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40 unusual facts about reading


Al Unser

The year-old March was removed from a Penske Racing display at a Sheraton hotel in the team's hometown of Reading, Pennsylvania, and hurriedly prepared for a return to active competition.

Albion Terrace

Albion Terrace, Reading - a residential terrace in the English city of Reading

Alfred John Agg

He was educated at the Worcester grammar school, and entered the service of the Great Western Railway Company as a clerk at Reading in 1846, where he remained until 1850, when he emigrated to Australia.

ALL-IN-1

Digital then made the decision to move most of the development activity to its central engineering facility in Reading, United Kingdom, where a group there took responsibility for the product from version 2.0 (released in field test in 1984 and to customers in 1985) onward.

Amity Gaige

The Gaige family moved several times before settling in Reading, Pennsylvania.

An American Family

A year after this programme was broadcast, the BBC in 1974 filmed its own similar 12-episode programme, called The Family, focusing on the working-class Wilkins family, of Reading, Berkshire, England.

The programme consisted of 12 half-hour episodes, showing the daily lives and concerns of the working-class Wilkins family, of Reading, Berkshire, England.

Arthur Newbery Park

Arthur Newbery Park is a park in Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire.

Benjamin Ferris

He was a descendant of Samuel Ferris, who had come from Reading, England, in 1682 to settle at Groton, Massachusetts, and of John Ferris, who was among the first settlers in the city of Wilmington in 1748.

British Rail Class 166

Their main destinations included fast-trains to Reading, Newbury and Oxford, with some services continuing beyond Oxford to Banbury and Stratford-upon-Avon, or along the Cotswold Line to Evesham, Worcester, Great Malvern and Hereford.

Dominique Sandy

Dominique Thomas Sandy (born 18 March 1992, Reading, England) is an international lacrosse player for France.

Eden, High Wycombe

Moreover, the town was seen as being overshadowed by nearby towns with larger shopping centres, such as the Queensmere Observatory (Slough), The Oracle (Reading), The Chimes (Uxbridge), Harlequin Shopping Centre (Watford) and Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre (Milton Keynes).

Friar Street, Reading

At the western end is the Greyfriars Church and at the eastern end are the Town Hall and St Laurence's Church.

Great Western Railway accidents

The accident occurred in the early hours of 24 December 1841 in the Sonning Cutting, near Reading, in Berkshire, as a luggage train travelling from London to Bristol entered the cutting.

Higgs Brewery

Also known as the Lion Brewery (not to be confused with the Reading Lion Brewery), it was located on Castle Street near to St Mary's Church, the road entrance to the Broad Street Mall and The Hexagon.

IBM Internet Security Systems

Until late 2003 the company had significant development activities in Mountain View (California, USA), Reading (UK) and Sydney (Australia), but all development has since been relocated to Atlanta.

International Presbyterian Church

The IPC has 2 Presbyteries, a Korean Presbytery composed of 6 churches in Ealing, Kingston upon Thames, Reading and Kings Cross, Oxford.

James Hagedorn

He is co-chairman of the National Fund for the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., an associate trustee of the North Shore Hospital in Manhasset, New York and chairman of the board for the Farms for City Kids Foundation, Inc. in Reading, Vermont.

JANET

The core point of presence (Backbone) sites in SuperJanet4 were Edinburgh, Glasgow, Warrington, Reading, Bristol, Portsmouth, London and Leeds.

Jeremiah Bancroft

Jeremiah Bancroft was born in Reading, Massachusetts, on July 27, 1725 and died there from smallpox on November 25, 1757.

Jonathan Temple

Jonathan (also known as Don Juan) Temple was born in Reading, Massachusetts, to Jonathan Temple and Lucinda Pratt.

Kaw Mission

Students received instruction in spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Kevin L. Wade

Kevin Lynn Wade, (b: 1951, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA) was the 2012 nominee of the Delaware State Republican Committee for the United States Senate.

Levi Walter Mengel

Levi Walter Mengel (September 27, 1868 - February 3, 1941) was an entomologist from Reading, Pennsylvania.

Mount Savage Locomotive Works

James Millholland, Senior was 54 years old when he and his family came to Mt. Savage from Reading, Pennsylvania.

Peak-reading

A peak-reading electrical instrument or meter is one which measures the peak value of a waveform, rather than its mean value or RMS value.

Queen Victoria Street, Reading

The road was the work of Councillor J.C. Fidler, a local businessman who was also responsible for the rebuilding of West Street, the construction of the Market Arcade, and the acquisition of Prospect Park for the town.

Reading Central Library

The Holy Brook runs underneath the Library and it is near The Oracle to the south west and to the north lies the beautiful Forbury Gardens.

Reading Half Marathon

Leaving the town centre by Oxford Road and a steep climb up Russell Street, the course then loops around West Reading until mile 10.

Reading Tramways Company

They were initially authorised to construct and operate a horse tram route on an east-west alignment from Oxford Road through Broad Street in the town centre to Cemetery Junction.

Reading, Minnesota

He farmed the land for 23 years until the Burlington Railroad arrived in 1899.

Robert Archibald Smith

He was the son of Robert Smith, a silk-weaver from East Kilbride who had moved to England, and was born at Reading, Berkshire on 16 November 1780; his mother was Ann Whitcher.

Starview

The Home Office had granted several experimental licenses to broadcast subscription television services, of which Rediffusion received licenses for five areas, Burnley, Hull, Pontypridd, Reading and Tunbridge Wells.

Station Hill

Station Hill, Reading, a proposed redevelopment project in Reading, Berkshire

This Is Not What You Had Planned

This Is Not What You Had Planned is the debut mini-album from Reading singer-songwriter Ben Marwood, released on 4 August 2008 via Broken Tail Records.

Thomas Junta

Thomas Junta of Reading, Massachusetts was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2002 after he attacked Michael Costin, at 51 Symonds Way on July 5, 2000, who later died of his injuries.

Unity Sporting Club

The club was founded in 2007 by the club's president Mr. Ernest Anokye-Gyan with support from Unity Community & Sport Association and Unity Football Club, of Reading in Berkshire, England to promote safe ground for young athletes to develop their football skill.

West Reading, Berkshire

As such it includes the densely populated area along and surrounding the Oxford Road as far as the foot of Norcot Hill, which is a typical example of the British town's rows of terraced houses, as well as the more affluent area to the north of the Bath Road and alongside Tilehurst Road as far as Prospect Park.

Whiteknights Park

Whiteknights Park is some two miles south of the centre of the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire.

Workman-Temple family

Pliny Fisk Temple-F.P.T was named for a Congregationalist missionary in Palestine, was born to Jonathan Temple and Lucinda Parker in Reading, Massachusetts, near Boston.


A Fictional Guide to Scotland

This reading tour visited places as far and wide as Wigtown, Ullapool, Inverness, Edinburgh, Stirling, Lanark and Glasgow and was supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

Albright

Albright College, a liberal arts college located in Reading, Pennsylvania

Alexander Barkashov

While uninterested in his work, he was passionate about reading books about great conquerors of history (especially Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan), learning karate (even setting up his own club), and making weapons (bows and daggers) with his own hands.

Alice SOS

Takashi loves reading books and especially loves Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Allan Jackson

Jackson was handed a slip of paper reading "JFK DEAD" and immediately went on air with the announcement, reporting Kennedy's death as a fact (which had not yet been confirmed, although it was true that Kennedy was already dead), and playing the U.S. national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner.

Balcombe drilling protest

A few protesters gained entry to Cuadrilla's building and posted banners reading "Reclaim the Power" and "Power to the People," and, at Bell Pottinger, several protesters super glued themselves to the entrance, posting a banner over its entrance reading "Bell Pottinger Fracking Liars."

Bernard Pietenpol

A restored example of the Air Camper can be found in the inventory of the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Celia de Fréine

Also in 2009 the Abbey Theatre commissioned her short play Casadh which was given a rehearsed reading at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin and at An Chultúrlann in Belfast as part of the Gach Áit Eile series.

Clas Ohlson

There are now 12 stores in England and Wales, including Manchester, Leeds, Watford, Kingston upon Thames, Reading, Liverpool, Merry Hill, Cardiff, Doncaster, Norwich and Newcastle upon Tyne.

Dennis Covington

Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Salvation in Southern Appalachia, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 978-0-14-025458-7

Drew Cannon

Telep had just finished reading Moneyball and was intrigued with the idea of bringing advanced statistics to basketball.

Eavan Boland

The Poetry of Eavan Boland: A Postcolonial Reading. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press, 2008.

Eulogius of Córdoba

Again, during the Muslim persecution, in 850, after reading a passage of the works of St. Epiphanius he decided to refrain for a time from saying Mass that he might better defend the cause of the martyrs; however, at the request of his bishop, Saul of Córdoba, he put aside his scruples.

François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil

In Les Misèrables Victor Hugo refers to his works as "stupid romances" which the favourite reading of Madame Thénardier.

Gherasim Luca

From 1967, his reading sessions took him to places like Stockholm, Oslo, Geneva, New York City, and San Francisco.

Hastings, New Zealand

Exactly who chose the name has been disputed, although Thomas Tanner claimed that it was him (see Hawke's Bay Herald report 1 February 1884) and that the choice was inspired by his reading the trial of Warren Hastings.

Henri de Boulainvilliers

In 1683 Boulainvilliers wrote " l'Idée d'un Système Géneral de la Nature" based on his reading of Jan Baptist van Helmont and Robert Boyle, followed by "Archidoxes de Paracelsus, avec une préface sur les principes de l'art chimique".

Hovis Presley

He also appeared on the BBC Three show Whine Gums, which presented many modern poets reading their work.

Hydrogen breath test

Fructose malabsorption - the patient takes a base reading of hydrogen levels in his/her breath.

Hymn of the day

According to Carl Schalk, the hymn of the day came out of the singing of the gradual which is sung before the epistle reading.

Ira F. Stone

Among his other books are Reading Levinas/Reading Talmud (JPS, 1998), Seeking the Path of Life: Theological Meditations on the Nature of God, Life, Love and Death (Jewish Lights, 1993), Sketches for a Book of Psalms (Xlibris, 2000), and a commentary on Rabbi Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto's Mesillat Yesharim (Jewish Publication Society, 2010).

Jim Roper

Roper heard about the first race at a three-quarter mile dirt track in Charlotte, NC by reading a note about it in Zack Mosley's The Adventures of Smilin' Jack comic strip in his local newspaper.

John Chamberlayne

In the preface to a part of this published in 1719 he relates that Fagel assured Bishop Burnet "that it was worth his while to learn Dutch, only for the pleasure of reading Brandt's History of the Reformation".

Jorn Madslien

Born in 1967 in Oslo, Norway, Jorn was a medical officer in the Norwegian cavalry, before reading philosophy at the University of Oslo and economics at the University of Leeds.

Laurence Mark Wythe

Through the Door had a Broadway reading in 2011 starring Kerry Butler.

MBus

M-Bus, or Meter-Bus, a bus used for remote reading of gas or electricity meters

Minimum of Two

Since 2005 the anthology has been included in the VCE reading list, as an option for study by Year 11 and 12 English Students.

Minuscule 104

Bart D. Ehrman identified this reading as Orthodox corrupt reading.

Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa

They also practice meditation, spiritual reading and visits to the Blessed Sacrament.

Muhlenberg Greene Architects

Frequently confused with the Muhlenberg Brothers, an architecture/engineering firm also operating in Reading, Pennsylvania during the first half of the 20th century, Muhlenberg Greene Architects was never affiliated with Muhlenberg Brothers’ firm, although Frederick Muhlenberg does have familial ties with the Brothers.

Old Scona Academic High School

Numerous student-run clubs are available at Old Scona Academic, such as Multicultural Club, Speech & Debate Club, Go Club, Business/Finance Club, Hip Hop Club, Bollywood club, Reading Buddies, and Discussion Club.

Poncke Princen

While there he entertained fellow-prisoners by reading aloud chapters from a favourite book, Pastoor Poncke ("Pastor Poncke") by Jan Eekhout.

Question in the Form of an Answer

Following the release of the second album, Thes One began to coordinate strings of successful world tours for PUTS culminating in performances at the UK’s famous Glastonbury Festival in 2001 alongside Kelis and successful shows at the Reading, Leeds and infamous Essentials festival in London where the group was joined with Biz Markie, Ice-T, Jeru, Masta Ace and De La Soul on the final Sunday of the festival.

Ray Graydon

In a true sign of the gentleman Graydon had become known as, instead of celebrating immediately, he embraced with Reading manager Alan Pardew, and shook the hand of each Reading player, including former Walsall captain, Adrian Viveash.

Same language subtitling

This idea was struck upon by Brij Kothari, who believed that SLS makes reading practice an incidental, automatic, and subconscious part of popular TV entertainment, at a low per-person cost to shore up literacy rates in India.

Sanborn House

Rev. Peter Sanborn House, Reading, MA, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts

Seneca Valley School District

In 2009, the 8th grade was ranked 34th out of 141 western Pennsylvania middle schools based on three years of student academic achievement in PSSAs in: reading, math writing and one year of science.

Stax

StAX, (Computer Programming) Streaming API for reading and writing XML in Java

The Gow School

Its methods, still based on the work of Peter Gow Jr. and Dr. Samuel T. Orton, remain highly regarded among educators in the field of reading and literacy.

The Graveyard Book

It includes a version of "Danse macabre" played by Béla Fleck, which Fleck provided after reading on Gaiman's blog that he hoped for "Danse Macabre with banjo in it".

The Pacifist

Published near the beginning of the Cold War, "The Pacifist" satirizes the military-industrial complex (although the term would not come into wide use for another five years.) The involvement of civilian scientists in military projects was familiar to the reading public, notably the involvement of J. Robert Oppenheimer's team of nuclear scientists in the Manhattan Project, under the military leadership of General Leslie Groves.

The Pas

In Canada and elsewhere, the book is used as part of school reading, and so despite its size, The Pas is widely known to several generations of Canadians, much as the town of Hannibal, Missouri is known to many from Mark Twain's writings.

The Unkissed Bride

Nervous about the prospect of having sex, Margie picks up a copy of Mother Goose and begins reading from it, causing Ted to faint.

Thomas McMahon

Tom McMahon, American politician and former mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania

Thomas Rimmer

Thomas Rimmer (born September 6, 1980 in Reading, Berkshire, England) is a New Zealand stage and screen actor best known for his role in Danny Mulheron's feature film directorial debut Fresh Meat.

Venus Anadyomene

Through the desire of Renaissance artists reading Pliny to emulate Apelles, and, if possible, to outdo him, Venus Anadyomene was taken up again in the 15th century: besides Botticelli's famous Birth of Venus (Uffizi Gallery, Florence), another early Venus Anadyomene is the bas-relief by Antonio Lombardo from Wilton House (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

VF Corporation

An outlet mall located in Vanity Fair's old manufacturing mills in Wyomissing, just outside Reading, Pennsylvania.

Wheelhouse Magazine

Recent Reading Series Participants: Steve Almond, Tung Hui-Hu, Steve Heller, Jan Baross, Diane Lefer, Leonard Schwartz.

William Gurnall

John Newton, the converted slave trader, said that if he was confined to one book beside the Bible, he'd choose Christian Armour. Cecil spent many of the last days of his life in reading it, and repeatedly expressed his admiration of it.