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Kingston, Jamaica

Index Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. [1]

135 relations: Air Jamaica, Americas, Anglicanism, Annotto Bay, Arnett Gardens F.C., Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Association football, Asymmetric digital subscriber line, Baptists, Blue Mountains (Jamaica), Bob Marley Museum, Bog Walk to Port Antonio railway, Boys' Town F.C., Buddhism, Capital city, Caricel, Catholic Church, Christianity, Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee), Constant Spring, Jamaica, Containerization, Coventry, Cross Roads, Jamaica, Democratic socialism, Denham Town, Digicel, Earthquake, Eastern Time Zone, Edward Seaga, Ethnic groups in Europe, Evolved High Speed Packet Access, Financial centre, Flow (brand), Gleaner Company, Google Translate, Guadalajara, Gun Court, Half Way Tree, Harbor, Harbour View F.C., Highway 2000, Holy Childhood High, Holy Trinity Cathedral (Kingston), Hybrid fibre-coaxial, Immaculate Conception High School (Jamaica), Indentured servitude, Indo-Jamaicans, Jamaica, Jamaica Constabulary Force, Jamaica Defence Force, ..., Jamaica Fire Brigade, Jamaica Omnibus Service, Jamaica Urban Transit Company, Judaism, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kingston Harbour, Kingston Parish, Kingston railway station, Jamaica, Kingston to Montego Bay railway, Lebanese people, Liguanea, Linstead to New Works railway, List of ethnic groups of Africa, List of governors of Jamaica, List of metropolitan areas in the West Indies, Lithuania, Lucea, Jamaica, Mandeville, Jamaica, May Pen to Frankfield railway, Methodism, Mexico, Miami, Mona, Jamaica, Muslim, Namibia, National Heroes Park, National Premier League, Norman Manley International Airport, Ocho Rios, Palisadoes, Panevėžys, Parishes of Jamaica, Passive optical network, Pentecostalism, People's National Party, Plain old telephone service, Port Royal, Portland Parish, Portmore, Jamaica, Postal Corporation of Jamaica, Protestantism, Rae Town, Rain shadow, Rastafari, Reggae, Rennock Lodge, RJR 94 FM, Roads in Jamaica, Rollington Town, Roy Anthony Bridge, Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica, Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, Semi-arid climate, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Shaare Shalom Synagogue, Shenzhen, Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet, Sister city, Spanish Town, Spanish Town to Ewarton railway, Spit (landform), St. George's College, Jamaica, St. William Grant, Suburbanization, Surrey County, Jamaica, Syncretism, Syrians, TBC Radio, Television Jamaica, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Jamaica Observer, Tinson Pen Aerodrome, Topeka, Kansas, Trade union, Trade winds, Trenchtown, Tropical savanna climate, University of the West Indies, Up-Park Camp, Waterhouse F.C., Windhoek, 1692 Jamaica earthquake, 1907 Kingston earthquake, 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. Expand index (85 more) »

Air Jamaica

Air Jamaica was the national airline of Jamaica.

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Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.

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Annotto Bay

Annotto Bay is a town in the parish of Saint Mary in Jamaica.

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Arnett Gardens F.C.

The Arnett Gardens Football Club is a Jamaican football club, which currently plays in the National Premier League.

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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Asymmetric digital subscriber line

Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) is a type of digital subscriber line (DSL) technology, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional voiceband modem can provide.

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Baptists

Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).

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Blue Mountains (Jamaica)

The Blue Mountains are the longest mountain range in Jamaica.

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Bob Marley Museum

The Bob Marley Museum is a museum in Kingston, Jamaica, dedicated to the reggae musician Bob Marley.

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Bog Walk to Port Antonio railway

The Bog Walk to Port Antonio railway was a railway in Jamaica built to serve the banana, cacao, citrus and coconut districts of St Catherine, St Mary and Portland.

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Boys' Town F.C.

Boys' Town Football Club is a Jamaican football club, which currently plays in the Jamaican National Premier League.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Capital city

A capital city (or simply capital) is the municipality exercising primary status in a country, state, province, or other administrative region, usually as its seat of government.

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Caricel

Symbiote Investments Limited operating under the name Caricel is a Jamaican owned and operated mobile network.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)

The Church of God, with headquarters in Cleveland, Tennessee, United States is a Pentecostal Christian denomination.

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Constant Spring, Jamaica

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

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Containerization

Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers and ISO containers).

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Coventry

Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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Cross Roads, Jamaica

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

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Democratic socialism

Democratic socialism is a political philosophy that advocates political democracy alongside social ownership of the means of production with an emphasis on self-management and/or democratic management of economic institutions within a market socialist, participatory or decentralized planned economy.

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Denham Town

Denham Town is a predominantly residential neighbourhood in western Kingston, Jamaica.

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Digicel

Digicel is a mobile phone network provider operating in 31 markets across the Caribbean, Central America, and Oceania regions.

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Earthquake

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

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Edward Seaga

Edward Philip George Seaga (or; ON, PC; born 28 May 1930) is a former Jamaican politician.

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Ethnic groups in Europe

The Indigenous peoples of Europe are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various indigenous groups that reside in the nations of Europe.

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Evolved High Speed Packet Access

Evolved High Speed Packet Access, or HSPA+, or HSPA(Plus), or HSPAP is a technical standard for wireless, broadband telecommunication.

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Financial centre

A financial centre is a location that is home to a cluster of nationally or internationally significant financial services providers such as banks, investment managers, or stock exchanges.

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Flow (brand)

FLOW was formerly a brand of Columbus Communications providing residential and business telephone, Internet and television services across the Caribbean.

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Gleaner Company

The Gleaner Company Ltd. is a newspaper publishing enterprise in Jamaica.

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Google Translate

Google Translate is a free multilingual machine translation service developed by Google, to translate text.

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Guadalajara

Guadalajara is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara.

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Gun Court

The Gun Court is the branch of the Jamaican judicial system that tries criminal cases involving firearms.

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Half Way Tree

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

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Harbor

A harbor or harbour (see spelling differences; synonyms: wharves, haven) is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked.

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Harbour View F.C.

Harbour View Football Club is a Jamaican football club that currently plays in the Red Stripe Premier League.

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Highway 2000

Highway 2000 is a highway connecting Kingston, with Montego Bay and Ocho Rios, passing through the parishes of St. Catherine, Saint Ann, Manchester and proposed sections through St. James, Saint Elizabeth, Westmoreland, Hanover.

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Holy Childhood High

Holy Childhood High is an all girls Catholic school in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Holy Trinity Cathedral (Kingston)

The Holy Trinity Cathedral is a religious building belonging to the Roman Catholic Church located in downtown Kingston, the capital, and most populous city, in the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica.

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Hybrid fibre-coaxial

Hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) is a telecommunications industry term for a broadband network that combines optical fiber and coaxial cable.

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Immaculate Conception High School (Jamaica)

Immaculate Conception High School (ICHS) is a Roman Catholic High School for girls in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica.

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Indentured servitude

An indentured servant or indentured laborer is an employee (indenturee) within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract (indenture) to work for a particular employer for a fixed time.

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Indo-Jamaicans

Indo-Jamaicans or Indian Jamaicans are the descendants of people who came from the Indian subcontinent to Jamaica and are or the descendants of citizens or nationals of Jamaica.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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Jamaica Constabulary Force

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is the official police force of Jamaica.

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Jamaica Defence Force

The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is the combined military of Jamaica, consisting of an infantry Regiment and Reserve Corps, an Air Wing, a Coast Guard fleet and a supporting Engineering Unit.

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Jamaica Fire Brigade

The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) is a Department of the Ministry of Local Government of Jamaica and is the fire brigade of Jamaica.

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Jamaica Omnibus Service

The Jamaica Omnibus Service (JOS), operated a municipal bus service for the Kingston Metropolitan Area, from 1953 until it was wound up in 1983.

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Jamaica Urban Transit Company

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is the government owned public transport service operating within the Kingston Metropolitan Transit Region (KMTR), Spanish Town and Portmore.

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Judaism

Judaism (originally from Hebrew, Yehudah, "Judah"; via Latin and Greek) is the religion of the Jewish people.

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Kalamazoo, Michigan

Kalamazoo is a city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Kingston Harbour

Kingston Harbour in Jamaica is the seventh-largest natural harbour in the world.

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Kingston Parish

Kingston is one of the 14 Parishes of Jamaica.

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Kingston railway station, Jamaica

Kingston railway terminus was built in the Jamaica Georgian architectural style using brick.

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Kingston to Montego Bay railway

The Kingston to Montego Bay railway was the main railway in Jamaica, which from 1845 to 1992 linked the capital Kingston with the second city Montego Bay, passing en route most of the major towns.

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Lebanese people

The Lebanese people (الشعب اللبناني / ALA-LC: Lebanese Arabic pronunciation) are the people inhabiting or originating from Lebanon.

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Liguanea

Liguanea is an area of the island of Jamaica in the West Indies.

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Linstead to New Works railway

The Linstead to New Works railway was a railway in Jamaica constructed in 1921 to serve a citrus growing region to the north east of Linstead.

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List of ethnic groups of Africa

The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each population generally having its own language (or dialect of a language) and culture.

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List of governors of Jamaica

This is a list of viceroys in Jamaica from its initial occupation by Spain in 1509, to its independence from the United Kingdom in 1962.

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List of metropolitan areas in the West Indies

This is a list of the largest metropolitan areas in the West Indies, based on official population estimates or projections as of mid-2015.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of northern-eastern Europe.

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Lucea, Jamaica

Lucea is a coastal town in Jamaica and the capital of the parish of Hanover.

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Mandeville, Jamaica

Mandeville is the capital and largest town in the parish of Manchester in the county of Middlesex, Jamaica.

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May Pen to Frankfield railway

The May Pen to Frankfield railway was a railway in Jamaica built to serve the fast developing citrus industry in the upper Clarendon regions of Chapelton and Frankfield.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Mona, Jamaica

Mona is a neighbourhood in southeastern Saint Andrew Parish, approximately eight kilometres from Kingston, Jamaica.

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Muslim

A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia (German:; Republiek van Namibië), is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean.

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National Heroes Park

National Heroes Park is a botanical garden in Kingston, Jamaica.

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National Premier League

The National Premier League, also known for sponsorship purposes as the Red Stripe Premier League, is the top division for men's association football in Jamaica.

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Norman Manley International Airport

Norman Manley International Airport, formerly Palisadoes Airport, is an international airport serving Kingston, Jamaica and is located south of the island 19 km away from the centre of New Kingston.

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Ocho Rios

Ocho Rios (Spanish for "Eight Rivers") is a town in the parish of Saint Ann on the north coast of Jamaica.

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Palisadoes

Palisadoes (word apparently of Portuguese origin) is the thin tombolo of sand that serves as a natural protection for Kingston Harbour, Jamaica.

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Panevėžys

Panevėžys (Latin: Panevezen, Poniewież, פּאָנעװעזש Ponevezh) see also other names, is the fifth largest city in Lithuania. As of 2011, it occupied with 113,653 inhabitants. The largest multifunctional arena in Panevėžys, Cido Arena, hosted the Eurobasket 2011 group matches.

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Parishes of Jamaica

Administratively, Jamaica is divided into fourteen parishes.

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Passive optical network

A passive optical network (PON) is a telecommunications technology used to provide fiber to the end consumer, both domestic and commercial.

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Pentecostalism

Pentecostalism or Classical Pentecostalism is a renewal movement"Spirit and Power: A 10-Country Survey of Pentecostals",.

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People's National Party

The People's National Party (PNP) is a social-democratic political party in Jamaica founded in 1938 by Activist Osmond Theodore Fairclough.

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Plain old telephone service

Plain old telephone service or plain ordinary telephone service (POTS) is a retronym for voice-grade telephone service employing analog signal transmission over copper loops.

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Port Royal

Port Royal is a village located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica.

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Portland Parish

Portland, with its capital town Port Antonio, is a parish located on Jamaica's northeast coast.

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Portmore, Jamaica

Portmore is a large coastal town in southern Jamaica in Saint Catherine, and a dormitory town for the neighbouring city of Kingston and Spanish Town.

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Postal Corporation of Jamaica

The Postal Corporation of Jamaica Ltd. is the national post office of Jamaica.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Rae Town

Rae Town is a Kingston, Jamaica neighborhood by Kingston Harbor.

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Rain shadow

A rain shadow is a dry area on the leeward side of a mountainous area (away from the wind).

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Rastafari

Rastafari, sometimes termed Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rennock Lodge

Rennock Lodge is a neighbourhood in Kingston, Jamaica.

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RJR 94 FM

Radio Jamaica RJR 94 FM is a broadcast company in Jamaica with headquarters in Kingston.

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Roads in Jamaica

The road network in Jamaica consists of almost 21,000 kilometres of roads, of which over 15,000 kilometres is paved.

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Rollington Town

Rollington Town is a neighborhood in the area of Kingston, Jamaica.

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Roy Anthony Bridge

Roy Anthony (Tony) Bridge, O.B.E. (1921–2000) was a Jamaican member of the International Olympic Committee ("IOC").

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Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica

Saint Andrew is a parish, situated in the southeast of Jamaica in the county of Surrey.

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Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica

Saint Ann's Bay is a settlement in Jamaica, the capital of Saint Ann Parish.

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Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica

Saint Mary is a parish located in the northeast section of Jamaica.

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Semi-arid climate

A semi-arid climate or steppe climate is the climate of a region that receives precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate.

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Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in Christian and Jewish calendars, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ.

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Shaare Shalom Synagogue

Kahal Kadosh Shaare Shalom "Holy Congregation of the Gates of Peace", also known as the United Congregation of Israelites, is a historic synagogue in the city of Kingston on the island of Jamaica.

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Shenzhen

Shenzhen is a major city in Guangdong Province, China.

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Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet (c. 1704 – 9 December 1777) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who saw service during the War of Jenkins' Ear, the wider War of the Austrian Succession, and the Seven Years' War.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Spanish Town

Spanish Town is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica.

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Spanish Town to Ewarton railway

The Spanish Town to Ewarton railway was a railway in Jamaica, built to serve the citrus growing regions in the interior of Saint Catherine, particularly those around the towns of Bog Walk, Linstead and Ewarton.

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Spit (landform)

A spit or sandspit is a deposition bar or beach landform off coasts or lake shores.

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St. George's College, Jamaica

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St. William Grant

William Wellington Wellwood Grant OD (1894 - 27 August 1977) was a Jamaican labour activist.

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Suburbanization

Suburbanization is a population shift from central urban areas into suburbs, resulting in the formation of (sub)urban sprawl.

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Surrey County, Jamaica

Surrey is the easternmost and the smallest by area of the three historic counties into which Jamaica is divided.

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Syncretism

Syncretism is the combining of different beliefs, while blending practices of various schools of thought.

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Syrians

Syrians (سوريون), also known as the Syrian people (الشعب السوري ALA-LC: al-sha‘ab al-Sūrī; ܣܘܪܝܝܢ), are the inhabitants of Syria, who share a common Levantine Semitic ancestry.

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TBC Radio

TBC Radio is a Christian radio station in Kingston, Jamaica, broadcasting on 88.5 MHz FM.

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Television Jamaica

Television Jamaica (TVJ) is one of Jamaica's two major television stations, its competitor being CVM Television.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), often informally known as the Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian, Christian restorationist church that is considered by its members to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ.

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The Jamaica Observer

Jamaica Observer Limited is a daily newspaper published in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Tinson Pen Aerodrome

Tinson Pen Aerodrome in Kingston, Jamaica is the largest of Jamaica's three domestic airports.

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Topeka, Kansas

Topeka (Kansa: Tó Pee Kuh) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the seat of Shawnee County.

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Trade union

A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.

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Trade winds

The trade winds are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator.

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Trenchtown

Trench Town (also Trenchtown) is a neighborhood located in the parish of St. Andrew which shares municipality with Kingston, the capital and largest city of Jamaica.

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Tropical savanna climate

Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories "Aw" and "As".

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University of the West Indies

The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 18 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands.

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Up-Park Camp

Up-Park Camp (often Up Park Camp) was the headquarters of the British Army in Jamaica from the late 18th century to independence in 1962.

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Waterhouse F.C.

The Waterhouse Football Club is a football team based in Kingston, that competes in the Jamaican National Premier League.

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Windhoek

Windhoek (Windhuk; ǀAiǁgams; Otjomuise) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia.

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1692 Jamaica earthquake

The 1692 Jamaica earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica on 7 June.

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1907 Kingston earthquake

The 1907 Kingston earthquake which shook the capital of the island of Jamaica with a magnitude of 6.5 on the moment magnitude scale on Monday January 14, at about 3:30 pm local time (20:36 UTC), was considered by many writers of that time one of the world's deadliest earthquakes recorded in history.

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1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

The 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games were held in Kingston, Jamaica, from 4 to 13 August 1966.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston,_Jamaica

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