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82 unusual facts about Kingston


Archibald J. Weaver

He was born in Dundaff, Pennsylvania on April 15, 1843 and graduated from Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pennsylvania.

Audley Shaw

Also, in October, 2013 during the Heroes' Day Awards Ceremony at King's House in Kingston.

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.

BiNet USA

A member of the standing committee that is currently planning the 10th ICB to be held on the campus of the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA in July 2008.

Bruno Hochmuth

Ordered to Kingston, Ontario, in September 1953, he served as Instructor, Canadian Army Staff College, for two years.

Burnt Pine

Kingston, the capital of Norfolk Island and main landing place, is about 3 kilometres to the south.

Cataraqui, Ontario

The original townsite of what is now downtown Kingston, Ontario, as founded 1673 to house a French colonial military outpost.

Cobourg and Peterborough Railway

Most of Ontario was empty wilderness except for a few scattered settlements that formed primarily after the American Revolutionary War when then United Empire Loyalists were given land around the province, but mostly in Prince Edward County, near Kingston, Ontario.

Constant Spring, Jamaica

Constant Spring is a residential neighbourhood in the north of Kingston, Jamaica.

Cross Roads, Jamaica

Cross Roads is a primarily commercial neighbourhood of Kingston, Jamaica.

Dan Terry

The son of a choirmaster, he was born Daniel Kostraba in Kingston, Pennsylvania, United States.

David Pottinger

Self-taught as an artist, he began his career in the 1940s after participating in Edna Manley's classes at the Junior Centre in Kingston.

Denham Town

Denham Town is a predominantly residential neighbourhood in west-central Kingston, Jamaica.

Dennis Packard

Although born in Canada, he grew up in Kingston, Pennsylvania, where he attended high school and began his ice hockey career at Wyoming Seminary, and has dual-citizenship.

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.

Edward Philip Livingston

Edward Philip Livingston (November 24, 1779 Kingston, Jamaica - November 3, 1843 Clermont, Columbia County, New York) was an American politician.

Eleazer Wales

Reverend Eleazer Wales was the first minister of the Kingston Presbyterian Church, in Kingston, New Jersey.

Faceless men

In the run-up to the campaign for the 1963 federal election, Reid commissioned a photograph of Labor Leader Arthur Calwell and his Deputy Leader Gough Whitlam standing outside the Kingston Hotel in Canberra, where the Conference was meeting, waiting to be told what policy they were to fight the election on.

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.

Freya Wilson

In August 2011, Wilson joined Youth Music Theatre: UK as a member of the Korczak company, as they perform a musical based on the life of Janusz Korczak at the Rose Theatre, Kingston.

George Lamming

He entered academia in 1967 as a writer-in-residence and lecturer in the Creative Arts Centre and Department of Education at the University of the West Indies, Kingston (1967–68).

George R. Dennis

He graduated in 1843 and practiced in Kingston, Maryland for many years, until later devoting himself to agricultural pursuits.

Gloria Escoffery

Having held her first solo exhibition in Kingston in 1944, Escoffery exhibited extensively in Jamaica and elsewhere.

Greg Upchurch

Since he lived in Kingston, Oklahoma as a child, Upchurch was awarded the Key to Oklahoma City in 2001 for his various contributions as a member of Puddle of Mudd.

GRTensorII

This package was developed at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario by Peter Musgrave, Denis Pollney and Kayll Lake.

Half Way Tree

Half Way Tree is a neighbourhood in the city of Kingston, Jamaica.

Havendale

Havendale is a suburban, neighborhood located in Kingston, Jamaica.

Helene Davis-Whyte

In the early 1980s Davis-Whyte worked at the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation.

Henry Van Der Lyn

Henry Vanderlyn was the grandson of Pieter Vanderlyn (c.1687–1778) an American colonial painter born in Holland who settled in Kingston, New York.

Hillgreen-Lane

Upon removal, it was placed in the recreation complex at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario under the terms of gift, but it was seldom used.

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.

Jamaica Constabulary Force

The history of law enforcement in Jamaica began in 1716 when night watchmen were appointed to serve the cities of Port Royal, Kingston, and the parishes of Saint Catherine and Saint Andrew.

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.

Born at Kingston, Upper Canada, he was the second son of Joseph Forsyth (1764-1813) and his wife Alicia, daughter of Major James Robbins of the Royal Artillery.

William Walker M.P., and together they succeeded Forsyth's father as the agents to Forsyth, Richardson & Co., in Kingston, Ontario.

Jules C. E. Riotte

He became a Ukrainian Catholic priest and moved to Canada, where he served in many different parishes and missions, including St Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Parish in Kingston, Ontario.

Kenneth Abendana Spencer

Spencer had talent as a painter of scenes of Jamaican life which, as a boy, he would sell for pocket-money in the capital of Kingston.

Kingborough Football Club

The Kingborough Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football club, based at Kingston, Tasmania and currently playing in the Southern Football League in Tasmania, Australia.

Kingstie

It was reported as "a strange creature with the head of a dragon and eyes of fire" in Lake Ontario near Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Kingston-upon-Thames by-election, 1972

The Kingston-upon-Thames by-election of 4 May 1972 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) John Boyd-Carpenter was appointed chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority.

Kingston, Australian Capital Territory

The most recent development is the Kingston Foreshores development in which large numbers of high-value apartments are being built along the foreshores of Lake Burley Griffin.

Kingston, Georgia

On May 12, 1865, Confederate Brigadier General William T. Wofford surrendered 3,000 to 4,000 soldiers to Union Brigadier General Henry M. Judah.

Kingston, Illinois

The GK School District's team name is the Cogs, an acronym created from the phrase "Community of Genoa Schools" that also evokes a feeling of teamwork not unlike the cogs in a machine.

Kingston, New Jersey

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

Kingston, Norfolk Island

Municipal functions such as rubbish collection and maintaining public toilets and beachside change rooms are undertaken by the Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area Conservation & Maintenance Team.

Kingston, Purbeck

In 1833 John Scott, the first Earl of Eldon, (later Lord Chancellor Eldon) replaced the chapel, at his own expense, with the present church building standing on the site.

Kingston, Rhode Island

West Kingston is also the site of the historic 120-year-old Kingston Railroad Station, which is served by Amtrak on its Northeast Corridor.

In addition to the university, major businesses in Kingston include APC by Schneider Electric and the Arnold Lumber Company.

Kingston, Sussex

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

Kingston near Lewes, a village and civil parish in the Lewes district of East Sussex

Kingston Buci, an electoral division of West Sussex County Council

Kingston, Utah

In the 1870s Brigham Young was encouraging communal living in United Order communities.

Kingston, Washington

Kingston's schools include Kingston Co-op Preschool, Gordon Elementary, Kingston Middle School, Spectrum Community School, Wolfle Elementary and the new Kingston High School.

Kingston/Norman Rogers Airport

The airport is named after former MP Norman McLeod Rogers (Kingston and the Islands 1935–1940), Minister of Labour and then National Defence in Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's cabinet.

Konstantin Kostin

He is the director of skating at the Yarmouth Ice Club in Kingston, Massachusetts.

Land Force Atlantic Area Training Centre Aldershot

During the 1890s and the lead up to the Boer War, the British Army, which was responsible for Canada's defence until 1906, established Military Camp Aldershot (also shortened to Camp Aldershot) as a training area on land in the western part of Kings County between the villages of Aylesford and Kingston.

Louis-Hector de Callières

The situation of the colony at that time was most critical, owing to Frontenac's departure, the weakness of Governor de la Barre, and the woeful error of the French government in sending to the galleys in France some Iroquois chiefs captured at Cataracoui (Kingston).

Macdonald Consolidated School

Coinciding with the school garden experiment was the construction of four model consolidated schools at Middleton, Nova Scotia in 1903; at Kingston, New Brunswick and Guelph the following year; and at Hillsborough, Prince Edward Island in 1905.

MCM/70

The system, mocked up in breadboard form, was first displayed publicly on 11 November 1972 at the Kutt offices in Kingston, Ontario.

Mona, Jamaica

Mona is a neighbourhood in southeastern Saint Andrew Parish, approximately five miles from Kingston, Jamaica.

Nii Allotey Odunton

In 1988, he became the first Officer in charge of the United Nations Office for the Law of the Sea in Kingston, Jamaica, where the Preparatory Commission met and the Seabed Authority was to establish its headquarters.

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.

Paul Miles-Kingston

He was awarded a silver disc for the single Pie Jesu, which reached number 3 in the charts, and also received gold and platinum discs for the album, which by 1985 had sold over 400,000 copies.

Rexton, New Brunswick

This was probably to avoid confusion with other Kingstons, particularly Kingston, Kings County, New Brunswick, which still carries the name.

Rose Theatre

Rose Theatre, Kingston, a theatre in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, London, build in 2008

Sandfly, Tasmania

The Longley Cricket Club, known as the Longley Bunyips, homeground is Sandfly Oval, located on Sandfly Road and the Anglican, Roman Catholic and Methodist Church of St. Luke's is located in Sandfly, although the Church has not been a congregation meeting place for many years, the Church is still under the care of the Anglican Parish of St Clement's, Kingston.

South County Newspapers

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

SS Midland City

Assembled by the Gildersleeves (a shipbuilding family and political dynasty) and completed August 1871, Maud was originally intended to provide passenger and cargo service between Picton and Belleville, Ontario under the command of Captain W. Swales.

Stephen Gardner Champlin

Champlin was born in Kingston, New York, a son of Jeffrey Clarke Champlin (1798–1872) and his wife Allis Ellen (1804–73).

He attended the law school at Balston Spa for two terms, and in 1850 he continued his studies in Kingston, New York.

Stephen Malcolm

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

Stony Hill, Jamaica

Stony Hill is a residential neighbourhood in St. Andrew Parish, Surrey County, on the northern outskirts of Kingston, Jamaica.

The Canadian Army Journal

The journal is currently produced by the Canadian Army Land Warfare Centre in Kingston, Ontario.

The Last Thing You Forget

The Last Thing You Forget is the debut full-length release by Kingston, Pennsylvania punk rock band Title Fight.

Tivoli Gardens, Kingston

Tivoli Gardens, a political Garrison, is a West Kingston neighbourhood in Kingston, Jamaica.

Unmuzzled OX

Unmuzzled OX started by poet Michael Andre, edited in New York City and Kingston, Ontario, was a quarterly of poetry, art and politics.

Victor Stafford Reid

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Victor Reid was the son of Alexander Reid, a businessman who worked in the shipping industry in the United States and married Margaret Reid.

Victor Stafford Reid (1 May 1913 – 25 August 1987) was a Jamaican writer born in Kingston, Jamaica, who wrote with an intent of influencing the younger generations.


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 )

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.

Firthside, Tasmania

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.