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Meru National Park Also In Adjacent Meru County
Meru may refer to: Geography Kenya * Meru, Kenya, town in Meru County in the republic of Kenya * Meru County, one of Kenya's 47 counties that was created by the 2009 merger of 3 districts: ** Meru Central District ** Meru North District ** Meru South District * Meru National Park, a Kenyan wildlife park * Meru District, a former district of Kenya Tanzania * Meru District, a district in Arusha Region, Tanzania * Meru, Tanzania, a village in northern Tanzania (Meru District) * Mount Meru (Tanzania), a volcano near Arusha in northern Tanzania Other places * Mary, Turkmenistan, a city in the Karakum Desert, formerly named Meru * Meru, Hazaribagh, a small town in Jharkhand, India * Meru, Malaysia, a town in Klang, located in Selangor * Meru, Western Australia, a locality near Geraldton * Méru, a commune of the Oise ''département'' in France * Meru Peak, a mountain in the Indian Himalayas, not to be confused with Mount Meru (see the section Other uses below) Entertainment * ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meru, Kenya
Meru is a town in eastern Kenya. It is the headquarters of the Meru County, and the seventh largest urban centre in the country. Meru urban centre had a population of 80,191 residents during the 2019 census. Overview The town is located at 0.047035 degrees north and 37.649803 degrees east, on the northeast slopes of Mount Kenya. The Kathita River passes adjacent to the town. The main administrative part of the town is on the north side of the Kathita River. While the south side of the river is where residential areas are situated. Meru Town is situated about 8 km north of the equator, at an altitude of approximately 1500 m, in an area of mixed forest and clearings, small towns, villages and rural farms. The town is predominantly populated by the Ameru people, a Bantu peoples, Bantu ethnic group. In addition there are other people having different and diverse religions, cultures and all walks of life who live, trade and work in this agricultural and commercial town. Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meru (film)
''Meru'' is a 2015 documentary film chronicling the 2011 first ascent of a new climbing route up the prow of the dramatic ''Shark's Fin'' on the northeast side of Meru Peak in the Indian Himalayas. The route required a complex range of alpine climbing, big wall climbing, and aid climbing techniques, and had rebuffed many famous climbers, including the team of Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk who are featured in the film. It was co-directed by the husband and wife team of Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, and won the 'U.S. Audience Documentary Award' at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Premise After attempting but failing to summit Meru in 2008, Anker, Chin, and Ozturk return to the mountain to conquer its peak – a 4,000 foot wall known as the "Shark's Fin". As they climb, the men also document their ascent. "You know, I'm always a climber first," said Chin on balancing climbing with filmmaking. "I'm always thinking about the safety of myself and the te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meru Language
Meru is a Bantu language spoken by the Meru people (''Ameru'') who live on the Eastern and Northern slopes of Mount Kenya and on the Nyambene ranges. They settled in this area after centuries of migration from the north. The Meru people are a fairly homogeneous community and all share a common ancestry. They speak the same language, ''Kimeru'', with slight regional differences in accent and local words. The community comprises the following subdivisions, from the north to south: *Igembe *Tigania (Tiania) (culture close to neighbouring Cushitic and Nilotic communities) *Imenti *Tharaka (Saraka) *Igoji *Mwimbi–Muthambi *Chuka (Gicuka) As the Meru language is similar to its surrounding neighbors, the Kikuyu and Embu could have possibly adopted parts of Meru. Sample phrases I want a cassava, , Ndũmia mũanga/mĩanga Dialects Kimeru has seven main mutually intelligible dialects. The dialects include Kiimenti widely used by the Imenti section of the Ameru, Tiania/gitiania used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meru (beetle)
Meruidae is a family of aquatic beetles in the suborder Adephaga, with only one genus and species, ''Meru phyllisae''. The beetle species was first found in the early 1980s.Paul J. Spangler, Warren E. Steiner JR (2005) A new aquatic beetle family, Meruidae, from Venezuela (Coleoptera: Adephaga) Systematic Entomology 30 (3), 339–357 and fully described in 2005. At , it is one of the smallest adephagan beetles in the world. A survey of aquatic beetles of Venezuela indicated that ''Meru'' is most common during the wet season, when larger areas of granitic rock surface are covered with water film, which the adult beetles as well as the larvae inhabit. Etymology The name Meruidae comes from the local Pemon people word for waterfall, ''meru''. The beetle was given this name because it can only be found in cascading water. Distribution ''Meru phyllisae'' is only known from the natural cascading waterfalls in El Tobogán, Las Amazonas, Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Boli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MERU, Holland
Kolleg St. Ludwig is a Maharishi European Research University (MERU) campus located in Vlodrop, The Netherlands. It was originally built in 1909, used as a Franciscan friary and boarding school and purchased by the Maharishi Foundation in 1984. The campus is near the villages of Vlodrop-station and Vlodrop in Limburg, the Netherlands, adjacent to the Dutch–German border and the defunct Iron Rhine railroad, and is surrounded by Meinweg National Park.MERU, Holland History A group of Franciscan brothers from Saxony purchased the land from the owner of a castle in the southern Limburg region of the Netherlands. The college was named after Saint Louis of Toulouse, a saint who was an heir to the throne of Napoli, but who renounced the throne and gave it to his younger brother, and himself became a Franciscan friar, took all the Franciscan vows and served the poor, the sick and the hungry. The seminary building was designed by a monk and featured 600 doors and 1,200 windows, all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maharishi European Research University
Transcendental Meditation in education (also known as Consciousness-Based Education) is the application of the Transcendental Meditation technique in an educational setting or institution. These educational programs and institutions have been founded in the US, United Kingdom, Australia, India, Africa and Japan. The Transcendental Meditation technique became popular with students in the 1960s and by the early 1970s centers for the Students International Meditation Society were established at a thousand campuses in the US with similar growth occurring in Germany, Canada and Britain. The Maharishi International University was established in 1973 in the US and began offering accredited, degree programs. In 1977 courses in Transcendental Meditation and the Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI) were legally prohibited from New Jersey (USA) public high schools on religious grounds by virtue of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. This "dismantled" the TM program's use of gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meru Cabs
Meru Cabs is an Indian taxi-hailing company. Founded by Neeraj Gupta in 2006, the company is headquartered in Mumbai. Since 2019, the company has been owned by Mahindra Group. Meru provides mobility services to individuals as well as business houses across India. Currently, Meru provides app-based transportation services like city rides, city rentals, airport transfers, and outstation travel, etc to individuals as well as corporate houses in 24 cities across India. History Neeraj Gupta founded the V-Link Group in 2000. Started as a staff transportation business, V-Link Fleet Solutions expanded its business and provided services to clients in the BPO sector. In a duration of 4 years, V-Link expanded to a fleet of 1300 vehicles. In August 2006, Maharashtra government invited tenders for running a fleet of 10,000 taxis in Mumbai in an attempt to replace the already existing black-yellow cabs (Kaali-peeli taxis). It was during this time that V-Link collaborated with venture cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meru Networks
Meru Networks was a supplier of wireless local area networks (WLANs) to healthcare, enterprise, hospitality, K-12 education, higher education, and other markets. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States, the company made its initial public offering in March 2010, and was acquired by Fortinet in May 2015. History Meru Networks was founded in 2002 to address issues with legacy wireless networking architectures that support two separate access networks: a wired network for business-specific applications and a wireless network for casual use. This causes problems ranging from co-channel interference to the inability of micro-cellular systems to scale up. Meru Networks develops and markets a virtualized wireless LAN solution that enables enterprises to migrate applications from wired networks to wireless networks and become what Meru refers to as the "All-wireless enterprise." The company uses an approach to wireless networking that employs virtual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vatsu Meru
Vatsu Meru is a politician from Nagaland, India. In 2003 he was elected to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly of Nagaland, as the Naga People's Front candidate from the constituency Peren ( ST).Election Commission of India The Election Commission of India (ECI) is a constitutional body established by Constitution of India, the Constitution of the Republic of India empowered to conduct free and fair elections in the Republic of India. It is headed by a Chief Ele ...: Statistical Report on General Election, 2003 to the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland'' References Nagaland MLAs 2003–2008 Naga People's Front politicians Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{Nagaland-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meru (overseer Of Sealers)
Meru was an Ancient Egyptian official under king Mentuhotep II in the Eleventh dynasty of Egypt, Eleventh Dynasty, around 2000 BC. Meru was ''overseer of sealers'' at the royal court and therefore one of the highest state officials. Meru is mainly known from his Theban Tomb (TT240). The tomb consists of the undecorated cult chapel and the underground burial chamber decorated with Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts. There is a sarcophagus sunk into the floor decorated with friezes of objects and an offering list. Meru is also known from a stela now in the Museo Egizio in Turin. Here his parents Iku and Nebti are mentioned. The stela is also dated under king Mentuhotep II. Meru appears finally in two rock inscriptions in the . Here he bears once the title ''overseer of the foreign lands''.W. Grajetzki: ''Court Officials of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom'', London 2009 {{ISBN, 978-0-7156-3745-6, p. 81-82, 173 References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
