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Reading

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About Reading

Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of sight or touch.

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They just divide, it was amazing. They just divided it up. Lots of them were in Salisbury and Reading and Trowbridge and just like all over the place, basically. This came out decades after the war that this is how it had been done basically. There was an engineer who worked on them called Norman Parker and he said in 2021, he was interviewed about it, he was about 95 at the time that he was talking about this, he said we had one case there was a couple at a dinner party in the 1970s and over the dinner table the wife said, oh I was building Spitfires in Salisbury during the war.

from 483: No Such Thing As Rivets On A Tombstone, 2023-06-16 at 00:33:19 · read transcript

Other times Reading came up

  1. Because at the moment it only manifests on credit cards rather than in the bank of cheats when you've got a cold. Come on, AI. I need to wrap us up in a sec. Oh, should we do some bungling criminals? Well, not a couple of bungling criminals. There was a man who stole a parcel from Reading. Wasn't to contain Henry the first to remain. This is in 1994. It was in early 90s. It could still be after the first.

    No Such Thing As The Opposite Of February, 2023-10-26 · listen

  2. It was definitely that... It was never the same again. Yeah. I mean, what a... What an afterlife. What a shame that the Elizabeth line wasn't named after him. Because that terminates in Reading. That would have been a beautiful tribute. It's subterranean as well. Maybe it literally comes up against his skull. Yeah. That's used. To save money, keep it under 50 billion, and to use some of the heft of former King Henry to slow the trains down.

    No Such Thing As The Opposite Of February, 2023-10-26 · listen

  3. Anna, does this still make you feel really patriotic that our country is doing this? When actually it's just a load of, multinationals. It's gradually seeping away my nascent nationalism. Sure. Just quickly, do you know why this cocoa chocolate quarantine centre is in Reading? Oh no. Well, Reading was their football team's called the biscuit men, so there's a biscuit company there. Exactly. It's for the chocolate biscuits. No, sadly it's not that.

    No Such Thing As A Communist Caterpillar, 2017-08-04 · listen

  4. It's a massive plant for their economy, that could cause massive hardship, distress, and disaster. Every variety moving around the world spends two years in quarantine at the ICQC in Reading. Right. Yeah. It's quite, is it quite new? Was it built a few years ago? No, it's been going since 1985, but they've got a new home since 2015, so yeah, yeah. Sorry, just so I can wrap my head around this, they're collecting the cocoa plants from around the world to sit there to put through quarantine.

    176: No Such Thing As A Communist Caterpillar, 2017-08-04 · listen

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