Around 1150 Baldwin refortified Gaza to place some pressure on the nearby Egyptian outpost of Ascalon, and in 1153 Baldwin successfully besieged and captured Ascalon itself.

Around 1150, Ahmad Sanjar, the last of the great Seljuq monarchs, created a province out of these lands and called it Kurdistan.

Around 1150 the Earl de Warenne laid out a new town below the castle.

Around the same time, Robert Watson-Watt, working at the Radio Research Station in Slough, UK, suggested that the ionospheric sporadic E layer ( Es ) appeared to be enhanced as a result of lightning but that more work was needed.

Around the same time, Robert Ammann had created a set of aperiodic tiles that produced eightfold symmetry.

Around that time, Robert Stillington, the bishop of Bath and Wells, informed Richard that Edward IV's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville had been invalid due to an earlier union by the King with Eleanor Butler, making Edward V and his siblings illegitimate.

Around 1815, Truth met and fell in love with a slave named Robert from a neighboring farm.

Around this time Ryan also runs afoul of Elizabeth Elliott, international affairs advisor to then presidential candidate Governor of Ohio J. Robert Fowler, and a former professor of Cathy Ryan's.

Around the same time, Newton's contemporaries Robert Hooke and Christian Huygens — and later Augustin-Jean Fresnel — mathematically refined the wave viewpoint, showing that if light traveled at different speeds in different media ( such as water and air ), refraction could be easily explained as the medium-dependent propagation of light waves.

Around the time of the marriage, Sir Michael ’ s nephew, barrister Robert Audley, welcomes back to England his old friend, George Talboys, who has returned after three years of gold prospecting in Australia.

Around the time he was starting out with The Kings of Rhythm, Turner and Ernest Lane became unofficial roadies for blues singer Robert Nighthawk, who often played live on WROX.

Around 100 books were dedicated to Robert Dudley during Elizabeth's reign.

The United States House of Representatives also recognized the 40th anniversary of the composing of " Rock Around the Clock " with a special statement by Rep. Robert A. Borski of Pennsylvania, which was read into the Congressional Record on March 31, 1993.

Around 1929 the party's Robert Menzies, then member of the Victorian Parliament, joined with Wilfrid Kent Hughes to form the Young Nationalists Organisation.

Around this time Reginald, son of Gervase de Cornhill, released to the abbot and convent all claims in this manor from David and Robert de Cornhill who had rented it from them.

Around 1928, Robert E. Bell Middle School, known at the time as Horace Greeley School, was built.

Around 1781, Robert McCrea purchased the land on which Arnold is situated.

Around Easter 1088, Odo of Bayeux and many of the nobles revolted against the king and tried to place the king's elder brother Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, on the throne.

* What Goes Around: Teledesic 2. 0 — a column by Robert X. Cringely, October 29, 2009

Around this time, Belew also met King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp at a Steve Reich concert.

Around this time, Clarke also produced " The Face of Dorian Gray " for his friend, singer Robert Marlow.

Around the same time a game was conceived and developed by Robert Barbiere and Brad Wendkos of Phoneworks who teamed with West Coast Ad Agency ( Wakeman & deForest ).

Around 1027 it was established for Robert, who was probably an illegitimate son of Richard I of Normandy.

Around this time, Neil Pappalardo, Curtis Marble, and Robert Greenes developed MUMPS ( Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System ) in Octo Barnett's Laboratory of Computer Science at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, another center of biomedical computing that received significant support from the NIH.

Along with works such as Treasure Island ( 1883 ) and Prince Otto ( 1885 ) by Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jules Verne's A Journey to the Centre of the Earth ( 1871 ) and Around the World in Eighty Days ( 1875 ), She had an important formative effect on the development of the adventure novel.

Around 1200, a new town was developed adjacent to the older village, by either John de Busli or Robert de Vipont.

Around 1864 his mother secured full-time employment as a dressmaker and immediately apprenticed both her sons, Montagu as a lithographic printer and Robert as a brushmaker.

Around the same time, Edmund Fournier d ' Albe developed the Optophone, a handheld scanner that when moved across a printed page, produced tones that corresponded to specific letters or characters.

Around 60 exhibitors offer a wide selection of arts and crafts, as well as local delicacies like chocolate rats, Atrébate beer and Coeurs d ' Arras – heart-shaped biscuits which come in two flavours ; ginger and cheese.

Around 1305, Richard Straddell ( d. 1346 ) became Abbot.

Around 1250 in a poem bewailing the defeat of the Seventh Crusade by Austorc d ' Aorlhac refers to Bafomet.

Around this time he became reconciled to Descartes, after years of coldness, through the good offices of César d ' Estrées.

Around 1935, the duo appeared regularly on the radio on a broadcast called Quart d ' heure des enfants terribles.

Granny Weatherwax's reputation even extends beyond species barriers – the trolls of the Ramtops call her Aaoograha hoa (" She Who Must Be Avoided ") and the dwarf name for her, K ' ez ' rek d ' b ' duz, translates to " Go Around the Other Side of the Mountain " ( Maskerade ).

Around 1110, a Sweyne's successor, Robert Fitzsweyne, also known as Robert d ' Essex, divided his manor in two, the part to the west being Prittlewell, the site of Earl's Hall and the rest, consisting of thirty acres ( 120, 000 m² ) of land, the church at Prittlewell, being given to the Cluniac Priory of St Pancras, Lewes for the purpose of setting up Prittlewell Priory.

Around 1225, Donnchadh de Argadia (" of Argyll ") appeared in a charter of Maol Domhnaich, Earl of Lennox ( d. 1250 ) made to Paisley Abbey ; this appearance is notable because it is the first attestation of the locative family name " of Argyll ", the name that Donnchadh and his descendants would use to identify themselves among the higher nobility of Scotland.

Around 1240 he married Maria of Barbaron ( d. 1263 ), the sister of Hethum I of Armenia and sister-in-law of King Henry I of Cyprus.

Around 8 May 1242, Bolesław married firstly Hedwig ( d. 21 December 1259 ), daughter of Henry I, Count of Anhalt.

Around 1710, he was received as a page of the Bavarian Princess and Duchess d ´ Étampes on her own right, Marie Anne de Bourbon-Condé, whose father was Henry III Jules de Bourbon, prince de Condé.

Around 950 the manor belonged to Wynflaed ( d. c. 950 ), and may have passed to her daughter Aethelflaed.

Around 1619, Racan's pastoral play in verse Les Bergeries ( originally entitled Arthénice )-inspired by Virgil, Tasso's Aminta, Giambattista Guarini's Il pastor fido, Honoré d ' Urfé's L ' Astrée, and, to a certain extent, the writings of Saint François de Sales-was performed to great acclaim.