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unusual facts about Alwington, Kingston



A308 road

The long Kingston Vale to Bisham route starts at the Robin Hood Gate roundabout, the only give-way junction of the A3 south-west of Wandsworth and north-east of Greatham, Hampshire.

Abu Izzadeen

On 2008-04-17 Izzadeen was among six men convicted at Kingston Crown Court of supporting terrorism, while the jury failed to reach a verdict on a third charge of encouraging terrorism.

André Fauteux

See Bibliography: Karen Wilkin, “André Fauteux/ Ten Years”, catalogue essay, 1982 for: André Fauteux, Ten Years, 1972-1982: André Fauteux, Dix Ans, 1972-1982 (Paperback, 1982), text by Karen Wilkin, Publisher: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University at Kingston, 61 pages, Illustrated, Language: English, (ISBN 0-88911-372-6 )

Balamory

Balamory was filmed mostly in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull, with the exception of scenes at Archie's castle filmed at Fenton Tower in North Berwick.

Baron Lisle

Robert de Lisle of Rougemont married Alice FitzGerold (grand-daughter of Henry I FitzGerold (d.1173/4)), the heiress of Kingston in the parish of Sparsholt, Berkshire.

Bob Woolmer

On 18 March 2007, Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica.

Bridge FM

WKTS, known as "The Bridge", a Christian radio station from Kingston, Tennessee, US

Buddy Peace

Dave House - "Weeknights and Weekends (Buddy Peace Remix)" from Kingston's Current (2004)

Catskill Mountain Railroad

On October 4, 2012, Ulster County Executive Michael P. Hein announced in his 2013 budget a plan to dismantle 32 miles of railroad in Ulster County to be replaced by a trail, leaving only the Phoenicia-Cold Brook segment, and ending Kingston operations.

Charles Sandwith Campbell

Born in 1858 at Kingston, Ontario, Campbell was the eldest son of Sir Alexander Campbell, Postmaster General of Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario.

CKWS

CKWS-FM, a radio station (104.3 FM) licensed to Kingston, Ontario, Canada, which originally held the call sign CKWS from 1942 to 1987, used the callsign CFFX in the interim

Daily Gleaner

The Daily Gleaner (Jamaica), published by the Gleaner Company, a daily newspaper and publishing company in Kingston, Jamaica

Daniel Bedingfield

In December 2009, he co-wrote material with Tessanne Chin as well as recorded three songs with Busy Signal at DJ Karim's Stainless Records studios in Kingston, Jamaica.

Dirleton railway station

Although named for the village of Dirleton, the station was actually some distance away, approximately half way between Dirleton and Kingston.

E. Bertram Mott

He attended public schools in Rockaway Township, before going on to Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1896.

Firthside, Tasmania

Firthside is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Kingston, in the greater Hobart area, capital of Tasmania, Australia.

Francis Perceval Eliot

In 1770, he went to Mrs Betesworth's Academy in Kingston, near Portsmouth, Hampshire, leaving in 1772 to join Mr Lockee's Military Academy, Little Chelsea, London, and later to Colonel Gallatin's School of Equitation for 7 months.

Genoa-Kingston High School

Genoa-Kingston High School is a public high school located in Genoa, Illinois.

GSLIS

University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Studies (GSLIS), in Kingston, Rhode Island

History of Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory

This linked the brickworks to places such as Parliament House, and the Kingston Power House.

Howden, Tasmania

Nestled between the majorly-developing township of Kingston and the smaller Margate, it verges on bushland but is only a half-hour drive away from Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania.

Islam in Jamaica

Outside of Kingston, organizations include Masjid Al Haq in Mandeville, Masjid Al-Ihsan in Negril, Masjid-Al-Hikmah in Ocho Rios, the Port Maria Islamic Center in Saint Mary and the Ahmadiyya Mahdi Mosque in Old Harbour.

Jamaican Prime Ministers Medal of Appreciation

At the time of the Medal presentation, Fritz was assigned by the International Salvation Army to the Caribbean Territorial Headquarters stationed in Kingston, Jamaica.

James Bell Forsyth

James bell Forsyth's father, Joseph Forsyth, came to Canada in 1784 as the agent for Forsyth, Richardson & Co., at Kingston, Ontario.

Jim M. Courtright

After completing his degree at U of O he enrolled at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario where he received a degree in Applied Science in 1941 and would later return as a Vice Principal.

Jim McCombe

In 1966, he spent 9 months at the Army Staff College in Kingston, Ontario, and from there went on to CFB Rivers, Manitoba to fly as an instructor for weapons training and air fighting on Canadair T-33 Silver Star jet trainers.

John Hunter Gowan II

He also had illegitimate children by Margaret Hogan including another son, Ogle Robert Gowan, who was a prominent Orangeman newspaper publisher in Brockville, Kingston and Toronto, Canada and was founder and first Grand Master of the Orange AssociationCanada and his home in Canada is now called Nebo Lodge in tribute to his father's Wexford home Mount Nebo.

John King, 1st Baron Kingston

King married Catherine (died 1669), daughter of Sir William Fenton, of Mitchelstown, County Cork, and left two sons, Robert (died. 1693) and John successively second and third lords Kingston.

Kingston–Port Ewen Suspension Bridge

The original cost of the bridge was $700,000 in 1921 - which is the equivalent of eight million dollars in 2007 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Kingston, New Jersey

:Not to be confused with Barclay-Kingston, New Jersey or Kingston Estates, New Jersey.

Kingston, Sussex

Kingston by Ferring, a civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex

Live from WDST – Acoustic Breakfast

Live from WDST Acoustic Breakfast is a live recording of Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams' appearance at 8:00am on December 2, 2000 on the Acoustic Breakfast radio show in WDST in Kingston, NY.

Matthew Barber

Barber was born and grew up in Port Credit, which is part of Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, attending Lorne Park Secondary School before moving to Kingston, Ontario to attend Queen's University, where he volunteered at campus radio station CFRC-FM and performed at campus pubs.

Mississauga Civic Centre

Mississauga resident Don Cherry who is most notable for being on Hockey Night In Canada and a Canadian icon added fuel to the fire when he stated that the new City Hall reminded him of his home town Kingston, Ontario because it looked more like a penitentiary than a City Hall.

Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

Clapton recounted: "I also enjoyed going back and playing the old stuff like 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out', which was how it all started back in Kingston so long ago".

North Humberside

Coincidentally, Humberside was abolished for local government purposes in the same year, with the area north of the Humber becoming two unitary authority areas: East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston-upon-Hull.

Orphan bridge

An example of this is the abandoned Conrail bridge which parallels Delaware Avenue and crosses U.S. Route 9W in Kingston, NY.

Osmond Watson

Born in Kingston, Watson attended art classes at the Junior Centre of the Institute of Jamaica from 1948 until 1952; from that year until 1958 he attended the Jamaica School of Art in Kingston.

Pamela E. Bridgewater

Between 1980 and 1990 she was posted as Vice-Consul to Brussels, and Labor Attaché/Political Officer in Kingston, Jamaica.

Plympton, Massachusetts

Plympton is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Twelfth Plymouth District, which includes Kingston and portions of Duxbury, Halifax, Middleborough and Plymouth.

Postal codes in Jamaica

Although Kingston, the country's capital, along with part of the parish of St Andrew, was already subdivided into postal zones, these were not incorporated into the new codes.

Robert Edmond Miller

Robert Edmond Miller (born 24 January 1947 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican diplomat, currently serving as Jamaica's High Commissioner to Abuja, Nigeria.

Salsa d'Haïti

Additionally, jet-powered aircraft were to be added in 2011 to serve international destinations in Kingston, Jamaica and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

South County Newspapers

The South County paper covers South Kingstown (including the villages of Kingston, Peace Dale and Wakefield), Narragansett and Charlestown, Rhode Island.

Stephen Malcolm

Malcolm died in a car accident, only hours after playing Bulgaria in a friendly international in Kingston.

The Kingston Trio No. 16

The Kingston Trio #16 is an album by the American folk music group The Kingston Trio, released in 1963 (see 1963 in music).

Wendy Kingston

Kingston remained host of Nine Afternoon News until May 2009, when she moved to presenting Nine's Late News.

Wisdom in Chains

DVD contains live material (14 songs) recorded at show from May 2006 at Backstage Enterprises in Kingston, Pennsylvania, interview with Mad Joe Black and a three song recording from live performance at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia.

Zachary Taylor Wood

He retired from the force due to poor health and died in Asheville, North Carolina in 1915 and buried at Cataraqui Cemetery in Kingston, Ontario.


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