Conan the Librarian appears in a sketch on a 1986 episode (" Alistair in Outer Space ") of the children's television series Reading Rainbow.

Marilyn's television credits also include two ' PBS Reading Rainbow ' programs featuring Alistair, an AListair program for the BBC, three ABC Weekend Specials featuring PJ Funnybunny and a show based on her children's book, Elizabeth and Larry for Showtime's Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories.

In Berkshire, a successful skirmish at the Battle of Englefield on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and Battle of Reading by Ivar's brother Halfdan Ragnarsson on 5 January 871 ; then, four days later, Alfred won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.

Reading his sinful thoughts, Artemis strikes him at Mount Pholoe.

The quadrangle at the centre of Smirke's design proved to be a waste of valuable space and was filled at Panizzi's request by a circular Reading Room of cast iron, designed by Smirke's brother, Sydney Smirke.

The Reading Room closed in 1997 when the national library ( the British Library ) moved to a new building at St Pancras.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

The new line-up performed at the 1972 Reading Festival.

Reading A Streetcar Named Desire at age 15 was instrumental in developing his interest in theater.

Following a defeat of his forces at the Battle of Reading on 9 December, James and his wife fled the nation ; James, however, returned to London for a two-week period that culminated in his final departure for France on 23 December.

Reading a newspaper article describing a gas attack on British forces which he hypothesized had employed chlorine gas, Garner remembered experiments he had performed while teaching at the University of Chicago, thus he set about creating the first gas mask which he tested on two of his associates in a gas filled chamber.

Disagreements, persecution and increasing social turmoil, however, led Fox to suffer from a severe depression, which left him deeply troubled at Reading, Berkshire, for ten weeks in 1658 or 1659.

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Foot was educated at Plymouth College Preparatory School and Leighton Park School in Reading.

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In 1992, the group was one of the first rap acts to perform at the Reading Festival, in England, headlining the second day of the three day festival.

His interest in electronic music also resulted in his first meetings with Andy Mackay, who was studying at Reading University and who had likewise developed a strong interest in avant garde and electronic music.

The band's appearance at Reading Festival during the 2003 tour had another impromptu acoustic set, this time due to equipment failure.

As noted below ( see Reading Order ), the first American publisher, Macmillan, numbered the books in publication sequence, but when Harper Collins won the rights in 1994, at the suggestion of Lewis ' stepson they used the series ' internal chronological order.

The Brothers have also played at many major festivals, including Glastonbury, Fuji Rock, Reading, the HFStival, and Leeds festival.

* May 25 – Oscar Wilde is convicted of " sodomy and gross indecency " and is sentenced to serve 2 years in prison at Reading.

The band persevered for another six months, but in performances at Benicassim Festival and the Reading Festival Brown's vocals were described as " so off-key it was excruciating to have to listen ".

There is a " Mary and David Boies Reading Room " at the CEELI Institute in Prague.

Sousa died of heart failure at the age of 77 on March 6, 1932, in his room at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Reading the Old Testament would have shown the dramatist that the ideas attributed to Shylock were abhorrent to the Jews.

Reading, writing and simple arithmetic are taught along with such crafts as working in brass.

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A more recent translation of the Autobiography appears in D. Gutas, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition: Introduction to Reading Avicenna's Philosophical Works, Leiden: Brill, 1988.

The mitred abbots in England were those of Abingdon, St Alban's, Bardney, Battle, Bury St Edmunds, St Augustine's Canterbury, Colchester, Croyland, Evesham, Glastonbury, Gloucester, St Benet's Hulme, Hyde, Malmesbury, Peterborough, Ramsey, Reading, Selby, Shrewsbury, Tavistock, Thorney, Westminster, Winchcombe, and St Mary's York.

Reading about famous oratory aroused Johnson's interest in political dialogue and private debates with customers having opposing views on issues of the day.

Bishop Asser claimed that the ' pagans ' agreed to vacate the realm and made good their promise ; and, indeed, the Viking army did withdraw from Reading in the autumn of 871 to take up winter quarters in Mercian London.

Reading fed the children's imagination.

In addition to his public service work for charitable organizations for the handicapped, Capp also served on the National Reading Council, which was organized to combat illiteracy.

Image: Berthe Morisot 006. jpg | The Mother and Sister of the Artist ( Reading ), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC c. 1869-70

Image: Berthe Morisot Reading. jpg | Reading, Cleveland Museum of Art 1873

Corn & Ivy: Spiritual Reading in Ruth and Jonah.

The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2001 to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court | Great Court, surrounding the original British Museum Reading Room | Reading Room.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

Infill galleries were constructed for Assyrian sculptures and Sydney Smirke's Round Reading Room, with space for a million books, opened in 1857.

This was a time of innovation as electric lighting was introduced in the Reading Room and exhibition galleries.

The Round Reading Room, which was designed by the architect Sydney Smirke, opened in 1857.