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Kingston

[ kingz-tuhn, king-stuhn ]

noun

  1. Maxine Hong [hong], born 1940, U.S. novelist.
  2. a seaport in and the capital of Jamaica.
  3. a port in SE Ontario, in SE Canada, on Lake Ontario.
  4. a city in SE New York, on the Hudson River.
  5. a borough in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River opposite Wilkes-Barre.


Kingston

/ ˈkɪŋstən /

noun

  1. the capital and chief port of Jamaica, on the SE coast: University of the West Indies. Pop: 574 000 (2005 est)
  2. a port in SE Canada, in SE Ontario: the chief naval base of Lake Ontario and a large industrial centre; university (1841). Pop: 108 158 (2001)
  3. the capital of Norfolk Island, in the S Pacific Ocean
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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After chilling images of toxic Tennessee ash circulated in 2008, Obama’s EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, vowed that environmental disasters like the one in Kingston “should never happen anywhere.”

Born in Kingston, Jamaica on April 28, 1938, Sinclair worked as a teacher in Jamaica until she was nearly 30 years old.

There’s been a long debate about the difference in Lyme disease cases between the North and the South, says research ecologist Howard Ginsberg at the Patuxent Coastal Field Station at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston.

Scott, who’s also in the 2024 mix, is “a potential superstar,” in former congressman Kingston’s estimation.

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Since December 2014, Georgia Power has acquired more land than the TVA did after its Kingston spill, according to property records.

“We were forced to operate as if we were running some Kingston sound system clash,” recalls Parkes.

Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) represents the district where IAL is based.

“We work with a physician who has a risk of violence screening tool,” Kingston told The Daily Beast.

Screening and assessment for trauma and violence may help make schools safer, Kingston said.

On Tuesday night, Kingston thanked his supporters for their help and wasted no time firing the first shot at Perdue.

Kingston-on-Thames is still provincial in appearance, though now the centre of a great growth of modern suburbs.

The fine old inns that Kingston boasted afford proof of the amount of custom the town enjoyed.

From Kingston-on-Thames, the perfectly kept road closely follows the river.

She sent for him to Kingston house and threatened, bribed, argued, and wept for about two hours.

On February 12, 1768, he was committed for trial at the spring assizes at Kingston, and acquitted in the following March.

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