About the year 1601, while an obscure page to George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar, he met Sir Thomas Overbury in Edinburgh.

The track " Thinking About You " was taken from the band's " Manic Hedgehog " demo tape, whilst " You " was a newer version ; " Prove Yourself ", " Thinking About You " and " You " were re-recorded for Pablo Honey in 1993, the band's first full-length album.

About 1200 the lord of the manor, William de Redvers created the borough of New Lymington around the present quay and High Street whilst Old Lymington comprised the rest of the parish.

About 300 aboriginals, men, women and children, who had banded together approached the Risdon Cove settlement whilst occupied on a kangaroo hunt during a seasonal migration.

About 53 % of clashes took place in urban areas, whilst the rest ( 47 %) took place in rural areas.

About 10 kilometres South of Elon Moreh, whilst on land belonging to Beita village they came across a farmer, Mousa Saleh Bani Shamseh.

About 710, Saint Willibrord visited the Danes whilst Ongendus was ruling and returned with 30 boys to instruct in missionary work.

Following Mike Trim's successful recording engineer work on Show of Hands Live, the joint vision on Beat About the Bush was to produce the elusive " radio friendly " folk / roots album that retained the band's live album whilst adding a rhythm section.

About 1888 J. E. McNaughton of Barnumville and E. G. Bacon became proprietors of the `` Green Mountain Telegraph Company '', connecting all offices on the Western Union line and extending over the mountain from Barnumville to Peru, Londonderry, South Londonderry, Lowell Lake, Windham, North Windham, Grafton, Cambridgeport, Saxton's River, and Bellows Falls.

About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).

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

About that same time John Crosby's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do.

About the same time the Alleghenies and Poconos in Pennsylvania are magnificent -- Renovo holds its annual Flaming Foliage Festival on Oct. 14, 15.

About 70 specimens have survived, roughly half of them on fibulae, others on belt buckles ( see Pforzen buckle, Bülach fibula ) and other jewelry and weapon parts.

About four hours after the beginning of EVA-1, the pair mounted the lunar rover and drove to the first geologic stop, Plum Crater, a crater on the rim of Flag Crater, a crater across.

About two-thirds of the Burgess Shale organisms lived by feeding on the organic content in the muddy sea floor, while almost a third filtered out fine particles from the water column.

About half of those are located on the European continent, rather than on the British Isles.

Following Foster's departure, Bronski Beat began work on their next album, Out and About.

In a news update to the official website on 11 August 2010, it was revealed that their eighth studio album would be titled Belle & Sebastian Write About Love.

The first single from the album, as well as the record's title track " Write About Love ", was released in the US on 7 September 2010.

About half of the 50 houses on this road had prostitutes advertising themselves in the windows, similar to Amsterdam.

About 85 % of the population depends on agriculture, including the herding of livestock.

About. com ranked him # 9 on their list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time, while The Source ranked him # 12 on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time.

Some notable Columbia alumni that have gone on to work in film include directors Sidney Lumet ( 12 Angry Men ) and Kathryn Bigelow ( The Hurt Locker ), screenwriters Howard Koch ( Casablanca ) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( All About Eve ), and actors James Cagney and Ed Harris.

About this time, an organization called the " Thistle Club " was founded and, curling being a winter sport, was played when the ice was suitable on the Detroit River at the foot of Joseph Campau ; on the bay ; and at the old Recreation Park.

About two years after Cyril of Alexandria's death in 444, an aged monk from Constantinople named Eutyches began teaching a subtle variation on the traditional Christology in an attempt ( as he described in a letter to Pope Leo I in 448 ) to stop a new outbreak of Nestorianism.

About one-third of patients go on to develop digestive system damage, resulting in dilation of the digestive tract ( megacolon and megaesophagus ), accompanied by severe weight loss.

All About Eve ( 1950 ) focused on women, and their relationship with men.

This performance was filmed and a part was included on the home video The Complete Truth About De-Evolution.

About a week before Christmas, every year, the tree is lit, preceded by extravagant holiday performances.

Local contented included local news, three hours of live women's variety " Round About ", 5 half hours of live children's variety " Get Set " and " Razzamataz " weekly, holiday specials " Summerthon ", and a half hour daily exercise program " Jazzacize ".

About a quarter of holiday vessels anchored in Rebak and Telaga harbour in Langkawi were also damaged.

About 275 children each year are brought for a free five day holiday, sometimes having never left Leeds before and seeing cows in fields for the first time.

About the same time William Cheselden in London, the first Alexander Monro in Edinburgh, and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus in Leiden, contributed by their several treatises to render anatomy still more precise as a descriptive science.

About a year after assuming the Chair of Mathematics at Edinburgh, James Gregory suffered a stroke while viewing the moons of Jupiter with his students.

Not About Heroes is a drama by Stephen MacDonald about the real-life relationship between the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982.

Not About Heroes had its première at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982 and won a Fringe First award.

John McKay, CBE, hosted a luncheon at the Edinburgh City Chambers, to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the granting of the Freedom of the City to Sir Harry Lauder, attended by family representative Gregory Lauder-Frost, who, on 4 August 2001, formally opened the new Sir Harry Lauder Memorial Garden at Portobello Town Hall, and was the principal commentator throughout the Saltire / BBC2 TV ( Scotland ) documentary entitled Something About Harry screened on 30 November 2005.

About ten other festivals are held in Edinburgh at about the same time as the International Festival.

Although the first Tattoo in Edinburgh, entitled " Something About a Soldier ", took place at the Ross Bandstand at Princes Street Gardens in 1949, the first official Edinburgh Military Tattoo began in 1950 with just eight items in the programme.

A newly formed Theatre Company, “ About Turn ”, took its first production to the Edinburgh Festival in August 2002 and returned in 2004.

About 1623 the people of Edinburgh called him to be their minister, but he was rejected by James I.

The Finborough Theatre has also presented musical theatre, including Schwartz It All About which transferred to Edinburgh and the King's Head Theatre, the world premiere of Charles Miller and Kevin Hammonds ' When Midnight Strikes, the UK premieres of Lucky Nurse and Other Short Musical Plays by Michael John LaChuisa, Darius Milhaud ’ s opera Médée, Myths and Hymns by Adam Guettel, John and Jen by Andrew Lippa and Three Sides by Grant Olding, and an acclaimed series ' Celebrating British Musical Theatre ' from the Victorian and Edwardian era with Florodora, Our Miss Gibbs, The Maid of the Mountains and A Gilbert and Sullivan Doublebill featuring Sweethearts, a play by W. S.

* Edinburgh Fringe First winner What I Heard About Iraq

* 2008: Things I Like About Carl Sagan And Others, Edinburgh Fringe 2008