* Kit-Mikayi, Kenya

In 1968, near the end of this era, the Britannica celebrated its bicentennial.

In October 1774, he was attending the celebrated foundation-school at Pforta near Naumburg.

Digweed celebrated 10 years of his Bedrock club night at Matter, London on 10 October 2008 with a near on 10-hour set.

More substantial backing came from John Roebuck, the founder of the celebrated Carron Iron Works, near Falkirk, with whom he now formed a partnership.

" The festival was celebrated near the cave of Lupercal on the Palatine Hill ( the central hill where Rome was traditionally founded ), to expiate and purify new life in the Spring.

In the northern hemisphere, Lammas takes place around August 1 with the Sun near the midpoint of Leo in the tropical zodiac, while in the southern hemisphere Lammas is celebrated around February 1 with the Sun near the midpoint of Aquarius.

He was buried in Bursa, in a mausoleum erected by himself near the celebrated mosque which he built there, and which, from its decorations of green porcelain, is called the Green Mosque.

Situated near the Jodrell laboratory, the Aquatic Garden, which celebrated its centenary in 2009, provides conditions for aquatic and marginal plants.

* As a celebration for the coming October, the traditional harvest month in historic Germany, the German Oktoberfest is celebrated near the end of September.

Ordinations are celebrated across a wide array of Western denominations at Pentecost, or near to it.

On September 1, 1772 a cross was erected near San Luis Obispo Creek and Father Junípero Serra celebrated the first mass, marking the site as the destination for yet another mission.

* Since Passover is always celebrated on 15 – 21 ( or 22 outside Israel ) Nisan, near the beginning of spring, " Holiday of Aviv " ( Pesach or Passover Is always on the 14th of Nisan.

Posidonius was celebrated as a polymath throughout the Graeco-Roman world because he came near to mastering all the knowledge of his time, similar to Aristotle and Eratosthenes.

In 1675 Fernando del Bosque traversed the area near Quemado, and Franciscans with the expedition are said to have celebrated the first Mass on Texas soil.

It opened to poor reviews and earned less than $ 3 million domestically ( from an estimated budget of $ 44 million ), eventually contributing to the near collapse of its studio, United Artists, and effectively destroying the reputation of Cimino, previously one of the ascendant directors of Hollywood owing to his celebrated 1978 film The Deer Hunter, which had won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director in 1979.

Haoma services were celebrated at least until the 1960s and 1970s in a strongly conservative village near Yazd.

The history of the town is celebrated annually in reenactments depicting d ' Iberville's landing near a replica of Fort Maurepas.

A second Feast Day was added in 2007 by a benefaction from Orielensis George Moody, to be celebrated on or near St George's Day ( 23 April ).

The two yearly events celebrated by the community, both held by St. Patrick's Parish, are the Lenten fish fries, held in the cafeteria of the school, and the summer festival, held near the end of August on the school playground and in the gymnasium.

Arguably the most celebrated and notorious environmentalist author of the twentieth century, Edward Abbey ( 1927 – 1989 ), was born at the Indiana hospital and raised in Indiana and near the Indiana County towns and villages of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, Tanoma, and Home, Pennsylvania.

which, in 1997, celebrated its 25th year of production at the multi-million-dollar Sugarloaf Mountain Amphitheater near Chillicothe, Ohio.

While Walpurgis is not celebrated in The Netherlands due to their national Queens-Day falling on the same date, the small island of Texel celebrates a festival known as the ' Meierblis ' ( roughly translated as ' May-Blaze ') on that same day, when bonfires are lit near nightfall, just as on Walpurgis.

Bewick was born at Cherryburn House in the village of Mickley, in the parish of Ovingham, Northumberland, England, near Newcastle upon Tyne on 10 or 11 August 1753, although his birthday was always celebrated on the 12th.

* In Kenya, the Nation Media Group's Daily Nation and Sunday Nation celebrated their Golden Jubilee in the year 2010 after 50 years from being published for the first time.

; five of these pierced tiles on either side would have amply lighted the interior of the ceila, and the amount of rain passing through ( a serious element to be considered in a country where torrential rains occasionally fall ) would not be very great 01 more than could be retained to dry up in the ceila sunk pavement In favor of both these methods of lighting the interior of th ~ cella, the sarcophagus tomb at Cyrene, about 20 ft. ( 6m ) long, carved in imitation of a temple, has been adduced, because, on the tor of the roof and in its centre, there is a raised coping, and a similar feature is found on a tomb found near Delos ; an example from Crete now in the British Museum shows a pierced tile on each side of the roof, and a large number of pierced tiles have been found in Pompeii, some of them surrounded with a rim identical with that of the marble tiles at Bassae.

* 13 die near Kisumu, Kenya, after a passenger train rolls back because of air brake failure-15 August 2000

Two serious railway accidents occurred near Kisumu in the 2000s.

Ouko was born in Nyahera village, near Kisumu, Nyanza Province.

Later that day Ouko travelled to his country residence, a farm in Koru ( some 300 km from Nairobi ) near Kisumu, accompanied by his driver and a bodyguard.

Maseno University is a university based in Maseno, near Kisumu, in Kenya and was founded in 1991.

The first specimen, a partial jaw discovered in 1909 by a gold prospector at Koru, near Kisumu in western Kenya, was also the oldest fossil hominoid known until recently, and the first fossil mammal ever found in sub-Saharan Africa.

Kenya ’ s then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Robert Ouko, was murdered on the morning of the 13th February, 1990, shot through the head, at the foot of Got Alila Hill, some 2. 4 km from his country residence in Koru, near Kisumu, north western Kenya.

He also farmed land adjacent to Ouko ’ s farm in Koru, near Kisumu.

" All will be released into the wild near Mount Kenya. In 2004 Woburn Safari Parks ' Dr. Jake Veasey ; the Head of the Department of Animal Management and Conservation at Woburn Safari Park and a member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums Population Management Advisory Group, with the assistance of Lindsay Banks took over responsibility for the management and coordination of the European Endangered species Programme ( EEP ) for the eastern bongo.

The Navy codebreakers in FECB went to Colombo, Ceylon, then to Kilindini, near Mombasa, Kenya.

Some hotels are built with living trees as structural elements, for example the Treehotel near Piteå, Sweden, the Costa Rica Tree House in the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica ; the Treetops Hotel in Aberdare National Park, Kenya ; the Ariau Towers near Manaus, Brazil, on the Rio Negro in the Amazon ; and Bayram's Tree Houses in Olympos, Turkey.

* 28 November: Kenyan hotel bombing: Three Israelis, including two brothers, and 10 Kenyans killed when a car bomb exploded in the lobby of the Israeli-owned beachfront Paradise Hotel, frequented almost exclusively by Israeli tourists near Mombasa in Kenya.

It is one of the longest rivers in Kenya, originating near the equator.

* Masai Mara, a reserve in Kenya near the Mara River

The improved management of the economy during the Kibaki presidency has seen continued Kenya GDP growth from a low 0. 6 % ( real − 1. 6 %) in 2002 to 3 % in 2003, 4. 9 % in 2004, 5. 8 % in 2005, 6 % in 2006 and 7 % 2007, a very significant recovery from the preceding near total economic collapse and decay.

In the corruption indices drawn up by the anti-graft organisation Transparency International, Kenya routinely trail near the bottom ..., viewed as only slightly less sleazy than Nigeria or Pakistan ..."

The movie was filmed on location in Okalataka, French Congo ; Mount Kenya, Thika, Kenya-you can see Mt Longonot and Lake Naivasha, both in the Kenyan Rift Valley, and Fourteen Falls near Thika as backdrops-Kagera River, Tanganyika ; Isoila, Uganda ; and at the MGM British Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK.

Kenya – Uganda railway near Mombasa, circa 1899

His time spent in Africa, farming with his brother William near Gilgil in British East Africa ( now in Kenya ) from 1914 to 1919.

It occurs at Lake Natron near Ol Doinyo Lengai, Tanzania and Suswa Volcano, Lake Magadi, Kenya.

The name was first applied by Colin Groves and Vratislav Mazák to KNM-ER 992, a mandible discovered near Lake Rudolf ( now Lake Turkana ), Kenya in 1975, which became the type-specimen of the species.

Additionally, F. pardalis has been introduced to Réunion and Mauritius, while F. oustaleti has been introduced to near Nairobi in Kenya.

The city of Tanga sits on the Indian Ocean, near the border with Kenya.

Kisite-Mpunguti Marine National Park is situated on the southern coast of Kenya near Shimoni and south of Wasini Island in Kwale District near the Tanzanian border.

The 7th Lord Enniskillen lives on his 40, 000 acre estate near Lake Naivasha in the former ' White Highlands ' in southern Kenya.

The skeleton was discovered in 1984 by Kamoya Kimeu, a member of a team led by Richard Leakey, at Nariokotome near Lake Turkana in Kenya.

Force B was based on the slow Revenge class battleships of the 3rd Battle Squadron, based at the fleet's new operational base at Kilindini near Mombasa in Kenya and relatively safe from the Japanese fleet.

Then, following Chuichi Nagumo's Indian Ocean raid and raid on Ceylon in early 1942, the Fleet moved its operational base to Kilindini near Mombasa in Kenya, as their more forward fleet anchorages could not be adequately protected from Japanese attack.

It was named in recognition of the hospitality of Kenya from where it was launched, from the Italian / Kenyan San Marco launch platform near Mombasa.