Kovacs ' cast of characters: Wolfgang Von Sauerbraten, Percy Dovetonsils, Pierre Ragout, Magician Matzoh Hepplewhite, Nairobi Trio member, Auntie Gruesome, and Chef Miklos Molnar.

A popular recurring sketch was The Nairobi Trio, three derby-hatted apes miming mechanically and rhythmically to the tune of Robert Maxwell's " Solfeggio ".

On the same show, the Nairobi Trio abandons their instruments for a safe cracking job ; still with a background of " Solfeggio " but speaking, two of the three appear in an " Outer Space " sketch.

The Nairobi Trio was a skit Ernie Kovacs performed several times for his TV shows.

Allegedly, when Kovacs first heard a recording of the tune, he immediately came up with a mental image of what would become The Nairobi Trio: three gorillas ( wearing derby hats and long overcoats ) mechanically miming to the music like wind-up toys.

Nairobi Trio masks, wigs and hats.

The Nairobi Trio has entered popular culture beyond the television screen.

A popular New Zealand jazz group adopted the name, and writer Jim Knipfel wrote an account of his six-month stay in a psychiatric ward entitled Quitting the Nairobi Trio, using a picture of Kovacs in simian drag on the cover.

* Reference to the " Nairobi Trio " in " Ernie Kovacs, U. S. Comedian " ( profile )

The weekly program included performances of The Nairobi Trio.

Another of his songs, " Solfeggio ", performed by Maxwell's orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers, gained unexpected fame as the theme for Ernie Kovacs ' regular comedy skit called The Nairobi Trio.

Animals were gradually confined to the expansive plains to the west and south of Nairobi, and the colonial government set this area aside as a game reserve.

In countries such as Kenya-particularly in Nairobi and other cities where there is an expanding middle class-English is increasingly being used in the home as the first language, albeit with significant lexical influence from and secondary use of Swahili in a context of code-switching.

On 1 April 1902, 3 KAR moved its headquarters from Mombasa to Nairobi, and together with 4 KAR and 5 KAR, was used by the British colonial government in expeditions against those who resisted British rule.

On 1 March 1930 the unit was once again reconstituted, presented with their colours and stationed in Nairobi.

The embassy in Nairobi was established December 12, 1963 — Kenya ’ s independence day — with Laurence C. Vass as chargé d ' affaires ad interim pending the appointment of an ambassador.

Ever since, relations between the two nations have been warm ; with both countries having had discussed previously in the Pakistan-Kenya Joint Ministerial Commission session which was hosted in Nairobi in 2004, about boosting bilateral trade and economic relations.

On 24 November 1943, the first military airplane, a Dakota of the Royal Air Force ( R. A. F ) coming from Nairobi with a stopover at Madagascar, landed in Plaisance.

Pioneer Muslim missionaries to the Kenyan interior were largely Tanganyikans, who coupled their missionary work with trade, along the centres began along the railway line, such as, Kibwezi, Makindu and Nairobi.

Outstanding amongst them was Maalim Mtondo, a Tanganyikan credited with being the first Muslim missionary to Nairobi.

Negotiations between the Okello government and the NRA were conducted in Nairobi in the fall of 1985, with Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi seeking a cease-fire and a coalition government in Uganda.

The Post is one of a few U. S. newspapers with foreign bureaus, located in Baghdad, Bogota, Cairo, Hong Kong, Islamabad, Jerusalem, Kabul, London, Mexico City, Moscow, Nairobi, New Delhi, Paris, Shanghai, Tehran, and Tokyo.

Broadcasts are using H. 264, with the University of Nairobi supplying the decoders.

As a small boy Richard lived in Nairobi with his parents, Louis Leakey, curator of the Coryndon Museum, and Mary Leakey, director of the Leakey excavations at Olduvai, and his two brothers, Jonathan and Philip.

Its main bases were London Gatwick Airport and Entebbe International Airport, with hubs at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Dubai International Airport and Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.

In 1909, Gallen-Kallela moved to Nairobi in Kenya with his family, and there he painted over 150 expressionist oil-paintings and bought many east African artefacts.

Three days later, after a protracted count which saw presidential results in Kibaki's Central Kenya come in last, allegedly inflated, in a cloud of suspicion and rising tensions, amid vehement protests by Raila's ODM, overnight re-tallying of results and chaotic scenes, all beamed live on TV, at the national tallying center at the Kenyatta International Conference Center in Nairobi, riot police eventually sealed off the tallying Center ahead of the result announcement, evicted party agents, observers and the media, and moved the Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Samuel Kivuitu, to another room where Kivuitu went on to declare Kibaki the winner by 4, 584, 721 votes to Odinga's 4, 352, 993, placing Kibaki ahead of Odinga by about 232, 000 votes in the hotly contested election with Kalonzo Musyoka a distant third.

Close to Nairobi National Park is also the Kitengela Game Conservation Area populated with buffalo, masai giraffe, black rhino, eland, impala, Grant's and Thomson's gazelle, common and Defassa waterbuck, hippopotamus, warthog, Olive Baboon, monkeys and the attendant carnivores-lion, Spotted Hyena, cheetah, jackals, Bat-eared Fox and smaller carnivores.

Highways connect Mombasa to Nairobi, Dar es Salaam while northward road link to Malindi and Lamu, which also extends towards the border with Somalia.

* Ali Mohamed ( born 1952 ), Al-Qaeda operative, charged with the bombings of the United States ' embassies in Nairobi and in Dar es Salaam

Barre initially moved to Nairobi, Kenya, but opposition groups with a presence there protested his arrival and support of him by the Kenyan government.

Rock music has found a home to a growing fan base and with a number of locally established as well as emerging rock bands ( there are over twelve active local rock bands in Nairobi alone ) further cementing this genre by engaging in different as well as mutually organized rock themed events.

In 2011 the largest Nazarene educational institution was Korea Nazarene University, with 5, 834 students, followed by Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois ( 4, 181 students ), and Africa Nazarene University in Nairobi, Kenya ( 3, 153 students ).

Bin Laden and his al Qaeda group were charged with the bombing of the United States embassies in Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam in 1998, and in August 1998 the United States launched a cruise missile attack against bin Laden's terrorist camp in Afghanistan.

From August to December 1985, the Okello government attempted to negotiate a peace deal with Museveni, the Nairobi Agreement.

Then in 1992 BoB incorporated its operations in Kenya into a local subsidiary with a small tranche of shares quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange.

* August 7 – 1998 U. S. embassy bombings: The bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 224 people and injure over 4, 500 ; they are linked to terrorist Osama Bin Laden, an exile of Saudi Arabia.

The band played at nightclubs and bars in the Nairobi area, and developed an enthusiastic following, and by the mid 1970s, they were well-known throughout Kenya, thanks to hits like " Mwongele " and " Wana Wanyika ".

On 5 June 1977, marking World Environment Day, the NCWK marched in a procession from Kenyatta International Conference Centre in downtown Nairobi to Kamukunji park on the outskirts of the city where they planted seven trees in honor of historical community leaders.

The unusual spotted markings on what seemed to be smallish adult lions prompted interest from the Nairobi Game Department ; they were from pubescent lions and yet had prominent spots that are typical only of cubs.

They live in Nairobi although they own a home in Mr. Mwakwere's home village of Golini in Ziwani, Kwale District.

In June / July 2011, they will play Kenya at Nairobi for the first round of 2011 – 13 ICC Intercontinental Cup.

In February 1981 when Yoweri Museveni launched his guerrilla war against the government of President Milton Obote, Janet Museveni and her children re-located to Nairobi, Kenya, where they lived with family friends until 1983.

In early 2007, they travelled to Nairobi, Kenya to take part in Division one of the World Cricket League, finishing third in the six team total.

The school has built a drug rehabilitation centre for children and teenagers in Nairobi, Kenya which they raise funds for every second year.

In March 2010, Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi come under investigation by the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission ( KACC ) over the Sh283 million cemetery land fraud. KACC officials said that they wanted to establish whether the minister was party to the fraud in which the City Council of Nairobi bought land valued at Sh24 million for nearly Sh300 million. But Mr Mudavadi protested his innocence and said KACC was being unfair by accusing him without giving him a chance to be heard.