Later important examples of the poetic form included Rudyard Kipling ’ s ‘ Barrack Room Ballads ’ ( 1892-6 ) and Oscar Wilde ’ s ‘ Ballad of Reading Gaol ’ ( 1897 ).

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.

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.

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.

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 centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras.

File: British Museum Reading Room Panorama Feb 2006. jpg | British Museum Reading Room

* Christian Science Reading Room

* Letter to the Philippians Online Reading Room: Commentaries and other resources ( Tyndale Seminary )

* Letter to the Philippians Online Reading Room: Commentaries and other resources ( BiblicalStudies. org. uk )

* Letter to the Philippians Online Reading Room: Commentaries and other resources ( NTGateway. com )

* Letter to the Philippians Online Reading Room: Commentaries and other resources ( TextWeek. com )

* Gospel of Luke Reading Room: on-line virtual library ( Tyndale Seminary )

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.

Reading disabilities, or dyslexia, is the most common learning disability, although in research literature it is considered to be a receptive language-based learning disability.

At its headquarters in Reading, England, one of the largest supercomputer complexes in Europe is linked by high-speed telecommunication lines to the computer systems of the national weather services of its supporting states.

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.

The historic practice of a bishop tutoring a candidate himself (" Reading for Orders ") is still to be found.

* 871 – Battle of Reading: Ethelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army.

Its Double-A affiliate is the Reading Phillies, which plays in Reading, Pennsylvania, and its Triple-A affiliate is the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, which plays in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Like the Kurzweil Reading Machine of almost 30 years before, the K-NFB Reader is designed to aid blind people by reading written text aloud.

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

* December 25 – The Reading Football Club is formed.

* Reading Abbey is founded in England.

* Reading, England is occupied by the Norse.

Jeff ' Yak ' Minter ( born in Reading, 22 April 1962 ) is a British video game designer and programmer.

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

The Florey Unit of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, Berkshire is named after him.

The Gospel Reading on Sunday lays out one of the most important themes of the Lenten season: the process of falling into of sin, realization of one's sinfulness, the road to repentance, and finally reconciliation, each of which is illustrated in the course of the parable.

According to Put Reading First from the National Institute for Literacy, embedded phonics is described as indirect instruction where " Children are taught letter-sound relationships during the reading of connected text.

The resulting report Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and its Implications for Reading Instruction was published in 2000 and provides a comprehensive review of what is known about best practices in reading instruction in the U. S. The panel reported that several reading skills are critical to becoming good readers: phonemic awareness, phonics for word identification, fluency, vocabulary and text comprehension.

Current excavations are sometimes open for visitors, and occasional organised open days are held ; see the Reading University web site (' External links ' below ) for details.

At the same time, using his preference to have someone he could trust, Frank brought in their cousin, Seymour H. Knox I, to open a store in Reading, Pennsylvania, under the name " Woolworth and Knox ".

* Reading Marx ’ s Capital with David Harvey A university open course, consisting of a close reading of the text of Marx's Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures.

The town of Reading was initially governed by an open town meeting and a board of selectmen, a situation that persisted until the 1940s.

In 1944, Reading adopted the representative town meeting model of local government in place of the open town meeting.

The Center's Reading Room is open to the public.

But another division in 1885 when a London assembly excommunicated a brother in Reading over the " standing " of a Christian, the minority in a resultant split ( Stuarts ) adopted a more " open " approach to fellowship, as did those who followed Grant in America.

During the festival a temporary structure, Reading Festival Bridge, links the site with parking and camping areas on the open meadows on the north bank.

On the Reading road itself Essex did not succeed in deploying on to the open ground on Newbury Wash, but victoriously repelled the royal horse when it charged up to the lanes and hedges held by his foot.

In Japan, the online versions of Reading & Listening, Speaking and Writing tests became open to individual test takers in September 2011.

* Harvey, D. 2008 Reading Marx's Capital An open course consisting of a close reading of the text of Marx's Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures by David Harvey.

Currently " Reading Marx ’ s Capital with David Harvey " open course.

The Vershbow Special Collections Reading Room is open from 10 to 5, Tuesday through Friday.

" Other notable instances included his closing argument as prosecutor in the 1876 murder trial of John Kehoe, vilified at the time as the " King of the Mollie Maguires ," in which he portrayed the murders and other crimes attributed to Mollies as being an evil unparalleled in all human history, and as not locally motivated, but driven by orders from other places — Pittsburgh, New York — even other lands — England, Ireland, Scotland ; and his three-hour argument in 1881 before a gathering of outraged stockholders of the bankrupt Reading Railroad, inside Philadelphia's Academy of Music, by which he turned open hostility into enthusiastic rounds of applause One twentieth-century commentator described Gowen's oratory skills thus:

A library room, known as the " Teppaku Reading Room " is scheduled to open on 21 July 2012 in the remodelled North Wing of the museum.

Smith had started an open mic night at the Get Me High lounge in November 1984 called the Monday Night Poetry Reading.

Category: Parks and open spaces in Reading, Berkshire

On 14 September 1932, Newbery gifted the park to the mayor of Reading as an open space for the people of Reading.

A reading room, named the Steve Neal Reading Room in honor of Illinois historical journalist Steve Neal, is open to the public.

Category: Parks and open spaces in Reading, Berkshire

Category: Parks and open spaces in Reading, Berkshire

The IoD currently has around 40, 000 members, and has premises open for the use of those members in London ( 3 locations ), Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Norwich, Paris, and Reading.