, Lowboy (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2008), is narrated by 16-year-old William Heller, a schizophrenic who has just escaped a mental institution, in the flight through the subways of Manhattan.

His fourth novel, The Lost Time Accidents (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2016), chronicles a century in the life of a family of eccentric physicists, time travelers and cult leaders, and incorporates elements of science fiction and fantasy in its plot.

His fifth novel, Godsend (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2018), was inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh. It follows 18-year-old Aden Sawyer, who runs away and disguises herself as a man to study Islam in Pakistan. 

Wray was also frontman of the Brooklyn band Marmalade, which released the album Beautiful Soup in 2003. As part of the promotional activities surrounding the release of Lowboy, he recorded subway musicians for a Lowboy MP3 soundtrack.

He is a recipient of the 2010/2011 Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin.

Novels

Awards
 2001 – Whiting Award
 2009 – Guggenheim Fellowship
 2010 – Berlin Prize
 2011 – KEN Fiction Award
 2017 – Deutschlandfunk Prize of the Festival of German-Language Literature

References

External links

Official website
Profile at The Whiting Foundation

"John Wray, author of Lowboy, in interview", Three Monkeys, Andrew Lawless, April 2009
"John Wray Biography", BookBrowse, April 7, 2009
"Living With Music: John Wray", The New York Times, GREGORY COWLES, March 18, 2009

1971 births
Living people
Writers from Buffalo, New York
21st-century American novelists
21st-century Austrian novelists
American male novelists
Austrian male writers
American male essayists
Writers from Brooklyn
Novelists from New York City
Novelists from Washington, D.C.
21st-century American essayists
21st-century American male writers
The final of the Women's Javelin Throw event at the 2003 Pan American Games took place on Thursday August 7, 2003. America's Kim Kreiner dethroned reigning PanAm champion and world record holder Osleidys Menéndez from Cuba.

Medalists

Records

Results

See also
2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw
Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's javelin throw

References
Results

Javelin, Women
2003
2003 in women's athletics
Ovophis okinavensis, commonly known as the , Ryukyu Island pit viper, and the Okinawan pitviper, is a venomous pitviper species found in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. No subspecies are currently recognized.

Description
Adults are usually 30 to 80 cm (11¾–31½ inches) long. Body usually pale greenish-brown, or yellowish-olive (sometimes pale brown), with alternating, darker brownish or greenish dorsal blotches, each bordered with yellowish scales. Head large, triangular, distinct from neck, narrow dark postocular stripe.

Scalation includes: 23 or 21 rows of dorsal scales at midbody; 125–135 ventral scales; 36–55 paired subcaudal scales; and 8 (sometimes 7 or 9) supralabial scales.

The color pattern consists of a gray ground color overlaid with a series of dark gray of grayish-black crossbands. A ventrolateral pattern of black spots against a gray-white background is also present.

Common names
The name Okinawa habu usually refers to Hon habu or simply habu (Protobothrops flavoviridis). The species is also known as kufah. This snake is sometimes referred to as  in the Okinawan language. It is also called Mamushi, but only in Amami language, whereas Mamushi is the common name for the unrelated species Gloydius blomhoffii.

Geographic range
The species is found in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, including Okinawa and the Amami Islands. The type locality given is "Okinawa".

Habitat
Ovophis okinavensis occurs in various habitats, including open woodland, forests, mountains, fields, in farming areas with nearby streams, ponds, and other water sources. It can also be found in human habitations

Feeding
The hime habu hunts for rodents and other vertebrates in open areas, especially in sugar cane fields and, sometimes near human habitations.

Reproduction
Both oviparous and ovoviviparous. Depending on environmental condition, females will either deposit their eggs, or retain them to incubate internally and give birth later to live young.

Venom
The venom of Ovophis okinavensis, like that of most vipers, is mainly hemotoxin with cytotoxicity factors. People are bitten when they step on this sluggish snake at night, or when tending crops by day. Although venom from this snake is not life-threatening usually, people still should seek medical attention promptly if they are bitten. Because of its relatively weak venom, antivenom is not produced.

References

Further reading
 Boulenger, G.A. 1892. Descriptions of new Reptiles and Batrachians from the Loo Choo Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, Volume 10, pp. 302–304. (Trimeresurus okinavensis, p. 302.)

Crotalinae
Snakes of Asia
Endemic reptiles of Japan
Endemic fauna of the Ryukyu Islands
Reptiles described in 1892
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
Darrell Jackson (born February 1, 1957) is a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 21st District since 1993.

Education 
Jackson graduated from Benedict College in 1979 and attended USC School of Law and the Columbia Bible College and Seminary.

Career 
Jackson was first elected to represent the 21st District in the South Carolina Senate in 1992.

In 1996, Jackson became Senior Pastor of the Bible Way Church, a church started by his father, Andrew Jackson.

In 2016 Jackson was reelected as District 21 Senator for the State of South Carolina.

In 2020, Jackson introduced legislation to make Juneteenth a statewide holiday. In 2020, Jackson won an uncontested race for his seat.

Personal life 
Jackson is married to Willie Mae Rooks and they have two children.

References

External links
South Carolina Legislature - Senator Darrell Jackson official SC Senate website
Project Vote Smart - Senator Darrell Jackson (SC) profile
Follow the Money - Darrell Jackson
2006 2004 2002 2000 1996 campaign contributions

Democratic Party South Carolina state senators
1957 births
Living people
21st-century American politicians
Alexandre de Alexandris, B. (died October 10, 1738) served as the Apostolic Vicar of Cochinchina (1728–1738) and Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Cochinchina (1725–1728)).

Biography
Alexandre de Alexandris was ordained a priest in the Clerics Regular of St. Paul. On December 22, 1725, Pope Benedict XIII appointed him the Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Cochinchina and Titular Bishop of Nabala. In 1726, he was consecrated bishop by François Perez, Apostolic Vicar of Cochinchina. On September 20, 1728, he succeeded to the Apostolic Vicar of Cochinchina. He died on October 10, 1738.

References

1738 deaths
Italian Roman Catholic titular bishops
18th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Vietnam
Italian Roman Catholic missionaries
Roman Catholic missionaries in Vietnam
Bishops appointed by Pope Benedict XIII
Italian expatriates in Vietnam
The Singing Cave may refer to:

Caves 
The Singing Cave, located in Todd County, Kentucky
Saunghellir (The Singing Cave), located in Iceland near Húsafell
Eder-Kuillar (The Singing Caves), located in Tuva

Art and literature 
The Singing Cave, alternate title for Barbary Hoard, a 1952 pulp novel by John Appleby
The Singing Cave (Beames book), a 2009 book by Margaret Beames
The Singing Cave (Dillon novel), a 1960 novel by Eilís Dillon
The Singing Cave (Leighton novel), a 1945 book by Margaret Carver Leighton
Ulrika Babiaková (3 April 1976 – 3 November 2002) was a Slovak astronomer and discoverer of minor planets from Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia. She is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery and co-discovery of 14 asteroids during 1998–2001.

Babiaková died at the age of 26 in an accident.

The main-belt asteroid 32531 Ulrikababiaková, discovered by astronomer and husband Peter Kušnirák in 2001, was named in her memory on 8 October 2014 ().

References 
 

1976 births
2002 deaths
20th-century astronomers
21st-century astronomers
Discoverers of asteroids

People from Banská Štiavnica
Slovak astronomers
Women astronomers
Alice Schwarz-Gardos (31 August 1916 in Vienna - 14 August 2007 in Tel Aviv) was an Austrian-born Israeli journalist and author. She was noted for her work as an editor for German-language newspapers in Israel, and was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Israel-Nachrichten.  She documented political and cultural events and displayed Zionism in her stance.

Schwarz-Gardos was born in Vienna in 1915, the daughter of a manager at the Vienna Union-Bank who was forced in retirement after the stock exchange crash of 1929. The family relocated to Bratislava, where she attended the German Realgymnasium and began a course studying medicine. While in Bratislava she contributed her first articles for the newspaper Der Grenzbote, and won a youth prize writing for the Neue Freie Presse in 1935. Her family fled from the National Socialists in Bratislava and moved to Palestine in 1939 upon the outbreak of World War II. She was employed by the Royal Navy in 1942 as a secretary. From 1949 she worked as an editor for the Yedioth Hayom, a German-language daily in Palestine, and as a press officer of the Jewish Agency. She married Slovak-born composer Eli Gardos in 1964, who had set up a music school in Hadera. From the 1960s she worked as a foreign correspondent for the Tagesspiegel, Die Presse and Hamburger Abendblatt and wrote 11 books in German. She was appointed chief of the Israeli daily newspaper Israel-Nachrichten in 1975.

References

Israeli women journalists
Israeli women writers
Austrian women writers
1916 births
2007 deaths
Writers from Vienna
Austrian Zionists
Austrian emigrants to Israel
Andy Marefos (July 16, 1917 – February 18, 1996) was an American football fullback and halfback. He played for the New York Giants from 1941 to 1942 and for the Los Angeles Dons in 1946.

He died on February 18, 1996, in Marysville, California at age 78.

References

1917 births
1996 deaths
American football fullbacks
American football halfbacks
Saint Mary's Gaels football players
New York Giants players
Los Angeles Dons players
Edmonton Elks players
Discouraged Ones (stylized discøuraged ønes) is the third studio album by Swedish heavy metal band Katatonia, released on 27 April 1998. This is the only Katatonia album with bassist Micke Oretoft. It is also their last release with Jonas Renkse on drums; on future releases, he was the band's lead vocalist and contributed additional guitar work. According to Renkse, Discouraged Ones had sold roughly 20,000 copies as of 2001.

Track listing

Release history

Personnel

Katatonia 
 Jonas Renkse – drums, guitars, lead vocals
 Anders Nyström – guitars, keyboards, backing vocals
 Fred Norrman – guitars
 Micke Oretoft – bass

Additional personnel 
Mikael Åkerfeldt – backing vocals, vocal production
Tomas Skogsberg – engineering, mixing
Fred Estby – engineering
Pressens Bild – photography
Tom Martinsen – photography, digital design
Maria Winsnes – photography
David Castillo – remastering
reesycle.com – layout

References 

Katatonia albums
1998 albums
Avantgarde Music albums
Regionalist Social Party (Institutional Union) (in Spanish: Partido Social Regionalista (Unión Institucional)), a political party in Spain. PSR was founded in 1976, and was one of the first five political parties registered on October 4, 1976. PSR was of Carlist inspiration. At the time of its foundation the party was based in Catalonia.

The party is reported to remain in existence, but little is known about it. It called for a vote for Partido Popular in the 1996 elections.
Regionalist parties in Spain
Athmallik (Sl. No.: 63) is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Angul district, Odisha.

This constituency includes Athmallik, Athmallik block, Kishorenagar block and 9 GPs (Antulia, Saradhapur, Matiasahi, Manikajodi, Jagannathpur, Tainsi, Kothabhuin, Tikarpada and Purunakote) of Angul block.

In 2019 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Ramesh Chandra Sai defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Bhagirathi Pradhan by a margin of 47,184 votes.

Elected Members

Seventeen elections were held between 1951 and 2019 including one By-Election in 1955.
Elected members from the Athmallik constituency are:
2014: (63): Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo (BJD)
2009: (63): Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo (BJD)
2004: (115):Nagendra Kumar Pradhan (BJD)
2000: (115):Nagendra Kumar Pradhan (BJD)
1995: (115): Amarnath Pradhan (Congress) 
1990: (115): Nagendra Kumar Pradhan (CPI-M) 
1985: (115): Amarnath Pradhan (Congress)
1980: (115): Santosh Kumar Pradhan (Congress-I)
1977: (115): Balakrushna Pattanayak (Janata Party)
1974: (115): Bhajaman Behera (Utkal Congress)
1971: (140): Raja Kishore Pradhan (Praja Socialist Party)
1967: (140): Surendra Pradhan (CPI-M)
1961: (80): Khetramohan Panigrahhi (Ganatantra Parishad)
1957: (54): Khetramohan Panigrahhi (Ganatantra Parishad)
1951: (13, By-Election): K. C. Deo (Congress)
1951: (13): Dwitiya Raul (Congress)

2019 Election Result
In 2019 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Ramesh Chandra Sai defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Bhagirathi Pradhan by a margin of 47,184 votes.

2014 Election Result
In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo defeated Indian National Congress candidate Surendra Kumar Pradhan by a margin of 19,533 votes.

2009 Election Result

Notes

References

Assembly constituencies of Odisha
Politics of Angul district
Manuel Lima da Camara (born 15 May 1971) is a South African politician who represented the Democratic Party (DP) in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2004. He was elected in the 1999 general election and served as one of two DP representatives in the Mpumalanga constituency, as well as the Democratic Alliance's spokesman on youth affairs. He stood for re-election in the 2004 general election but was ranked seventh on the provincial list for Mpumalanga and did not secure re-election.

Da Camara speaks Portuguese. In 2022, at a civil society event in Johannesburg, he spoke in favour of electoral reform in South Africa.

References 

Living people
Democratic Party (South Africa) politicians
Democratic Alliance (South Africa) politicians
21st-century South African politicians
20th-century South African politicians
Members of the National Assembly of South Africa
1971 births