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    Friar Street is a thoroughfare in the English town of Reading. It runs parallel to Broad Street, connected by Union Street, Queen Victoria Street and...
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    south side of Friar Street. It burned down in 1937. Within the town hall is a 700-seat concert hall that houses a Father Willis organ. Reading theatre venues...
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    properties between Broad Street and Friar Street. Queen Victoria Street at last provided a direct link from Broad Street to Reading station, opened in 1840...
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    Queen Victoria Street is a pedestrianised thoroughfare in the English town of Reading, Berkshire. It connects Broad Street with Friar Street and Station...
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    with small shops and other retail outlets, and connects Broad Street and Friar Street. The name Smelly Alley came about in the 1940s, as there were many...
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    "Greyfriars Church, Reading". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 3 June 2011. "Images of England - Greyfriars Church, Friar Street, Reading". Historic England...
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    Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, originally entitled The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay, is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written...
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    redevelopment project in Reading, England. It occupies a site between Friar Street and Station Hill in the centre of Reading, and takes its name from...
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    Arthur Newbery Park (category Parks and open spaces in Reading, Berkshire)
    high class furniture shop located at the junction of Friar Street and Queen Victoria Street in Reading town centre in trade for over forty years. On 14 September...
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    headquarters in Reading, but the Aldershot office was retained as a divisional headquarters, and in 1981 became the head office, allowing the Reading site to...
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  • Occasional Paper Excavations at Friar Street, Reading, Berkshire 1999 OAU Occasional Paper Excavations alongside Roman Ermin Street, Gloucesteshire and Wiltshire:...
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    Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England, 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Reading, 7 miles (11 km) west of Maidenhead, 23 miles (37 km) southeast of Oxford...
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  • Juliet seeks out Friar Laurence for help, hoping to escape her arranged marriage to Paris and remain faithful to Romeo. At Friar Laurence's behest,...
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    station from Broad Street was not direct, until Queen Victoria Street was built in 1903. This provided a route through to Friar Street and Station Road...
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  • Christ Church Greyfriars, in London Greyfriars Church, Reading Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh Grey Friars F.C., former football club, c.1870-1880 Greyfriars,...
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    Girolamo Savonarola (category Friars of San Marco, Florence)
    September 1452 – 23 May 1498) or Jerome Savonarola was an ascetic Dominican friar from Ferrara and a preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He became known...
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    statue of Queen Victoria stands at the western end of Friar Street outside the Town Hall of Reading, Berkshire, in southern England. Queen Victoria (1819–1901)...
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    Saadallah was chased, tackled and pinned to the ground by police officers on Friar Street – near its junction with the Inner Distribution Road – approximately...
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    casulatan (Beware!: of bad books and writings, 1888). The friar warned the Filipinos that in reading Rizal's Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not) they commit "mortal...
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  • Mychal Judge (category American Friars Minor)
    would visit St. Francis of Assisi Church, located across the street. Seeing the Franciscan friars there, he later said, "I realized that I didn't care for...
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    The team's name, Spanish for "fathers", refers to the Spanish Franciscan friars who founded Mission San Diego in 1769. The team's first owner was a prominent...
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    Boundary Estate (redirect from Friars Mount)
    local government authority. It was built on the site of the demolished Friars Mount rookery in the Old Nichol, with works begun by the Metropolitan Board...
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    Central's televised broadcasts of Friars' Club roasts. On June 9, 2001, Belzer himself was honored by the New York Friars Club and the Toyota Comedy Festival...
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    Fleet Street and have been documented as early as the 14th century. Records show that Geoffrey Chaucer was fined two shillings for attacking a friar in Fleet...
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    Swan, a collection of poems Merrill's Amherst professor (and lover) Kimon Friar published privately in Athens, Greece, in 1946, was printed in just one...
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    Anthony of Padua (category Portuguese Friars Minor)
    June 1231) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor. Anthony was born and raised by a wealthy family in Lisbon, Portugal...
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    Montague household. Others Friar Laurence is a Franciscan friar and Romeo's confidant. Friar John is sent to deliver Friar Laurence's letter to Romeo...
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    the absence of Duke Vincentio, who instead disguises himself as a humble friar to observe Angelo's regency and the lives of his citizens. Angelo persecutes...
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    shop on the left is a charity shop of Helen & Douglas House, next to the Thai Corner restaurant on the corner of West Street and Friar Street in Reading...
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    Hermit (redirect from Friar eremite)
    First Hermit Bl. Gonçalo de Amarante, 13th century, Portugal, Dominican friar Richard Rolle de Hampole, 13th century, England, religious writer Sergius...
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