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Definition: Kisumu |
KisumuNoun1. A port city in western Kenya on the northeastern shore of Lake Victoria; fishing and trading center. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Business | Both networks have coverage over the four principal cities of Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu and Nakuru as well as their environs, with plans to extend to other parts of the country. (references) | |
PSL, which controls 80% of the market, has provided paging services since 1993 and has operations in six cities (Nairobi, Mombasa, Eldoret, Kisumu, Nakuru and Nyeri) with a customer base of about 7,000. Capital Pagers was licensed in August 1998 and is operational in Nairobi only, using broadcasting infrastructure owned by its parent company Capital Radio. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Kenya | In 1999 Nation Media Group received authorization for radio broadcasts in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, and Nakuru, and began radio and television transmission to Nairobi. (references) |
Kenya | Stellavision does not air local news, relying instead on rebroadcasts of SKY TV and British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) world news; it broadcasts in Kisumu, Mombasa, and Nairobi. (references) | |
Economic History | Kenya | Other cities--Mombasa (665,000), Kisumu (504,000), Nakuru (1.2 million). (references) |
Travel | Kenya | CRIME: There is a high rate of crime in all cities, particularly Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, and at coastal beach resorts. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Beginning with "Kisumu": Kisumu-cairo-karachi. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
kisumu kenya | 58 |
kisumu | 12 |
hotel kisumu | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-m-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: musk, skim. | |
-3 letters: ism, mis, mus, sim, ski, sum. | |
-4 letters: is, mi, mu, si, um, us. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 69 73 75 6D 75 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.- .. ... ..- -- ..- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01101001 01110011 01110101 01101101 01110101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K i s u m u |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0069 0073 0075 006D 0075 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)457585877987 |
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