Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
A dial-a-joke (or a joke line) is a telephone service that users can call to listen to previously recorded jokes. Jokes are recorded on an automatic answering machine. In the past, many jokes were recorded on cassette tape and then played sequentially, each caller hearing the next joke on the tape.  Modern touch tone phones allow callers to select different joke types: knock-knock, joke of the day, professional humor, random, etc. 

Dial-A-Joke operators will occasionally answer calls, which is called taking a “live”. Apple co-founder  Steve Wozniak met his first wife by taking a live call on his Dial-A-Joke service.  He started the service as a hobby in 1973, at which time it was the first Dial-A-Joke in the San Francisco Bay Area. Wozniak's Dial-a-Joke line used an answering machine and received 2,000 calls a day during its three years of service.

Zzzzzz

Zzzzzz, or simply Z, was a Dial-A-Joke line active in the 1970s. Started by Bob Bilkiss of West Los Angeles in 1970, the line was named so to appear last in the Los Angeles telephone directory. Emerging from a wave of Dial-A-Joke numbers in Los Angeles in the turn of the 1970s, Zzzzzz enjoyed a high level of popularity in its day. For several years, it was the busiest residential telephone number in the United States.

Dial-A-Joke developed in New York City by AT&T
In 1974 AT&T in New York City began a one-minute Dial-a-Joke service and had Henny Youngman as their first joke teller. He told seven jokes for one message unit, and his jokes were up for the first month of New York City's Dial-a-joke service. There were 200,000 calls on the first day of the service, and 300,000 calls the second day.

Other famous comedians heard on New York City's Dial-a-joke were Morey Amsterdam, Bob Hope and Milton Berle.

Miami's humor service
Miami’s Dial-a-Joke was started by nightclub owner Chuck Zissen. For the first week he not only financed the service but did the jokes live. People would call day and night for him to tell jokes, and his wife threatened to leave if things remained the same. So he changed his home telephone number, and he put the Dial-a-Joke phone line on a recorder.

Austria
In Austria in the early 1960s, a joke of the week phone service was available by dialing 1562.

See also
Dial-A-Song

References

External links
Ronald Gibson Historical Telephone Entertainment Website
Alex Dong on how to build a VOIP dial-a-joke using Asterisk and Text-to-Speech engine

Humor media
Telephone numbers
Jokes
Laurel House, is an American author, TV personality and international dating coach with a no-games approach to dating. House is a monthly guest of KTLA hosting segments for their morning news program and appears as a dating expert on Nightline, The Today Show, E! News, and Good Morning America. In 2016, House was a dating coach on the E! Network original series, Famously Single with a cast of celebrities including: Brandi Glanville, the Bachelorette's Josh Murray, Pauly D, Love & Hip Hop's Somaya Reece, Aubrey O'Day, Jessica White, Willis McGahee and Calum Best.

Writing 

Contributing Writer
House is a contributing writer to media sources including: Reader's Digest, Thrillist, Self, AskMen.com, YourTango.com, Shape, The Minds Journal. and Glamour Magazine, where she writes on a variety of topics related to dating and relationships. House is an expert on flirting and has been called the ‘Man Whisperer’.

QuickieChick's Cheat Sheet to Life, Love, Food, Fitness, Fashion and Finance—on a Less-Than-Fabulous Budget (St, Martin's Press, 2012)
In this book, House compiles lifestyle tips, cheat-sheets and quizzes.

Screwing the Rules The No-Games Guide to Love (Running Press, 2014)
In this book, House writes about the games and strategies associated with dating. In the book, House uses her own experiences following the classic dating rules to show that ignoring them is a better approach.

Personal life 
Laurel House has been married three times and twice divorced. She has one child from a previous relationship.

TV Personality 
House has been a guest host on various networks as a dating expert. She is a monthly guest of KTLA for their morning news program, including three large features filmed in 2016. Additionally, she is a recurring featured expert on Nightline and has appeared on The Today Show, E! News, and Good Morning America.

Love Bites on FYI 
In 2015, House co-hosted a dating game show entitled Love Bites that aired on the FYI Network helping daters on blind dinner dates.

Famously Single on E! 

In 2016, she was a dating coach on the E! Network original series, Famously Single with a cast of celebrities including: Brandi Glanville, the Bachelorette's Josh Murray, Pauly D, Love & Hip Hop's Somaya Reece, Aubrey O'Day, Jessica White, Willis McGahee and Calum Best.

Dating Coaching 
Since 2010, House has worked with clients around the world with one-on-one dating consulting.

Additionally, House co-hosted The Great Love Debate on PodcastOne.

References

External links 
 LaurelHouse.com
 KTLA's Top 5 Dating Mistakes with Laurel House

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American writers
21st-century American women writers
American television personalities
American women television personalities
A by-election was held in the Tongan electorate of Tongatapu 10 on 13 July 2023. The by-election was triggered by the death of Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa on 18 March 2023. It was won by Kapelieli Militoni Lanumata.

References

By-election
By-elections to the Legislative Assembly of Tonga
Tonga
Tongatapu
Samantha Davies (born 20 September 1979) is a British sprinter. She competed in the women's 200 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Davies met baseball player Royce Clayton in 2000. They married the next year. Clayton credited Davies with teaching him to keep his legs in condition with the longevity of his baseball career; he ran  sprints during the offseason to maintain his speed. They have two daughters and two sons, including triplets.

Davies is a sprinting coach at Pepperdine University.

International competitions

References

External links
 

1979 births
Living people
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
British female sprinters
Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Place of birth missing (living people)
Olympic female sprinters
Presidential elections were held in Togo on 1 June 2003. The result was a victory for incumbent President Gnassingbé Eyadéma, who won 57.8% of the vote. The opposition Union of Forces for Change released their own results figures, claiming that Emmanuel Bob-Akitani had received 71% of the vote and Eyadéma just 10%.

Results
Gnininvi withdrew his candidacy in May but remained on the ballot paper.

References

Togo
Presidential
Presidential elections in Togo
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results
Togo
The 39th United States Infantry was a regiment of the regular Army. It was authorized on January 29, 1813, and recruited in the East by Col. Williams of Tennessee. It was commanded by Colonel John Williams, who had previously led the Mounted Volunteers of East Tennessee. On December 31, 1813 Major General Thomas Pinckney ordered the regiment to join Andrew Jackson's force, countermanding orders that had been sent from General Flournoy at New Orleans who wanted them there, thus providing a disciplined core and strategic resupply for his command, which was down to about 75 men eating roots and acorns. The historian Henry Adams speculated that, without this regiment, Jackson would have fared no better in 1814 than he had the previous year.

Jackson welcomed the 39th. Since the beginning of his campaign in the Creek War, Jackson was troubled by serious discipline problems with his militia and volunteers, particularly the militia from East Tennessee. So he prosecuted a Private John Woods, only 18 under false charges. Woods had spent his last month in the camp of the 39th. The night before his execution the officers of the 39th signed and sent Jackson a petition asking for mercy. He not only failed to grant it, he made the 39th shoot him. He told his quartermaster that "I am truly happy in having the Colonel with me. His regiment will give strength to my arm and quell mutiny". The 39th was never happy with Jackson after that and Col. Williams never returned to lead the unit. Williams said in a campaign pamphlet in 1828 that Woods cried "bitterly and loudly"; the Jackson camp claimed he was belligerent and deserved to die.

At the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Jackson placed the regiment, (because they were the best-trained soldiers he had) in the center of his assault force. Consequently, the 39th suffered significant casualties — 20 killed and 52 wounded, and those figures are disputed. Col. Williams reported to Sec. of War Armstrong that "one half of the officers and one sixth of the troops of the 39th engaged in the battle of Tohopeka are among the killed and wounded. The officers remaining with the regiment fit for duty are insufficient for ordinary camp duty." It is said that the Creek nation lost more casualties that day than any other one day in the history of the entire Indian Wars. They gave up over a million acres of what was described as the "best land for settlement" that was left east of the Mississippi River.

Postwar consolidation of regiment
In 1815, after that war ended, the 39th was consolidated with the 8th and 24th Regiments to form the 7th Infantry Regiment. The Flag of the 39th was returned to Col. Williams and is now on display at the East Tennessee History Center in Knoxville. It was embroidered by the handiwork of Col. Williams' sister-in-law, Mary (Polly) Lawson McClung Williams.

References

Creek War
Military units and formations established in 1813
American military units and formations of the War of 1812
0039
Military units and formations of the United States in the Indian Wars
1813 establishments in the United States
The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held in Oslo, Norway, on 23 August 1946.

Medalists

Results

Final
23 August

Participation
According to an unofficial count, 8 athletes from 5 countries participated in the event.

 (1)
 (1)
 (2)
 (2)
 (2)

References

50 kilometres race walk
Racewalking at the European Athletics Championships
Sean Johnston is a Canadian writer, who won the ReLit Award for short fiction in 2003 for his short story collection A Day Does Not Go By.

He has also published the novels All This Town Remembers (2006) and Listen All You Bullets (2013), the poetry collections Bull Island (2004) and The Ditch Was Lit Like This (2011), and the short story collection We Don't Listen to Them (2014).

Originally from Asquith, Saskatchewan, he lives in Kelowna, British Columbia, where he teaches English at Okanagan College.

References

External links

Living people
21st-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian poets
21st-century Canadian short story writers
Canadian male novelists
Canadian male poets
Canadian male short story writers
Writers from Saskatchewan
Writers from British Columbia
People from Kelowna
People from Asquith, Saskatchewan
21st-century Canadian male writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Absurd Planet is a nature documentary web television series produced by Condé Nast Entertainment and Love Productions USA and distributed by Netflix. The series follows our planet's most absurd animals.

Cast 
 Afi Ekulona as Mother Nature
 Ashlee Willis - As herself
 Paul Raff - As himself
 Christopher Zane Gordon - As himself
 Alfonso Lopez - As himself (12 episodes)/Associate Story Producer (12 episodes)
 Shalla Yudelevich - As herself (5 episodes)/Associate Producer (12 episodes)
 Steven Marmalstein - As himself (12 episodes)/Executive Producer (12 episodes)
 Thomas Mitchell - As himself (12 episodes)/Editor (12 episodes)
 Jeff Wild - As himself (12 episodes)/Consulting Producer (12 episodes)
 Colee Whitacre - As herself (8 episodes)/Story Assistant (11 episodes)
 Rich Gustus - As himself (10 episodes)/Executive in Charge (12 episodes)
 Daniel Brown - As himself (3 episodes)/Editor (10 episodes)
 Vanessa Fragoso
 Anna Pousho	
 Paul Raff	
 Mae Bartek	
 Bushra Butt	
 Sami Clark	
 Steve Collins	
 Melissa Fragoso	
 Alexandra Komisaruk
 Seiko Murakami	
 Kayla Murray	
 Ignacio Pinerua	
 Karen Segal	
 Gina Stickley	- As Harriett the Hermit Crab

Release 
Absurd Planet was released on April 22, 2020 on Netflix.

References

External links
 
 

2020 American television series debuts
2020s American documentary television series
Documentary films about nature
English-language Netflix original programming
Netflix original documentary television series
Carolyn Mehaffey is an American rower. In the 1986 World Rowing Championships she won gold in the women's lightweight coxless four event.

References

American female rowers
World Rowing Championships medalists for the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American women
Chorio or Horio () is a village in Ano Panta region, on the island of Othoni and it is the westernmost point of Greece. It was the first settlement and the unofficial capital of the island. At the top of the Chorio hill is the Saint George Orthodox church (built in 1864). Chorio is about 7 kilometres away from the port of the island, Ammos and about 2 kilometres on foot from Imerovigli the highest peak of the island.

Designation

The settlement was called "Chorio" () because it was a densely populated area at the time. At the beginning of its existence there were not any other settlements on the island. This name continues until today.

The demonym of the locals is Chorianos - plural: Choriani (). All of them have the same surname (Katechis) as they are relatives.

History
The first settlers of Othoni came from Paxos and Epirus in the 16 century, and decided to build their homes at this point of the island because of the protection it offered from pirate attacks, being the only place out of sight from the sea.

The main work of the villagers was the olive and oil production as some of them had private oil presses next to their homes. Many of the male population of Chorio were seamen (captains, engineers etc.).

Visitor attractions

The houses of Chorio are traditionally made with stone walls and ceramic roofs and they have a lot of similarities with the Corfiat traditional architecture although do not share the Venetian style. They rather tend to relate to the Epirus traditional architectural type. Each of them is close to each other as all the owners are relatives.

The orthodox church of Saint George was built in 18th century at the highest peak of Chorio hill, where everyone can enjoy the view of the other parts of the island, Corfu, Ereikoussa, Mathraki and Ionian sea.
Plenty of visitors and locals are visiting the highest peak of Othoni, Imerovigli (392 m height) which is about 2 km on foot from the settlement. Its trail is reopened by private initiatives of "Choriani" and other locals.

Another great place is "Iliovasilema" (sunset) which is about 200 m from Chorio with beautiful view of Adriatic sea.

References

Populated places in Corfu (regional unit)
Villages in Greece
Othonoi
The Union of Russia and Ukraine Tercentenary or the Reunification of Ukraine with Russia Tercentenary (, 300-letiye vossoyedineniya Ukrainy s Rossiyei; ) was a republic-wide celebration within the Russian SFSR and Ukrainian SSR, marked in the Soviet Union from February 1954, in celebration of the union between Russia and Ukraine formed with the 1654 Pereyaslav Agreement.

In preparation to the event there was created a special Republican commission in commemoration of the Union of Russia and Ukraine Tercentenary headed by the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine Alexei Kirichenko. Also prior to that in 1953 in Moscow was published a three-volume body of documents and materials titled as "Vossoyedinenie Ukrainy s Rossiyei" (Reunification of Ukraine with Russia) prepared jointly by the History Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, History Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, and the Ukrainian Directorate of Archives and included 747 documents of the period between 1620 and 1654. The materials were prepared by a group of Muscovite and Ukrainian historians organized in 1952 and approved by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

In 1954, both Dnipropetrovsk State University and Cherkasy Pedagogical Institute were named after the Union of Russia and Ukraine Tercentenary. Also several cities were renamed including Proskuriv as Khmelnytskyi and Pereyaslav as Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi. In Moscow and Kyiv (Kiev) were held full-scale parades.

It was a period when television broadcasting in the Soviet Union was just being started, therefore most of the agitation was being broadcast on radio.

The Russian aspirations to reunite with Ukraine is one of the main subjects in the Soviet historiography. According to the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, in the 18th century there were no partitions of Poland, but rather reunification of Ukrainian lands (Right-bank Ukraine).

Gallery

References

See also
 

Tricentennial anniversaries
Public holidays in the Soviet Union
Russia–Ukraine relations
1954 in the Soviet Union
Nationalism in the Soviet Union
Rhadalidae are a family of beetles of the superfamily Cleroidea, formerly treated as a subfamily within the family Melyridae. The adults are predators or feed on pollen, while the larvae are probably carnivorous.

Distribution
Worldwide, except Australasia.

Genera

 Anthriboclerus Schenkling, 1922
 Antinea Peyerimhoff, 1929
 Aplocnemus Stephens, 1830
 Eucymbolus Champion, 1913
 Flavojulistus Majer, 1990
 Gietella Constantin & Menier, 1987
 Hemipleurus Peacock, 1987
 Indiodasytes Pic, 1916
 Jelinekius Majer, 1990
 Kubanius Majer, 1983
 Malthacodes Waterhouse, 1876
 Microcymbolus Pic, 1951
 Microjulistus Reitter, 1889
 Pelecophora Dejean, 1821
 Rhadalus Leconte, 1852
 Semijulistus Schilsky, 1894
 Trichoceble Thomson, 1859

References

Cleroidea
Polyphaga families
Ralph R. Knapp (December 4, 1890 – June 1, 1961) was an American politician in the state of Washington. He served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1917 to 1933. He was Speaker of the House from 1927 to 1929.

References

1961 deaths
1890 births
Republican Party members of the Washington House of Representatives
20th-century American politicians
Hemoglobin subunit alpha, Hemoglobin, alpha 1, is a hemoglobin protein that in humans is encoded by the HBA1 gene.

Gene 

The human alpha globin gene cluster located on chromosome 16 spans about 30 kb and includes seven loci: 5'- zeta - pseudozeta - mu - pseudoalpha-1 - alpha-2 - alpha-1 - theta - 3'. The alpha-2 (HBA2) and alpha-1 (HBA1; this gene) coding sequences are identical. These genes differ slightly over the 5' untranslated regions and the introns, but they differ significantly over the 3' untranslated regions.

Protein 

Two alpha chains plus two beta chains constitute HbA, which in normal adult life comprises about 97% of the total hemoglobin; alpha chains combine with delta chains to constitute HbA-2, which with fetal hemoglobin (HbF) makes up the remaining 3% of adult hemoglobin.

Clinical significance 

Alpha thalassemias result from deletions of each of the alpha genes as well as deletions of both HBA2 and HBA1; some nondeletion alpha thalassemias have also been reported.

Interactions 

Hemoglobin subunit alpha has been shown to interact with hemoglobin subunit beta (HBB).

See also
Hemoglobin subunit beta
Human β-globin locus

References

Further reading

External links
  GeneReviews/NCBI/NIH/UW entry on Alpha-Thalassemia
  OMIM entries on Alpha-Thalassemia
 

Hemoglobins
Niagara Falls School District Administration Building is a historic government building located at Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York. It was built in 1927–1928, and is a two-story, 14-by-5-bay, buff-colored brick building with Classical Revival detailing. It has a flat roof, limestone trim, a partially exposed finished basement, and rear ell.  It features a pedimented central entry portico and arched first floor windows.  It remained in use by the city schools until 2007.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

References

Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Neoclassical architecture in New York (state)
Government buildings completed in 1928
Buildings and structures in Niagara Falls, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Niagara County, New York
Winchester Thurston School is an independent, coeducational preparatory school located in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Established in 1887, Winchester Thurston offers PK–12 education in Lower, Middle, and Upper School. The school is a member of the Pittsburgh Consortium of Independent Schools.

History
Winchester Thurston has its origins in the founding of the all-girls Thurston Preparatory School by Alice M. Thurston in Shadyside in 1887. The Winchester School was founded separately, also in Shadyside, as a coeducational school 1902. The two schools merged to produce the all-girls Winchester Thurston School in 1935. The school moved to its current Shadyside campus, formerly the site of Shady Side Academy, in the fall of 1967. The school added its second Lower School campus in Allison Park in 1988; this campus permanently closed in June 2020. Winchester Thurston became co-educational in 1991.

The school has constructed several facilities, including the Main Building in 1963, a science wing in 1987, and a new turf field called Garland Field. The school has three libraries, an art gallery, Mellon Gymnasium, an athletics hall of fame, a solarium, a learning garden, a dance studio, the Hillman Dining Hall, Lower, Middle, and Upper school science labs, and three computer labs.

Curriculum

Arts
Winchester Thurston has received Gene Kelly Awards and nominations for their theater performances.

Extracurricular activities

Athletics
The interscholastic sports program provides Middle and Upper School students opportunities to represent WT on the Pittsburgh area's courts, tracks, and fields. WT fields athletes in crew, cross country, field hockey, golf, soccer, tennis, basketball, fencing, squash, lacrosse, and track. In 2021, the Boys' Soccer team won the WPIAL and PIAA State Championships and recorded a 24-0 undefeated season.

References

External links
 Official Winchester Thurston School website

Private elementary schools in Pennsylvania
Middle schools in Pittsburgh
High schools in Pittsburgh
Educational institutions established in 1887
Educational institutions established in 1902
Educational institutions established in 1935
Private high schools in Pennsylvania
Private middle schools in Pennsylvania
Preparatory schools in Pennsylvania
1935 establishments in Pennsylvania
Durga Cinetone was an Indian film studio established in 1936 in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India by Nidamarthi Surayya. It was the first South Indian film studio. Due to financial crisis, the studio was later shut down.

Films produced

References 

Film production companies of India
Indian film studios
1936 establishments in India
Film production companies of Andhra Pradesh
The following is a list of banks in North Macedonia, correct as of 25 October 2022.

Central bank

 National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia

Commercial and retail banks

Representative offices of foreign banks

Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG Representative Office - Skopje

Saving houses

AL KOSA – Stip
AM - Skopje 
Bavag d.o.o.- Skopje 
Fersped d.o.o. - Skopje 
FULM stedilnica d.o.o.-Skopje 
Gragjanska stedilnica - Skopje 
Inko d.o.o. - Skopje 
Interfalko - Skopje 
Peon - Strumica 
Mak- BS - Skopje 
Mladinec d.o.o. - Skopje 
Moznosti - Skopje

References

Macedonia, Republic of
Banks
Macedonia