Around the world, abaci have been used in pre-schools and elementary schools as an aid in teaching the numeral system and arithmetic.

Around 1831, when Anne was eleven, she and Emily broke away from Charlotte and Branwell to create and develop their own fantasy world, Gondal.

Around the world today are a number of banks, companies, charities, and schools for developing co-operative forms of business using Steiner's ideas about economic associations, aiming at harmonious and socially responsible roles in the world economy.

Around the world the term physician refers to a specialist in internal medicine or one of its many sub-specialties ( especially as opposed to a specialist in surgery ).

Around the world, the combined term " Physician and Surgeon " is used to describe either a general practitioner or any medical practitioner irrespective of specialty.

Around the world, U. S. embassies and consulates became makeshift memorials as people came out to pay their respects.

Around the world, Muslims are becoming more connected by the Internet and modern communications.

* Around the World with the Yellow Kid-a strip that sent the Kid on a world tour in the manner of Nellie Bly ( 17 January-30 May 1897 )

Around 5000 BC, a sophisticated civilization already existed and produced some of the first pottery and jewelry in the world.

Around the world, the sugar glider is a popular domestic pet, but is one of the most commonly traded wild animals in the illegal pet trade, where animals are plucked directly from their natural habitats.

Around the world, individuals have formed many Green parties over the last thirty years.

Around the world, what U. S. lawmakers and attorneys call " antitrust " is more commonly known as " competition law.

On July 9, 1955, " Rock Around the Clock " became the first rock and roll recording to hit the top of Billboard's Pop charts, a feat it repeated on charts around the world.

" Rock Around the Clock " became wildly popular with teenagers around the world.

Around four-fifths of the world ’ s silk production consists of cultivated silk.

Around 260 FE, a rebel leader named Gilmer attempted a coup, in the process sacking Trantor and forcing the Imperial family to flee to the nearby world of Delicass, renamed Neotrantor.

* Around the world sailing record

Larry Graham and Graham Central Station performed internationally with a world tour in 2010 and the " Funk Around The World " international tour in 2011.

Around the same time, the Alexander Smith and Sons Carpet Company ( in the Saw Mill River Valley ) expanded to 45 buildings, 800 looms, and over 4, 000 workers and was known as one of the premier carpet producing centers in the world.

Around the world many churches of Reformed tradition emerged, both by migration and missionary work.

Around 18 shows per year showcase every film genre by directors around the world.

Around the world, precision agriculture developed at a varying pace.

Toulmin and Goodfield ( 1965 ), commented on Avicenna's contribution: " Around A. D. 1000, Avicenna was already suggesting a hypothesis about the origin of mountain ranges, which in the Christian world, would still have been considered quite radical eight hundred years later ".

Around the sacred Center lies the known world, the realm of established order ; and beyond the known world is a chaotic and dangerous realm, " peopled by ghosts, demons, ' foreigners ' ( who are with demons and the souls of the dead )".

Around 1947, Tutmarc's son, Bud, began marketing a similar bass under the Serenader brand name, prominently advertised in the nationally distributed L. D.

However, the verse melody of " Rock Around the Clock " does bear a very close similarity to that of Hank Williams ' first hit, " Move It On Over ", from 1947.

Around 1947 the new government began hunting down former resistance members and sending them to concentration camps.

Around 1947, Sonny Til sang regularly in amateur shows at the Avenue Cafe in Baltimore, where he met Nelson, Sharp and Gaither.

Around 1947, Dorian was introduced to Roger Mehle by her sister Cissy.

Around 1947, the company introduced their first amateur radio receiver, the 75A-1 ( originally simply called the 75A ).

Around 1947, boxer shorts started to gain in popularity again.

Around April 1947 though, Ralph's father and uncle then traveled to Washington D. C. in search of new business opportunities, moving the family into a building in the entirely black neighborhood of Foggy Bottom.

As a result of the Attlee Government ’ s initiatives in agriculture, there was a 20 % increase in output between 1947 and 1952, while Britain adopted one of the most mechanised and efficient farming industries in the world.

The term neo-evangelicalism was coined by Harold Ockenga in 1947 to identify a distinct movement within self-identified fundamentalist Christianity at the time, especially in the English-speaking world.

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).

The Edinburgh International Film Festival in the UK was established in 1947 and is the longest continually running film festival in the world.

* 1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.

The tornado was the deadliest in the U. S. since 1947, making it the 7th deadliest tornado in American history, but the 27th deadliest in the world.

In 1939, Pius XII turned the Vatican into a centre of aid which he organized from various parts of the world At the request of the Pope, an information office for prisoners of war and refugees operated in the Vatican under Giovanni Battista Montini, which in the years of its existence from 1939 until 1947 received almost 10 million ( 9, 891, 497 ) information requests and produced over 11 million ( 11, 293, 511 ) answers about missing persons.

The success of an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico in 1947 was soon repeated elsewhere in the world, and by 1970 it was technically feasible to operate in waters 4000 metres deep.

Canada became a world leader in this field, with the NRX reactor becoming operational in 1947 ; at the time, NRX was the only operational nuclear reactor outside the United States.

The medical trials at Nuremberg in 1947 deeply impressed upon the world that experimentation with unknowing human subjects is morally and legally unacceptable.

All refugees in the world are under the UNHCR mandate except Palestinian Arabs, who fled the future Jewish state between 1947 and 1949 ( see below ), and their descendants.

In 1947, during the Cold War, the clock was started at seven minutes to midnight and was subsequently advanced or rewound per the state of the world and nuclear war prospects.

Sikhs have emigrated to many countries of the world since Indian independence in 1947.

He won the NCAA and AAU 120-yard and 220-yard hurdles in both 1946 and 1947 and he tied world records in both events with a 22. 3 in the 220 in 1946 and a 13. 6 in the 120.

After the war, Hapgood began a twenty-year teaching career in the humanities through faculty appointments at Keystone College ( 1945 – 1947 ), Springfield College ( 1947 – 1952 ), Keene State College ( 1956 – 1966 ), and New England College ( 1966 – 1967 ), where he lectured in world and American history, anthropology, economics, and the history of science.

The organization was established in 1956, following on from the work of the International Tin Study Group, which was established in 1947 to survey the world supply and demand of tin.

In early 2005, Kreuk signed on to the 2007 Canadian independent film Partition, playing Naseem, a vulnerable 17-year-old whose world is shattered by the trauma of the Partition of India in 1947 ; the character also falls in love with an ex-British Indian Army officer.

The grassroots world federalist movement in the US, led by people such as Grenville Clark, Norman Cousins, Alan Cranston and Robert Hutchins, organized itself into increasingly larger structures, finally forming, in 1947, the United World Federalists ( later renamed to World Federalist Association, then Citizens for Global Solutions ), claiming membership of 47, 000 in 1949.

It is available to persons of Indian origin anywhere in the world as long as they have never been citizens of Pakistan or of Bangladesh ( a reservation excluding Muslims who joined Pakistan during or after the 1947 partition ).

In 1947 the Edstrom brothers ( Harold and Everett ), along with fellow musician Roger Busdicker, founded the Hal Leonard Corporation, currently the largest publisher of sheet music in the world.

* Edinburgh Fringe ( 1947 )* — now the largest of all the festivals and indeed the largest arts festival in the world.

* Roger De Vlaeminck, cyclist, world champion cyclo-cross in 1975, winner of 11 " Monument " classic cycle races ( b. 1947 )

The Empire of Japan, officially the Empire of Great Japan or simply Great Japan ( Dai Nippon ), was an empire and world power that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 to the enactment of the post-World War II Constitution of Japan on 3 May 1947.

It was founded in Oxford in 1947, and has become the pre-eminent network for liberal parties and for the strengthening of liberalism around the world.