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  2. Fairmont The Norfolk Hotel - Wikipedia

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    The Fairmont Norfolk is a historic hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, and is managed by the luxury hotel chain Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. The hotel has 170 rooms and three restaurants, and consists of five main blocks, each ranging from 1 to 2 stories high. The hotel has a signature Tudor style of architecture that has been maintained since its ...

  3. 1980 Nairobi hotel bombing - Wikipedia

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    Qaddura Mohammed Abd Al-Hamid. On 31 December 1980, New Year's Eve, a bomb exploded in The Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. It partially destroyed the hotel, killing 20 people and wounding another 87. [3] [4] [5] [1] [2]

  4. Terrorism in Kenya - Wikipedia

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    Many terrorist attacks have occurred in Kenya during the 20th and 21st centuries. [1] In 1980, the Jewish -owned Norfolk hotel was attacked by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In 1998, the US embassy was bombed in Nairobi, as was the Israeli -owned Paradise hotel in 2002 in Mombasa.

  5. Entebbe raid - Wikipedia

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    Palestinian bombing of Kenya's Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi. The Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, owned by a prominent member of the local Jewish community, was bombed on 31 December 1980. The bomb flattened the hotel, killing 20 people, of several nationalities, and injuring 87 more.

  6. Happy Valley set - Wikipedia

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    The area around the town Naivasha, on the shore of Lake Naivasha, 92.8 km (57.7 mi) north west of Nairobi, was one of the first to be settled in Kenya by Europeans and was one of the main hunting grounds of the 'set'. The colonial town of Nyeri, Kenya, to the east of the Aberdare Range, was the main town of Happy Valley settlers.

  7. Stanley Hotel, Nairobi - Wikipedia

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    In 1978, the hotel was purchased by the Sarova Group from Abraham Block and family. In 1998, a US$20 million renovation took place, and the Sarova Group restored the hotel's original name, "The Stanley Hotel". The hotel was the first place to sell Kenya's Tusker Beer in 1922.

  8. Mary Muthoni Nyanjiru - Wikipedia

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    Mary Muthoni Nyanjiru (? – 16 March 1922) was a Kikuyu woman [1] and a Kenyan political activist remembered for leading the protest after the arrest of Harry Thuku, that resulted in her death. Muthoni Nyanjiru was born in Weithaga, Murang'a, Kenya, although her date or year of birth are not recorded. At the time she was shot and killed in ...

  9. William Northrup McMillan - Wikipedia

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    McMillan was born at St. Louis, United States, the son of William McMillan. His father, a British subject born in Canada, moved to St. Louis in 1870, was naturalised as an American citizen in 1874 and established the Missouri Car & Foundry Company, which was one of 18 companies to be merged into the American Car and Foundry Company.

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