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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

At the time, he was working on the " Reading of the Declaration of Independence Mural " which was later installed in the House Chamber.

Reading Korzybski extensively, I couldn't find anything that was not either trivial or false.

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

Reading or copying was normally done in the room itself.

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

When the Phoenix Festival was cancelled due to low ticket sales, New Order instead played the last night of that year's Reading Festival.

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.

* Kurzweil was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002 for inventing the Kurzweil Reading Machine.

Direct track connections were possible with the Lehigh Valley Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey and Reading Railroad, plus the carfloat operation which connected with offline terminals in Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Manhattan and New Jersey.

It is also possible to run via the Wessex Main Line, but this involves a reversal at Bradford Junction, so is only really suitable for multiple unit trains or via Reading to Bath via Newbury.

The Parliamentarian force, now free of Charles's army, retreated towards Aldermaston as quickly as possible and eventually made it to Reading and then London, where Essex received a hero's welcome.

However no access is possible across the weir, and without a boat, journeys between the two villages require a lengthy detour via Reading or Pangbourne.

The goal came against Reading on 19 April, and despite its deflective nature leading to some classing it as a possible own goal, the Premier League's Dubious Goals Panel eventually credited the goal to Gilberto.

At Reading, North Downs Line services normally terminate at platforms 4, 5 and 6 on the south side of the station, although access to other platforms is possible via Reading Spur Junction with the Great Western Main Line ( see map, right ).

Reading the booklet later in my room I found that it outlined processes for dealing with possible misdeeds of senior members who may, for example, have misappropriated funds, broke their vows, left the NKT tradition, or disseminated non-NKT teachings.

The song has only been omitted from some TV performances, Camden Proud Galleries, iTunes London Festival and the Leeds festival of 2006 due to Grant Nicholas feeling that the band had to drop the song from the setlist, after experiencing throat problems near the end of their set at the Reading festival the day before, but has been rested since 2010, so the band can promote their Renegades album at live performances as much as possible.

** Obadiah, from the United Church of God, an International Association Bible Reading Program-This Hebrew scholar provides extensive background information as well as verse-by-verse exposition

Reading a memory location creates a new charge well, destroying the original contents of that location, and so any read has to be followed by a write to reinstate the original data.

Reading researchers define a skilled reader as one who can understand written text as well as they can understand the same passage if spoken.

In introducing the novel for use in leadership training, Marine Corps University's Lejeune program opines that it offers " lessons in training methodology, leadership, and ethics as well Ender ’ s Game has been a stalwart item on the Marine Corps Reading List since its inception.

Examples also exist in Bracknell, Hull, Nottingham and Reading, as well as on the N2 / M50 intersection in Dublin, Ireland.

Notable examples include Polyester Books in Melbourne, Australia ; Cafe Royal in the UK ; Reading Frenzy and Powell's in Portland, OR ; Needles and Pens in San Francisco ; Atomic Books in Baltimore ; Quimby's in Chicago ; Mac's Backs Paperbacks in Cleveland, OH ; Boxcar Books in Bloomington, Indiana ; Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia ; Civic Media Center in Gainesville, FL ; Bluestockings in New York City ; Five in Charleston, SC ; Brian MacKenzie Infoshop in Washington, DC ; Book Beat & Co. in Oklahoma City, OK ; Printed Matter in New York City ; Copacetic Comics Co. and Big Idea Bookstore in Pittsburgh, PA ; Reading Material in Tokyo, Japan ; On Reading in Nagoya, Japan ; as well as MonkeyWrench Books and Domy Books in Austin, TX.

Currently, both the Chicago Sun-Times and the St. Louis Post Dispatch are printed as compact format newspapers, as well as a digested version of The Washington Post, the edition of July 31, 2006, becoming the first American newspaper to change to the Berliner format ; however, the most recent change was in February 2009 when the Reading Eagle converted to the Berliner format as well.

Her father sold ice and coal in downtown Philadelphia at the Reading Terminal and eventually opened a small liquor business as well.

Commander Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as the host of the PBS children's program Reading Rainbow.

Southall is served by Southall railway station on the Great Western Main Line, providing links to Heathrow Airport, Reading and Oxford as well as London Paddington.

Further Reading, Lakeview Michigan is also the remnant of log transport via Tamarack lake and a small industry in pickles, as well as notable oddities such as the dance hall and hotel once located on the island centered in Lakeviews own Tamarack Lake.

The open-wheel racing portion of Penske Racing had been based in Reading, Pennsylvania since 1973 with the cars, during the F1 and CART era, being constructed in Poole, Dorset, England as well as being the base for the F1 team.

With the exception of the IVC VTRs ( which were modified to Decca's specifications by IVC's UK division in Reading ), all the electronics for these systems were developed and manufactured in-house by Decca ( and by contractors to them as well ).

First oversease live performances were by Bow Wow in 1978 in Hong Kong and at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, as well played at the Reading Festival in England in 1982.

Operations are based in Reading, where the company head office is situated as well as an office based in the city of Cardiff.

He also donated to the town of Reading the four acres ( 16, 000 m² ) of land that is today the Royal Berkshire Hospital, and his name is commemorated in the town's Sidmouth Street and Addington Road as well as in Sidmouth street in Devizes.

Reading the sentencing statement, Presiding Judge Richard Lussick said: " The accused has been found responsible for aiding and abetting as well as planning some of the most heinous and brutal crimes recorded in human history.

A more ambitious proposal named " Superlink " was proposed in 2004, at an estimated cost of £ 13bn, including additional infrastructure work outside London: as well as Crossrail's proposed east-west london tunnel, additional lines would connect conurbations outside London, including lines to Cambridge, Ipswich, Southend, Pitsea, Reading, Basingstoke and Northampton.

In the 19th century William Chappell, an expert on popular music, suggested the possibility that the " Old King Cole " of nursery rhyme fame was really " Old Cole ", alias Thomas Cole-brook, a supposed 12th-century Reading cloth merchant whose story was recounted by Thomas Deloney in his The Pleasant History of Thomas of Reading ( c. 1598 ), and who was well known as a character in plays of the early 17th century.

He was influential in the creation of the Ryga Award for Social Responsibility in Canadian Literature, Ryga a Journal of Provocations, the Mackie Lecture and Reading Series, the Kalamalka Press, KIdsWWwrite ( a creative writing ezine ) and the KIWW Digital Archives, as well as several radio programs and newsprint collaborations such as The Kalamalka Chronicles.