Major employers include Siemens, which moved its UK headquarters to the area in 2007, Burlington Group who moved into Watchmoor Park in 2009 and, until 2010, Sun Microsystems, whose UK headquarters was located just across the Hampshire border in Minley next to the M3 motorway at junction 4a, before the takeoverby Oracle and subsequent move to Thames Valley Park in Reading.

Computerisation has heralded further increases in efficiency, but nearly all subsequent methodologies can be traced back in some form to the Reading system.

In the second half of the 18th century, Reading was notoriously one of the most corrupt constituencies in England, bribery being both routine and expensive: Namier quotes the accounts kept for Prime Minister Newcastle of the 1754 election, which note that John Dodd, the government's candidate there, had already received £ 1000 and was promised £ 500 or £ 600 more to help him win the seat.

* The Indigenous Folksong Reading Curriculum Includes, on page 6, an excerpt in which a teacher accounts her experiences teaching standard English to Crucian dialect speakers on St. Croix.

The brand finished its sponsorship deal with the Reading and Leeds festivals, which had lasted between 1998 and 2007, Carling also exited its long term sponsorship deals with the UK's academy venues replaced by O2, and the Hammersmith Apollo to HMV a couple of years earlier.

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.

In 1974 a counterpart program, The Family, was made in the UK, following the working class Wilkins family of Reading.

Reading glasses come in two main styles: full frames, in which the entire lens is made in the reading prescription, and half-eyes, the smaller " Ben Franklin " style glasses that sit lower down on the nose.

He made many television appearances, including an episode of NBC's The Virginian, in the episode " The Brazen Bell ", in which he recites Oscar Wilde's poem " The Ballad Of Reading Gaol ".

Additionally, he made some important early photographs of Oxford, Paris, Reading, and York.

Of her research for Falls the Shadow, Penman explains: " I did a great deal of on-site research, visiting the castles and battlefields that figured in Falls the Shadow, visiting the Reading Room at the British Library, the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, and local reference libraries .... Here at home, I made use of the University of Pennsylvania Library in Philadelphia, which has an excellent medieval selection.

On October 16, 2009, the album title was announced to be Pin Points and Gin Joints and a free download of the song " Graffiti Worth Reading " was made available.

The BBC reported that Dr Wendy Barclay, a virologist at the University of Reading, UK said: " The Chinese have made a vaccine based on reverse genetics made with H5N1 antigens, and they have been using it.

Whilst lecturing in America Lardner was paid by Norris Brothers, the largest firm of locomotive builders, to investigate a fatal accident in Reading, near Philadelphia, where a boiler had exploded on a newly made train.

Reading the satires of Lucilius made Persius want to write like him, and he set to work on a book of his own satires.

On the other hand, during the Second Reading a Liberal MP made the classic argument against detailed and prescriptive regulation

In her book The As It Happens Files, former show host Mary Lou Finlay notes that As It Happens has given a boost not just to Reading's profile, but also to its economy, as in recent years a number of Canadian fans of the show have made a point of visiting Reading when they are visiting the UK.

Six days later, Schmidt made his professional debut in an exhibition game between the Phillies and the Reading Phillies in Reading.

The tollgate on the Bath Road west of Reading was removed in 1864 as the outward pressure of urban development made rates a more acceptable way of financing the maintenance of what was now a sub-urban road.

John Carey, Merton professor of English Literature at Oxford University, and chairman of Booker judges in 2003 said: " Reading book made me think of how the English language was in Shakespeare's day, enormously free and inventive and very idiomatic and full of poetry as well.

The band made their live debut at a rock and roll festival at Wembley Stadium on 5 August 1972, followed by an appearance at the Reading Festival later that month.

This was reconfirmed in the Royal Charter granted to the corporation of Reading by Elizabeth I in 1560, which made the corporation liable for the salary of the headmaster and gave them the power of appointing him.

In the same year Reading was one of just 35 schools nationally to be made a Microsoft Partner School.

He made his first start a few days later during a 1 – 0 Reading victory over Sheffield United on August 14, 2004.

He made appearances with a team from Hazleton in the Central Pennsylvania League and with a team from Reading in the Pennsylvania State Association ; the stats he recorded for both teams are unknown.

Smith moved to Queens Park Rangers shortly after the promotion success, and made way for chief scout Maurice Evans, who, several seasons earlier, had won the Fourth Division title with Reading.

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

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

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

Few newspapers still run half-page strips, as with Prince Valiant and Hagar the Horrible in the front page of the Reading Eagle Sunday comics section.

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.

* Discordian Tarot with ' Reading ' – the free deck consists of 73 cards, incl.

Reading, such as reading books, magazines, comics, or newspapers, along with browsing the internet is a common hobby and one that can trace its origins back many hundreds of years.

Reading Buddies matches children of adult literacy students with college students who meet with them once a week throughout the semester for an hour and a half.

Each Reading Buddies session focuses primarily on the college student reading aloud with the child.

* How to Read a Book: The Art of Getting a Liberal Education ( 1940 ), 1966 edition subtitled A Guide to Reading the Great Books, 1972 revised edition with Charles Van Doren, The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading: ISBN 0-671-21209-5

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.

" Not That There's Anything Wrong with That ": Reading the Queer in Seinfeld.

Major argues that the capture of Silchester, of which no record has survived, was not the work of Angles but of the West Saxons, who probably struck north from Winchester, possibly acting in concert with a separate force making its way up the Thames Valley towards Reading.

** Canon Jeffrey John, the first would-be gay bishop in the Church of England, withdraws his acceptance of the post of Bishop of Reading after discussions with church leaders.

The book was published in 1963 as part of the Time Reading Program with an introduction by Fred Hoyle.

Gordon spent the majority of his life living in Tilehurst near Reading with his wife Alison and his three children.

Ceramic type from from the collections of University of Reading. Sometimes it is erroneously stated that printing with metal type replaced the earlier methods.

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Reading in 1657 of Otto von Guericke's air-pump, he set himself with the assistance of Robert Hooke to devise improvements in its construction, and with the result, the " machina Boyleana " or " Pneumatical Engine ", finished in 1659, he began a series of experiments on the properties of air.

He grew up living with his grandmother, Anna Mattheus List, in South Reading ( now Wakefield ), Massachusetts.

* 1950 ( 11 ) Los Angeles Open, Bing Crosby Pro-Am ( tie with Jack Burke, Jr., Smiley Quick, Dave Douglas ), Texas Open, Miami Beach Open, Greater Greensboro Open, Western Open, Colonial National Invitation, Inverness Invitational Four-Ball ( with Jim Ferrier ), Reading Open, North and South Open, Miami Open