| Oracle | |
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 The Oracle in Minster Street, 1845 by William Fox Talbot |
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 Location within Reading Town Centre
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| General information | |
| Type | Workhouse |
| Location | Reading, Berkshire, England |
| Coordinates | 51°27′16″N 0°58′20″W / 51.454417°N 0.972203°WCoordinates: 51°27′16″N 0°58′20″W / 51.454417°N 0.972203°W |
| Completed | 1628 |
| Demolished | 1850 |
The Oracle was a workhouse that produced cloth in the English town of Reading, Berkshire. The Oracle shopping mall which occupies a small part of the site takes its name from the Oracle workhouse.
History [link]
In the 17th century, clothiers in Reading were facing competition from the north of England as they could afford to make more coloured cloths due to a special agreement, in which they paid less tax.[1]
On 30 December 1624, John Kendrick a clothier died leaving £7,500 to the Reading and £4,000 to Newbury to help their cloth industries. The money was to go to Christ's Hospital in London if it was not used properly.[1] John Kendrick's brother William Kendrick was living in Minster Street, where he and his father had been making cloth for over 50 years. It was thought to be an ideal place to set up a workhouse to help the unemployed people in the town. The house was sold to the Council for £2,000 and in 1628 was opened after alterations were carried out to make it suitable for the workhouse with 100,000 bricks and tiles coming from Tilehurst costing twelve shillings and sixpence per 1000.[2] It stretched from the top of Minster Street 30 m down along the Holy Brook. William Kendrick named the workhouse Oracle after his brother John, the man of vision.[3]
The Oracle was used for the next 200 years, but by the 19th century it became derelict. Christ's Hospital was able to prove that the money was not used in the way John Kendrick had wished and claimed the greater part of both bequests. In 1850, the Oracle was demolished.[4]
References [link]
- ^ a b "The founding of the Oracle". Reading History Trail. https://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/radstock/rht/themes/manufacture/oracle1.html. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
- ^ "The Oracle Workhouse Site". Oracle. https://www.theoracle.com/website/StandardPage.aspx?ParentSectionId=fb35efe8-fb02-4c6a-bf08-06ae2bca81f3&ContentInstanceId=10f61106-79a4-4abe-9d93-fdb9ab7445af. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
- ^ "John Kendrick (1573-1624)". Royal Berkshire History. Nash Ford Publishing. https://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/jkendrick.html. Retrieved 2011-04-21.
- ^ Phillips, Daphne (1980). The Story of Reading. Countryside Books. pp. 51–54. ISBN 0-905392-07-8.
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The Oracle (The Matrix)
The Oracle is a fictional character in The Matrix franchise. She was created by The Wachowskis, and portrayed by Gloria Foster in the first and second film and Mary Alice in the third film. The character also appears in the video game Enter the Matrix and the MMORPG The Matrix Online.
Overview
In the first film, she is a mysterious but powerful figure, incongruously depicted as a cheerful old lady who smokes cigarettes and bakes cookies. She possesses the power of foresight, which she uses to advise and guide the humans attempting to fight the Matrix. Later, she is revealed to be a sapient program who is integral to the very nature of the Matrix itself. Whether her power of prediction is deterministic or not is a concept given much treatment in all three films. She herself claims that she lacks the ability to see past her own choice, explaining that no one, including herself, can see past a choice they do not understand. It becomes clear in the films that her power cannot be used to predict the ultimate consequences of Neo, who possesses free will when he defies the Architect.
Spider Riders
Spider Riders (スパイダーライダーズ ~オラクルの勇者たち~ Supaidāraidāzu ~Orakuru no Yūsha-tachi~, Spider Riders ~the Heroes of Oracle~) is a series of science fiction novels first published in December 2004, published by Newmarket Press written by Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron-Anasti and Stephen D. Sullivan (books 2–3). The stories became the basis of the anime series produced by Cookie Jar Entertainment of Canada and Bee Train of Japan. The three novels are titled Spider Riders: Shards of the Oracle, Spider Riders: Reign of the Soul Eater, and Spider Riders: Quest of the Earthen. Spider Riders broadcasts on Teletoon, This TV, and used to broadcast on Kids' WB!. Koichi Mashimo co-directed the staff at Bee Train with Takaaki Ishiyama. Writer Yosuke Kuroda adapted the novels. Robert Pincombe and Shelly Hoffman wrote the English version.
Plot
Eleven-year-old Hunter Steel searches for the legendary inner world by following the instructions in his grandfather's journal. He enters a cave where he finds a mysterious manacle that attaches itself to him. A spider startles Hunter, who falls into a hole to the center of the Earth and into the subterranean world of Arachna. There, he discovers a small group of elite warriors struggling to survive and to save Arachna from the attack of giant insect mutants. The warriors are children, each fighting with the help of their own 10 ft (3.0 m) battle spiders. They call themselves "Spider Riders". In the English TV series, the ages of the characters were reduced.
Kat
Kat is a common nickname for the feminine given name Katherine, Kathleen, Katarina, Katrina, Kathryn, and variations.
Kat or KAT may also refer to:
People
Individuals
Fictional
Kat (band)
Kat is a Polish heavy metal band formed in 1979 in Katowice, Poland. They have been accused, mainly by the Polish media, of promoting Satanism.
In Polish "kat" means executioner. KAT is one of the most important bands in Polish heavy metal overall, and is also mentioned as one of the main precursors of thrash and even black metal genres in this country. KAT's most famous album is Oddech wymarłych światów (The Breath of Extinct Worlds), considered an opus of Polish heavy metal.
The band is best known for tracks "Czas zemsty" (Time of revenge), "Łza dla cieniów minionych" (A tear for the shadows gone), "Wyrocznia" (Oracle) and "Noce Szatana " (The nights of Satan).
Band history
KAT was founded in 1979 by guitarist Piotr Luczyk and drummer Ireneusz Loth. Shortly after they were joined by bassist Tomasz Jaguś and another guitarist, Ryszard Pisarski. They played instrumental music influenced by hard rock bands, mainly Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath. In 1981, during the first edition of the Silesian Rock festival, the band found a singer, Roman Kostrzewski The line-up was filled out by guitarist Wojciech Mrowiec and in 1984 KAT released the debut single "Noce szatana / Ostatni tabor" (Polish for The Nights of Satan / The Last Train). Robert "Lor" Milewski wrote the lyrics of both songs; since then Kostrzewski became the lyricist, incorporating poetry, Polish folklore, and mysticism. The band also toured with Hanoi Rocks.
KAT-7
KAT-7 is a radio telescope constructed in the Northern Cape of South Africa. Part of the Karoo Array Telescope project, it is the precursor engineering test bed to the larger MeerKAT telescope, but it has become a science instrument in its own right. The construction was completed in 2011 and commissioned in 2012. It also served as a technology demonstrator for South Africa's bid to host the Square Kilometre Array. KAT-7 is the first Radio telescope to be built with a composite reflector and uses a stirling pump for 75 K cryogenic cooling. The telescope was built to test various system for the MeerKAT array, from the ROACH correlators designed and manufactured in Cape Town, now used by various telescopes internationally, to composite construction techniques. With the short baselines the telescope is suited to observing diffuse sources, but will begin VLBI observation in 2013.
Technical Specifications
KAT-7 consist of 7 dishes of 12 metres in diameter each a Prime Focus Reflecting telescope.
