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All Souls' Day | Sources | Sources |
All Souls' Day | Further reading | Further reading
Tracey OSM, Liam. "The liturgy of All Souls Day", Catholic Ireland, 30 November 1999 |
All Souls' Day | External links | External links
Notes on Russian Orthodox observance by N. Bulgakov
N. Bulgakov
"Pope offers Mass for faithful departed on All Souls' Day", Vatican radio, 2 November 2016
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All Souls' Day | Table of Content | short description, In other languages, Background, Observance by Christian denomination, Western Christianity, History, Roman Catholicism, All Souls' indulgences, Lutheran churches, Anglican Communion, Reformed churches, Methodist churches, Eastern Catholic, Eastern Lutheran and Eastern Orthodox, Radonitsa, East Syriac... |
Anatole France | short description | (; born ; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters."Anatole France, Great Author, Dies", The New York Times, October 13, 1924, p.1 He was a member of the Académie Française... |
Anatole France | Early years | Early years
The son of a bookseller, France, a bibliophile, spent most of his life around books. His father's bookstore specialized in books and papers on the French Revolution and was frequented by many writers and scholars. France studied at the Collège Stanislas, a private Catholic school, and after graduation he he... |
Anatole France | Literary career | Literary career
France began his literary career as a poet and a journalist. In 1869, Le Parnasse contemporain published one of his poems, "". In 1875, he sat on the committee in charge of the third Parnasse contemporain compilation. As a journalist, from 1867, he wrote many articles and notices. He became known with t... |
Anatole France | Personal life | Personal life
In 1877, France married Valérie Guérin de Sauville, a granddaughter of Jean-Urbain Guérin, a miniaturist who painted Louis XVI. Their daughter Suzanne was born in 1881 (and died in 1918).
France's relations with women were always turbulent, and in 1888 he began a relationship with Madame Arman de Caillav... |
Anatole France | Reputation | Reputation
thumb|Anatole France on a postage stamp of Armenia, 2015
The English writer George Orwell defended France and declared that his work remained very readable, and that "it is unquestionable that he was attacked partly from political motives". |
Anatole France | Works | Works |
Anatole France | Poetry | Poetry
thumb|France pictured by Jean Baptiste Guth for Vanity Fair, 1909
thumb|, illustrations by Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel (1900)
, poem published in 1867 in the Gazette rimée.
(1873)
(The Bride of Corinth) (1876) |
Anatole France | Prose fiction | Prose fiction
(Jocasta and the Famished Cat) (1879)
(The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard) (1881)
(The Aspirations of Jean Servien) (1882)
(Honey-Bee) (1883)
(1889)
(1890)
(Mother of Pearl) (1892)
(At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque) (1892)
(Our Children: Scenes from the Country and the Town) (1886) illustra... |
Anatole France | Memoirs | Memoirs
(My Friend's Book) (1885)
(1899)
(Little Pierre) (1918)
(The Bloom of Life) (1922) |
Anatole France | Plays | Plays
(1898)
Crainquebille (1903)
(The Man Who Married A Dumb Wife) (1908)
(The Wicker Woman) (1928) |
Anatole France | Historical biography | Historical biography
(The Life of Joan of Arc) (1908) |
Anatole France | Literary criticism | Literary criticism
Alfred de Vigny (1869)
(1888)
(The Latin Genius) (1909) |
Anatole France | Social criticism | Social criticism
(The Garden of Epicurus) (1895)
(1902)
(1904)
(1906)
(1915)
, in four volumes, (1949, 1953, 1964, 1973) |
Anatole France | References | References |
Anatole France | External links | External links
List of Works
"Anatole France, Nobel Prize Winner" by Herbert S. Gorman, The New York Times, 20 November 1921
Correspondence with architect Jean-Paul Oury at Syracuse University
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Anatole France | Table of Content | short description, Early years, Literary career, Personal life, Reputation, Works, Poetry, Prose fiction, Memoirs, Plays, Historical biography, Literary criticism, Social criticism, References, External links |
André Gide | Short description | André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French writer and author whose writings spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement, to criticising imperialism between the two W... |
André Gide | Early life | Early life
thumb|left|150px|Gide in 1893
Gide was born in Paris on 22 November 1869 into a middle-class Protestant family. His father Jean Paul Guillaume Gide was a professor of law at University of Paris; he died in 1880, when the boy was eleven years old. His mother was Juliette Maria Rondeaux. His uncle was politica... |
André Gide | The middle years | The middle years
thumb|Gide photographed by Ottoline Morrell in 1924.
thumb|André Gide by Paul Albert Laurens (1924)
In 1895, after his mother's death, Gide married his cousin Madeleine Rondeaux, but the marriage remained unconsummated. In 1896, he was elected mayor of La Roque-Baignard, a commune in Normandy.
Gide s... |
André Gide | Africa | Africa
From July 1926 to May 1927, Gide traveled through the colony of French Equatorial Africa with his lover Marc Allégret. They went successively to Middle Congo (now the Republic of the Congo), Ubangi-Shari (now the Central African Republic), briefly to Chad and then to Cameroon. He kept a journal, which he publish... |
André Gide | Political views and the Soviet Union | Political views and the Soviet Union
During the 1930s, Gide briefly became a Communist, or more precisely, a fellow traveler (he never formally joined any Communist party), but he, an individualist himself, advocated the idea of Communist individualism. Despite supporting the Soviet Union, he acknowledged the political... |
André Gide | 1930s and 1940s | 1930s and 1940s
In 1930 Gide published a book about the Blanche Monnier case titled La Séquestrée de Poitiers, changing little but the names of the protagonists. Monnier was a young woman who was kept captive by her own mother for more than 25 years.Pujolas, Marie. En tournage, un documentaire sur l'incroyable affaire ... |
André Gide | Gide's life as a writer | Gide's life as a writer
Gide's biographer Alan Sheridan summed up Gide's life as a writer and an intellectual:
"Gide's fame rested ultimately, of course, on his literary works. But, unlike many writers, he was no recluse: he had a need of friendship and a genius for sustaining it."Alan Sheridan, p. xii. But his "capa... |
André Gide | Writings | Writings
André Gide's writings spanned many genres – "As a master of prose narrative, occasional dramatist and translator, literary critic, letter writer, essayist, and diarist, André Gide provided twentieth-century French literature with one of its most intriguing examples of the man of letters."Article on André Gide ... |
André Gide | Table of Content | Short description, Early life, The middle years, Africa, Political views and the Soviet Union, 1930s and 1940s, Gide's life as a writer, Writings |
Algorithms for calculating variance | Short description | Algorithms for calculating variance play a major role in computational statistics. A key difficulty in the design of good algorithms for this problem is that formulas for the variance may involve sums of squares, which can lead to numerical instability as well as to arithmetic overflow when dealing with large values. |
Algorithms for calculating variance | Naïve algorithm | Naïve algorithm
A formula for calculating the variance of an entire population of size N is:
Using Bessel's correction to calculate an unbiased estimate of the population variance from a finite sample of n observations, the formula is:
Therefore, a naïve algorithm to calculate the estimated variance is given by the f... |
Algorithms for calculating variance | Computing shifted data | Computing shifted data
The variance is invariant with respect to changes in a location parameter, a property which can be used to avoid the catastrophic cancellation in this formula.
with any constant, which leads to the new formula
the closer is to the mean value the more accurate the result will be, but just cho... |
Algorithms for calculating variance | Two-pass algorithm | Two-pass algorithm
An alternative approach, using a different formula for the variance, first computes the sample mean,
and then computes the sum of the squares of the differences from the mean,
where s is the standard deviation. This is given by the following code:
def two_pass_variance(data):
n = len(data)
... |
Algorithms for calculating variance | Welford's online algorithm | Welford's online algorithm
It is often useful to be able to compute the variance in a single pass, inspecting each value only once; for example, when the data is being collected without enough storage to keep all the values, or when costs of memory access dominate those of computation. For such an online algorithm, a... |
Algorithms for calculating variance | Weighted incremental algorithm | Weighted incremental algorithm
The algorithm can be extended to handle unequal sample weights, replacing the simple counter n with the sum of weights seen so far. West (1979) suggests this incremental algorithm:
def weighted_incremental_variance(data_weight_pairs):
w_sum = w_sum2 = mean = S = 0
for x, w in d... |
Algorithms for calculating variance | Parallel algorithm | Parallel algorithm
Chan et al. note that Welford's online algorithm detailed above is a special case of an algorithm that works for combining arbitrary sets and :
.
This may be useful when, for example, multiple processing units may be assigned to discrete parts of the input.
Chan's method for estimating the mean is ... |
Algorithms for calculating variance | Example | Example
Assume that all floating point operations use standard IEEE 754 double-precision arithmetic. Consider the sample (4, 7, 13, 16) from an infinite population. Based on this sample, the estimated population mean is 10, and the unbiased estimate of population variance is 30. Both the naïve algorithm and two-pass a... |
Algorithms for calculating variance | Higher-order statistics | Higher-order statistics
Terriberry extends Chan's formulae to calculating the third and fourth central moments, needed for example when estimating skewness and kurtosis:
Here the are again the sums of powers of differences from the mean , giving
For the incremental case (i.e., ), this simplifies to:
By preservi... |
Algorithms for calculating variance | Covariance | Covariance
Very similar algorithms can be used to compute the covariance. |
Algorithms for calculating variance | Naïve algorithm | Naïve algorithm
The naïve algorithm is
For the algorithm above, one could use the following Python code:
def naive_covariance(data1, data2):
n = len(data1)
sum1 = sum(data1)
sum2 = sum(data2)
sum12 = sum([i1 * i2 for i1, i2 in zip(data1, data2)])
covariance = (sum12 - sum1 * sum2 / n) / n
retu... |
Algorithms for calculating variance | With estimate of the mean | With estimate of the mean
As for the variance, the covariance of two random variables is also shift-invariant, so given any two constant values and it can be written:
and again choosing a value inside the range of values will stabilize the formula against catastrophic cancellation as well as make it more robust agai... |
Algorithms for calculating variance | Two-pass | Two-pass
The two-pass algorithm first computes the sample means, and then the covariance:
The two-pass algorithm may be written as:
def two_pass_covariance(data1, data2):
n = len(data1)
mean1 = sum(data1) / n
mean2 = sum(data2) / n
covariance = 0
for i1, i2 in zip(data1, data2):
a = i1 - m... |
Algorithms for calculating variance | Online | Online
A stable one-pass algorithm exists, similar to the online algorithm for computing the variance, that computes co-moment :
The apparent asymmetry in that last equation is due to the fact that , so both update terms are equal to . Even greater accuracy can be achieved by first computing the means, then using th... |
Algorithms for calculating variance | Weighted batched version | Weighted batched version
A version of the weighted online algorithm that does batched updated also exists: let denote the weights, and write
The covariance can then be computed as |
Algorithms for calculating variance | See also | See also
Kahan summation algorithm
Squared deviations from the mean
Yamartino method |
Algorithms for calculating variance | References | References |
Algorithms for calculating variance | External links | External links
Category:Statistical algorithms
Category:Statistical deviation and dispersion
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Algorithms for calculating variance | Table of Content | Short description, Naïve algorithm, Computing shifted data, Two-pass algorithm, Welford's online algorithm, Weighted incremental algorithm, Parallel algorithm, Example, Higher-order statistics, Covariance, Naïve algorithm, With estimate of the mean, Two-pass, Online, Weighted batched version, See also, References, Exte... |
Almond | short description | The almond (Prunus amygdalus, syn. Prunus dulcis) is a species of tree from the genus Prunus. Along with the peach, it is classified in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by corrugations on the shell (endocarp) surrounding the seed.
The fruit of the almond is a drupe, consisting of an outer... |
Almond | Description | Description
The almond is a deciduous tree growing to in height, with a trunk of up to in diameter. The young twigs are green at first, becoming purplish where exposed to sunlight, then grey in their second year. The leaves are long,Bailey, L.H.; Bailey, E.Z.; the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. ... |
Almond | Taxonomy | Taxonomy |
Almond | Sweet and bitter almonds | Sweet and bitter almonds
thumb|Almond blossom
thumb|Blossoming of bitter almond tree
The seeds of Prunus dulcis var. dulcis are predominantly sweet but some individual trees produce seeds that are somewhat more bitter. The genetic basis for bitterness involves a single gene, the bitter flavour furthermore being rece... |
Almond | Etymology | Etymology
The word almond is a loanword from Old French or , descended from Late Latin , , modified from Classical Latin , which is in turn borrowed from Ancient Greek () (cf. amygdala, an almond-shaped portion of the brain). Late Old English had amygdales 'almonds'.
The adjective amygdaloid (literally 'like an a... |
Almond | Origin and distribution | Origin and distribution
The precise origin of the almond is controversial due to estimates for its emergence across wide geographic regions. Sources indicate that its origins were in an area stretching across Central Asia, Iran, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq, or in an eastern Asian subre... |
Almond | Cultivation | Cultivation
thumb|upright|Persian miniature depiction of the almond harvest at Qand-i Badam, Fergana Valley (16th century)
thumb|A grove of almond trees
thumb|An almond shaker before and during a tree's harvest
Almonds were one of the earliest domesticated fruit trees, due to "the ability of the grower to raise attra... |
Almond | Varieties | Varieties
Almond trees are small to medium-sized but commercial cultivars can be grafted onto a different root-stock to produce smaller trees. Varieties include:
– originates in the 1800s. A large tree that produces large, smooth, thin-shelled almonds with 60–65% edible kernel per nut. Requires pollination from other... |
Almond | Breeding | Breeding
Breeding programmes have found the high shell-seal trait. |
Almond | Pollination | Pollination
The most widely planted varieties of almond are self-incompatible; hence these trees require pollen from a tree with different genetic characters to produce seeds. Almond orchards therefore must grow mixtures of almond varieties. In addition, the pollen is transferred from flower to flower by insects; the... |
Almond | Diseases | Diseases
Almond trees can be attacked by an array of damaging microbes, fungal pathogens, plant viruses, and bacteria. |
Almond | Pests | Pests
Pavement ants (Tetramorium caespitum), southern fire ants (Solenopsis xyloni), and thief ants (Solenopsis molesta) are seed predators. Bryobia rubrioculus mites are most known for their damage to this crop. |
Almond | Sustainability | Sustainability
Almond production in California is concentrated mainly in the Central Valley, where the mild climate, rich soil, abundant sunshine and water supply make for ideal growing conditions. Due to the persistent droughts in California in the early 21st century, it became more difficult to raise almonds in a s... |
Almond | Production | Production
+ Almonds (with shell), 2022 Country Tonnes 1,858,010 360,328 245,990 190,000 175,763 3,630,427Source: FAOSTAT of the United Nations
In 2022, world production of almonds was 3.6 million tonnes, led by the United States (table). Secondary producers were Australia and Spain. |
Almond | United States | United States
In the United States, production is concentrated in California where and six different almond varieties were under cultivation in 2017, with a yield of of shelled almonds. California production is marked by a period of intense pollination during late winter by rented commercial bees transported by tru... |
Almond | Australia | Australia
Australia is the largest almond production region in the Southern Hemisphere. Most of the almond orchards are located along the Murray River corridor in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. |
Almond | Spain | Spain
Spain has diverse commercial cultivars of almonds grown in Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia, Andalusia, and Aragón regions, and the Balearic Islands. Production in 2016 declined 2% nationally compared to 2015 production data.
The almond cultivar 'Marcona' is recognisably different from other almonds and is marketed... |
Almond | Toxicity | Toxicity
Bitter almonds contain 42 times higher amounts of cyanide than the trace levels found in sweet almonds. Extract of bitter almond was once used medicinally but even in small doses, effects are severe or lethal, especially in children; the cyanide must be removed before consumption. The acute oral lethal dose... |
Almond | Mandatory pasteurization in California | Mandatory pasteurization in California
After tracing cases of salmonellosis to almonds, the USDA approved a proposal by the Almond Board of California to pasteurize almonds sold to the public. After publishing the rule in March 2007, the almond pasteurization program became mandatory for California companies effecti... |
Almond | Uses | Uses |
Almond | Nutrition | Nutrition
thumb|Amandines de Provence, poster by Leonetto Cappiello, 1900, which shows a woman eating almond biscuits (almond cookies)
Almonds are 4% water, 22% carbohydrates, 21% protein, and 50% fat. In a reference amount, almonds supply of food energy. The almond is a nutritionally dense food, providing a rich... |
Almond | Health | Health
Almonds are included as a good source of protein among recommended healthy foods by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). A 2016 review of clinical research indicated that regular consumption of almonds may reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering blood levels of LDL cholesterol. |
Almond | Culinary | Culinary
While the almond is often eaten on its own, raw or toasted, it is also a component of various dishes. Almonds are available in many forms, such as whole, slivered, and ground into flour. Almond pieces around in size, called "nibs", are used for special purposes such as decoration.
Almonds are a common add... |
Almond | Desserts | Desserts
A wide range of classic sweets feature almonds as a central ingredient. Marzipan was developed in the Middle Ages. Since the 19th century almonds have been used to make bread, almond butter, cakes and puddings, candied confections, almond cream-filled pastries, nougat, cookies (macaroons, biscotti and qurabiy... |
Almond | Marzipan | Marzipan
Marzipan, a smooth, sweetened almond paste, is used in a number of elegant cakes and desserts. Princess cake is covered by marzipan (similar to fondant), as is Battenberg cake. In Sicily, sponge cake is covered with marzipan to make cassatella di sant'Agata and cassata siciliana, and marzipan is dyed and craf... |
Almond | World cuisines | World cuisines
In French cuisine, alternating layers of almond and hazelnut meringue are used to make the dessert dacquoise. Pithivier is one of many almond cream-filled pastries.
In Germany, Easter bread called Deutsches Osterbrot is baked with raisins and almonds.
In Greece almond flour is used to make amygdalopita,... |
Almond | Milk | Milk
Almonds can be processed into a milk substitute called almond milk; the nut's soft texture, mild flavour, and light colouring (when skinned) make for an efficient analog to dairy, and a soy-free choice for lactose intolerant people and vegans. Raw, blanched, and lightly toasted almonds work well for different p... |
Almond | Flour and skins | Flour and skins
Almond flour or ground almond meal combined with sugar or honey as marzipan is often used as a gluten-free alternative to wheat flour in cooking and baking.
Almonds contain polyphenols in their skins consisting of flavonols, flavan-3-ols, hydroxybenzoic acids and flavanones analogous to those of cer... |
Almond | Syrup | Syrup
Historically, almond syrup was an emulsion of sweet and bitter almonds, usually made with barley syrup (orgeat syrup) or in a syrup of orange flower water and sugar, often flavoured with a synthetic aroma of almonds. Orgeat syrup is an important ingredient in the Mai Tai and many other Tiki drinks.
Due to the ... |
Almond | Oils | Oils
thumb|left|upright=0.5|Almond oil
Almonds are a rich source of oil, with 50% of kernel dry mass as fat (whole almond nutrition table). In relation to total dry mass of the kernel, almond oil contains 32% monounsaturated oleic acid (an omega-9 fatty acid), 13% linoleic acid (a polyunsaturated omega-6 essential f... |
Almond | In culture | In culture
thumb|1897 illustrationillustration from Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, 1897
The almond is highly revered in some cultures. The tree originated in the Middle East. In the Bible, the almond is mentioned ten times, beginning with Genesis 43:11, where it is described as "among the best of f... |
Almond | See also | See also
Fruit tree forms
Fruit tree propagation
Fruit tree pruning
List of almond dishes
List of edible seeds
Candied almonds
Dragée – a candy. |
Almond | References | References |
Almond | External links | External links
University of California Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center
Almond
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Almond | Table of Content | short description, Description, Taxonomy, Sweet and bitter almonds, Etymology, Origin and distribution, Cultivation, Varieties, Breeding, Pollination, Diseases, Pests, Sustainability, Production, United States, Australia, Spain, Toxicity, Mandatory pasteurization in California, Uses, Nutrition, Health, Culinary, Desser... |
Demographics of Antigua and Barbuda | Short description | 350px|alt=|thumb|upright=1.4| Antigua and Barbuda population pyramid in 2020.
This article is a demography of the population of Antigua and Barbuda including population density, ethnicity, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. |
Demographics of Antigua and Barbuda | Population size and structure | Population size and structure
thumb|300px|right|Population of Antigua and Barbuda, Data of FAO, year 2005; Number of inhabitants in thousands.
According to the 2011 census the estimated resident population of Antigua and Barbuda was 86,295.
The estimated population of is , according to |
Demographics of Antigua and Barbuda | Structure of the population | Structure of the population
Table: Population by Sex and Age Group (Census 27.V.2011):
Age GroupMaleFemaleTotal% Total 40 986 44 581 85 567 100 0–4 3 361 3 262 6 623 7.74 5–9 3 272 3 188 6 460 7.55 10–14 3 690 3 638 7 329 8.57 15–19 3 554 3 519 7 073 8.27 20–24 3 206 3 418 6 624 7.74 25–29 3 135 3 512 6 647 7.77 30–... |
Demographics of Antigua and Barbuda | Vital statistics | Vital statistics
Average populationLive birthsDeathsNatural changeCrude birth rate (per 1000)Crude death rate (per 1000)Natural change (per 1000)Infant mortality rateTFR 1950 ~46 0001 654 5351 11935.711.624.2 1951 ~48 0001 676 6051 07134.712.522.2 1952 ~50 0001 612 5261 08632.310.521.8 1953 ~51 0001 687 5991 08833.011... |
Demographics of Antigua and Barbuda | Ethnic groups | Ethnic groups
The population of Antigua and Barbuda, is predominantly black (91.0%) or mixed (4.4%). 1.9% of the population is white and 0.7% East Indian. There is also a small Amerindian population: 177 in 1991 and 214 in 2001 (0.3% of the total population). The remaining 1.6% of the population includes people from th... |
Demographics of Antigua and Barbuda | Languages | Languages
Antiguan and Barbudan Creole, English |
Demographics of Antigua and Barbuda | Religion | Religion
Protestant 68.3% (Anglican 17.6%, Seventh Day Adventist 12.4%, Pentecostal 12.2%, Moravian 8.3%, Methodist 5.6%, Wesleyan Holiness 4.5%, Church of God 4.1%, Baptist 3.6%), Roman Catholic 8.2%, other 12.2%, unspecified 5.5%, none 5.9% (2011 est.) |
Demographics of Antigua and Barbuda | References | References |
Demographics of Antigua and Barbuda | External links | External links
*– National Bureau of Statistics of Antigua & Barbuda
Antigua & Barbuda profile – Caribbean Community Statistics
Category:Society of Antigua and Barbuda |
Demographics of Antigua and Barbuda | Table of Content | Short description, Population size and structure, Structure of the population, Vital statistics, Ethnic groups, Languages, Religion, References, External links |
Politics of Antigua and Barbuda | Short description | The politics of Antigua and Barbuda takes place in a framework of a unitary parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, wherein the sovereign of Antigua and Barbuda is the head of state, appointing a governor-general to act as vice-regal representative in the nation. A prime minister is appointed by the governor-... |
Politics of Antigua and Barbuda | Executive branch | Executive branch |
Politics of Antigua and Barbuda | Executive branch leadership | Executive branch leadership
As head of state, King Charles III is represented in Antigua and Barbuda by a governor-general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet. |
Politics of Antigua and Barbuda | Legislative branch | Legislative branch
250px|thumbnail|left|The parliament building in St. John's.
Antigua and Barbuda elects on national level a legislature. Parliament has two chambers. The House of Representatives has 19 members: 17 members elected for a five-year term in single-seat constituencies, and 2 ex officio members (president... |
Politics of Antigua and Barbuda | Political parties and elections | Political parties and elections |
Politics of Antigua and Barbuda | Administrative divisions | Administrative divisions
thumb|Map of Antigua's six parishes
The country is divided into six parishes, Saint George, John, Mary, Paul, Peter, and Phillip which are all on the island of Antigua. Additionally, the islands of Barbuda and Redonda are considered dependencies. |
Politics of Antigua and Barbuda | Judicial branch | Judicial branch
Antigua and Barbuda is a member of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. This court is headquartered in Saint Lucia, but at least one judge of the Supreme Court resides in Antigua and Barbuda, and presides over the High Court. The current High Court judges are Nicola Byer, Ann-Marie Smith, Jan Drysdale,... |