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.

The Reading Room is open to any member of the public who wishes to read there.

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* 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 )

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.

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.

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.

Philosopher Philip Stokes of the University of Reading noted that overall, Foucault's work was " dark and pessimistic ", but that it did leave some room for optimism, in that it illustrates how the discipline of philosophy can be used to highlight areas of domination.

Two shortened variations, " Bucs " and " Buccos ", are also commonly used for both the American football team and MLB's Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Reading Buccaneers Drum and Bugle Corps.

The lower floor of this building continued to be used by Reading School, as it had been since 1486.

About 100 years after the abbey school occupied the hospitium, and after the dissolution of the monasteries, Reading town council created a new town hall by inserting an upper floor into the hospitium's refectory, leaving the lower floor to be used by the school.

In 1995, the ruined South Transept was used as the setting for the first Abbey Ruins Open Air Shakespeare production by MDM Productions and Progress Theatre in partnership with Reading Borough Council.

Margaret McNamara, a former teacher, used her position as a Cabinet spouse to launch a reading program for young children, Reading Is Fundamental, which became the largest literacy program in the country.

Within two years it was expected that coding would be used in Aberdeen, Belfast, Brighton, Bristol, Bromley, Cardiff, Coventry, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newport, Reading, Sheffield, Southampton and the Western district of London.

Though there is no discernible architectural styles in the outgrowth areas, a notable building technique has been used in the construction of the Children's Reading Center Charter School.

The asbestos dumps have been removed or capped in compliance with environmental laws, and the former manufacturing land has been redeveloped into a large movie theater complex known as Reading Cinemas, a medium-sized retail outlet with a Walmart anchor store and a used car wholesale auction company called ADESA New Jersey.

Part of Reading was used to form the Town of Starkey ( now in Yates County ) in 1824.

The Reading & Northern Railroad Co. invested in Pittston Yard in late 2009 and early 2010, laying track to accommodate 100 new rail cars and constructing a facility to store and hold up to 800 cars of sand to be used in hydraulic fracturing, or “ fracking ,” operations at Marcellus Shale drill sites throughout northeastern Pennsylvania.

The British Museum Reading Room, situated in the centre of the Great Court of the British Museum, used to be the main reading room of the British Library.

Alfred Hitchcock used the Reading Room and the dome of the British Museum as a location for the climax of his first sound film Blackmail ( 1929 ).

Other movies with key scenes in the Reading Room include Night of the Demon ( 1957 ) and in the 2001 Japanese anime OVA Read or Die, the Reading Room is used as the secret entrance to the British Library's fictional " Special Operations Division ".

In addition, Dogpatch characters were used in national campaigns for the U. S. Treasury, the Cancer Foundation, the March of Dimes, the National Heart Fund, the Sister Kenny Foundation, the Boy Scouts of America, Community Chest, the National Reading Council, Minnesota Tuberculosis and Health Association, Christmas Seals, the National Amputation Foundation and Disabled American Veterans, among others.

The Reading Rainbow logo used between 1983 and 1999.

The library is also home to the Charles Chu Asian Art Reading Room, a space used for studying, public lectures, and receptions.

In the second version of Reading Blaster: Vocabulary, a character is stated to own the spaceship used in Math Blaster, suggesting the original universe is part of a film series in this iteration of the game.

* Band scores used for each language sub-skill ( Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking ).

The Flesch Reading Ease formula became one of the most widely used, and the one most tested and reliable.