* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.

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

* About / Almost Uncirculated ( AU ) 50, 53, 55, 58

About 50 % are Baya-Mandjia, 40 % Banda ( largely located in the northern and central parts of the country ), and 7 % are M ' Baka ( southwestern corner of the CAR ).

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.

About 50 million light-years from Earth, M77 is also a Seyfert galaxy and thus a bright object in the radio spectrum.

About 50, 000 Dominicans are directly employed in this sector, mostly working in hotels, and another 110, 000 are indirectly employed as taxi drivers, tour guides, or tourist-shop staff.

About half of the world's original forests had been destroyed by 2011, the majority during the previous 50 years.

About 80 km ( 50 mi ) east of the atoll lies the 650 km ( 400-mile ) long Chagos Trench, an underwater canyon plunging more than 4, 900 m ( 16, 000 ft ).

About 17 % of all families, 50 % of all genera and 75 % of species became extinct.

About 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, and nearly 90 % of epilepsy occurs in developing countries.

About 50 % of Grenada's population is under the age of 30.

* About 50 % of the Sun's energy is absorbed at the Earth's surface and the rest is reflected or absorbed by the atmosphere.

About 83 % of the country's total territory is suitable for cultivation ; of this portion, 75 % ( around 50 % of the country's area ) is covered by arable land, which is an outstanding ratio compared to other EU countries.

About 50 to 55 million years ago, in the Eocene Epoch of the Cenozoic Era, the plate collided with Asia after covering a distance of, having moved faster than any other known plate.

* 1997 – About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.

About 6. 50 % of families and 9. 00 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 12. 40 % of those under age 18 and 6. 10 % of those age 65 or over.

About 1350 remain on Kapiti Island and it has been introduced to other predator-free islands and appears to be becoming established with about 50 ' Little Spots ' on each island.

* About LEO — From Business Computing: the Second 50 Years, The Guildhall conference for business leaders, 2001

About 50 mg ( one-twentieth of a gram ) is a sufficient sample, so damage to the object is minimised.

About 300 of the Sobibor Camp's 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war.

About 50 kW · h ( 180 MJ ) of solar energy is required to produce a kilogram of hydrogen, so the cost of the electricity clearly is crucial, even for hydrogen uses other than storage for electrical generation.

About 50 % of the Australian prisoners were light horsemen including 48 missing believed captured on 1 May 1918 in the Jordan Valley.

About 25 % of the total congregations report between 1 and 50 members.

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.

* About 500 BC: ( Information originally from Herodotus ): During a naval campaign the Greek Scyllis was taken aboard ship as prisoner by the Persian King Xerxes I.

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.

* 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 ).