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

Burton was host and executive producer of Reading Rainbow starting in 1983 for PBS.

After Reading Rainbow went off the air in 2006, Burton and his business partner, Mark Wolfe acquired the global rights to the brand and formed RRKIDZ, a new media company for children.

Reading Rainbow was reimagined as an all new APP for the iPad in 2012 and was an immediate success, becoming the # 1 Educational App within 36 hours.

At RRKIDZ, Burton services as Co-Founder and Curator-in-Chief, ensuring that the projects produced under the banner meet the high expectations and trust of the Reading Rainbow brand.

At the time, Burton was considerably better known than Patrick Stewart in the United States, due to the fame he gained from starring in Roots and Reading Rainbow.

The PBS TV series Reading Rainbow shot its tenth episode " The Gift of the Sacred Dog " here on June 17, 1983.

Ebsen narrated the documentary series Disney Family Album during the 1980s on the Disney Channel and Steven Kellogg's " Paul Bunyan " on the PBS series Reading Rainbow in 1985.

* Reading Rainbow

Reading Rainbow was an American children's television series that aired on PBS from June 6, 1983 until November 10, 2006 that encouraged reading among children.

Reading Rainbow has won a Peabody Award and twenty-six Emmy Awards, ten of which were in the " Outstanding Children's Series " category.

On June 20, 2012, the Reading Rainbow App was released for the iPad and became the # 1 educational app within 36 hours.

The Reading Rainbow logo used between 1983 and 1999.

Educate Inc. recently announced a new corporate configuration spinning-off Reading Rainbow into a new products division.

Former executive producer LeVar Burton announced on his Twitter feed on March 19, 2010, that " Reading Rainbow 2. 0 is in the works.

On June 20, 2012, Reading Rainbow was officially relaunched as an iPad App on Apple's iTunes Store.

* List of Reading Rainbow awards and nominations

* RRKidz Reading Rainbow products website

* Reading Rainbow App for iPad on the Apple App Store

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He also narrated The Secret Shortcut in Reading Rainbow and hosted The Flintstones ' 25th Anniversary Celebration.

The show was shown in the USA on PBS Kids in HD until 2005 when it was taken off the air along with Teletubbies and Reading Rainbow.

Before the show was even in production, the Magic School Bus appeared on PBS, because this book was featured on Reading Rainbow.

He guest starred on the show The Ray Bradbury Theater in 1989 as Willie and on Reading Rainbow and Fun House as himself.

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.

Reading Atari 8-bit 130kB or 180kB disks was possible as well with special software, but the standard Atari 8-bit 90kB format, which used FM rather than MFM encoding, could not be handled by the 1571 hardware without modifying the drive circuitry as the control line that determines if FM or MFM encoding is used by the disc controller chip was permanently wired to ground ( MFM mode ) rather than being under software control.

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.