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.

The additional word via indicated that the " passengers " were not sent on the usual train, but rather via Reading, Pennsylvania.

Sousa died of heart failure at the age of 77 on March 6, 1932, in his room at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania.

| PLACE OF DEATH = Reading, Pennsylvania

* Reading, Pennsylvania

* Acme ( automobile ), an automobile built between 1903 – 1911 in Reading, Pennsylvania

In 1731, the Boones moved to the Oley Valley, near the modern city of Reading, Pennsylvania.

* Reading, Pennsylvania: The " Reading Works " facility, formerly Lucent / AT & T and Bell Labs.

The Schuylkill River headwaters are found in the county, starting in the Appalachian Mountains, and flows through many towns and the city of Reading, Pennsylvania to Philadelphia where it flows into the Delaware River.

The first railroad ( which became the Pennsylvania Railroad ) followed much the same route, and the Reading Railroad progressed up the Schuylkill River to Reading.

* Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center is south of Reading on land once owned by Jacob Nolde, a prominent Reading businessman and Pennsylvania environmentalist.

* Lori and George Schappell born September 18, 1961 in Reading, Pennsylvania, American entertainers, craniopagus.

Appearing with Gene Vincent and Lillian Briggs in a " rock ' n ' roll show ", he helped pull 39, 872 people to the Reading Fair in Pennsylvania on a Tuesday night in late September.

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.

The 1921 and 1931 National Order of the Arrow Lodge Meetings were held at Philadelphia, the 1922 and 1927 National Lodge Meetings were held at Reading, Pennsylvania, and the 1940 National Lodge Meeting was held at Ligonier, Pennsylvania.

In 1870, a tract of land on which Reading is now located was owned by McMann & Co of Reading, Pennsylvania.

The Good Spring was then consolidated along with several other area railroads to form the Lebanon and Tremont Railroad in March 1871, and was reacquired by and merged into the Reading about a month later.

The NYC had to compete with its two biggest rivals: the Pennsylvania Railroad ( PRR ), and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( B & O ), in addition to more moderate-size railroads such as the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad ( DLW ), the Erie Railroad, the Reading Company, the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and the Lehigh Valley Railroad.

This sent a trickle effect throughout the already fragile railroad industry forcing many of the other Northeastern railroads into insolvency, among them the Erie Lackawanna, Boston and Maine, the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Reading Company, and the Lehigh Valley.

Wharton became involved in the Reading and Lehigh railroads and several others, arranging spur lines with the railroads to carry ore and finished metal products.

Other bankrupt railroads included the Ann Arbor Railroad ( 1973 ), Erie Lackawanna Railway ( 1972 ), Lehigh Valley Railroad ( 1970 ), Reading Company ( 1971 ), Central Railroad of New Jersey ( 1967 ) and Lehigh and Hudson River Railway ( 1972 ).

In 1892, the Reading Railroad thought it had a solution — instead of attempting to maintain agreements among the coal railroads, it would purchase or lease the major lines and bring them into a monopoly.

The Reading, now out of receivership, purchased the company and brought the other coal railroads into the partnership, with the Reading owning 30 %, the LVRR 23 %, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 20 %, CNJ 17 %, Erie 6 %, and New York, Susquehanna and Western 5 %.

The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad ( P & R ) was one of the first railroads constructed in the United States.

The early Philadelphia and Reading Railroad named all of their locomotives with names such as Winona or Jefferson, as did most American railroads following in the British precedent, but in December 1871 the P & R replaced all the names with numbers.

This required all railroads to disinvest themselves of all mining properties and operations, and so the Reading Company was forced to sell the P & R Coal and Iron Company.

Therefore the Reading started to pool locomotive power between its connecting railroads to provide a more seamless transfer of freight and passengers.

From the turn of the 20th century to the outbreak of World War I, the Reading was among the most modern and efficient railroads.

In keeping with the standards of much larger railroads, The Reading embarked on many improvement projects which typically were not attempted by smaller railroads.

The shops were completed four years later, with their imposing brick architecture, they were the largest railroad shops in America, and unlike most railroads, allowed the Reading to make its own engines. They still stand today in non RR use.

The locomotives were adopted by a broad spectrum of mountain railroads, including the Norfolk & Western, Southern, Virginian, Great Northern, Clinchfield, Denver & Rio Grande, Reading, Western Maryland, Missouri Pacific, Frisco, and the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway.

Effective April 1, 1889, the Philadelphia and Reading Railway consolidated all of its railroads in Southern New Jersey into the Atlantic City Railroad ( ACRR ).

Before the Center City Commuter Connection opened in November 1984, the Pennsylvania Railroad commuter lines and the Reading commuter lines were two completely separate railroads.

( In 1828-9, Robinson had designed his first railroads -- the Allegheny Portage and the Danville & Pottsville railroads -- as double track lines, but these included inclines that worked better with two tracks ; the Reading was the first main line designed at the outset with double tracks in mind, though with only a 22 ' wide grade that required widening later ).

Because of the extensive coal fields it tapped, the Reading would become one of the most profitable railroads in the U. S. It was also considered Moncure Robinson ’ s first mountain railroad without inclines -- a statement about the transition from the Canal Era of feeder coal roads to water transport / canals.

The Boston and Maine Railroad owned by far the largest number of these units, but they were also very popular for commuter and short distance service with the passenger heavy railroads such as the New Haven Railroad, New York Central, Northern Pacific, Reading Railroad, Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines, Baltimore and Ohio, and Jersey Central.

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.

Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia, by Jean-Joseph Taillasson, 1787, an early Neoclassicism | neoclassical painting ( National Gallery ( London ) | National Gallery, London )

The use of phonics in American education dates at least to the work of Favell Lee Mortimer, whose works using phonics includes the early flashcard set Reading Disentangled ( 1834 ) and text Reading Without Tears ( 1857 ).

He fell ill early in 1219, and died on 14 May at his manor of Caversham near Reading.

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

The township was first settled in the early 18th century by Colonel John Reading ( 1657 – 1717 ), who was instrumental in the creation of Amwell Township in 1708 and also worked for the creation of Hunterdon County in 1714.

* Brief early history of Reading, NY

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.

During the early 1870s, Franklin Gowen, President of the Reading Railroad, had begun purchasing coal lands along the Railroad's right-of-way for the express purpose of building an anthracite coal monopoly.

Reading Iphigenia was what partly sparked Culianu's investigation of his mentor's early political affiliations.

The early matches were played at Reading Recreation Ground, and later the club held fixtures at Reading Cricket Ground, Coley Park and Caversham Cricket Ground.

In addition to the Protopunk of New York's The Velvet Underground and Suicide, and Detroit ’ s The Stooges and MC5, Kember's and Pierce's musical influences included: US 60s Psychedelic rock, such as The Thirteenth Floor Elevators ; US 60s Garage rock ; 60s British Invasion bands ; Rock n ' Roll ; Buddy Holly ; Surf music ; The Beach Boys ; early, seminal Electronic music, e. g. Silver Apples, Delia Derbyshire and Laurie Anderson ; Krautrock ; The Gun Club, The Cramps and Tav Falco ’ s Panther Burns ; early Chicago blues, e. g. Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Howlin ’ Wolf ; early Delta blues ; gospel and early Staple Singers ; Otis Reading ; the production techniques of Brian Wilson, Joe Meek and Phil Spector ; and the avant-garde jazz and free jazz of Sun Ra and John Coltrane.

The fragment of London National Gallery The Magdalen Reading has been described by Campbell as " one of the great masterpieces of fifteenth-century art and among Rogier's most important early works ".

Recent scholarship ( see Further Reading below, in Lehrich, Nauert, and van der Poel ) generally agrees that this rejection or repudiation of magic is not what it seems: Agrippa never rejected magic in its totality, but he did retract his early manuscript of the Occult Philosophy-to be replaced by the later form.

He retired early, to Reading near the River Thames in 1960, where he worked on the manuscripts for his main work, written in French and entitled Méditations sur les 22 arcanes majeurs du Tarot, Meditations on the Tarot in English.

Ambisonics was invented by Michael Gerzon of the Mathematical Institute, Oxford, who – with Professor Peter Fellgett of the University of Reading, David Brown, John Wright and John Hayes of the now defunct IMF Electronics, and building on the work of other researchers – developed the theoretical and practical aspects of the system in the early 1970s.

Reading was an early and active participant in Boston's METCO program, which brought Black and inner-city students from Boston to attend grades K-12.

* Walter F. MacConaway, biographer of explorer James Michael Prescott lived in Reading in the early 1970s.

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.