About 500 employes of the firm will be on hand to witness bestowal of the honor upon Mr. Sorrentino.

About 500 amino acids are known which can be classified in many ways.

About 500 companies in the Dominican Republic manufacture goods primarily for the North American market.

About 500, 000 individuals were affected by the new rules.

About half of Germany's 500, 000 Jews fled before 1939, after which escape became almost impossible.

About 1, 500 hectares of government-owned land were distributed by the National Agrarian Institute ( Instituto Nacional Agrario — INA ) beginning in 1960.

About 500 AD, traders from the Persian Gulf, southern India and Indonesia made contact with East Africa.

About 95 % of the species are in five families: Crassulaceae ( 1400 ), Saxifragaceae ( 500 ), Grossulariaceae ( 150-200 ), Haloragaceae ( 150 ), and Hamamelidaceae ( 100 ).

About 500 remained on St Helena, where they were employed.

About 500 kilometres ( 300 mi ) off the coast lie the Cape Verde Islands.

About 500 Russian students had been sent to USA to participate in 40-day workshops of and by the Unification Church.

* June 10 – Vietnam War – Battle of Dong Xoai: About 1, 500 Vietcong mount a mortar attack on Dong Xoai, overrunning its military headquarters and the adjoining militia compound.

About 500, 000 inhabitants lived in the Potsdam governorate, which covered an area of about 20, 700 square kilometres, divided into thirteen rural districts, named after their capitals:

About 500 AD, the Burgundian Princess Sedeleuba took the bones of St. Victor to Geneva, while the bones of St. Ursus remained in Solothurn.

About one in 500 males has two tusks, which occurs when the right canine, normally small and less straight, also grows out.

About 5, 500 Tatars lived within the inter-war boundaries of Poland ( 1920 – 1939 ), and a Tatar cavalry unit had fought for the country's independence.

About 90 percent of the population of 82, 500 live on Mahé, 9 percent on Praslin and La Digue.

About 500, 000 visitors were reported.

About 3, 500 people live in Athens, while another 1, 000 live in Thessaloniki.

About 510 BC, hostilities arose between Croton and nearby Sybaris when Telys, a Sybarite tyrant, banished the 500 wealthiest citizens of Sybaris after seizing their property.

* About 2, 500 chestnut trees are growing on 60 acres near West Salem, Wisconsin, which is the world's largest remaining stand of American chestnut.

About 500 of the " regroupees " of 1954 were sent south on the trail during its first year of operation.

* About 19, 100 workers who earned from BDS $ 500 to BDS $ 999,

About 500 TGFs may occur every day worldwide, but mostly go undetected.

About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days.

About 385-380 BC the philhellene Evagoras of Salamis was similarly opposed by Amathus, in conjunction with Citium and Soli ; and even after Alexander the city resisted annexation, and was bound over to give hostages to Seleucus.

About 450 BC, according to Laertius, Pericles spoke in defense of Anaxagoras at his trial.

About 250 BC Diodotus ( Theodotus ), governor of Bactria under the Seleucidae, declared his independence, and commenced the history of the Greco-Bactrian dynasties, which succumbed to Parthian and nomadic movements about 126 BC.

About 300 readable words in 62 lines, dating to the 5th century BC.

About 200 BC is commonly suggested.

About 9 BC Maroboduus returned to Germany and became ruler of his people.

About the late twenty-first dynasty ( tenth century BC ), however, instead of being used alone as before, it began to be added to the other titles before the ruler's name, and from the twenty-fifth dynasty ( eighth to seventh centuries BC ) it was, at least in ordinary usage, the only epithet prefixed to the royal appellative.

About 7th century BC, a big meteorite hit Saaremaa island and created the Kaali craters.

About 700 BC Gyges, first Mermnad king of Lydia, invaded the territories of Smyrna and Miletus, and is said to have taken Colophon as his son Ardys did Priene.

* c. 2550 BC: About this time, Mesannepada is king of Ur ( followed by his son, A-annepadda ) who founds the First dynasty of Ur and overthrows the last king of Uruk, as well as Mesalim of Kish.

About 91 BC, he declared that, instead of naming a new king, he would finish out his reign as king, after which the Nephites would elect judges to govern them.

About 424 BC it was captured by the Samnites and in 343 BC besought Roman help against its conquerors.

About 147 BC he returned to Syria, and with the backing of Ptolemy VI Philometor, king of Egypt, regained his father's throne.

About 276 he was invited to the court of the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas, whose victory over the Gauls in 277 BC Aratus set to verse.

About 3000 BC, with the advent of writing, education became more conscious or self-reflecting, with specialized occupations such as scribe and astronomer requiring particular skills and knowledge.

About 453 BC Erythrae, refusing to pay tribute, seceded from the Delian League.

About the middle of the 4th c. BC the city became friendly with Mausolus: in an inscription found on the site he is called a benefactor of Erythrae.

About 62 BC, when a Roman client state, the Arverni, conspired with the Sequani and the Suebi nation east of the Rhine to attack the Aedui, a strong Roman ally, Rome turned a blind eye.

About 10 percent of the storage jars manufactured during Hezekiah's reign ( circa 700 BC ) were stamped ( Grena, 2004, pp. 376 – 8 ).