* Kingston Lacy, Dorset: Italian palazzo housing Grand Tour collections.

Then in ( 1835 – 38 ) he remodeled Sir Roger Pratt's Kingston Lacy, the interiors being his work, as well as the exterior being re-clad in stone.

To ensure that they would be in the latest taste, William was sent down to Dorset to make careful notes of the interiors recently finished at Kingston Lacy for Sir Ralph Bankes to designs by Sir Roger Pratt.

A smaller version of the painting is preserved in the country house of Kingston Lacy in Dorset, England.

Conflicting with this is the fact that the Kingston Lacy version represents the final state of Las Meninas, not the earlier state of the painting revealed by radiographs, suggesting that it was painted after the completed work, not before it.

Another possibility is that the Kingston Lacy painting is a copy by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo ( c. 1612-1667 ), son-in-law and close follower of Velázquez.

The Kingston Lacy painting has previously been owned by Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos and by Ceán Bermúdez, who published writings on it in 1885.

Extending to 631ha, it is owned and managed by the National Trust following the Bankes bequest of the Kingston Lacy estate.

That autumn he met Henry Bankes, Soane prepared plans for the Banke's house Kingston Lacy, but these came to nothing.

Further afield they also share a connection with Kingston Lacy, a stately home in Dorset where Webb supervised early works ( c. 1660 ) on the building, following designs originally prepared by Jones.

The south and west sides of Kingston Lacy house, built between 1663 and 1665.

Kingston Lacy takes its name from its ancient lords the Lacys, Earls of Lincoln, who held it together with Shapwick and Blandford.

Sir Ralph Bankes, during whose life Kingston Lacy was constructed, portrait by Sir Peter Lely.

Upon his death in 1981 he bequeathed the Kingston Lacy estate ( including 12 working farms and Corfe Castle ) to the National Trust, its largest bequest to date.

Image: Kingston Lacy 1. JPG | Kingston Lacy kitchens, washing rooms and stables

Image: Kingston Lacy 2. JPG | The house seen south west

Image: Kingston Lacy 3. JPG | The house seen from the gardens

Image: Kingston Lacy 4. JPG. JPG | The east facing side of the house

* Kingston Lacy information at the National Trust

* Kingston Lacy Garden — information on garden history

* Kingston Lacy pictures at Geography. org

In July is the annual Steer Bar-B-Que in Kingston, and Heart of the Valley Festival in Middleton.

Georgetown, the capital of the Cayman Islands is south of Havana, Cuba, and northwest of Kingston, Jamaica, and are between Cuba and Central America.

The CUC is divided into four regions: " BC " ( British Columbia ), " Western " ( Alberta to Thunder Bay ), " Central " ( between Thunder Bay and Kingston ), and " Eastern " ( Kingston, Ottawa and everything east of that ).

The practice of Guising at Halloween in North America is first recorded in 1911, where a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario reported children going " guising " around the neighborhood.

The International Seabed Authority ( ISA ) (, ) is an intergovernmental body based in Kingston, Jamaica, that was established to organize and control all mineral-related activities in the international seabed area beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, an area underlying most of the world ’ s oceans.

Its fifteenth session was held in Kingston 25 May-5 June 2009 and its sixteenth session is scheduled for 26 April to 7 May 2010.

The coffee is exported from Kingston.

An oil refinery is located near Kingston converts crude petroleum obtained from Venezuela into gasoline and other products.

The Highway 2000 project, which seeks ultimately to link Kingston with Montego Bay and the north coast, is currently undergoing a series of phases / legs.

Phase 1 is the highway network between Kingston and Mandeville which itself has been divided into sub-phases: Phase 1a ( Kingston-Bushy Park ( in actuality, Kingston-Sandy Bay ) highway and the upgrade of the Portmore Causeway ) which was completed June 2006, and Phase 1b ( Sandy Bay-Williamsfield ).

The container terminal at the Port of Kingston has undergone large expansion in capacity in recent years to handle growth both already realised as well as that which is projected in coming years.

The Kingston port is situated in the Kingston Harbour which is the 7th largest natural ( i. e. not man made ) harbour in the world.

So many buildings in Kingston, Ontario, Canada were constructed from it that it is nicknamed the ' Limestone City '.

The present record holder is the 1990 winner Kingston Rule with a time of 3min 16. 3sec.

Nial ( from " Nested Interactive Array Language ") is a high-level array programming language developed from about 1981 by Mike Jenkins of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

New Malden is a small town and shopping centre in the south-western London suburbs, mostly within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and partly in the London Borough of Merton, and is situated from Charing Cross.

The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames has one of the largest expatriate community of South Koreans in Europe, and is said to be one of the most densely populated area of Koreans outside South Korea.

According to different sources, the Korean population in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is around 20, 000, of whom around 8000 reside in the Kingston Borough portion of New Malden.

* 1841 – Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

While Kingston and Montego Bay are home to a number of retail stores, including American fast-food franchises such as Domino's, Burger King, and KFC, the majority of the towns in the interior of the country, such as Mandeville, May Pen, and Spanish Town, have small shops, public markets, and temporary roadside stands.

* 1968 – Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.

** Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, provoked by the banning of Walter Rodney from the country.

The southern portion of the county is bisected from southeast to northwest by the Harpeth River, which meanders through generally hilly country, and along whose course are located the communities of Kingston Springs, largely to the north of Interstate 40, and Pegram, along State Highway 70.

The nursery had stood in Kingston Lane since 1868 and was the largest producer of cut flowers in the country.

Flora MacDonald, then MP for Kingston and the Islands and Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs, officially opened Earth Day Week on September 6, 1980 with a ceremonial tree planting and encouraged MPs and MPPs across the country to declare a cross-Canada annual Earth Day.

Arriving in Kingston from the country, he tries to make it in the recording business, but without success.

Folk musicians like the Kingston Trio, pop-Tejano and Cuban-American fusions like boogaloo, chachacha and mambo, blues-derived rock and roll and rockabilly, pop-gospel, doo wop and R & B ( later secularized further as soul music ) and the Nashville sound in country music all modernized and expanded the musical palette of the country.

Now, Kingston supports numerous bed and breakfasts, a small country pub and rural cropping.

The headquarters for 1 Wing was relocated to CFB Kingston, however, the unit's 6 tactical helicopter squadrons flying the CH-146 Griffon were spread out at Canadian Forces bases across the country.

In her memoir And A Voice To Sing With, singer and activist Joan Baez recalled that " Traveling across the country with my mother and sisters, we heard the commercial songs of the budding folk boom for the first time, the Kingston Trio's ' Tom Dooley ' and ' Scotch and Soda.

* Other covers have been by The Hollies, country guitar virtuoso Chet Atkins, Odetta, Dolly Parton, folk chanteuse Judy Collins, The Kingston Trio, Marianne Faithfull ( 1964 single ), Jackie DeShannon, The Seekers, soul singer Sam Cooke, blues belter Etta James, Duke Ellington, Neil Young ( with air raid sound effects ), the Doodletown Pipers, Marlene Dietrich, Bobby Darin, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley, Sielun Veljet, on their single " Blowin ' in the Wind ", Stevie Wonder ( whose version became a top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966 ), John Fogerty, The Hooters on their 1994 album The Hooters Live, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and was performed by Jenny in the award-winning film Forrest Gump ( sung by Joan Baez ), and was lampooned in Me, Myself & Irene.

The Kingston line, once one of the more important lines in the country, declined during the 1970s, and most of it closed on 13 December 1982, including the portion through Winton.

Kingston Maurward House is a large Georgian English country house set in a 750 acre ( 3 square km ) estate in Dorset situated in the Frome valley two miles east of Dorchester.

She also worked at Kingston, Ontario's CKWS, hosting a country music program while still a student at Queen's.

Luther Wright and the Wrongs are a Canadian alternative country and bluegrass band formed in 1998 in Kingston.

Also, the township of Kingston was established in the Narragansett country, and became incorporated as the seventh town of the colony.

Kingston proceeded with the country surveys almost single-handed but, soon after Governor George Gawler's arrival in October 1838, he resigned.

Craig Morgan Greer ( born July 17, 1964, in Kingston Springs, Tennessee ) is an American country music artist.

A repetition of this performance was witnessed again when all the 8 wrestlers sent to the Commonwealth Games held at Kingston, Jamaica had the distinction of getting medals for the country.